ASUS P5B Deluxe WiFi-AP Edition Motherboard Review - Page 2

Capper · January 24th, 2007

I was blown away by the overclocking potential. With almost no tweaking and a voltage boost to 1.45V, this thing is Prime Stable for 12 hours at 440FSB (3.080GHZ), which is 1760FSB for the board.......which leads me to the conclusion that if you want Crossfire or SLI, spend the money on the big boys.....but if you are only planning on running one board, strongly consider this one

RangerXLT8 · January 24th, 2007

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Originally Posted by Capper

I was blown away by the overclocking potential. With almost no tweaking and a voltage boost to 1.45V, this thing is Prime Stable for 12 hours at 440FSB (3.080GHZ), which is 1760FSB for the board.......which leads me to the conclusion that if you want Crossfire or SLI, spend the money on the big boys.....but if you are only planning on running one board, strongly consider this one

Heck SLI can be run on P5B less the full PCIE lanes. P5B is definitely one of the best 965 boards. Abit AB9 has major problems and Asus Stikeout 680i was dissapointing. Asus jsut makes some of the best Intel MB.

Capper · January 24th, 2007

Its not worth running though, as its limited to x4 PCI-E.....

Panda Man · January 24th, 2007

The WiFi-AP and BIOS flash utility really caught my eye, and the stability is also a huge a plus. And performs right below some of the other big boards out there according to the benchmarks. Great review! I'd definately recommend this board

Only drawback is the price, and since I have a wifi card already :(

RangerXLT8 · January 24th, 2007

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Originally Posted by Capper

Its not worth running though, as its limited to x4 PCI-E.....

Yeah and from running Crossfire back when 975 had a second 4x slot, in dual card mode, when I went to a true 8x 8x board there was like a 30 percent increase in performance... I guess 680i is the only option for SLI..

**stinger608** · January 24th, 2007

Very nice review capper, as usual

January 24th, 2007	#11
Capper We take both criticism and positive comments very positively Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 6,200 Blog Entries: 6	Re: ASUS P5B Deluxe WiFi-AP Edition Motherboard Review I was blown away by the overclocking potential. With almost no tweaking and a voltage boost to 1.45V, this thing is Prime Stable for 12 hours at 440FSB (3.080GHZ), which is 1760FSB for the board.......which leads me to the conclusion that if you want Crossfire or SLI, spend the money on the big boys.....but if you are only planning on running one board, strongly consider this one INTEL QX9650 // Gigabyte EP45 Extreme // 8GB PC2-8500 // BFG GTX260 MaxCore // DD Torture Rack // Seagate 750GB HDD // OCZ Vendetta // PC Power & Cooling 620W PSU

January 24th, 2007	#13
Capper We take both criticism and positive comments very positively Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Las Vegas, NV Posts: 6,200 Blog Entries: 6	Re: ASUS P5B Deluxe WiFi-AP Edition Motherboard Review Its not worth running though, as its limited to x4 PCI-E..... INTEL QX9650 // Gigabyte EP45 Extreme // 8GB PC2-8500 // BFG GTX260 MaxCore // DD Torture Rack // Seagate 750GB HDD // OCZ Vendetta // PC Power & Cooling 620W PSU

January 24th, 2007	#14
Panda Man Meow means woof in cat. Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Elba, AL Posts: 1,910	Re: ASUS P5B Deluxe WiFi-AP Edition Motherboard Review The WiFi-AP and BIOS flash utility really caught my eye, and the stability is also a huge a plus. And performs right below some of the other big boards out there according to the benchmarks. Great review! I'd definately recommend this board Only drawback is the price, and since I have a wifi card already :( Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Conroe @ 2.80GHz Cooler Master GeminII - Thanks Rich and HL! GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.3) EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 320MB @ 726/962 CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (4 x 1GB) DDR2-800 OCZ GameXStream 600W PSU Maxtor 300GB 7200RPM SATA150 16MB cache HDD Seagate 500GB 7200ROM SATA300 16mb cache HDD Sony NEC Optiarc 18X DVD±R DVD Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 7.1 ZyXel m-202 802.11g adapter Antec Nine Hundred Creative 5.1 speakers Viewsonic Optiquest q20wb 20" LCD

January 24th, 2007	#16
stinger608 Silence..Or I kill you! Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: In the Zone! Posts: 3,001 Blog Entries: 1	Re: ASUS P5B Deluxe WiFi-AP Edition Motherboard Review Very nice review capper, as usual HEATWARE

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