P5K By Asus

[Mir96TA]

I am intrested in this MB Asus P5K
I am comming from Orig from P875 (SC400)
then I got ASrock Dual VSTA
Not really impress with that path
I think I am may ready for pure LGA 775 Plath form
Please advise

 

[Mir96TA]

Only one IDE slot
errr I have two IDE DVD Roms

 

[Andrewcc]

I just put my first rig together today with the P5K Deluxe. Everything plugged in and it boots just fine. So, I'm pretty happy. As for extended use...I don't know yet.

As to the IDE thing, you can plug two IDE devices into one IDE cable, so the one IDE header is fine as long as you have SATA hard drives.

 

[djnsmith7]

I'm also seriously considering this series...I'd like to see how popular this series becomes...Haven't heard or read much about it yet...

 

[Butterbean]

I'm off of Asus on next mobo. I find them too hit or miss lately and their support and site are a joke. Plus they seem to be getting carried away with all the heat pipe stuff. Intel doesn't use all that copper bling and users consistently rate the Intel stuff better than Asus all things considered. Asus is only company I know that sent out a new high end mobo (P5W DH) and then it wouldn't boot with retail conroes because it had only been tested with engineering samples. All Asus could say was "oops" and "buy a Celeron" to boot and then update Bios.

 

[corsa]

Non deluxe Asus P5K ...

 

[DXtreme]

I got the vanilla P5K last week. I had no problem getting my E6400 (8x400) @ 3.2 stock voltage and 1600 FSB. I would recommend this board to anyone!

I can get more out of it, but haven't had the time.

Go for it!🙂

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: Butterbean
I'm off of Asus on next mobo. I find them too hit or miss lately and their support and site are a joke. Plus they seem to be getting carried away with all the heat pipe stuff. Intel doesn't use all that copper bling and users consistently rate the Intel stuff better than Asus all things considered. Asus is only company I know that sent out a new high end mobo (P5W DH) and then it wouldn't boot with retail conroes because it had only been tested with engineering samples. All Asus could say was "oops" and "buy a Celeron" to boot and then update Bios.

The heatpipe cooling can and probably is inferior, but it looks cool.

It's not that less heat is being moved around, or that the average component temperature won't be lower, but that typically, the temps are like so:

voltage regulators > north bridge > south bridge

So it's quite likely (IMO) that the chipset is being made hotter under load than if it was all cooled separately. Then, the annoying thing is almost no boards of any repute actually have them all cooled, but each set on their own. There's a nice SPCR thread about this, I think involving the P5K Deluxe.

I'm planning on upgrading within a couple months, and this is one of those things driving me nuts. Either a recommended mobo has these silly heat pipes connecting what should be separate heatsinks, or the VRMs have no cooling and are not arranged in a way that makes adding a heatsink easy to do.

Now, OTOH, with everything working as it should, it'll probably not become an issue...but it's still a bit unnerving.

 

[Konadreamer]

It is a nice board with good OC features. Currently 8 x 400 on and e4400 so that ain't bad and I know there is more left, but I would be happy with this for quite some time to come. Very mature as opposed to P965 when it first came out, so you know it is going to get even better. My massive heatsink fit with no problems....no mods to do it. Wireless feature is nice and it works will. I know they make it in a flavor that has like 4 ddr2 slots and 2 ddr3 slots, so you may want to consider that as an option now because ddr3 is scarce and expensive atm.