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ASUS P5Q Pro + CORSAIR DOMINATOR 4GB DDR2 1066

Be warned about the Asus P5Q Pro. I have one and it has an atheros NIC on it. You might want to pay the extra to get the deluxe one that has a Marvell NIC on it so you can get drivers from the manufacturer rather than your mobo OEM (Atheros does not release the drivers themselves, you have to wait for ASUS to update them. Currently, ASUS does not have Linux drivers (required for almost all distros for that onboard NIC) posted on the P5Q Pro site.

Other than the NIC issue, great motherboard.
 
Please clarify NIC concern. If I don't do any Linux, should I be fine with the P5Q?

Also, my RAM knowledge is limited. I'd like to be able to do at least a medium overclock.

Is the RAM in this deal any good?
 
Originally posted by: Caveman
Please clarify NIC concern. If I don't do any Linux, should I be fine with the P5Q?

Also, my RAM knowledge is limited. I'd like to be able to do at least a medium overclock.

Is the RAM in this deal any good?
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I havent used it but i believe so. Getting the FSB up to 500 for say a 500 FSB x 9 multiplier (4.5Ghz overclock) would require ddr2 1000 memory if the Motherboard could support a FSB that high. This memory is ratted to ddr2 1066(533 FSB) at 5-5-5-15
 
Originally posted by: Caveman
Please clarify NIC concern. If I don't do any Linux, should I be fine with the P5Q?

Also, my RAM knowledge is limited. I'd like to be able to do at least a medium overclock.

Is the RAM in this deal any good?
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This RAM is superb. Have used at least 20 sets and it will run 575 on many decent MBs.

Corsairs Rebates are also good have never had a failure and their on-line status check works!
 
re: NIC

I got this mobo with the e8400 combo deal about a month ago and it's been slow going to set it up (mainly due to a RAM rma). I dual boot with windows 2000 and other than my inability to find an AHCI driver everything with win2k looks fine. I suspect if you don't use linux you shouldn't have a problem. The 2.6.27 kernel has the Atheros drivers built in, but the problem is it's too recent for most live cds. If you google your distribution along with 'p5q pro network', you should be able to find workarounds to get the network working post-install. The Ubuntu 8.10 live cd (released yesterday) can do networking fine.
 
anyone know the time table for phasing out of DDR2 and moving to DDR3?


prices are going to keep on dropping on DDR2 ... aren't they?
 
So tempting!
Wonder how quick I could find a buyer for my P45 Platinum? 😉

*Edit*
Crap...couldn't resist...i'm in for the bundle!
Guess i'm being optimistic about selling the MSI!
 
Has the bundle deal been dead? It seems like for the past week, a PSU has been paired with the P5Q Pro for combo savings.

Edit: OK found it! Just needed to go to combo deals - view all.
 
P5Q PRO - e6300 stock 266 OC to 340 (thats 1.86Ghz to 2.4Ghz) temps @ 70C under load w/ cheap ADATA DDR2 RAM w/ stock horrible Intel HSF; no sweat even UNDERvolted at 1.265. Just think what you can get with a Wolfdale chip!
 
Please clarify NIC concern. If I don't do any Linux, should I be fine with the P5Q?
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Yes and if you decide to do so, the latest Linux Kernel release supports it.

For Windows, just do not expect ASUS to give you the latest NIC drivers (especially once this model becomes obsolete), they will work for the foreseeable future (XP / Vista x32 and x64 work fine), but if you are obsessed with having the latest and greatest NIC drivers, you might want to go for the model that has the Marvell or RealTek (since both provide drivers directly to the consumer for their NICs).
 
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