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  • The masterwork of 965 motherboard - ASUS P5B Deluxe review

    965 chipsets, the medium-class chipsets of Intel motherboard, have been the
    most admitted by the DIY market for more than five months.
    I have tested MSI P965 Platinum and Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3. Although a bit
    late, I’d like to share the performance test of ASUS P5B Deluxe.


    Let’s take a look on the motherboard.






    Down-left corner
    In series of P5B, only Deluxe use two PCI-E
    There are there traditional PCI slots and a SATA slots on the left side.




    The copper fin for south bridge
    Equipments of an IDE and six SATAII




    Slots for memory and the place of 24pin power




    Use 8-phase PWM power design




    IO part
    Dual network and an eSATA-for external SATA products





    BIOS Introduction (My LCD has been used for three years. … It’s going to haven soon.)
    Main menu




    Special parts
    You can choose DDRII 1066 under the default setting of FSB 266Mhz
    And it is practical




    Voltage setting for memory from 1.80 to 2.45V




    Voltage setting for CPU up to 1.7000V




    The information page of CPU




    The page for DRAM adjusting




    The page of temperature and voltage monitoring




    Test environment
    CPU:INTEL Core 2 Extreme X6800
    MB: ASUS P5B Deluxe
    DRAM:CORSAIR Dominator TWIN2X2048-8888C4DF
    /Patriot DDRII 1000 512MBX2
    VGA:ELSA GLADIAC 790GS 256B3 2DT
    HD:Seagate 7200.7 80GB
    POWER:Corsair HX620W Modular Power Supply
    Cooler:TT Sonic Tower

    FSB of processor
    E6300 could be up to about 470 MHz, and X6800 was stable at 497 MHz




    Working on FSB 266 MHz, 1:2=>DDRII 1066 CL4 4-3-9
    Super PI 1M and memory bandwidth on the test of EVEREST




    DDRII 1066 CL4 4-3-9 2.1V stable




    Working on FSB 400 MHz, 2:3=>DDRII 1200 CL4 4-4-9 2.45V
    Super PI 1M and memory bandwidth on the test of EVEREST




    ASUS P5B Deluxe couldn’t reach the FSB 500~550 MHz from some tests on
    the internet, but I could understand because overclocking depended on both
    CPU and Motherboard. Actually, the motherboard is still good by having this
    level of FSB.


    On the other hand, it could easily reach up to DDRII 1100~1200 on memory
    testing which was hard for 975X MB and other 965 MB.


    P5B Deluxe is good at overclocking, materials it used, and functionality.
    Although the price is slightly high, P5B Deluxe is still a wonderful choice for
    customers who need these functions and have enough budget.
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