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- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (parts): 1 year
- Manufacturer Limited Warranty period (labor): 1 year
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Solid Board, flaky USB
- Pros: This motherboard is a solid motherboard, sporting several no less than SIX USB connectors on the back of the board, two eSata's, two 10/100/1000 Ethernet, and 8 channel audio. If there is something I can praise about this board, it should be it's lack of vestigial connection's. There are not print, com, and only one PS/2 connection. Thankfully, it's the keyboard PS/2 connection, but USB works just fine in BIOS, even my wireless USB.
The board itself has an okay layout. The most noticeable aspect about this board is it's subdued heatsink, which doesn't look like it came from a bad art-school project. The heat pipes connect to the southbridge, and wrap around to two "cooling towers." It's a great touch, and looks fantastic against the black PCB. Everything on the board is color coded nicely, including the USB headers and SATA ports.
The wireless is an oddly strange welcome to my computer. I use my rig as an access point for my roommates, who do not have good wireless reception.
- Cons: The mother board's USB seems to be flaky. USB devices are not always recognized, particularly devices that are connected into the headers. If you have any spare USB ports, like the bar that connects to the expansion slot, they might not operate correctly.
When I connect USB devices, they feel as if they are operating at USB1.1 speeds, while the board supports USB2.0.
The Wireless antenna on this computer has a very short cord. I haven't bothered yet, but I feel some cable splicing might be in order to lengthen it. If you keep your case under your desk like I do, the wireless antenna isn't very effective.
The included Asus BIOS update software on the driver disc is absolute poopoo. It doesn't work correctly, if at all. However, some searching online will yield your BIOS update, and instructions on how to install it using the program in the BIOS for flashing your chip.
The BIOS features, while numerous, can be difficult to understand. KEEP YOUR MANUAL if you overclock.
- Other Thoughts: I bought this board to replace a fried motherboard in my rig. I wasn't looking for anything flashy, and I needed DDR2 support. This one caught my eye because I cannot stand vestigial ports like the Com port or printer port. The lack of a mouse PS/2 means you need to upgrade to a USB mouse if you haven't already (or wireless). The heat pipes on this board look fantastic with the black PCB, and the color coding looks great as well. My biggest complaint about this board is the flaky USB. (Some fixes online suggest altering ICQ numbers in the BIOS). The Wireless Antenna is an interesting addition to my computer, but the cable is so short, and it screws into the back of the motherboard, instead of being a plug.
There is obvious noise from the motherboard using onboard sound, but I'm not a stickler for audio, so I didn't mention it in my Cons.
This board is almost a five star board, but the flaky USB, broken BIOS update software, mark it down to 4.5 or so.
Good board, OK layout design
- Pros: Solid performance, runs OCd @400 Mhz FSB for over a year without any issues.
Reasonable support
- Cons: SATA connector placement
- Other Thoughts: As many have posted SATA connector placement right behind the video card slot is not too smart. A large Nvidia 8800GTS card covers the connectors. It is possible to get around the situation if 90" angled SATA cables are used.
As for support, when my memory chips went bad asus sent in a replacement board without any questions to ensure the issue is not in the MB.
For all those that complain about wait time: do try the Gigabyte's support, I have been GA's loyal customer until things went wrong.
Overall great board, slight problem
- Pros: Great board, runs rock solid, doens't appear to get hot even under heavy game loads, BIOS can be flashed by booting up and loading from a flash drive versus updating from the OS (which can be done as well) This reduces the chance OS won't BSOD during BIOS flash resulting in a mobo that's a paperweight (this happened on last mobo which is why I bought this), contrary to what some other reviews said the BIOS is pretty straight forward and won't overwhelm you. Typical user may not ever go into BIOS.
- Cons: This mobo continues the trend of poorly placed slots and connectors. I only have one PCI-E vid card which takes up two slots because of its cooler. The vid card cooler covers one of PCI slots leaving only one free. I was going to stick my old Audigy 2 card in the other free PCI slot. However the card is long enough (it's not all that long!) that it ran against the IDE connector meaning I couldn't install it. I ended up buying a PCI-E enabled X-Fi card and stuck it in a PCI-E slot. That is when I came up against my second concern and most serious one: with the vid card installed I had two PCI-E 1x slot free and the remaining Crossfire enabled PCI-E 16x slot open. I initially tried to plug the new sound card into one of the PCI-E 1x slots. However, both slots are far enough away from the edge that the X-Fi wasn't lined up on the screw hole of the case. One PCI-E slot in particular was cocked a bit sideways which worried me a bit.
- Other Thoughts: To continue the "con" section comment, I ended up putting the XFI card inside the Crossfire enabled PCI-E 16x slot which can also run in 1x or 4x mode. This is nice. The sound card works great in that sot.
System looks like it has some nice overclock features but I haven't tried them at all. In particular, this board has the ability to run the DDR2 memory @ 1066 versus stock 800 Mhz. I have some DDR2 1066 memory. I think I'll give this a shot and see what happens. Wifi feature sounds great on paper, I haven't used it though as I prefer a hardwired solution particularly for gaming.
90+% of peeps won't fill up PCI-E slots so my previously noted concerns of the two empty PCI-E 1x slots probably aren't that big of a deal.
| Model |
| Brand |
ASUS |
| Model |
P5K DELUXE/WIFI-AP |
| Supported CPU |
| CPU Socket Type |
LGA 775 |
| CPU Type |
Core 2 Quad / Core 2 Extreme / Core 2 Duo |
| FSB |
1333/1066MHz |
| Chipsets |
| North Bridge |
Intel P35 |
| South Bridge |
Intel ICH9R |
| Memory |
| Number of Memory Slots |
4×240pin |
| Memory Standard |
DDR2 1066 / 800 / 667 MHz
The chipset officially supports the memory frequency up to DDR2 800MHz. Tuned by ASUS Super Memspeed Technology, this motherboard natively supports up to DDR2 1066MHz |
| Maximum Memory Supported |
8GB |
| Channel Supported |
Dual Channel |
| Expansion Slots |
| PCI Express x16 |
2 x PCI-E x16 (blue @ x16 mode, black @ x4 or x1 mode) |
| PCI Express x1 |
2 |
| PCI Slots |
3 |
| Storage Devices |
| PATA |
1 x ATA100 2 Dev. Max |
| SATA 3Gb/s |
6 |
| SATA RAID |
0/1/0+1/5 |
| Onboard Video |
| Onboard Video Chipset |
None |
| Onboard Audio |
| Audio Chipset |
ADI AD1988B |
| Audio Channels |
8 Channels |
| Onboard LAN |
| Max LAN Speed |
Dual 10/100/1000Mbps |
| Rear Panel Ports |
| PS/2 |
1 |
| USB 1.1/2.0 |
6 x USB 2.0 |
| IEEE 1394 |
1 x IEEE 1394a |
| eSATA |
2 x eSATA 3Gb/s |
| S/PDIF Out |
1 x Optical, 1 x Coaxial |
| Audio Ports |
6 Ports |
| Onboard USB |
| Onboard USB |
6 x USB 2.0 |
| Onboard 1394 |
| Onboard 1394 |
1x 1394a |
| Physical Spec |
| Form Factor |
ATX |
| Dimensions |
12.0" x 9.6" |
| Windows Vista |
Certified for Windows Vista |
| Power Pin |
24 Pin |
| Features |
| Features |
The chipset officially supports the memory frequency up to DDR2 800MHz. Tuned by ASUS Super Memspeed Technology, this motherboard natively supports up to DDR2 1066MHz
Wireless LAN:
ASUS WiFi-AP Solo
54 Mbps IEEE 802.11g and backwards compatible with 11 Mbps IEEE 802.11b
- Software Access Point mode
- Station mode : Infrastruceure mode and Ad-Hoc mode
ASUS Super Memspeed Technology Enhances Memory Speed up to 75% |
| Packaging |
| Package Contents |
P5K DELUXE/WIFI-AP
Driver Disk
User Manual
Rear I/O Panel Shield
IDE/PATA Cable
FDD Cable
2 x SATA Cable
4-pin to SATA Power Cable
Bracket |
| Manufacturer Warranty |
| Parts |
1 year limited |
| Labor |
1 year limited |
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Reviewed By: Konraden on 12/25/2008
Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
