ASUS P4P800-E DELUXE Socket 478 Intel 865PE ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: Technically excellent Mobo, with many features for standard and overclocking usage

Cons: Southbridge chip burnt out after 15 months, something which is apparently a relatively common problem with this board and stems from some sort of issue related to connecting external devices to it via front USB ports - many of the burnouts have been reported after just such a connection. If you buy this board, take care to use the rear (grounded) USB ports rather than those on the front of the case - I've read various opinions on exactly why the USB situation causes the burnouts, but many seem to agree that there's some sort of inherent fault in the Intel Southbridge chipset that is leaving it very vulnerable to static electricity charges, perhaps.

Overall Review: Don't take my word for it - google on the subject and you'll come across many cases of this burnout problem. Apparently ASUS is aware of the problem and is accepting RMA's for the issue - I have yet to hear a peep from them after 3 days, and have ordered in a new one from Newegg as I can't afford to sit around forever waiting on ASUS. Their very poor customer service is legendary.

Comments: This MB has made a huge difference in the games I play! BF2, SWG, Guild Wars. On SWG the frame rate chugged a bit when either I spun around or I entered a new enviroment. Now no choppy gameplay at all!!! All three games play smooth and fast w/ no hiccups. Some help for those upgrading mother boards like I did. If you have WinXP then you must do a repair on XP by using your OS CD in order for windows to run. Do a search for this on the Win XP website before upgrading. Also after my repair of WinXP Pro it did not recognize the LAN card or the audio, I had to "reinstall driver" from device manager. This MB comes w/ WinDVD suite which includes DVD copy 2.5, and Norton Internet security 2005, I have yet to install either but the software is a nice addition to the MB. Overall this was well worth the purchase, for my gaming alone. Here is my hardware not even close to a true gaming machine but w/ this upgrade it helps! It made a very noticable difference! P4 HT 3.0Ghz Corsair VS 1Gb (2 X 512) ATi X700 Pro 256Mb AGP 2 WD IDE 40Gb hard drives (5200rpm) Apower 500W PS I have added a link to the support page for repairing XP if upgrading MBs

Pros: I bought this from Newegg to replace my Asus P4S533-MX micro ATX board. I wanted more PCI slots and the on-board RAID controller. So far this mobo is performing excellant with my P4 3.06Ghz 533fsb HT CPU and 1GB PC2700 DDR. I've read all the danger of the front USB ports and static discharge. I did not attach the front header pins and don't plan to. If I need more USB ports, $xx isn't too much to slap in a USB2 PCI card or add on a USBhub. Even with the old components from the old mobo, the system is performing much better.

Cons: Front USB header static discharge risk

Pros: Purchsed this board about 2 years ago, the thing works great.

Cons: I walked into my room, I took of my coat and went to go push the power button when a huge spark jumped from my finger to the front mounted USB port on my case. The board let out very strange sound and from that point on it told me that the "System failed: CPU test" Apparently this is not the only time this has happened. The front mounted USB ports on the mainboard are not grounded so you can fry the entire board easy. Unfortuantly I was running RAID and loosing my data was not an option so I purchased another identical board to get me back up and running.

Overall Review: Beware! Don't hook up your front USB ports unless you either A) live in a static free environment or B) like to live on the edge, (with HDD backups)

Pros: Love this board!

Cons: One of the possible culprits is installing front Usb ports and attaching them to the board. Static discharge from the Usb device plug, that is connected thru the front port can burnout the board bridge. This is a known problem not from just Asus, but all manufactors. It is a design flaw from Intel. To be safe use only the rear Usb ports ( which are grounded better ) or a hub.

Overall Review: Also if your boot is extremely slow, disable game port/ midi in BIOS. What took about 2 minutes with the above activated is now 30 seconds with it disabled.

Pros: love the ai features. setup: p4 2.53fsb 533, kinston dual channel, value ram 400 3200, running 333 with 2.5 p4. have ran the cpu at 2.85 , plenty fast for me. sound quality is awesome.

Cons: wish the manual explained in more detail about where in the bios to set boot priority, had to google that to find it. WATCH THE NEWER INT*LL FANS, CAUSE THE BOARD TO BOW AND EVENTUALLY SHORT IT OUT. i used my old stock fan, 2.85 at 32c.

Overall Review: feels weird to hear the fan throttling with the cpu temp, so i turned the fan to max..lol.have yet to hear the voice prompting, but thats a good thing, prompts when there is a failure...conflict between ai software and some bios settings, calls for constant reboot. make sure bios is set to work with ai , nice board, really loves the dual channel memory i installed. bios recovery disc was missing, emailed newegg and working on getting another for protection. thanks newegg! fast processing of order. and ive heard great things about you guys! will be buying more stuff, ie, better fan, faster cpu, newer bigger lcd. GREAT JOB NEWEGG!!!!!!

Pros: Great Motherboard. Easy setup. Has alot of bios features allowing for easy overclocking. Have had no problems so far.

Cons: none

Pros: good overclocker, nice packaging

Cons: the ICH5R chip fries when you plug things in!! Don't take my word for it -- google "ICH5 p4p800" and you will see countless users who have multiple failures each!! Do not buy this board! Asus is even blaming resellers for "mishandling". My experience with Asus service has been aggravating and frankly Newegg should drop this product as a lemon.