ASUS P5B Deluxe

Compatible with: Core 2 Duo, Pentium D, Core 2 Extreme, Celeron D, Pentium 4.

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Posted on 02 / 03 / 2007

Simple to overclock, straight forward layout, with plenty of features and slots.
I would have preferred to pay a little less.

I've heard good reports about ASUS, a mate has a laptop from them is very happy with it. The main selling point about the board is the inbuilt wifi card, it also has an inbuilt sound card. As anyone with a passing interest in computer component's knows, integrated motherboard graphics/sound/networking cards are pretty poor, and it's no different with the P5B. So I soon appreciated I had paid for a few features I would never use. That's my only complaint however, everything else which came with the board were spot on, the manual was informative and ASUS included enough cables to cover everything. The most tricky thing is always installing the CPU and cooling fan, ASUS have made it straight forward on this board with plenty of space to fit your fingers for leverage. Stable when overclocked as well. Comes packaged with Metal I/O brackets, 6 SATA cables, 1 IDE cable, 1 floppy cable and 3 molex cables.

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User - Grissom

Posted on 21 / 03 / 2007

A boon for overclockers.
Integrated sound is crap, pricey.

ASUS are rated as one of the best motherboard manufacturers. Quality, features, and overclocking support is rarely matched by any other company. The integrated sound is useless, I really wish manufacturers would stop integrating them full stop. It's a good idea to make sure you regularly update the bios software, each update has speeded up my PC.

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Posted on 21 / 03 / 2007

Supports a large range of Intel processors. Manual and setup instructions worked first time, which is a first for me.
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