View Full Version : P5WD2 vs P5AD2-E Premium
n00b 0f l337
05-17-2005, 02:15 PM
Hello!
I'm looking into a new lga775 mobo, these are the two options. 245 for the p5wd2, or a refurbd p5ad2-e premium. The second one, is cheaper and an awesome OC machine. The first one, I've read a few reviews, and apart from teh hint of AMR or something, it don't seem worth 100 or so more dollars.
Now what would you all say?
Also, this 3.2 540 will be on a phase change system. :idea:
Capt_Caveman
05-17-2005, 02:35 PM
If you don't think you're going to dual core, I would get a P5AD2-e Premium. I just went from a P5AD2-e Premium to a P5WD2 Premium b/c I'm going to try dual core and I can tell that the P5AD2-e Premium is the best board I've ever used. If you look back, you'll find a couple of threads about the P5WD2 Premium. In my opinion, unless you're going to dual core, the P5WD2 Premium is a down grade from the P5AD2-e Premium. The P5WD2 Premium should really be called a Deluxe.
If you do decide you want to go dual core, I would go with the Gigabyte 955x Royal over the P5WD2 Premium.
Kunaak
05-17-2005, 03:18 PM
If you're interested in a two month old P5AD2-e Premium, send me a PM.
you don't have 100 posts to sell items here on XS, and it's generally frownd upon if you try and sell stuff on the general forums.
n00b 0f l337
05-17-2005, 03:38 PM
Well, back to this? I'm siding with the 925xe chipset...
Salkcin
05-18-2005, 02:58 AM
I have no experience with either board, but looking at the features I'd go with P5WD2 since it has 955X/ICH7R (vs. 925XE/ICH6R). The diffrence between 925XE and 955X is proberly marginal (955X has a memory controller wich is faster by a margin and tolerates faster DDR2 speeds), but in the southbridges there's some diffrence in the bandwidthes. The extra bandwidth offered for the I/O on the ICH7R proberly not mean much in benchmarks, but in real life/everyday I THINK it makes a small difference wich I would personally find nice. The computer would proberly be able to handle more load from harddives, USB2, Firewire without slowing down.
The generation of 955X have moved some components like the LAN onto the PCI-Express bus for dedicated full-duplex 250MB/s bus.
The reason to go 955X is improved I/O bandwidth from the southbridge - choose it if you believe it will be useable.
thephenom
05-18-2005, 06:43 AM
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=62412
His P5WD2 seems pretty good.
The Stilt
05-18-2005, 07:22 AM
If there is P5WD2 available, you shouldn´t look anywhere near P5AD2-E...
P5WD2 has far better cpu power cirquit (4 stage vs 3), and the Glenwood chipset can run much higher speeds than Alderwood. I think that P5WD2 is everything that P5AD2-E should have been.
I just love this board :D
n00b 0f l337
05-18-2005, 02:15 PM
Heh, the 100$ price diference is hurting me. I think I'll get a p5wd2 evetnaully.
Capt_Caveman
05-20-2005, 05:35 AM
If there is P5WD2 available, you shouldn´t look anywhere near P5AD2-E...
P5WD2 has far better cpu power cirquit (4 stage vs 3), and the Glenwood chipset can run much higher speeds than Alderwood. I think that P5WD2 is everything that P5AD2-E should have been.
I just love this board :D
For pure oc'ing the P5WD2 may be a good choice but I still can't figure out why they downgraded so many features on this board. The P5AD2-e Premium is a great board.
They are both great boards - but the P5WD2 is certainbly a tad be faster in all benches - and allowed me to get an extra 150mhz in overclocks (might not have bene the board but better settings...) .
althes
05-22-2005, 08:02 AM
They are both great boards - but the P5WD2 is certainbly a tad be faster in all benches - and allowed me to get an extra 150mhz in overclocks (might not have bene the board but better settings...) .
What were the highest oc on the ram :)