Usage:

   Now to the usage section. I can say that this motherboard has been 100% rock solid since the second I powered it on. I had absolutely no compatibility issues, no frozen screens or system crashes. I must admit I was a little leery by switching up to the newest, bleeding edge nForce 5 chipset. However my concerns were quickly erased by a rock solid system.

FutureMark:

   At almost 7500MB/s, there is certainly plenty of bandwidth to use in the new AM2 platform. That's a good thing with the price of X2 dual cores dropping soon, that bandwidth will surely be welcomed...by both cores :)

Conclusion:

   I know, not you're standard review with 9 pages of benchmarks using programs you either cant afford, never heard of, or will never use anyway. Sorry about that :) I told you this would be a unique review using real world "this is my main rig" theory in mind. "It's fast and UBER!". Isn't that enough really? heh.

   I can't say enough about this board. The few minor annoyances will only come up once in a blue moon and other than that it's been a flawless operation so far. The great ASUS programs like AiBooster to assist in overclocking from the desktop and ASUS Update to help with BIOS updates are a nice plus and a signature of typical ASUS quality.

   The "Azalia" (SoundMax) built in HD audio has also performed without a hitch and sounds great once you get it setup, which only takes a couple minutes. Also the ESP Jack software included with the SoundMax is really pretty neat. It instantly auto-detects what plugs you insert into the audio ports and sets it up for you, or asks for your confirmation. No more haggling with finding the software to get something to work. It pops right up with a "Can I help you?" attitude. Gotta love that.

   There's so many other features of this board that I didn't even have a chance to touch on, or use yet. Firewire, e-SATA and the list goes on. I now have complete faith in the new NVIDIA 590 SLI chipset as it has performed without flaws for me. There are a few varieties of the NVIDIA 5xx series chipsets out there, but the 590 SLI chipset is the top of the line and hey, if you're gonna go, GO BIG!

   I've heard rumors of people having issues with memory, or that this board is very fussy with memory. I have not experienced that at all, and I've used two different 2x1GB kits on this. One of SuperTalent which wasn't even prepared for the 590 chipsets (it's just basically very fast DDR2-800mhz) and it worked perfectly. I also had a 2x1GB kit of OCZ's fairly new DDR2-8000 (1000mhz) memory and it worked as specified. So unfortunately I can not confirm or deny that rumor, but all I can say is I haven't experienced any memory fussiness.

   Lastly, on the built-in wireless networking front, It has also worked perfectly from the minute the PC was up and running. It's sitting in my system tray right now and I can connect to my wireless network at a moments notice. On every system boot, it takes about 1 minute (estimated) to popup a box telling me my wireless network is detected and simply click to connect. I like simple :)

   I think that's about all I can withstand to write about this time out. If you're thinking about buying this ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe, I can certainly recommend it. It will be brutal overkill for allot of you, but others it will be just perfect. Cheap it isn't, coming in at just over $200 USD, but when you want the best you unfortunately have to pay for the best.

   There is not much doubt around the enthusiast community that this ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe is the best AM2 motherboard on the market at present time. And since I'm the editor an it's my choice for motherboard (yes I purchased this board), then I think it more than deserves the Editors Choice Award. Feel free to discuss this in the forum thread.