Good if you cant afford the striker but some of the features that are missing are a shame. That said, it is not an enthusiast's board. Nice review, good pics too :P
Originally Posted by Mother-Gooser Good if you cant afford the striker but some of the features that are missing are a shame. That said, it is not an enthusiast's board. Nice review, good pics too :P
Really? Solid state capacitors, dual 16x PCI-E lanes, with an additional 8x PCI-E, and overclocking bordering on the Striker Extreme.
I think it'd be fairer to say it is a more affordable enthusiast's board.
Anywho, will we be seeing a review of the Asus P5N-E (that 650i board that Highland3r has) soonish ?? Looks like it does all this board does for about half the price, and it has the added bonus of loosing those blasted heatpipes.
I note the points missing from the Asus P5B Deluxe (Unlinked memory/CPU Bus), however it seems to have more useful features for less money (eSATA etc), and I would say a better board layout as well specifically the IDE connector...
So is there any real reason to go for this over the P5B Deluxe?
Originally Posted by rupbert I note the points missing from the Asus P5B Deluxe (Unlinked memory/CPU Bus), however it seems to have more useful features for less money (eSATA etc), and I would say a better board layout as well specifically the IDE connector...
So is there any real reason to go for this over the P5B Deluxe?
Nice review Tim, I have been hitting F5 button at work for the last 8 hours ;)
The board does seem to be very good value for money when compared to the Striker, although it just does not seem to be a thoroughbred. I was all set to go out and buy this today but now I'm not sure. The fact that it failed your stability tests so quickly gives me cause for concern. As does the fact that the heat coming from the northbridge is so substantial
What do you think about removing the heat pipes for the mosfets and northbridge, add some passive heat sinks to the mosfets whilst actively cooling the northbridge?
Given that you have a stable eVGA motherboard in the Alienware machine, and have tested the Striker given the price difference which would you buy?
im a little surprised you rated the board as high as you did.. it sounds like from the crashing in Prime95 it might not be such a stable board :-/ ... I mean, its supposed to support Core2Quad right? ...and Quadcores are supposed to be awesome for multitasking,correct? ...so wouldnt a board that has trouble with multitasking not be a board that you would want to buy if you ever plan on upgrading to quadcore?
It'll stabilize over time - my P5B does the same thing.
The one issue that bugs me is that it REALLY wouldn't have been SO hard for ASUS to give us users another 2/4 USB ports on the back panel along with an E-Sata or 2. This is still a $300 board here, and it's off putting to get midrange packages with high end (but not extreme) prices.
Originally Posted by pendragon im a little surprised you rated the board as high as you did.. it sounds like from the crashing in Prime95 it might not be such a stable board :-/ ... I mean, its supposed to support Core2Quad right? ...and Quadcores are supposed to be awesome for multitasking,correct? ...so wouldnt a board that has trouble with multitasking not be a board that you would want to buy if you ever plan on upgrading to quadcore?
True, but it ran two lots of prime95 and I could do other things just fine. It's only when you try to run a game as well it decides to not like Prime and continue the game. We had no problem with multithreaded apps or video encoding which were very intensive. The level of multitasking is something people currently very rarely do. The stress test we perform is more than manufacturers tend to do themselves.
It's also still using the first revision BIOS, which is good considering first revisions of other boards we've seen.
After my main PC (in my sig) just started playing silly buggers for no reason, I suspect the mobo is b0rked.
So I was considering getting a 680i mobo to replace and hopefully return the aw9d-max.
What to get though?
This board? P5B-Dlx? abit IN9?
What I really want is good overclocking, 3 USB headers on the board and if poss, a northbridge I can remove and watercool instead of these bloody heatpipes that every 680i board seems to have.
Anything that fits the bill?
If not, what's the best 680i board to get (preferably not too expensive) and I'll just do some ducting from the rear case fan to the heatpipe'd heatsink. :)
What I really want is good overclocking, 3 USB headers on the board and if poss, a northbridge I can remove and watercool instead of these bloody heatpipes that every 680i board seems to have.
Anything that fits the bill?
I have been Googling since reading this review and it seems like the best option given features and value is the eVGA 680i. Given the amount of heat the Northbridges are giving off, especially when OCing you could slap the new DD 680i block on it. The Southbridge runs cool so a passive heatsink should suffice.
I'm the kind of person who gets sucked in by leds, buttons and lcd's on the mobo so striker it is for me, i know there is not logical reason to but I can afford it so i might as well i guess.
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ReplyReally? Solid state capacitors, dual 16x PCI-E lanes, with an additional 8x PCI-E, and overclocking bordering on the Striker Extreme.
I think it'd be fairer to say it is a more affordable enthusiast's board.
Anywho, will we be seeing a review of the Asus P5N-E (that 650i board that Highland3r has) soonish ?? Looks like it does all this board does for about half the price, and it has the added bonus of loosing those blasted heatpipes.
Btw, there's two spelling mistakes and a couple of grammatical errors :)
So is there any real reason to go for this over the P5B Deluxe?
proper SLI
Three x16 slots
All solid state caps
Unlinked memory, with more dividers.
I wasn't aware that AMD made the nForce 590 SB... (And the same mistake is made on the front page blurb, too)
The board does seem to be very good value for money when compared to the Striker, although it just does not seem to be a thoroughbred. I was all set to go out and buy this today but now I'm not sure. The fact that it failed your stability tests so quickly gives me cause for concern. As does the fact that the heat coming from the northbridge is so substantial
What do you think about removing the heat pipes for the mosfets and northbridge, add some passive heat sinks to the mosfets whilst actively cooling the northbridge?
Given that you have a stable eVGA motherboard in the Alienware machine, and have tested the Striker given the price difference which would you buy?
Fair enough. :)
The one issue that bugs me is that it REALLY wouldn't have been SO hard for ASUS to give us users another 2/4 USB ports on the back panel along with an E-Sata or 2. This is still a $300 board here, and it's off putting to get midrange packages with high end (but not extreme) prices.
True, but it ran two lots of prime95 and I could do other things just fine. It's only when you try to run a game as well it decides to not like Prime and continue the game. We had no problem with multithreaded apps or video encoding which were very intensive. The level of multitasking is something people currently very rarely do. The stress test we perform is more than manufacturers tend to do themselves.
It's also still using the first revision BIOS, which is good considering first revisions of other boards we've seen.
So I was considering getting a 680i mobo to replace and hopefully return the aw9d-max.
What to get though?
This board? P5B-Dlx? abit IN9?
What I really want is good overclocking, 3 USB headers on the board and if poss, a northbridge I can remove and watercool instead of these bloody heatpipes that every 680i board seems to have.
Anything that fits the bill?
If not, what's the best 680i board to get (preferably not too expensive) and I'll just do some ducting from the rear case fan to the heatpipe'd heatsink. :)
I have been Googling since reading this review and it seems like the best option given features and value is the eVGA 680i. Given the amount of heat the Northbridges are giving off, especially when OCing you could slap the new DD 680i block on it. The Southbridge runs cool so a passive heatsink should suffice.
SAm
Should go nicely with the two new raptor 150s I added to the order! :)
Is that the board that has a heat-pipe going round under the board to cool the back of the CPU ???
Seems like a silly board to me.
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