Asus P5W64 WS PRO

MAXIBOY

MAXIBOY

MAXIBOY

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any body using one of these or have any experiance with one. thinking of buying one with a E6400 with overclocking for now then upgrade to a four core when there cheaper
 
MAXIBOY said:
any body using one of these or have any experiance with one. thinking of buying one with a E6400 with overclocking for now then upgrade to a four core when there cheaper
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Overpriced and overrated IMO.


Save your self 100 quid and get a DS3 with that 6400
 
notice you,ve got the P5W DH. how do you find it. looking for a decent upgradeable board. torn between P5,s either wdg2 ws pro, w dh or on another track ds4 dq6 maybe. but drawn towards the asus boards at the moment
 
Well I should have one coming tommorrow so I will be able to give you a real hands on opinion.

I'm currently running a BadAxe which is so far is the best Conroe board I have owned. I have also used a DS4, P5B and P5W DH. So it would be interesting to see how this board compares.

BadAxe 2 should be in my hands soon
 
The Asgard said:
What Bios do you recommend m8 ?
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I'm using the latest official one - 0215. There's a 0301 BIOS knocking about as well but I haven't tried it yet. Probably going to wait until the next official one which should hopefully fix the Asus cold-reboot "feature" that this and their other boards have.

MAXIBOY said:
so you recommend the asus board then. whys it so much better than the dh model. if you dont mind cheers
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My DH wouldn't do more than 410FSB no matter what I did, whereas this new board is doing 430FSB and I haven't even pushed it yet. Plus I liked the idea of having another PCI-e slot for an ATI Physics card or whatever in the future.
 
Durzel said:
My DH wouldn't do more than 410FSB no matter what I did, whereas this new board is doing 430FSB and I haven't even pushed it yet. Plus I liked the idea of having another PCI-e slot for an ATI Physics card or whatever in the future.
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i haven't seen many 975x boards which aren't ***hand selected*** do orthos/prime stable @ more than 430, yet you say you haven't pushed it?

got some screens?
 
;)

damn i had my mind all set for a p5b-dlx even though i really want a 975 board, i'd be pi**ed if i got a W64 that stopped at 400 though like some peoples.
 
I'd say 3.6Ghz easy... depends on how good the air cooling is.

Phase makes quite a difference to everything really.. can run lower voltage to achieve the same overclocks... possibly higher FSB too.
 
Adam Senior said:
i had my heart set on asus P5W DH now im thinkin P5W64 WS PRO seeemmms tempting
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Well, it depends on just how much you need to overclock really, and whether you think you're likely to use the extra PCI-e slots later.

I needed a board that I didn't have to worry too much about FSB limiting me, and I knew the P5W64 was better than the P5W-DH in that respect. The only reason I really decided to change from the P5W-DH was because Im on phase, and have an ES CPU - so FSB was very important.

The P5W-DH should in theory be good enough for most people though.
 
ok cool. so if i was going to get the P5W-DH and some good ram i would have no trouble overclocking to 3.6? all i want realy is a stable board..and not to have to mess about 2 much...and it like if i buy a lotus and i thrash it around i may get the same performace but i will have my foot down al they way..wereas if i got a ferrari i could get the same performace easier without putting my pedal 2 the metal.....Hahaha strange analogy.but hey :)
 
MAXIBOY said:
so you recommend the asus board then. whys it so much better than the dh model. if you dont mind cheers
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4 PCI ports, PCI-X can function as Regular PCI, also free to use PCI-X for Decklink Capture Cards/Raid Cards, great board for Video Encoding..., also has a Nice Slot Layout..eg..

Crossifre Setup..
Soundblaster
Dual PCI TV Tuner
Capture Card or other PCI Card
 
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