ASUS P5Q Pro LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: I have had this board since January 2009 and I've had zero problems with it. It has plenty of options to take care of what I needed. It was one of the easier boards that I've installed in a new build.

Cons: Only issues I've had have been with the audio. I had issues with sound going in and out and changing devices randomly but that ended up being a common problem with Realtek drivers so no egg loss for that.

Other Thoughts: All in all this was a good purchase and a solid board. For the price it was an excellent board in my opinion.

Pros: System has lots of features, and is configurable. It worked well for some time.

Cons: Despite the success over a year of ownership, it began to corrupt data and destroy hard drives.

Other Thoughts: The key to any system is data integrity. But to have multiple hard drive failures is unacceptable.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,

Sorry to hear about the issues. The board should not be killing HDDs via the SATA interface. Please check the PSU.

Regards
ASUS Customer Support

Pros: I absolutely love this board. I have had it for many years now. There has been little to no drop in voltages over the years. This system just runs. It has run 24/7 for longer than I can think. I've been running that way since Sept 2008. so over 3 years. Good overclocker. Good solid board all around. Has most everything you need.

Cons: slow to start up? don't know why, but when it's off, which isn't often, it takes like 10 seconds for bios to start it's posting process... don't know what that's all about, never affected me though, because I ran this box 24/7 so never really did anything but move the mouse to make it snap back to life quickly!

Other Thoughts: P5Q-PRO Motherboard
Q6600 Intel Quad Core G0 Stepping overclocked to 3.0
4GB Kingston HyperX 1066 KHX8500D2K2/2GR
GeForce GTX 280
Lian-Li Case
DVDR/W
Dell 23" LCD

Pros: Pretty good, will overclock to 475fsb on my e8500.

Cons: 475fsb is max stable, tried upping the voltage but no go without getting ridiculous.

Pros: Solid board. No problems running Core 2 Duo E8400 OC to 3.6 GHz. I like the OC profile portion of the BIOS. This allows you to save a couple of different OC profiles into the BIOS that you can recall if you make a mistake or if all the BIOS options reset while you're tweaking things.

Cons: The OC options are pretty good, but probably wouldn't make a champion OC'er happy.

Pros: has just about everything you would want in a mb.

Cons: After 2 months went bad..not sure why. It worked so well until the crash...not sure if im going to send back or just get a different mb yet.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,

We are sorry for this inconvenience. Please let us know if we can assist in the RMA process by contacting us at http://vip.asus.com/eservice/usa_rmaserv.aspx and reference case number "NE458340".

Or, if you need further technical support, please contact our Technical Support Department at http://vip.asus.com/eservice/techserv.aspx

Best Regards,

ASUS Support Team

Pros: Stable once running...

Cons: 8GB on this motherboard is hit and miss... I have upgraded to the latest BIOS from ASUS and tried three seperate manufacturer's RAM of which two are on the QVL list. I have tried to set the timings and the voltages manually required by the RAMs but no luck. I even tried to reset the CMOS between each tries. No Luck!! As soon as you put in the 4th DIMM, the motherboard does not POST. I have spent countless hours of trying to get it to working, next step is to not use the 4th dimm.

Btw, you dont get these issues with the turbo version. Turbo naming convention is just v2 of this motherboard. Get that instead.

I am contemplating to get it RMA'd so that they will repair or give me a different one but I dont want to be without my main computer for weeks!! I read that it takes about 5 WEEKS - I cannot be that long without my main computer.

Manufacturer Response:

Dear Valued Customer,

We are sorry for this inconvenience. Please let us know if we can assist in the RMA process by contacting us at http://vip.asus.com/eservice/usa_rmaserv.aspx and reference case number "NE454787".

Or, if you need further technical support, please contact our Technical Support Department at http://vip.asus.com/eservice/techserv.aspx

Best Regards,

ASUS Support Team

Pros: Nice manuals, I guess. And a lot of PCI and PCI-E ports.

Cons: I've built several computers before, but this is the first-time I've used a "name brand" motherboard, and unfortunately, I've had but problems. I can honestly say I've been happier with the cheap ECS boards that are thrown in as part of combo packages.

Problems with this motherboard include inability to support 8 GB RAM without upgrading firmware, as well as occasional difficulty booting up (usually fixed by unplugging all peripherals and clearing CMOS). I've also had the onboard sound completely fail.

ASUS technical support requires that you ship your motherboard to their facility at your own cost, a process that would take weeks. I suppose this is okay if you're the type that builds multiple computers and loves to overclock things, but for someone that wants a computer to just work without problems, avoid this motherboard.

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 "NE451876" 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

Pros: Works most of the time. Lots of features. 6 SATA drive sockets, a bunch of USB sockets along with one PATA port.

Cons: Tried to make a tripple boot system using Windows XP, Vista and Suse Linux. Have 4 drives connected (one is storage only) and I've had significant problems with drives not showing up sometimes. Found that I had to unplug the power supply completely when it acted up to get it to boot and show all drives again. Finally moved the Linux OS to a USB input with an adapter and I've had fewer problems since.

Other Thoughts: This board has worked well since I switched the Linux drive to USB. I've used ASUS boards in the past with zero problems but this one and a P5K Pro I bought have given me some trouble. In fact, the P5K Pro still gives me fits even after I RMAd it last year.

Pros: Excellent motherboard, high quality, more features than you'd ever need. I've been through many a board, but none as nice as this one.

Cons: It wont make me coffee in the morning?

Other Thoughts: REBATE WAS A RIPOFF. The rebate I bought this board with was a no show. After months of waiting I was told, incorrectly, that I failed to meet the time requirements for turning in the rebate. NOT TRUE. I was sure of this, the postage date was well within time... If anyone was late it was their rebate company. This is the same rebate company (Velocity Fulfillment, Inc.) that pulled the same con for my Corsair memory.