ASUSTeK P5B / P5B Deluxe (Intel P965)

WOOOOT 259 €. :\ so 200 very expensive

P5B looks nice mobo

Yeah I'm thinking the NF5 Intel edition could have trouble. It's usually a bad sign when Asus won't give your board the time of day. Sure SLI would be nice, but if they figure out how to do it on a single slot, that's fine, and if not, well I've lived with a single card till now just fine.

And if I'm choosing stability and performance vs SLI, I think SLI has to go. I can use more than 4 SATA but honestly, the 975's all have additional beyond the 4 so that works.

The question is, is the 590 really bad or just preliminary? And second, are they going to update the 975 so it clearly outperforms the 965? Because if you start talking just a single x16 card either the 975 or 965 will do that.

Need to see some side by side performance here (in a place I trust to give quality results) before I'm going to say "yeah I'll buy that" to any of the above.

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Even P5B-Deluxe has only 1 16x and 1 4x, You can see it from the capacitors beside the slots.

This kind of asymmetric SLI/CF really sux ass

Yeah, 975 for 8x/8x or NF5 for 16x/16x. That really seems to be the last 2 contenders here for me.

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Originally Posted by Anemone

Yeah, 975 for 8x/8x or NF5 for 16x/16x.

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and what about R600?

Hmmm def considering the P5B Deluxe.

I'm thinking
-High end GPU
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-Ageia Physx (whenever they come out with x4 PCI-E)
-Raid controller maybe?
-Audigy 2 ZS

I wonder if the Swiftech Storm will clear the caps (mounted parallel to RAM, vertical).

I wouldn't touch an ATI chipset with a 10 foot pole, and neither Via.

I'm sure I'm alone on this one but that's my experience.

P5B Deluxe for me aswell,

Don't need the stupid Wi-Fi but the rest looks good

Anyone have one yet ?

hmm, for havok physics, can we use the second pci express slot on the p5b deluxe for an sm3.0 grafics card to do physics?
or would there be bandwith problems

It all depends on availability at the time, Personally I prefer the P5B Dlx because of ICH8 and I dont want/need SLI and it "should" be cheaper than the P5W DH though its impossible to get an exact selling price on either ATM :)

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Originally Posted by Silver Bullet

Hey all,

Got another question (seems this is the only place that some people know more than i do :)). anyway .. was wondering if the P5B Deluxe supports EEP (Enhanced Performance Profiles). I know this was started with the new AM2 nforce boards, just wondering if Intel picked it up in time for 965 chipset.

Reason I ask is becuase I was planning on using Corsair Twin2 2GB PC2 6400 C4 (with EEP) and was hoping that EEP might help just that little bit more.

edit .. not sure if 'help' is the right word, but u get the idea... i hope

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its only going to be on the Nforce 590 board

Future memory controllers "can" recognize it, but it will take another generation of Intel controllers or 3rd party motherboard makers adding custom logic to recognize it.

So for this round it's 590 only unless it can be done via bios update (doubtful)

Does P5B/P5B Deluxe support EMT64? I don't see it mentioned anywhere.

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Originally Posted by Sulaco

Does P5B/P5B Deluxe support EMT64? I don't see it mentioned anywhere.

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well the board had the 965 chipset and it fully supports conroe and conroe has EM64T (yes its not EMT64), then i dont see why it wont...

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Oops, sorry about ther typo :slapass:

Since the board supports 8Gb of memory it would be strange if it did not support a 64 bit OS to be installed as well so I guess you are right :)

How much is the P5B? I think i will buy it until the DFI RD600 board comes out.

Tried, but couldn't find any trace of it ... ncix, newegg, pricewatch all blank. My guess ... $230US ish

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Originally Posted by Silver Bullet

Tried, but couldn't find any trace of it ... ncix, newegg, pricewatch all blank. My guess ... $230US ish

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for the P5B!?!? .....im not talking about the Deluxe

These mobos better be under 200bux. The way I see it, 975x conroe board should go for like 230 then the higher end 965 should go for 180ish and the lower end unit should go for like 130.

Mainboard prices have been escalating recently, Im not liking this.

First 2 months = premium prices.

If you are looking for reasonableness, don't be in line to get one during that time.

Do we know the MAX FSB on the P5B? I really want to know!

I dunno if anyone else noticed this but when i was oc my p5b dlx and had the vcore @ auto and went to health menu it said it was running @ 1.55Vcore i was like wtf... cause i just installed and my cpu temp was low 60s
so i put it manually @ 1.325 and violla 40C temps... just a fyi

i can push mine to 600

cadsii: P5B-D iun auto mode raises the voltages... seen same thing, and set up manually, high tems gone.

ps. but according to RMClock, internal thermo-diode shows temperatures around 75C+ under load (6300 @ 2.8Ghz). not too good...