Asus P45: P5Q-E, P5Q Pro

[STaRGaZeR]

I count 16 What are they thinking?

[Polizei]

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

Mid June release to the public or release to manufacturers?

[emoners]

i like it that ASUS is using black PCBs...but their boards are getting massive heatpipes on them.

[Kai Robinson]

They had better release to the public within the next 2 weeks or else i'm going to hulk out

[Nicksterr]

I like Asus mobos but I'm so used to/content with gigabyte boards and their bios I don't think I want to switch.

[Mungri]

hehe, I used to use Asus exclusively until I got my current MSI board, and I got converted to MSI o.O

I'm just a sucker for the cool shiny copper pipes.

The Deluxe version looks good though, but MSI should be able deliver that kind of passive cooling on a lower priced board.

[irev210]

14?
Jesus, jesus...

haha it is gigabyte vs asus!

"12" phase vs "16" phase

[Kasparz]

Seems like they bought too much chokes and fets

[NoobCake]

hey guys,

when are these boards due in?

i want one so bad!!!

[Logos]

hope no one has posted this yet, found at VRZone

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=272674

[Polizei]

P5Q-E it is. Excellent.

[TEDY]

you mean P5Q-E?

[L1m1t.NL]

I have some scoops, hope it's not a repost!

First Asus ROG Maximus II Formula picture (note the 2 phases on the memory and the 3 phases on the chipset):



The included Supreme FX with X-Fi chip. (The only downside is that it only supports EAX HD 4.0):



Asus P5Q picture including all features:



And some priceless Gigashyte bashing!



There is more info about the Asus P45 Line-up at PCGamesHardware. Remember that there is more info on the next page and in the Image Gallery.

[Richard Dower]

Mid June release to the public or release to manufacturers?

I'd say we'll see retail/in stock mid June.

[Richard Dower]

And some priceless Gigashyte bashing!

Gigabyte need to respond.

[STaRGaZeR]

[Richard Dower]

this a payback for when Gigabyte did similiar thermal pics putting an Asus boards up against a DQ6.

[NeedMoMegaHurtZ]

LOL at "G-Brand"
Can't wait until these boards are out

[STaRGaZeR]

And ASUS is right, Gigabyte design is not a true 12 phase design.

[Polizei]

you mean P5Q-E?

Fixed.

If you can believe it, when I was typing that originally, I said to myself to make sure not to type P5K.

[Mungri]

Hmm, are the MSI boards 16 phase?

I never paid much attention to this detail, maybe I will be retuning to Asus then o.O

And i'm not buying a Gigabyte now :p

[Richard Dower]

Is this Asus design *TRUE* 16 phase?...what chips are they using?, i thought Intersil only had 6 phase PWM chips?

[Leeghoofd]

Gigabyte need to respond.

Lol they did the same if I recall correctly with P5K dlx from Asus... and indeed everyone agreed that gigabyte faked their 12 power phase design... lol some guys beat me to it

[emoners]

) hahaha seems like ASUS isn't discreet about the G-brand :p

[dinos22]

hahahah Gigabyte's gonna have a laugh when they read this
they are probably feeling a bit of pressure as they are losing ground on them otherwise they wouldn't introduce all these new changes to their boards to counter GB hahahah

I wish they didn't go down this path as it will soon start to be more about bling than board itself
both Gigabyte and Asus need to take a step back a bit imo


what they all need to do is respond with good pricing and not this crap