Asus P45: P5Q-E, P5Q Pro

[Polizei]

Same as P5K PRO versus P5K/EPU.

Huh? Why doesn't it have the heatsink there? It looks like they just forgot it... the MOSFETs are bare.

[DragoonXX]

P45 is a little bit more in depth (to my understanding) than P35, so no softmodding like x38->x48
ICH10 for one (I know, southbridge)
PCIe 2.0
quite probably more PCIe Lanes

[STaRGaZeR]

P45 is a little bit more in depth (to my understanding) than P35, so no softmodding like x38->x48
ICH10 for one (I know, southbridge)
PCIe 2.0
quite probably more PCIe Lanes

It's a completely different chipset, BIOS flashing is not possible.

[K404]

Bring on the DDR3 versions and im soooo there

[Kai Robinson]

Ew. I just dumped money on a DDR2, no thanks to DDR3!

[Kasparz]

Huh? Why doesn't it have the heatsink there? It looks like they just forgot it... the MOSFETs are bare.

Better bare, than airbags oner FET's that contains hot air. You know, heatsinks with pushpins are not making good contact with FET's are worse than having no heatsink at all. FET heatsink with backplate and real metal screws are best anyway.

Ew. I just dumped money on a DDR2, no thanks to DDR3!

I dumped $ for few hundreds of DDR2 kits, huh.
Anyways, Qimonda offers that cheap DDR3 IC that are only 2x more than DDR2 value parts. X48 in my opinion should be DDR3 ONLY and most of P45 highend boards too. There is no need for new boards over 150$ with DDR2, there is no reason supporting old technology even if cheap DDR3 parts won't show performance jump, but still thats investment in future. And still we will be using LGA775 for a year until Nehalem boards/bioses will be enthusiast friendly. I really see no reason for 150$+ DDR2 boards.

[TheGoat Eater]

look at the RAM slots
DDR2

BOO!!! - give us DDR3

[NH|Delph1]

We've gotten a hold of some information about the upcoming P5Q series from ASUS. The boards are based on the Intel P45 chipset and right now we know of two boards of the series; ASUS P5Q-E and P5Q Pro. Both boards use the older DDR2 memory standard, and supports up to 1200MHz memory frequency. They bring support for the latest Intel processors, with 1600MHz FSB, and they also have the new EPU. EPU is a built-in chip that will save power by adjusting voltages on the fly during idle situations.

ASUS P5Q-E is the higher-end of the two. It sports a more advanced cooling with a larger heatsink on top of the northbridge and additional cooling for the voltage regulators on the top of the boards (right side in the pictures below). It also has a third PCIe x16 slot, which you can use to run three ATI Radeon cards in CrossFireX with 8x physical bandwidth on two slots, and 4x on the third one. When running two cards in CrossFire you get 8x bandwidth with each slot.

Both cards use the new ICH10R southbridge, where the PATA support has finally been removed, but those of you who are still using the fossilized format can relax. ASUS has added an external controller. There are eight SATA ports all in all, six from the southbridge and two from an external controller.

Two Firewire ports, support for up to 12 USB ports, 8 channel HD audio, 2 PCI ports, and 2 PCIe x1 ports (3 with P5Q Pro) and dual Gb Ethernet (single with P5Q Pro), are just some of the features you will find with both boards.

Keep your eyes open, because we have more information coming up.

Source: NordicHardware

Since the pictures are the same, more or less, I removed them.

//Andreas

[Kai Robinson]

Oooh, and 8x PCIe 2.0 is equivalent to 16x PCIe 1.1!

Finally a decent setup!

Now order nVidia to allow SLI on it! I DEMAND SO!

[Xevipiu]

Also:

P5Q Deluxe & P5Q3 Deluxe

[Richard Dower]

Asus...always with 300 different motherboards, pish.

[mrcape]

p5q deluxe? Hmm either this or dfi p45, maybe one more 775 board for me?

I'm curious how these will perform.

[Xevipiu]

Tomorrow will hang pics

[Mungri]

I was expecting two 16x PCI-E 2.0 slots, but two 8x should still be decent.

[oohms]

Nice but im waiting for nehalem

(The P5Q-Pro would make a good benching mobo)

[Polizei]

Does anyone know any release dates for P45? Either the day Intel releases the chipset to the manufacturer or the day the boards are released to the public. I'm eargerly waiting to upgrade to an E8400 (8300 depending when it comes out) and a P45 board.

[squilliam]

...Waiting till nelhem (however it's spelt)...

[Leeghoofd]

Prolly go P5Q Dlx here... awaiting Pics and test from Xevipiu (what does that mean ?)

[xwards]

P5Q-E looks nice

[Xevipiu]

Pics:

[Mungri]

I've been looking through the Pre launch news on MSI boards, and I dont see a successor the the P35 Neo 2!!!!

They sooooo need a successor to the P35 neo 2 omg!!!

I'll go see if I can get any info on the MSI forums.

[Leeghoofd]

More pics of P5Q Dlx courtesy by Hothardware :









Intel is planning to release the successor the popular P35 chipset in a few weeks, the aptly named P45. From a feature standpoint, the P35 and P45 are somewhat similar. But the P45 will have official support for 1,600MHz FSB processors, PCI Express 2.0, and the chipset is being manufactured 65nm as opposed to 90nm, which should being power consumption and heat down a bit. The P45 will also be paired up with a new ICH10-series southbridge, which offers more SATA connectivity.

Asus showed off a few P45-based motherboards at CeBit a while back, but they weren't quite ready for prime time. We have, however, just gotten our hands on the retail-ready version of the Asus P5Q Deluxe, which should be available soon.
As you can see, the P5Q Deluxe sports a passive, all copper cooling system, very similar to the P5E3 series of boards. It's got three physical PCI Express x16 slots, dual PCIe x1 slots, and a pair of PCI slots. Audio duties are handled by an ADI HD codec, and the I/O backplane is loaded with six USB 2.0 ports, dual LAN jacks, a PS/2 mouse or keyboard port (notice the two-tone colored port), digital and analog audio outputs, Firewire, and eSATA.

If you look between the second PCI and PCIe x16 slots, a flash memory card is visible, which features the "Express Gate", Linux-based mini-OS we told you about here.

We haven't fired the board up just yet, but will be soon. Once we're done with testing, we'll be publishing a full review, so stay tuned. Something tells us that new 65nm northbridge is going to fun to overclock

Link towards the small preview here :

http://www.hothardware.com/News/Asus%5FP45Based%5FP5Q%5FDeluxe%5FSneak%5FPeek/

[Richard Dower]

Does anyone know any release dates for P45? Either the day Intel releases the chipset to the manufacturer or the day the boards are released to the public. I'm eargerly waiting to upgrade to an E8400 (8300 depending when it comes out) and a P45 board.

Mid June, the official lauch will probably be at Computex.

[STaRGaZeR]

How many phases in the Deluxe?

[Kasparz]

How many phases in the Deluxe?

14?
Jesus, jesus...