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Sunday, August 28, 2005
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With a plethora of features, the ASUS P5LD2 Deluxe is more than a motherboard, it is the core of your next entertainment system, but little would you have suspected that this i945P Express board packs some serious performance too...
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Friday, August 19, 2005
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Sporting an Arctic Cooling unit and a handpicked GPU that meets the highest standards, the ASUS Extreme N7800 GTX TOP aims to rule the graphics arena with its aggressive clock speeds. Hold tight, get your speedometers ready and read on to find out the new definition of speed...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2005
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The P5WD2 Premium stands alone as the top dog in the 955X market. With a good bundle and the ability to buy different packages with the same board, ASUS should smooth over some of the hard feelings caused by Intel's lack of dual core support with the 925 chipset...
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Tuesday, August 9, 2005
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The Asus A8N-SLI Premium includes IEEE 1394a Firewire, two Gigabit NICs, 7.1 channel audio and an additional Serial ATA/RAID controller (for a total of 8 SATA headers). In terms of expansion, the motherboard offers up one PCI Express x1 slot, one PCI Express x4 slot and three traditional 32 bit PCI slots to the two PCI Express x16 sockets. Finally, the board can be used with any Socket 939 AMD Athlon64/FX CPU currently on the market, and up to 4GB of PC3200 DDR-RAM can be installed...
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
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The ASUS K8N-DL dual Opteron motherboard is a fully packed solution for those who need a reliable 64-bit capable workstation. Based on the NVIDIA nForce4 Professional 2200 chipset, the board comes with features that include two SATA RAID sets, a Gigabit Ethernet port, two IEEE 1394a ports and an eight-channel audio codec with S/PDIF output support. Since the board is so feature packed, buyers considering the K8N-DL should be aware that there's very little room for a lot of expansion. Considering that much of the space has been used for the on-board peripherals, the board has only two regular 32-bit PCI slots, one PCIe x16 graphics slot and a PCIe x1 slot.
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Thursday, July 7, 2005
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Interestingly the P5WD2 Premium incorporates two x16 PCI Express slots, although the second one didn't seem to offer any functionality for a graphics card. However, Windows XP does detect a second graphics card in the slot and installs the drivers, but no extra outputs were to be found in the display properties. Asus also provides a soft SLI bridge in the box, but installing this did not enable SLI. As expensive as this board might be, you do get a lot for your money and the performance results are beyond reproach. Asus has once again proven why it is the number one motherboard manufacturer in the world with another excellent product.
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Tuesday, July 5, 2005
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The P5WD2 Premium is the flagship of ASUS' new AI Life family. It has a huge selection of features, inclusive of a TV tuner and Wireless LAN in the Wi-Fi TV Edition. The board also turned out to be a great performer, but it wasn't without a catch or two...
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Saturday, June 25, 2005
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The P5ND2-SLI Deluxe was every bit a high end ASUS board with a complete feature set comprising of dual Gigabit LAN, FireWire and dual SATA II RAID. What we liked about the board was the Sil3132 PCIe SATA II controller, a feature we missed on the A8N-SLI Deluxe, making the Intel platform P5ND2-SLI Deluxe a better-equipped board than its AMD counterpart. The board only looses out to MSI's P4N Diamond, which uses an onboard Sound Blaster Live! Instead of an AC'97 CODEC...
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Monday, June 20, 2005
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With NVIDIA's G70 on the horizon, the good news for the budgeters is that prices of former mid-range cards like the GeForce 6600 GT are likely to fall in future. Hence now would be as good a time as any, to find out if the ASUS Extreme N6600GT has what it takes for a good GeForce 6600 GT product...
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Thursday, June 16, 2005
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Equipped with the NVIDIA nForce4 SLI chipset, the ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe is armed to provide hard-core gamers with great performance and a rich selection of features. While you won't go wrong with this one, there are some things that you might want to take note...
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Monday, June 6, 2005
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I am pleased at the performance of this board, for an Athlon 64 owner looking for an AGP solution, it doesn't come better than this. The amount of peripherals Asus have bundled with the board is incredible: I have all 8 USB ports being used, the WiFi card works a treat, and the SATA raid configuration is extremely fast. If you are looking to get more performance out of your gaming machine then the VGA card is the first priority and motherboard / CPU are the second. If you own a fast Ati X800 or Geforce 6800 AGP solution then an Athlon 64 and this board will provide a big framerate increase...
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Saturday, May 28, 2005
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Based on the nForce4 platform, the P5ND2-SLI supports the latest generation of Pentium4 processors with 1066MHz FSB and dual cores along with dual channel DDR2 memory and dual Video cards in SLI mode. You also get four SATA ports that could be configured in RAID 0,1,0+1 and 5 modes, ten USB 2.0 ports and Gigabit Ethernet with nVidia's Active Armor Firewall technology.
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Saturday, May 14, 2005
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The board layout is rather unusual with the x16 PCI Express slot positioned in the middle of the motherboard. Above the x16 slot are three x1 PCI Express slots and below it are three standard PCI slots. Asus has fitted plenty of fan headers as well, with two at the top of the board close to the CPU and a further two usable fan headers further down. The chipset heatsink is fairly small and Asus has chosen to fit a small fan to it. To be fair, it wasn't all that noisy, but considering that the x16 PCI Express slot is out of the way of the chipset cooler I would have preferred a passive solution.
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Saturday, May 7, 2005
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The Socket 754-based Asus K8N4-E Deluxe is a great motherboard for its processor class, with a modest feature list and good overall performance. The board comes with an additional Serial ATA/RAID controller, Gigabit LAN, IEEE 1394a and a 7.1 channel AC'97 codec. The motherboard is user-friendly, something Asus has always been good with...
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Monday, May 2, 2005
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The P5WD2 certainly performs very well (as evident from benchmarks). ASUS also loads the board up nicely with features like the WiFi TV Tuner card, Dual Gigabit controllers and an additional SATA controller with a port on the back panel. You also have the option of hooking up two PCI-E Video cards and enjoying quad view. Also, lets not forget the features supported by the chipset such as Matrix RAID 0,1,5 and 10 , High Definition Audio and dual core support.
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