which Asus P5K motherboard ?

I need to buy an Asus motherboard for a new PC. P5K seems to be a good
choice, yet there are so many variations of this motherboard. Some have
small heat sinks, some have elaborate heat sinks. Please give me some
advise on how to narrow things down. Thanks.

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I need to buy an Asus motherboard for a new PC. P5K seems to be a good
choice, yet there are so many variations of this motherboard. Some have
small heat sinks, some have elaborate heat sinks. Please give me some
advise on how to narrow things down. Thanks.

i'm in the same 'crysis'
and dont know if to buy or wait for nehalim

Just stay away from plain P5K. Too many problems, no support for AHCI.


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I need to buy an Asus motherboard for a new PC. P5K seems to be a good
choice, yet there are so many variations of this motherboard. Some have
small heat sinks, some have elaborate heat sinks. Please give me some
advise on how to narrow things down. Thanks.

i'm in the same 'crysis'
and dont know if to buy or wait for nehalim

Talal Itani wrote:
I need to buy an Asus motherboard for a new PC. P5K seems to be a good
choice, yet there are so many variations of this motherboard. Some have
small heat sinks, some have elaborate heat sinks. Please give me some
advise on how to narrow things down. Thanks.



There is a comparison tool here. It works best in Internet Explorer.
I've had trouble in the past with Firefox.

http://www.asus.com/products_compare.aspx

It gives you a comparison chart like this. The formatting of the
information is not the best, and in fact, when the marketing department
entered the information for some motherboards, the tables were not
complete.

http://www.asus.com/products_compare...1921,1705&l1=3

To select a motherboard, you can start with the "must have" criterion.
For example, only a workstation class board, will have a PCI-X slot
for older RAID controller cards. The desktop boards will have PCI Express
video card slots, PCI Express x1 slots for add in cards, and the older
vanilla PCI slots.

Some motherboards have DDR3 memory slots, and some are DDR2. DDR2 is
currently the cheapest memory type.

None of the P5K boards support SLI, due to the restrictions of the
Nvidia SLI drivers. The boards may support Crossfire (if they have
two video slots). The P35 doesn't have enough PCI Express lanes to
do the job properly, but some boards may do a better job of splitting
the lanes than others.

As the price goes up, you might get the odd extra peripheral chip,
such as an extra LAN controller, a Firewire port and so on.

The Southbridge chip used, could offer four or six ports. The six
port chip supports various software RAID modes. The four port does
not. The four port may not support AHCI either (adds hotplug support
as a feature as far as I know).

Once you narrow down the feature set a bit, the comparison chart
will show you that some boards have more overclocking features
(finer adjustments) than others.

Something which is not documented in the Asus charts, is how many
phases are used to power the processor. The rules are a bit
fluid, because a three phase regulator with large phases, may be
able to match an eight phase regulator with small phases. You may
see larger toroids, heavier wire, bigger MOSFETS or more of them,
as a sign that the phases are more powerful. The CPUSupport chart
on the Asus site, should also be checked for signs that high power
processors are supported.

For example, if I look at this one ($179), I see eight small black
squares, which are the coils. There is a ninth cylindrical coil,
which is the filter on entry. (One input filter, eight output filters
if you will.) The phases are small, but generally, seeing eight phases,
implies a decent power handling capability.

http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggIma...131-182-04.jpg

I cannot select the motherboard for you, because I don't know what
you want.

When you think you've identified a board you want, check the Newegg
customer reviews, for comments on stability and whether the motherboard
was delivered non-functional. The vip.asus.com forums can also help
with comments.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131182
http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx...Language=en-us

Paul

De Luxe or Premium work well.
Fully Vista compatible.



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Just stay away from plain P5K. Too many problems, no support for AHCI.


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I need to buy an Asus motherboard for a new PC. P5K seems to be a good
choice, yet there are so many variations of this motherboard. Some have
small heat sinks, some have elaborate heat sinks. Please give me some
advise on how to narrow things down. Thanks.

i'm in the same 'crysis'
and dont know if to buy or wait for nehalim

007 wrote:
Just stay away from plain P5K. Too many problems, no support for AHCI.

Got one here, works fine with XP and Vista, and we don't need AHCI
--
SteveH

Somewhere on teh intarweb "Natéag" typed:
De Luxe or Premium work well.

The P5K-E ( and /WiFi-AP versions of the above boards) is fine too. They're
all made on the same PCB anyway and have an 8-phase CPU VRM. They differ on
feature-set and cooling solutions for NB, SB and VRMs.

The plain P5K is crappier, only has a 3-phase VRM and is less stable.

Fully Vista compatible.

Ha! Vista will never be install on a machine I own, I can assure you of
that.
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I need to buy an Asus motherboard for a new PC. P5K seems to be a
good choice, yet there are so many variations of this motherboard.
Some have small heat sinks, some have elaborate heat sinks. Please give
me some advise on how to narrow things down. Thanks.

i'm in the same 'crysis'
and dont know if to buy or wait for nehalim

Somewhere on teh intarweb "Talal Itani" typed:
I need to buy an Asus motherboard for a new PC. P5K seems to be a
good choice, yet there are so many variations of this motherboard. Some
have small heat sinks, some have elaborate heat sinks. Please
give me some advise on how to narrow things down. Thanks.

Ehhh, instead of my other reply I should have just given you the review i
read before buying my P5K-E:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mai...sus-p5k_2.html
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O/H Talal Itani Ýãñáøå:
I need to buy an Asus motherboard for a new PC. P5K seems to be a good
choice, yet there are so many variations of this motherboard. Some have
small heat sinks, some have elaborate heat sinks. Please give me some
advise on how to narrow things down. Thanks.


Well,i have 3 (pro-deluxe-premium).If you can wait a few weeks go for
the new p5q series based on p45.If not,just avoid the P5K-SE/P5K
models.The P5K-C can use ddr2 or ddr3 ram but generally is not
recommended.If you have a small case you could go for P5K-pro which
measures 30.5x21.8 a little narrower from the full atx spec 30.5x24.5.A
good very stable board.The best choices are P5K-E wifi and P5K-Premium
wifi(especially if you plan to overclock).Prices are way down and the
price difference is small(i can find "E" for 116 euro and premium for
136 euro).As for the deluxe:i think that asus decided to replace this
model with premium because it's a rare find nowadays.Last there is the
P5K3 deluxe which uses ddr3 but ihmo if you want ddr3 your best bet is
X38 Chipset.

Somewhere on teh intarweb "AS" typed:
O/H Talal Itani Ýãñáøå:
I need to buy an Asus motherboard for a new PC. P5K seems to be a
good choice, yet there are so many variations of this motherboard. Some
have small heat sinks, some have elaborate heat sinks. Please
give me some advise on how to narrow things down. Thanks.


Well,i have 3 (pro-deluxe-premium).If you can wait a few weeks go for
the new p5q series based on p45.If not,just avoid the P5K-SE/P5K
models.The P5K-C can use ddr2 or ddr3 ram but generally is not
recommended.If you have a small case you could go for P5K-pro which
measures 30.5x21.8 a little narrower from the full atx spec
30.5x24.5.A good very stable board.The best choices are P5K-E wifi
and P5K-Premium wifi(especially if you plan to overclock).Prices are
way down and the price difference is small(i can find "E" for 116
euro and premium for 136 euro).As for the deluxe:i think that asus
decided to replace this model with premium because it's a rare find
nowadays.Last there is the P5K3 deluxe which uses ddr3 but ihmo if
you want ddr3 your best bet is X38 Chipset.

Yeah, *exactly* what AS said. ;-)
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Shaun.

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