Asus P5B a decent mobo?

times_champion · 27 Nov 2007 at 18:05

I currently have a Dell system with a Pentium 940 processor. For xmas I will have a bit of cash from some relatives so I'm thinking about getting a core 2 duo E6750 but obviously my current mobo wont fit. I was thinking about getting an Asus P5B as I have seen one quite cheap but would you recommend it? The system I would then have is:

E6750 core 2 duo
2gb DDR2 RAM
360gb RAID HDD
7800 GTX

Would this setup serve me OK for games like COD4, Bioshock etc at 1280x1024? Im then thinking sometime in the new year (maybe march-ish) to flog my old processor and gfx card and out the rest towards maybe a radeon 3870 512mb card, would this go well with my above system and play Crysis at the above res at high settings?

ITR · 27 Nov 2007 at 23:21

Hi mate,

I have both the P5b Deluxe and the normal P5b, both are very good boards. The deluxe is currently running a watercooled Q6600 @ 3.4 and the P5b an e2140 @ 3Ghz.

The Deluxe version is the better of the two as it has crossfire ability and also better cooling for the Northbridge and VRM's. The std P5B only has 1 16x PCIe slot, a small northbridge heatsink and no VRM cooling.

Both boards will be more than upto running your suggested system with good overclocking results.

Cheers,

Rich.

times_champion · 27 Nov 2007 at 23:40

excellent stuff - cheers mate!

Do I need to worry about the FSB speed though? The E6750 I want to get has an FSB of 1333mhz and the mobo is down as 1066mhz?

ITR · 28 Nov 2007 at 00:32

All you need to do is get the latest bios revision from the Asus site, this will let you use 1333Mhz FSB chips.

times_champion · 28 Nov 2007 at 15:22

Thanks!

waso_dude · 28 Nov 2007 at 15:42

I owned a P5B standard model, was a awsome board, did 475mhz FSB before my CPU couldn't take anymore - was a e6300

Awsome board really really stable and a good clocker.