Eye Candy: Asus P5WDG2-WS Professional

Got my board in the other day from Ewiz.com, and thought I'd show if off a little bit...



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no true results yet, as all I have in it is my 920 Presler until I can afford me a E6400 or E6700, but I will tell you that its good to be on Asus again! I was so tired of running the 920 on my Intel Bad Axe 302 board.


-JR

Nice board, I have it received yesterday.
I'm testing it right now, with my vapochill LS :D

Does your mainboard came also with nothing under it, to protect the back.
Only some cardboard. :slap:

That motherboard really is heart-touching.

Are those PCIX connectors? What makes this board "professional" ?

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Originally Posted by _Eduard_

What makes this board "professional" ?

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the "X" following the "pci"...
jokes aside
those that own a pci-x controller can surely appreciate it
(i'm still waiting the damn mobo to arrive in Greece)
let's hope that Asus won't let us hanging with the next gen chipsets
and continues producing workstation boards with pci-x
(sticking with a not so commonly found interface is seriously limiting our choices)

me too....
i'm waiting the mobo + e6400 from Germany (i'm also Greek but i'm in Rome this moment) .
The pci-x is all i want for my u320 scsi raid card for a Raid-0 setup with my 4 15k u320 seagate hds :)
This is realy a very special MB and maybe the best conroe overclocker !

I'm getting tired of looking at other peoples new toys. My wife is a manager at the Chandler and Ocotillo fabs and she still hasn't come through with the new proc. Damn you, damn you all.

Ok your making me jealous!

flash bios to 0004:)

Ok i have to ask a newbie question.

How DO you put a PCI/33 card into a PCI-X slot? it looks like the connector is reversed...how would it even fit ?

just push it in, like you would in a normal pci slot, it will work

what kind of things fit the x pci slots like what some kind of controller or something?

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Originally Posted by AndreYang

flash bios to 0004:)

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i flashed the bios to 0004 even before i installed ethernet drivers :p:

heart touching?

How 'bout a 56K warning... :(
I believe the board is 300.00+ and we've all seen pics... How 'bout providing some numbers that justify the price, I know I'd be interested.... We can see the noob stuff at [H]...

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Originally Posted by AndrewZorn

heart touching?

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I never understood things like that. I have seen similar seemingly missplaced mottos and sayings on other technology equipment. It is almost as if the original phrase was written in Chinese or something and the real intent or meaning was lost in translation.

Maybe the original meaning was something along the lines of inducing a heart palpatation (such as you would have when getting excited)?

yeah like almost "heart-pounding performance" kind of thing

still
heart touching is funny

ok first results with my presler:


on my bad axe 302, i was able to run 4.22ghz 14x301 (13% OC from 267 bootstrap) with 1.4250v to keep it stable, with the ram at 784 4:5 @ 5-3-3-8 with 2.1v


now with the same chip, ram, etc. on the p5wdg2-ws pro, i can run 4.20ghz (14x300) w/ 1.400v and its even more stable than the baxaxe was with less voltage... and ram is now running 800 3:4 @ 4-3-3-8 w/ 2.1v - tighter timings and higher frequency with the same voltage and same stability :)

not to mention on this board, the vcore has yet to drop below the set voltage in BIOS :) thank you 8 stage goodness!

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=114975

any one have multiplier adjustment (downwards) for 6700's and below?...i don't for my 6700 with 0004 bios.

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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

any one have multiplier adjustment (downwards) for 6700's and below?...i don't for my 6700 with 0004 bios.

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I have an E6300 and can't adjust multiplier downwards ither.

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Originally Posted by Sneaky

ok first results with my presler:thank you 8 stage goodness!

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i wish i could say the same for the 8 phase power on my P5W DH

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Originally Posted by burningrave101

I have an E6300 and can't adjust multiplier downwards ither.

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the 965 chipset allows it but i guess the 975 does not unless you have a 6800.

EDIT:..before i get slammed:D..the 975 allows it..the bios is the device that is not allowing it..."get-rrr dune" Asus:)

Someone else asked, but I don't think it was answered. What is the diffence between the PRO and not PRO boards of the same model? Is it just that the PRO is the European version?

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Originally Posted by RSmura

Someone else asked, but I don't think it was answered. What is the diffence between the PRO and not PRO boards of the same model? Is it just that the PRO is the European version?

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The Pro version supports Conroe processors. The non pro does not.

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Originally Posted by RSmura

Someone else asked, but I don't think it was answered. What is the diffence between the PRO and not PRO boards of the same model? Is it just that the PRO is the European version?

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the pro version simply supports C2D & kentsfield cpus
and has one less sata port on the marvell controller
and one more firewire port
it also features copper heatpipe chipset cooling

edit:vmsein 1min faster... :)