anyone running a P5E3 board?

[graysky]

Thinking about selling my P965/Q6600 and getting a X38/Q9450 when they're released next month. Anyone in here have the P5E3-Deluxe or other flavor with a quad?

 

[PCTC2]

Almost.... I'm getting a P5E3-Deluxe/Wifi@n next week or so graysky. Wish I could help you.

It's a nice board. I was looking for DDR3, 45nm support, and it has ExpressGate because half of the stuff I use my computer for is just internet browsing, so it'll be perfect for quick surfs.

 

[graysky]

Cool, I'm just wondering if the Ultra-120 Extreme will fit on the board (I'm guessing it will).

 

[PCTC2]

I'm pretty sure it will. It doesn't look any more crowded around the socket area than any of the other boards I've put my Ultra120 on.

 

[topdavis]

FYI - Here is my current setup:

- ASUS P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi-AP
- OCZ Titanium 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Model OCZ3T1600XM2GK
- WD Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - Raid0
- Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz Dual-Core Processor Model BX80570E8400
- ASUS EN8800GT/G/HTDP/512M GeForce 8800GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 (I'm not doing heavy gaming where a second graphic card would matter to me and the motherboard is Crossfire compliant so...)

My experience so far has been much more good than bad. I love how fast the thing performs even when just using the XMP profile. The setup of this board was a little tricky for me, but my issues were more with memory than with the board itself. I could install XP with all the AI Tweaker settings at Factory default. What was weird was when XP was locking up randomly. I took out the second DDR3 module and everything would work fine so I surmised it was a bad module. I placed the bad module in the place of the known working module and sure enough the lock-up problems were back. I then thought I would try, for grins, setting the overclock settings with the good memory. The only thing that worked without problem was the XMP profiles. Then I just thought, maybe I should put the bad module in the system and see what happens. I did that with the XMP settings and I have not had a lockup since. I reverted back to auto to check my sanity, and sure enough lock-ups in the OS again. i am currently running with the XMP profiles intact and have not had an incident with lock-ups. I am investigating if I should replace this memory with another approved brand, but have been to busy trying to fix my other problem.

After upgrading my BIOS to 0903, now the ASUS updater will no longer work and the new BIOS file is too large to fit on floppy. I tried the EZUpdater with a CD with the burned BIOS image file, but I kep getting a message stating the BIOS was missing some header information. I'm still looking into this issue.

Otherwise, the board has performed extremely well and a little beyond my expectations. Company of Heroes plays extremely well on this setup and the overall system response for Office and graphic applications is well beyond what I expected.

I think this is an excellent product from ASUS.