Conclusion

Summing up we can say once again that we were very pleased with Asus P5K Deluxe mainboard. This solution offers excellent opportunities not only to mainstream computer users but also to overclocking fans, who would be delighted to check out the new functions in their experiments. The mainboard’s BIOS Setup contains a lot of options for system fine tuning and performance maximization. Moreover, the board performs stably and predictably, just like any high-quality solution should.

The results of our second test session proved once again that Asus P5K Deluxe boasts excellent performance and rich set of features that is why we award it with our Editor’s Choice as the today’s best mainboard for Core 2 processors.

Frankly speaking, I would like to say that in my opinion Asus P5K Deluxe is close to ideal at least if we were choosing from the solutions available in the market today. Great build quality, rich functionality, flexible settings – all this is true for Asus P5K Deluxe. Of course, it has a few drawbacks that we have already pointed out in our previous article, but they will hardly be critical for most users anyway.

However, Asus engineers shouldn’t relax at this time, they still have room for improvement of their Intel P35 based product family. So, we hope that the next mainboard from the Republic of Gamers series will not only inherit all the advantages from the award-wining Asus P5K Deluxe, but will lose its biggest drawbacks as well. BY the way, these new solutions have already been presented in Japan and the new mainboard on Intel P35 with DDR2 SDRAM support should be named Asus Blitz Formula. We look forward to getting this mainboard in our labs very soon.