Thank you for the detailed and informative review.

That board is a sweet option for those who have penryn in mind.

Thanks for the Asus P5E X38 review, it's the first I've seen anywhere on the net for this board, some very nice pics too. Unfortunately it confirms my view on the X38 boards, it doesn't matter if they come from Asus, Abit, Gigabyte, or MSi, they offer no better performance than the top P35 boards from the same manufacturers, not to mention the fact that X38 boards cost more money! As for having 2 x16 lane PCIE-2 slots, people won't go for it, not when the hottest selling cards currently on the market come from Nvidia with their 8800 GT's. Nice review though.

good

I always enjoy reading the thorough reviews. I appreciate the honesty.

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Shashank
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thanks for the info it's really useful, so far i see nobody complain about it around, so i might think on listing this board for my next rig :)

So the cooler ZALMAN CNPS9700 is compatible with ASUS P5E or not? Zalman site support -GURU ZALMAN specialist doctor engenier -is not responding to this question on dedicated topic.
I intend to buy Zalman CNPS9700 please help ! dvd2ddd@yahoo.com

Page 2 states that PCI-E 2.0 graphics are not available yet but really, PCI-E 2.0 graphics have been available for a month prior to this article. GeForce 8800GT and lately, Radeon 3800 series. Two Radeon 3870s in crossfire compare very favorably to a single 8800GTX and cost less, as well.

This artical was extremely useful, detailed and every aspect was covered. Good use of Photo's to show what was being said. Nice job!

This artical saved my life... Well not really but it certianly cleared up some unkown areas about the P5E. I was looking at this board as a cheaper highly overclockable board with an up to date X38 chipset. I was weighing it up against the mighty Maximus Formula and a cheaper GA-P35-DQ6. From the detailed description and pictures I am happy with its adequate cooling for overclocking. It is also good to get it cleared up that this board is DDR2 and DDR3 compatable because the advertisement on oline stores is confusing. This artical has made my decision easy and I'm also going to use the E6750 and overclock it to 3.6GHz using FSB 450. I'll refer back to this artical for recomended core voltages. It is also very pleasing to see the PCI-E sound card soultuion.

Thanks once again.
Clint

I have a P5E, once you set the ICH9R into RAID mode you cannot use other ports for ATAPI devices like SATA DVD drives because settings are 'global'. The JMicron chipset is limited on this board. Both the P35, X38 are somewhat dissapointing as far as storage is concerned.While Intel chipsets will work with new Core2's I believe a lot of people might want to combine Intel Cores with SLI GPU technology.

is it possible to install a Noctua NH-U12F on it?

I enjoyed this review. TYVM

Very good motherboard

Sweet! Thanks. I'm about to get mine.

I appreciate the effort to test a motherboard model not a the top, that could presents a good quality-price ratio... but it's completely useless if it's not compared with competitors's x38 motheboards in the same range of price like gigabyte x38-ds5 or abit ix38-quad gt. Please update the review with some comparation.which better exploits memory? which has the better performace with cpu intensive application? which which is more overclockable end so on. The forums worldwide are asking "which is better between p5e and ds5?"

Good comment on p5e. However, it still keeps me wonder how 2 pcs of 2x1gb corsair dorminator pc2-8500cs 1066mhz at core2 duo 3 gb (e-6850) couldn't reach the total amount of 4gb on windows xp sp2; as a result, it counts only 3.328 gb. Strangely, on bios, the ram reads out 4gb or more....

had this board the other day, did need to get a new one, my first was DOA and afther some working on it, i found out afther a few day's that it was running the RAId Bios is gone dead now. But all by all a nice board, uhmm

thx!

very good review keep up the good work

Can this board run Asus 9800GX2 ????
thanks!