Asus P5Q-E (P45) Motherboard Review

RizL4 · 9 Jun 2008 at 01:15

Good read http://www.cpu3d.com/content/view/4924/54/
I'm getting this with a quad core 4870 card etc

Chris1712 · 9 Jun 2008 at 01:16

Excellent, as soon as the king of P45 boards is crowned ill grab one in my new rig.

RizlaKing · 9 Jun 2008 at 01:54

C'mon Gigabyte get a move on i got £140 burning a hole in my pocket

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fobose · 9 Jun 2008 at 07:15

Lets hope they dont put the SATA ports in a stupid place so that a 8800 card blocks them. Horizontal sata ports for the win!

Cob · 9 Jun 2008 at 18:44

Really need to see some 45nm chips tested in these boards, especially the quads.

ojrules · 9 Jun 2008 at 20:35

im getting the p5q pro.. theres about £7 difference between the standard and pro, but i'l just get it because the power connector on the standard board is a crappy place.. tbh i was thinking of getting a p5k-e wifi, but i'd feel far smuger, when looking at new tech and knowing that the board has got 1600mhz fsb, or pcie 2.0 rather than say wifi

ojrules · 9 Jun 2008 at 21:23

overclocking on these boards is meant to be good but confusing... i've even forgot what to do normally, so will have to scratch up, but yeah it seems liek they're intent on squeezigng every last drop out of the board

Natima · 9 Jun 2008 at 23:16

Anyone found a review of the MSI Neo3-FR yet?

ojrules · 10 Jun 2008 at 09:56

yeh just type it in on the internet... basically thye dont overclock aswell as asus boards, but are still decent boards.. personally id get an asus

booyaka · 10 Jun 2008 at 10:30

great to see these boards doing 500fsb

Pilky01 · 10 Jun 2008 at 16:03

Heres a review of the deluxe
http://hothardware.com/Articles/Asus_P5Q_Deluxe__P45_Chipset_with_DDR2/

ojrules · 10 Jun 2008 at 16:57

the new gigabytes are out on show.. i'm sceptical of them tho, something draws me to asus, tho i've never really had either... maybe its the cheap colours on the boards... anyway yes they're out, and specs are on the manufacutrers website, unlike asus who claim "the board doesnt exist" on their website

Tuvoc · 10 Jun 2008 at 19:56

I've pre-ordered one of these. I was very annoyed at ASUS recently about a bad BIOS release on one of their boards, but I've got over that now once tech support sent me a new BIOS all was well. And I realised that over the years ASUS have always been good to me. So ASUS it is again, and early reviews of this are pretty good.

RizlaKing · 10 Jun 2008 at 21:07

Havn't seen any reviews of the gigabyte boards yet and i am looking at getting a DS5 as that has more usb ports then the asus deluxe and also more internal sata ports also look like they are better placed then on the asus.

martian_aphid · 12 Jun 2008 at 13:23

have ocuk got these in stock - in there news section it states they have arrived but on the product page it lists them as pre-order???

Greebo · 12 Jun 2008 at 15:24

booyaka said:
great to see these boards doing 500fsb

4qman has got his MSI p45 running at 571Mhz FSB :eek:

martian_aphid · 13 Jun 2008 at 12:50

571 :0 nice

icey_haj · 13 Jun 2008 at 13:04

I think I would always go for Asus over Gigabyte, since Asus dont use cheap nasty colours.

martian_aphid · 13 Jun 2008 at 13:09

lol, cos the colours are a true indication of quality!

icey_haj · 13 Jun 2008 at 13:15

martian_aphid said:
lol, cos the colours are a true indication of quality!

Yeh, but you want your components to look good, dont you? :cool: