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P5q Pro From Asus - Another P45 Motherboard Reviewed |
 Nov 23 2008, 09:07 PM
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 Will Fold 4 Food  Posts: 6,106 Joined: 10-May 04 From: Franklin, TN Member No.: 10,039  |
OCC just posted a review of the ASUS P5Q motherboard - http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/asus_p5q_pro/
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Nov 23 2008, 11:00 PM
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 Clock Me Higher Posts: 802 Joined: 19-September 08 From: Australia Member No.: 64,151 |
I'll check it out
This post has been edited by Timmy94: Nov 23 2008, 11:00 PM -------------------- ‘If It Won’t Boot, Clock It Higher’ Asus GTX 295 Acer 24" + Acer 19" Coolermaster CM 690 Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3P 4GB Patriot DDR3 1600Mhz Intel Core i7 860 @ 2.94Ghz Great Wall 700W + TT 450W VGA |
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Nov 24 2008, 04:33 AM
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 OCC AMD Reviewer Posts: 1,623 Joined: 21-May 07 From: Queen Creek, AZ Member No.: 21,421 |
Nice review Mat. I love my P5Q Premium and this looks like a winner also
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Nov 24 2008, 05:54 AM
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 Geek Posts: 659 Joined: 7-December 04 Member No.: 14,018 |
QUOTE (ajmatson @ Nov 24 2008, 12:33 PM)  Nice review Mat. I love my P5Q Premium and this looks like a winner also I'm looking at my nice shiny P5Q-VM box right now, installing tonight (with 2gb of Patriot 800mhz 2-2-2-12 an E8400 aand an Arctic 7 cooler), the same chipset but no X-fire (don't need it) and onboard VGA, in fact you might want to check out the Asus site, there's quite an array of different P5Q's with different features but all with the same chipset and overclocking bios features. -------------------- E8400 @ 3.8ghz
2048mb Patriot Extreme Performance 2.2v 4-4-4-12 DDR667 (@ 2.1v and 5-5-5-12) Asus P5Q-VM motherboard Chenbro Gaming Bomb case with 1 x 120mm and 2 x 80mm fans (Akasa Pax Power Amber series). Gigabyte "Superb" 550w PSU. 39 idle and 52 load on Arctic Silver Freezer 7 pro @ 2000rpm. 2 x WD 250gb 16mb SATA 2 XFX 8800GTS 312mb GPU |
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Nov 24 2008, 09:31 AM
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 Geek Posts: 810 Joined: 11-August 06 Member No.: 18,473 |
i love mine.
it took my E8600 to 5GHZ with ease. it will run at 550x8 24/7... 
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Nov 25 2008, 07:14 AM
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Geek Posts: 659 Joined: 7-December 04 Member No.: 14,018 |
One thing I have had a problem with, and I don't know if this affects the higher end P5Q's is the motherboard temps show as being mid to high 40's even at stock, despite ambient being 21 and the CPU at 36, after a bit of worrying about the Northbridge cooling I found the "problem" the temp sensor is up in the right hand corner of the board, by the CPU fan header and probably behind your optical drives. This won't be showing as such a problem if your power supply draws air from the back, however, if like mine, your PS draws from beneath this area of the board lives in a nice toasty bit of dead air. I cured mine by poppong a spare 80mm fan, cable tied to the back of a couple of spare drive bays and the motherboard temps immediately dropped to 25 degrees.
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2048mb Patriot Extreme Performance 2.2v 4-4-4-12 DDR667 (@ 2.1v and 5-5-5-12) Asus P5Q-VM motherboard Chenbro Gaming Bomb case with 1 x 120mm and 2 x 80mm fans (Akasa Pax Power Amber series). Gigabyte "Superb" 550w PSU. 39 idle and 52 load on Arctic Silver Freezer 7 pro @ 2000rpm. 2 x WD 250gb 16mb SATA 2 XFX 8800GTS 312mb GPU |
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