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Not sure if this is a deal, but I have this mobo and it rocks. I've run both e8400 and q9300 on it, and it does spectacularly with both. Much cooler chipset than the P5K series.
This with my e8400@4ghz and an ATI HD4870 makes gaming smooth as butta!
with this spec, a similar board is around $200 in P35 era
p35 is just the same as p45 no performance difference or overclock potential
Good price for the board but IMHO this occupies an odd niche. It supports two video cards in CrossFire but drops the two PCIe slots to 8x, and I think maybe a third as well but then it drops to 4X. In any event, if you're not running two cards then you don't need the slots, and if you are running two, then there are better choices that maintain 16X.
good for asus brand but i went with the ddr2 p45 gigabyte because it has a better onboard audio and tons of usbs. it was at 106 after 20 rebate last week.
How do you owners like the "Express Gate" feature?
(They say it allows "5 Secs from Bootup to Online" using built-in Splashtop Linux -- similar to the Asus EEE Box).
Does it work?
Is it useful?
Probably more useful pre-Vista hybrid sleep mode. Now, your computer is up instantly from 3W suspend to RAM to fully operational. That alone is the reason to switch to Vista.
Expresss gate is useless i never installed it...
SJester said:Good price for the board but IMHO this occupies an odd niche. It supports two video cards in CrossFire but drops the two PCIe slots to 8x, and I think maybe a third as well but then it drops to 4X. In any event, if you're not running two cards then you don't need the slots, and if you are running two, then there are better choices that maintain 16X.
Educate me some. What better choices for running two cards SLI and maintaining 16x?
Expressgate is cool. Not terribly useful, though I've used it once or twice. 5 secs from power on to firefox online is true though.
dphmicn said:SJester said:Good price for the board but IMHO this occupies an odd niche. It supports two video cards in CrossFire but drops the two PCIe slots to 8x, and I think maybe a third as well but then it drops to 4X. In any event, if you're not running two cards then you don't need the slots, and if you are running two, then there are better choices that maintain 16X.
Educate me some. What better choices for running two cards SLI and maintaining 16x?
this is a xfire board, not sli, but it is hard to find a 2 cards 16x sli or xfire board. either way, the price is now $119 AR.
The P5Q model is almost the same but drops the second PCI Express slot (not crossfire) and adds another PCI (3 total).
I'm looking at the P5Q since I don't intend to ever run dual graphics.
Btw, I have the P5K and love it.
PDS
SJester said:Good price for the board but IMHO this occupies an odd niche. It supports two video cards in CrossFire but drops the two PCIe slots to 8x, and I think maybe a third as well but then it drops to 4X. In any event, if you're not running two cards then you don't need the slots, and if you are running two, then there are better choices that maintain 16X.
If you need PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots, then your only choice is an X38/X48 board, for a minumum of $200. This board is $100AR. Keep things in perspective. Plus, there's very little difference in actual performance between x8 2.0 and x16 2.0.
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