ASUS P5E LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

Unsatisfied

Reviewed By: Genghiskhen on 5/29/2009

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: more than 1 year

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Works as expected except as noted below.

Cons: RAM won't run at full speed, sound it horrible, USB header underpowered, horrible SATA port placement.

Other Thoughts: I have owned this motherboard for over a year and I am extremely unsatisfied. I always buy quality brand boards, but this one just fell short.

I have never been able to get my RAM to run at full speed. I used some Kingston from the supported list but it didn't run at full speed either so I took it back and kept the Corsair RAM I have. I finally gave up on that.

The sound riser sounds pops so I replaced it with a Soundblaster Audigy 2ZS. It also pops and sounds bad. It worked in my other board and so did my Bose speakers.

One of the USB headers is underpowered or something. I cannot run a thumb drive from the case slot so I had to run a cable from the back. Completely defeats the purpose of having a USB port on the case.

It took me 20 minutes and I had to unplug a hard drive to access the SATA ports on the board. They are side mounts in a ridiculous location. I was cussing up a storm trying to install my Blu-ray drive. That was the final straw so I am writing this

Manufacturer Response:Dear Valued Customer,

We are sorry for this inconvenience. Please contact our Technical Support Department at http://vip.asus.com/eservice/techserv.aspx and reference case number "NE379350" so that we may get more details about your system configuration and assist you in resolving these issues you are experiencing.

Best Regards,

ASUS Support Team

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Reviewed By: MacClan on 5/22/2009

Tech Level: average - Ownership: more than 1 year

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Over a Year and working great, never had any problems!

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: i custom built my whole computer and bought everything including my monitor from newegg! None of my components purchased to build it have every had a problem and it is now a year later. NEWEGG ROCKS!

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Year after review

Reviewed By: Tornel on 5/3/2009

Tech Level: high - Ownership: more than 1 year

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Has been a great board, no trouble with ram timings, or anything else for that matter. Been running a pretty power hungry setup for over a year now and no failures like some people.

Cons: The only con I have is aisuite will not work after installing a new bios, wish I never had now. I had no real reason to, but I figured I would and now (even after reverting and trying every new bios since then) aisuite just will not work correctly. Annoying because I would like to take advantage of the power saving features.

Other Thoughts: Been pushing a 9800GX2, 4GB ddr2 pc2-6400 ram, 3 HDDs(640GB, 250GB, 60GB), Core 2 Duo E6850 3.0 ghz for over a year and still hasn't failed , even with daily gaming sessions (4-5 hours daily) in fairly graphical intensive games(cod5, css, l4d, tf2, crysis) and plenty of single player games in between. Highly recommend this board.

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