ASUS Announces 100% All High-quality Conductive Polymer Capacitors! P5B-Premium

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Asus reveals officially its mother charts Windows Vista at the time of THESE. The manufacturer intends to quickly develop a whole line of mother charts Windows Vista with four key functions which we will develop in the lines which follow. But first of all let us reconsider the arrival of the P5B Premium, a mother chart which succeeds the P5B Deluxe and exploits a chipset INTEL P965. This mother chart is distinguished from the P5B Deluxe by its embarked Vista functions. Thus the P5B Premium has a connector TPM which will accomodate module TPM making it possible Vista to ensure the encryption of the data on the hard disks via the function BitLocker Drive.

Better, as we annonçions it to you a few weeks ago, the P5B Premium will be delivered with a module of memory flash directly connected to the chart. Integrating 512 Mo of memory flash, the module in question is compatible with the ReadyBoost function of Windows Vista and thus makes it possible to accelerate certain operations of the system. Asus recycles in the passing the remote control which accompanied until now the P5W-DH Deluxe by delivering a new version provided with new keys dedicated to the fast launching of application or to the deactivation and the alarm clock of the system.

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wow, just use different capacitors and 512mb Flash instead of the WiFi Thingie and bam, you got a new Mainboard...

or do I miss something?

Doesn't this make sense? How much more does it cost these manufacturers to use these? When you are buying millions at a time I'd think that cost difference wouldn't be that much. It certainly shouldn't be that big of a difference to justify the additional cost to consumers.

Quite a fanfare, that was. Just to say they've welded some memory and new fancy capacitors to it. ASUS must have hired the bloke in charge of BMW advertising. :fact:

First A8N-SLI, A8N-SLI Deluxe, A8N-SLI Premium and now P5B, P5B-E, P5B Deluxe, P5B Premium :slobber: yeeesshhh, i just hope it drops the price on the Deluxe:D

What's that thingamabob under the bottom PCI slot?

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Originally Posted by Vapor

What's that thingamabob under the bottom PCI slot?

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TPM connector?

The amount of Asus mainboards being released lately is redicolous. I would be very dissapointed to see that a new P5B is being released a few weeks after I just got the "old" one.

They are releasing new boards faster than new bios :/

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Originally Posted by derektm

TPM connector?

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I think you might be right....looks kinda like a caterpillar.

I don't like caterpillars.

i do like the 512m onboard though...

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Originally Posted by Fr3ak

The amount of Asus mainboards being released lately is redicolous. I would be very dissapointed to see that a new P5B is being released a few weeks after I just got the "old" one.

They are releasing new boards faster than new bios :/

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I wait for the P5B SuperUltra Deluxe Premium MegaEdition V2.0 (released in 2 months after Ultra Deluxe and Premium Deluxe MegaEdition V1.0)

You're totally right, they should concentrate on 1 or 2 good boards and not making more and more different ones.

umm

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A capacitor consists of two conductive electrodes, or plates, separated by an insulator.

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and what makes it any different than the aluminum polymer caps that DFI, Epox, Gigabyte, MSI, and foxconn uses?

The caps ontop?

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Originally Posted by nn_step

umm
and what makes it any different than the aluminum polymer caps that DFI, Epox, Gigabyte, MSI, and foxconn uses?

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Well, I don't know about the capacitors Asus uses, but ABit uses among some caps I can't identify, some sanyo os-con SEP, the best there are for digital PSU. The same caps can be found on high end gfx cards.
Very high ripple current and very low ESR are the words of the game. You may compare the datasheet of the SEP to those of others if you feel like.

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Originally Posted by nn_step

umm
and what makes it any different than the aluminum polymer caps that DFI, Epox, Gigabyte, MSI, and foxconn uses?

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This one be high quality. Meaning, it would blow up in a million years.

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Originally Posted by ahmad

This one be high quality. Meaning, it would blow up in a million years.

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ummm no, the longest lasting caps are Mica/glass caps but they are only expected to last 100 years (some people say forever though) but they are far from compact or from being remotely cost effective.

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Originally Posted by nn_step

ummm no, the longest lasting caps are Mica/glass caps but they are only expected to last 100 years (some people say forever though) but they are far from compact or from being remotely cost effective.

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A single 6.8uF mica capacitor costs 498eur. And it's huge.
Don't even think about a 470uF mica one ;)

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Originally Posted by roibm

A single 6.8uF mica capacitor costs 498eur. And it's huge.
Don't even think about a 470uF mica one ;)

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why not? maybe we can use it to beat some sense into people who think that Caps are going to actually last

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Originally Posted by nn_step

why not? maybe we can use it to beat some sense into people who think that Caps are going to actually last

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Well, that would also mean to help you beat myself...
I also believe the organic/solid polymer caps have a much longer lifespan than the standard alu ones, but it really doesn't matter, I don't plan keeping any board for 30 years ;)
At the same time, these caps also mean better quality, and that is not a bad thing to have especially on a mainboard.

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Originally Posted by nn_step

why not? maybe we can use it to beat some sense into people who think that Caps are going to actually last

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what are you ranting about now? these solid caps would have much better electrical performance, and they CANT leak, bulge, or pop like electrolytics can.

IWill used these in some of their server boards a year or so back. From what I heard, they were very good.

It will still have vdroop and limited by the cpu, but hey you will get to walk around feeling a little lighter...because of an empty wallet.

is this any different than what dfi did from the expert to venus? :confused: :lol2:

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Originally Posted by Kingcarcas

First A8N-SLI, A8N-SLI Deluxe, A8N-SLI Premium and now P5B, P5B-E, P5B Deluxe, P5B Premium :slobber: yeeesshhh, i just hope it drops the price on the Deluxe:D

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you forgot the p5b-e plus and the p5b deluxe wifi ( yes in germany if you buy a p5b deluxe you get it without the wifi module ).
so it would be P5B, P5B-E,p5b-e plus, P5B Deluxe,p5b deluxe wifi, P5B Premium.
imho this is just insane, in the time of the p4 you had p4c800 and p4c800 deluxe and that was it. their starting to act like ea, no bug fixes, no decent support, way overpriced ( striker is 340 euro's here in the netherlands ).

jesus.... how many of these P5B rehashs are they gonna do?

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Originally Posted by ozzimark

is this any different than what dfi did from the expert to venus? :confused: :lol2:

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nope, a perfect clone.

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Originally Posted by Kunaak

jesus.... how many of these P5B rehashs are they gonna do?

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until they runout of cheesy marketing suffixes.

I wish they would just quite putting boards out and fix their damn bios issues with the boards they have out.

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Originally Posted by ozzimark

is this any different than what dfi did from the expert to venus? :confused: :lol2:

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DFI increased the sheer number of capacitors.

this seems to be mroe a matter of quality over quantity.

quantity probably works better though as you get diminishing returns/$ as you get better and better caps.

Also, DFI didnt' swap an audio riser for flash memory, they kept their karajan module.

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Originally Posted by Major_A

Doesn't this make sense? How much more does it cost these manufacturers to use these? When you are buying millions at a time I'd think that cost difference wouldn't be that much. It certainly shouldn't be that big of a difference to justify the additional cost to consumers.

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you also got to look from the perspective that BECAUSE they're buying millions at a time...any small difference in price is massive collectively.

Which is why stuff like..taking off like 5% of material to make something eco friendly makes a huge difference on mass produced things...because it adds up a lot.

Most of those capacitors don't even do anything important.

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Originally Posted by LyP0

you forgot the p5b-e plus and the p5b deluxe wifi ( yes in germany if you buy a p5b deluxe you get it without the wifi module ).
so it would be P5B, P5B-E,p5b-e plus, P5B Deluxe,p5b deluxe wifi, P5B Premium.
imho this is just insane, in the time of the p4 you had p4c800 and p4c800 deluxe and that was it. their starting to act like ea, no bug fixes, no decent support, way overpriced ( striker is 340 euro's here in the netherlands ).

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You totally forgot the P5B vista edition.

Lol whats wrong with one hi-end board and one low-end board.

No we have to have one board to each customer.

Who knows in a year or two maybee this is their new slogan? "ASUS make your own board"

Vista is going to DRM the hardware market and take it down on the slow descent to hell with it.

How sad.

It's an Asus board; the VCore is still gonna droop like an old man's willy, regardless of what caps they use.

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Originally Posted by Sumanji

It's an Asus board; the VCore is still gonna droop like an old man's willy, regardless of what caps they use.

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Haha, it's gonna droop harder than Vista's sales.

gr8 ! another p5b board :mad:

and what's up with this thing:

"Asus will deliver P5B Premium with a small external screen LCD linked in USB à la carte monitor"

http://www.clubic.com/afficher-en-pl...an-435813.html

A P5B-Del with different capacitors and 512mb mem. Nothing more, nothing less. Thanks but no thanks... :p:

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Originally Posted by xgman

"Asus will deliver P5B Premium with a small external screen LCD linked in USB à la carte monitor"

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That does look pretty fly actually... but I'll wait for the DFI version in black :p:

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Originally Posted by xgman

and what's up with this thing:

"Asus will deliver P5B Premium with a small external screen LCD linked in USB à la carte monitor"

http://www.clubic.com/afficher-en-pl...an-435813.html

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It's a LCD that display's to all how much money they suckered you out of :D

It's a successful mobo. It is like apple's iPods. What flavor are you?

you know what? i dont :banana::banana::banana::banana:ing care about super duper caps. i do :banana::banana::banana::banana:ing care about the TPM. death to trusted computing. asus commando is my pick for 965. screw this.

edit: im anti asus now. PLUS, you just lost a customer, probably forever.

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Originally Posted by Sumanji

It's an Asus board; the VCore is still gonna droop like an old man's willy, regardless of what caps they use.

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I cannot understand why Asus doesnt fix their vcore drop problem.
Thanks