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Specification, Package and Accessories
As we have already discussed in our previous article, Asus designed the entire line-up of solutions on the new Intel P35 chipset. However, Asus P5K Deluxe undoubtedly stands out for two reasons: advanced chipset cooling system and rich features typical of the solutions from the top price range. Just look at the picture of this product:
Of course, Asus P5K Deluxe is not cheap. However, for the high price you pay for it you also get a pretty extensive range of features and bonuses than any other competing solution would offer you. You can see it from the specification already:
ASUS P5K Deluxe / WiFi | |
CPUs | LGA775 processors: Celeron, Pentium 4, Pentium D, |
Chipset | Intel P35 (P35 GMCH + ICH9R) |
FSB frequencies | 200-800MHz (with 1MHz increment) |
Overclocking friendly | Adjustable Vcore, Vmem, VTT and North Bridge voltage. |
Memory | 4 DDR2 DIMM slots |
PCI Express x16 slots | 2 (the second slot works as PCI Express x1/x4) |
PCI Express x1 slots | 2 |
PCI expansion slots | 3 |
USB 2.0 ports | 10 (6 – on the rear panel) |
IEEE1394 ports | 2 (via Agere FW322 controller) |
ATA-100/133 | 1 ATA-133 channel |
Serial ATA | 6 Serial ATA-300 channel (by the chipset, with RAID support) |
ATA RAID support | RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 in the chipset |
Integrated sound | V incrementосьмиканальный HD кодек ADI AD1988B |
Integrated network | Dual Gigabit Ethernet |
Additional features | None |
BIOS | AMI BIOS v02.58 |
Form-factor | ATX, 305mm x 244mm |
Asus engineers added extra controllers onboard and thus managed to significantly increase the features list of the P5K Deluxe mainboard. The marketing specialists have also contributed to the price of this solution by adding a lot of accessories. As a result, the board comes in a slightly larger box than usual, with a convenient carry handle:
By the way, besides the specifications of the product and the list of major advantages on the reverse side of the package, there are a few very promising claims on the very front of the box as well:
As you can see, they stress that thanks to some Super Memspeed technology the P5K Deluxe board boasts 75% faster work with the memory subsystem compared to “other” products.
As for the accessories bundle, it certainly contains the usual things, such as user’s manual, CD disk with the drivers and software, I/O Shield for the back panel, FDD and Parallel ATA cables, as well as four SATA cables. Besides that there are a few additional much more interesting things. Namely you get a power cable for two SATA hard drives, an additional bracket with two USB 2.0 ports and one IEEE1394 port on it, and a set of Asus’ brand-name Q-Connector set for easy connection to the front panel of the system case. Also, since Asus P5K Deluxe comes with a WiFi controller, the package contains an omnipole antenna.
Although Asus P5K Deluxe is a pretty expensive product, the bundle doesn’t include a traditional rotor fan for the chipset that helps improve heat dissipation from the processor voltage regulator circuitry and the core logic. So, despite a long list of accessories, looks like something is still missing.
