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Asus P5E – The Hidden Maximus
Asus P5E is a new motherboard with X38 chipset from Asus. With this chipset Asus have some new products, P5E, P5E-WS Pro, Maximus Formula and with DDR3 support some more, for example P5E3, P5E3 Deluxe Wifi AP, Maximus Extreme, …
The main news in the X38 chipset are pci-e 2.0 and the possibility of CrossFire at 16x,offering us a better bandwidth. There are also some rumors that it will support SLI, with other drivers.
Talking about Asus P5E, in my point of view it is almost an Asus Maximus Formula, even having some characteristics and offerings of motherboards from R.O.G (Republic of Gamers) series, for example the sound card SupremeFX II. Using the same PCB, the main differences between Asus P5E and Asus Maximus Formula are the several options in bios that Maximus Formula have, for example the voltage options. Other two things that Maximus Formula give us are the LCD Poster and the possibility of using watercooling on the northbridge, because it comes with a waterblock installed (Maximus Formula S.E).
All these new motherboards with X38 chipset have a new technology called E.P.U (Energy Processing Unit) that allow as to save energy.
Specifications
Product on Asus Website
Now I will present some photos of the product tested here (Asus P5E).
Let’s start by the box
Some characteristics presented on the box
When we open the box…
… what we find
Sata and IDE cables, Q-Shield (I/O shield), I/O module, optional fan for mosfets, Q-Connector, SupremeFX II, user guide, CD and Asus P5E of course.
Some photos of some aspects of Asus P5E
Overview
Socket area
Ram slots
2 pci-e slots, CF 16x
On northbridge it has an huge passive cooler with cooper color (it’s in aluminum).
On southbridge it has a simple cooler with a futuristic look.
On the mosfets beside the socket area it has a big cooler too, but this time with the natural color of aluminum.
The mosfets on top of socket area are cooled by the normal cooler that Asus have been using before on other models/series.
On this board the Sata connections are a lot better placed, because this way the graphics card will not overlap them and the sata cables will enter in the horizontal.
The I/O panel have less connections than the previous motherboards, but it has the more important and needed connections. Once again they didn’t put 2 P/S2 connections, because almost all the mouse’s and keyboards of nowadays use USB.
The sound card SupremeFX II with an attractive look.
The optional fan for mosfets
Asus P5K Deluxe on the left, P5E on the right
To be continued
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Originally Posted by screwtech02
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