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I'll be replacing my mobo in the next few days with an ASUS A7N8X DELUXE, keeping all the other components the same until I can afford a new CPU and RAM. Do I need to "burn in" this board and how do I go about it? I'll be setting my WD drives to RAID 0 on the serial ATA with a couple adapters and doing a fresh install of Win XP Pro and all software. Any other tips for this board to get it running smoothly out of the box?

Here's current specs:

Athlon XP 1700+
2 sticks of Crucial 256 meg PC 2100
Geforce Ti 4200 128 meg
Soyo Dragon+
Audigy Platinum
Creative PC-DVD master in IDE 1
LiteOn 40x12x48x CD-RW master on IDE 2
2 WD 80 gig Spec. ED. as RAID 0
Maxtor 80 gig slave on IDE 1
Seagate 80 gig slave on IDE 2
3Com internal PCI DSL modem

I haven't used that board but jhave a couple of epox nforce boards - the nforce boards set up very easily - there are others here with your board and i'm sure they'll be along -

just remember to keep everything at default values while you're setting up - and most of the nforce boards have has significant bios improvements which you need to check for

welcome to PCA!

Only problem I have had is the front speaker jack dying on me. The board is a solid board with many many great features. I have everything hooked up but have not tested the Firewire or USB2.0. I love the dual nics and the on-board sound, it is to some better than the Audigy. This board benchs nicely and has been stable as a rock.

But, do I need to "burn it in" or can I just set up and go? I've had nothing but problems with my Dragon+ board and I've basically replace EVERYTHING attached to it over the past year with no success. Could this be a result of not "burning it in"? What exactly do you do to "burn in" and does it matter?

you shouldn't need to burn in a board - if you have active northbridge cooling you should make sure the fans spinning otherwise just turn it on and go

Cool...

I'll let you guys know how it turns out next week some time....

Thanks.