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Why is P5E3 Premium not for sale anymore?

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pixelsurgeon

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I have one ASUS P5E3 X48 Premium Wifi AP@n Edition motherboard and I recently noticed that it isn't for sale any more.

Does anyone knows why? Thanks

After so much praise, it surprised (and worried) me.
 
Ok, but it isn't on ASUS website anymore, and I can´t find it on the biggest stores here in Lisbon, where I used to see selling them pretty well. On the other hand, some older sisters are still on the website and on the stores. There must be some explanation for this brand new Golden Choice Award motherboard extinction.
 
I'm looking at this motherboard too. Newegg's price seems to be the best around.

I assume you are very satisfied with your rig's stability, overclocking, temps, etc.?

-Robert
 
Originally posted by: chess9
I'm looking at this motherboard too. Newegg's price seems to be the best around.

I assume you are very satisfied with your rig's stability, overclocking, temps, etc.?

-Robert
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Yes, I'm satisfied with my new rig. The only problem I had was solved by a BIOS update. But now I'm worried about this move by ASUS... If you look at the specs of the board and to all those reviews, you must wonder why they retired the board so early. I'm getting paranoid to find it's flaw.
 
Originally posted by: pixelsurgeon
Originally posted by: chess9
I'm looking at this motherboard too. Newegg's price seems to be the best around.

I assume you are very satisfied with your rig's stability, overclocking, temps, etc.?

-Robert
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Yes, I'm satisfied with my new rig. The only problem I had was solved by a BIOS update. But now I'm worried about this move by ASUS... If you look at the specs of the board and to all those reviews, you must wonder why they retired the board so early. I'm getting paranoid to find it's flaw.
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It's still available here on several web sites. Newegg has it, and I believe Frys and ZipzoomFly have it. And the prices haven't budged!

What size power supply are you running with that board?

-Robert

 
Originally posted by: Quiksilver
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http://www.asus.com/products.a...l1=3&l2=11&l3=640&l4=0
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Making the same search I made before I get to the board, but it wasn't there when I created this thread. You can doubt about it, but it wasn't on the website a couple of days ago. I'm a lot more relaxed now. Thanks.

Originally posted by: chess9
What size power supply are you running with that board?
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My system specs are on my signature. I'm running a Corsair HX-620.
 
Pixelsurgeon:

Have you had any cooling issues with that board? I assume you are overclocking a bit? Did you have any other issues? No problem with the floppy drive if you installed one? Did you try installing an old ide drive? (I have some older ones I might install for backups.) Is the sound solid? What are you memory timings and memory bus speed like?

Thanks,
Robert
 
Originally posted by: chess9
Pixelsurgeon:

Have you had any cooling issues with that board? I assume you are overclocking a bit? Did you have any other issues? No problem with the floppy drive if you installed one? Did you try installing an old ide drive? (I have some older ones I might install for backups.) Is the sound solid? What are you memory timings and memory bus speed like?

Thanks,
Robert
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It runs 24/7 and I chose not to overclock it much for now. My Q6600 is running at 3.0 Ghz.

I didn't install any floppy drive, but I had good experiences with connecting 3 old IDE discs just to copy my old backups to the 2 new SATA discs.

I'm using a ASUS Silent Square EVO with my Q6600 and the temperatures have always been great. I don't know about the north bridge temperatures because the chipset is at its stock voltage. The whole system looks pretty cool.

The HD sound is very good. I watch a lot of movies and played some of the latest games and the sound that came out of my 5.1 system was great. Now I'm using an old Audigy 2 ZS I already had in the older system, because I think it might help to reduce the motherboard tasks. I'm not seeing any gains in this, but I'm still using the sound board.

I didn't change the memory timings. They're running at 1.5v / CL 9 / 1333Mhz. It's not great, but they are fast enough for all the tasks I need. When the DDR3 2000 modules became cheaper and with better latencys, I'll think of an upgrade.

The only issue I had with this board was in the first week after I build the system, when I tried to overclock it. The BIOS didn't allow any change. If I tried to change the simpler setting, the board would refuse to reboot. If I tried to save the new settings the system powered off, and could only be powered back on manually, than would ask me to undo the BIOS changes. This problem was solved by a simple BIOS update.

I don't know if you could understand all I wrote, because my English is very poor. I tried my best. 🙂
 
Thanks a lot, mate. That was excellent information. I think I'm going to buy that board this week for my daughter's xmas gaming rig.

-Robert
 
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