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Hi guys , just bought a new system with p5q deluxe.
Glad to be one of few having p5q deluxe as of now!
Here's my review on Asus P5Q deluxe :
I had narrowed down on Asus Maximus Formula , Maximus 2 formula and P5Q deluxe and finally went for P5Q Deluxe @ 12.5k (incl. Vat).
AFAIK around the ending of August P5Q deluxe was not available no where in Lamington road and in Navi-Mumbai , hence I had to specially order it from my dealer via Rashi Peripherals. Finally on 6th Sept i got my new mobo.
The first time u look at the board i bet ull to will fall in love with gorgeous looking & asthetically pleasing board! The P5Q deluxe is a part of Asus's P5Q series boards and is consists of Intel's P45 and IC10R chipset. P45 is on of the most stable chipset by intel and overclocks to 2000Mhz FSB stablly!!! P45 also consumes less power and dissipates less heat thanks to its 55nm fabrication process as compared to X38 and X48. It Supports DDR3 as well as DDR2 and PCI-E 2.0. P5Q Deluxe supports DDR2 upto 1200Mhz and has 5 PCI-E slots(16x,8x,4x,1x,1x) . When using single Graphic card the blue pci-e slot uses full 16x 2.0 while using 2 Graphic cards in cross-fire the bandwidth gets divided to 8x and 8x but its PCI-2.0 so no bottlenecks even at 8x bandwidth. Also PCI 1.x 16x = PCI 2.0 8x! Many results show that the lastest ATI 4800 series Graphics cards are in no way bottlenecked coz the PCI 2.0 8x bandwidth is more than enough.
P5Q deluxe is having Asus's Latest 16-phase power design for CPU , 2-phase power for Northbrigde and Ram and
also the much publicised EPU-6 engine.
About packaging & features :
In the box :
1) Eight SATA cables including four with 90 degree connectors
2) Two Molex to four SATA power connectors
3) Asus Q-Connector
4) Asus Q-Shield soft rear I/O shield
5) Manual, logo and driver DVD
6) 1 IDE and 1 floppy cables
7) Optional heatpipe cooling fan
8 ) Two USB port and one 4-pin Firewire PCI bracket
Features:
1) Support for 65nm and 45nm Intel socket LGA775 processors - Core 2 Extreme, Quad, Duo, Pentium Extreme, 4 and D.
2) Asus EPU 6-Engine and 16 phase CPU power design
3) Intel P45 north bridge
4) Intel ICH10R south bridge
5) Four DDR2 DIMMs supporting 667/800/1,066 and 1,200MHz memory up to 16GB in dual channel mode !!!
6) Two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots (in either x16/x1 or x8/x8 arrangements - blue @ 16x , black @ 8x)
7) One PCI-Express x16 slot (at x4 bandwidth)
8 ) Two PCI-Express x1 slots
9) Two PCI slots
10) Six red ICH10R SATA 3Gbps ports supporting RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and 5
11) Two orange Silicon Image Sil5723 SATA ports supporting "Super Speed" or "EZ Backup" with DriveXpert
12) One Marvell 88SE6121 controller supporting one IDE channel and one eSATA 3Gbps port
13) One Marvell 88E8056 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet
14) One Marvell 88E8011 PCI Gigabit Ethernet
15) ADI AD2000B 7.1 channel High-Definition audio codec
16) LSI L-FW3227 PCI IEEE1394a Firewire controller supporting two ports
17) Ten USB 2.0 ports (four through pin-outs, six on the rear I/O)
18 ) Asus ExpressGate SSD
19) Asus DieHard BIOS, Q-Shield, Q-Connector, AI Booster with Precision Tweaker BIOS function and AI Suite
The orange Sata ports controlled by Silicon Image Sil5723 controller has Drive Xpert tecnhology
- i.e supports EZ backup and SuperSpeed functions - can be configured either frm Windows , Bios.
I really liked the express gate feature which boots in about 3 to 4 secs i can easily surf net by connecting pc to the router!
Apart frm it EPU-6 , AI-Suite , PC Probe and drive Xpert and really impressive!!!
The on-board power & reset switches really rock!
Pros :
- Packed with all kinds of features
- Very overclockable
- Stable at high FSB
- Future proof!
- Supports upto 16 GB DDR2 @ 1200Mhz max
- ICH10R Southbridge
- ExpressGate
- 8 sata Ports + eSata + Firewire + 10 USB ports
- Dual Marvell Gigabit LAN
- On board Power and rest switch.
- Drive Xpert
- Supports PCI 2.0 @ 16x or PCI 2.0 @ 8x/8x
- Supports all the latest processors from Intel
- CrossFire ready
- Runs cool
- Low priced compared to performance and features
- All capacitors used as Solid State Capacitors
- Bios can updated with out the fearing of it getting corrupt
Cons :
- No DDR3 support might be the only one against it. (But whats the use of the higher clocked ram with poor timings ?)
- Else -- None
Performace : 10/10
Value for money : 9/10
Features : 9.5/10
Overclockability : 10/10
Future proof : hmmm... I leave it to digit users
Here are Some Pics :
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*img169.imageshack.us/img169/7935/p9080006xl5.th.jpg
*img169.imageshack.us/img169/8496/p9080012kt3.th.jpg
*img169.imageshack.us/img169/5391/p9080016us2.th.jpg
*img169.imageshack.us/img169/7899/p9080018fs8.th.jpg
*img169.imageshack.us/img169/7149/p9080020dv8.th.jpg
*img169.imageshack.us/img169/5375/p9080021sl4.th.jpg
*img48.imageshack.us/img48/2775/clipboard01nw1.th.gif
Glad to be one of few having p5q deluxe as of now!
Here's my review on Asus P5Q deluxe :
I had narrowed down on Asus Maximus Formula , Maximus 2 formula and P5Q deluxe and finally went for P5Q Deluxe @ 12.5k (incl. Vat).
AFAIK around the ending of August P5Q deluxe was not available no where in Lamington road and in Navi-Mumbai , hence I had to specially order it from my dealer via Rashi Peripherals. Finally on 6th Sept i got my new mobo.
The first time u look at the board i bet ull to will fall in love with gorgeous looking & asthetically pleasing board! The P5Q deluxe is a part of Asus's P5Q series boards and is consists of Intel's P45 and IC10R chipset. P45 is on of the most stable chipset by intel and overclocks to 2000Mhz FSB stablly!!! P45 also consumes less power and dissipates less heat thanks to its 55nm fabrication process as compared to X38 and X48. It Supports DDR3 as well as DDR2 and PCI-E 2.0. P5Q Deluxe supports DDR2 upto 1200Mhz and has 5 PCI-E slots(16x,8x,4x,1x,1x) . When using single Graphic card the blue pci-e slot uses full 16x 2.0 while using 2 Graphic cards in cross-fire the bandwidth gets divided to 8x and 8x but its PCI-2.0 so no bottlenecks even at 8x bandwidth. Also PCI 1.x 16x = PCI 2.0 8x! Many results show that the lastest ATI 4800 series Graphics cards are in no way bottlenecked coz the PCI 2.0 8x bandwidth is more than enough.
P5Q deluxe is having Asus's Latest 16-phase power design for CPU , 2-phase power for Northbrigde and Ram and
also the much publicised EPU-6 engine.
About packaging & features :
In the box :
1) Eight SATA cables including four with 90 degree connectors
2) Two Molex to four SATA power connectors
3) Asus Q-Connector
4) Asus Q-Shield soft rear I/O shield
5) Manual, logo and driver DVD
6) 1 IDE and 1 floppy cables
7) Optional heatpipe cooling fan
8 ) Two USB port and one 4-pin Firewire PCI bracket
Features:
1) Support for 65nm and 45nm Intel socket LGA775 processors - Core 2 Extreme, Quad, Duo, Pentium Extreme, 4 and D.
2) Asus EPU 6-Engine and 16 phase CPU power design
3) Intel P45 north bridge
4) Intel ICH10R south bridge
5) Four DDR2 DIMMs supporting 667/800/1,066 and 1,200MHz memory up to 16GB in dual channel mode !!!
6) Two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots (in either x16/x1 or x8/x8 arrangements - blue @ 16x , black @ 8x)
7) One PCI-Express x16 slot (at x4 bandwidth)
8 ) Two PCI-Express x1 slots
9) Two PCI slots
10) Six red ICH10R SATA 3Gbps ports supporting RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and 5
11) Two orange Silicon Image Sil5723 SATA ports supporting "Super Speed" or "EZ Backup" with DriveXpert
12) One Marvell 88SE6121 controller supporting one IDE channel and one eSATA 3Gbps port
13) One Marvell 88E8056 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet
14) One Marvell 88E8011 PCI Gigabit Ethernet
15) ADI AD2000B 7.1 channel High-Definition audio codec
16) LSI L-FW3227 PCI IEEE1394a Firewire controller supporting two ports
17) Ten USB 2.0 ports (four through pin-outs, six on the rear I/O)
18 ) Asus ExpressGate SSD
19) Asus DieHard BIOS, Q-Shield, Q-Connector, AI Booster with Precision Tweaker BIOS function and AI Suite
The orange Sata ports controlled by Silicon Image Sil5723 controller has Drive Xpert tecnhology
- i.e supports EZ backup and SuperSpeed functions - can be configured either frm Windows , Bios.
I really liked the express gate feature which boots in about 3 to 4 secs i can easily surf net by connecting pc to the router!
Apart frm it EPU-6 , AI-Suite , PC Probe and drive Xpert and really impressive!!!
The on-board power & reset switches really rock!
Pros :
- Packed with all kinds of features
- Very overclockable
- Stable at high FSB
- Future proof!
- Supports upto 16 GB DDR2 @ 1200Mhz max
- ICH10R Southbridge
- ExpressGate
- 8 sata Ports + eSata + Firewire + 10 USB ports
- Dual Marvell Gigabit LAN
- On board Power and rest switch.
- Drive Xpert
- Supports PCI 2.0 @ 16x or PCI 2.0 @ 8x/8x
- Supports all the latest processors from Intel
- CrossFire ready
- Runs cool
- Low priced compared to performance and features
- All capacitors used as Solid State Capacitors
- Bios can updated with out the fearing of it getting corrupt
Cons :
- No DDR3 support might be the only one against it. (But whats the use of the higher clocked ram with poor timings ?)
- Else -- None
Performace : 10/10
Value for money : 9/10
Features : 9.5/10
Overclockability : 10/10
Future proof : hmmm... I leave it to digit users
Here are Some Pics :
*img169.imageshack.us/img169/1979/p9080001qp8.th.jpg
*img169.imageshack.us/img169/7935/p9080006xl5.th.jpg
*img169.imageshack.us/img169/8496/p9080012kt3.th.jpg
*img169.imageshack.us/img169/5391/p9080016us2.th.jpg
*img169.imageshack.us/img169/7899/p9080018fs8.th.jpg
*img169.imageshack.us/img169/7149/p9080020dv8.th.jpg
*img169.imageshack.us/img169/5375/p9080021sl4.th.jpg
*img48.imageshack.us/img48/2775/clipboard01nw1.th.gif
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