Does anyone have an Asus P5B-VM?

Paramount · 2 Sep 2006 at 18:43

Apologies for a new thread just for this. I'm getting impatient of waiting for a confirmed decent matx conroe board, so may as well just go for the best one out now, the p5b-vm. However I cannot find one review anywhere to find out what I should expect. Can anyone enlighten me?

Tute · 2 Sep 2006 at 23:53

Paramount said:
Apologies for a new thread just for this. I'm getting impatient of waiting for a confirmed decent matx conroe board, so may as well just go for the best one out now, the p5b-vm. However I cannot find one review anywhere to find out what I should expect. Can anyone enlighten me?

Still on Preorder, so I doubt it. I'll be placing my order, including one, this Friday. If there's no feedback before that i'll post a mini-review.

Massive Attack · 9 Sep 2006 at 00:59

i have one on the way m8 will be doing benchies and clocking so i will keep you posted

mr optimistic · 10 Oct 2006 at 17:13

Massive Attack, how did you get on with overclocking the board ? I have a Asus P5B-VM and 6400 and haven't had much success.

Tute · 10 Oct 2006 at 18:59

Well whoever had the smart idea to disable the PCI lock on the board ruined it's overclocking capabilites at the same time.

mr optimistic · 10 Oct 2006 at 21:59

There is a PCIe lock isn't there ? It can be set at 100Mhz, isn't that then locked? Others have reported setting it to 110 or 120 assists overclocking, but not to spectacular levels (slightly over 300Mhz fsb.