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i bought the product to replace my old motherboard and i like everything about the product and dislike nothing right now
I am a great fan of this board, having now built five Intel Quad-core based systems for both myself and various friends & colleagues, and have so far found them to be user-friendly, and very easy to install the Motherboard Devices, Application software from the supplied CD, and once 'up & running', factory updates, including Bios-flashing operations are a breeze with their easy-to-use Online Update feature. This is a very fast, high performance board that is packed with very desirable features such as IEEE1394 Firewire, both SPDIF and Optical Digital Audio out, plenty of expansion connectivity by way of hi-speed SATA II, USB2 and Dual Gigabit Ethernet, along with dual channel memory slots which unusually, also supports the faster, new DDR3 memory as a bonus. All the machines that I've installed have performed faultlessly, and have caused no discernable problems whatsoever. They have all been worked hard doing Hi-speed Gaming and Professional Audio Recording, Mixing and Mastering duties, some of them easily overclocked with the aid of Asus' own very user-friendly overclocking application, aided by Intel's Quad-core Extreme chips, and I'm totally delighted with their performance and reliability. I have only one criticism, however. Why on earth have the CAD designers sited the PATA slot connector at (what would normally be) the very bottom of the board in a standard ATX tower-based system, when both logic and practical usage dictate that any CD / DVD player will be mechanically installed toward the top of the machine where most commercially-built enclosures have their Optical Device slots - and more importantly, will not cause the user to have to bend down too far to access the CD / DVD drawer, were it to be fitted toward the bottom of the case. This would not be relevant however, should the newer SATA optical drives be utilised, as their cable runs are considerably narrower, shorter and much less obstructive to airflow and 'general clutter' inside the case. After replacing the older DDR2 1066 memory with 4Gb of new 9-9-9-24 DDR3 memory and a new ATI-based 5870 Graphics card, my machine literally flies, feels more lively and responsive, and gaming is pure delight. If your budget can't strech to the latest Core i5 or i7 processors and their accompanying (still somewhat costly) X58-based motherboards, I wholeheartedly reccomend the Asus P5KC Ai-Lifestyle motherboards (if you're lucky enough to find one), which together with a reasonably fast Dual- or Quad-core processor (such as the E6750 or the Q8400 / Q8500 or higher) which still turn up regularly on eBay as very good bargains, and will produce a powerful, very stable, reliable and high-performing system without bankrupting you and sending your Bank Manager into a state of cardiac arrest. I therefore award it a 5-star Excellent rating.Vollständige Rezension lesen
This seemed an excellent choice for the PC ‘upgrader’ trying to work in stages with a limited budget. I started out with a Pentium D940 CPU and DDR2 memory – the best my previous motherboard would take. This new motherboard accepted them without any difficulty, and was equally quick to accept an upgrade to a Q6600 quad core CPU. With appropriate BIOS upgrades (check the ASUS web site for precise needs) the new 45nm processors are supported too. And that’s not all. When the time is right, the DDR2 memory can be upgraded to DDR3 without further motherboard considerations. This board is good for ‘silent’ running too – with a quiet PSU and appropriately quiet case & CPU fans, the ASUS Q Fan technology gives various options for slowing the fans down and minimising noise whilst maintaining proper cooling. The only real limitation seems to be the IDE (or I should say EIDE) connector. Reviewers often comment on its awkward position, out of reach of the drive positions in any normal ATX case. It’s easy enough to get a long IDE lead on eBay – but seems silly that ASUS do not provide one long enough in the first place. But the IDE problem can be subtly more significant. I found that startup was delayed by a ‘ODD0’ error (followed by the name of the optical drive/s installed). The message read ‘press any key to continue’ but ignoring it led to startup completing anyway, and for me the drives appeared to work normally. However I looked up the error on the internet, and found many other users have experienced it too – some finding it more debilitating than others. Apparently, ASUS do not really intend the EIDE port to be used for optical drives at all – it is meant for HDDs, though they do not readily tell us! The only guaranteed way to start up normally with the optical drives fully supported seems to be to follow ASUS’s advice and fit SATA drives – which slightly goes against the benefits of such wide-ranging upgradability in other areas. It would be better if it fully supported both formats. The IDE issue is why I only give the P5KC 4 stars – if you intend using SATA optical drives from the outset (and they are cheap enough these days), this one is well worth a 5. Recommended!Vollständige Rezension lesen
Great motherboard! Good features, at a good price. Using quad core on it with no problems ;)
Briliant item! Well worth getting, helped me overclock my Core 2 Quad with ease! And it's a great and fast stock motherboard too.
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