Intel Motherboards ASUS- P5Q- EMreview
By Xanatose on
My nearest netcafe owner recently bought this product at his favourite store.I tested this productwith his permission.
Some of the useful features and demerits are outlined below.
It is built with the Intel G45 chipset and LGA 775 socket.The southbridge and northbridge are named as Intel G45
and Intel ICH1OR respectively.
The front side bus speed(FSB) is 1600MHz.The memory type supported is DDR 2 and 800MHz.There are four
memory slots are provided to upgrade with nearly 16GB of RAM.
To connect hard disks there are six number of SATA ports and one PATA port are available.Good multimedia
features such as eight channel audio with HD compliant and theaudio controlloer is ALC1200.
One LAN port with 10/100 mbps Gigabit is built within this board.The front side has six USB ports and one firewire
ports to connect various devices.
Overclocking options are available for CPU,FSB and memory chips.The package bundle includes three SATA cables
and one PATA cable.
At $170 this motherboard performs good and its pros and cons are listed below.
pros:Overclocking and multimedia features.
cons:Expensive,wi-fi support and power saving features.
