Asus P5K P35 Socket 775 Motherboard
Test Setup
Published: 4th June 2007 | Source: Asus | Price: |
To ensure that all reviews on Overclock3D are fair, consistent and unbiased, a standard set of hardware and software is used whenever possible during the comparative testing of two or more products. The configuration used in this review can be seen below:
| Asus P5K Deluxe (P35) | Asus P5B Premium (P965) | |
| Processor | Intel Core2Duo E4300 @ 1.8ghz | |
| Memory | Mushkin HP2-6400 4GB @ DDR2-800 5-4-4-12 | |
| Graphics Card | XpertVision ATI X1950Pro PCI-E 512mb (Stock) | |
| Hard Disk | Hitachi Deskstar 80GB 7K80 SATA2 7200RPM 8mb | |
| CPU Cooling | Stock Intel Aluminium Cooler | |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows XP (SP2) 32bit - Latest Patches | |
| Graphics Drivers | ATI Catalyst 7.4.44981 (Latest Official) | |
| Motherboard Drivers | Intel INF 8.300.1013 | |
During the testing of Asus' P5K and P5B boards special care was taken to ensure that the BIOS settings used matched whenever possible. A fresh install of Windows XP (SP2) was also used between switching boards, preventing any possible performance issues due to left-over drivers from the previous motherboard install.
To guarantee a broad range of results, the following benchmark utilities were used:
• Sisoft Sandra XI SP2 (CPU, Memory & HDD tests)
• SuperPI Mod v1.4 (1m and 16m)
• Cinebench 9.5
• HDTach 3.0.4.0
• Quake 4
• Counter-Strike:Source
• F.E.A.R
• 3DMark05
• 3DMark06
Most Recent Comments
Great review Jim, article linked @ XS!
Nice review, god things are moving on so fast, soon DDR3 and heres me just upgraded and still on DDR1 lol.
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Originally Posted by name='FragTek'
Great review Jim, article linked @ XS!
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looks awsome 
cool review
cool review
Great review jimbo
Think I'll wait a while to upgrade tho
Think I'll wait a while to upgrade tho
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Originally Posted by name='Kempez'
Think I'll wait a while to upgrade tho |
Good review though Jim, most helpful
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Originally Posted by name='dave87'
If you had to buy now, P35 or P965 based board?
Good review though Jim, most helpful |
If not P965 tbh
EDIT: Am I right in saying 680i supports the new Intel CPU's? If so I'll have an IN9
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Originally Posted by name='dave87'
If you had to buy now, P35 or P965 based board?
Good review though Jim, most helpful |
However, if you're thinking of going 45nm, then it's got to be P35. Just beware that afaik the P5K isn't 100% guaranteed to support Penryn when it comes out - much the same situation as the early Asus boards that supported Conroe....but didn't.
great review, love the little bit of overclocking done to a good-ish CPU too.
as i have just purchased one of these, i intend on posting my results too.
however, i think if you (like me) are moving to c2d for the first time, or are just making a new build with some amount of overclocking in mind, then the p5k dlx is just for you.
i think especially with current ddr2 prices, that it would be silly to move upto ddr3 so soon (remember how ddr2 rolled out, ddr1 was still king for many months until faster and tighter ddr2 came out) as you can probably buy 8gb of decent ddr2 for the same price (obviously for 4x2gb kits) as a single 1gb or 2gb kit of ddr3.
just my 2p worth...
as i have just purchased one of these, i intend on posting my results too.
however, i think if you (like me) are moving to c2d for the first time, or are just making a new build with some amount of overclocking in mind, then the p5k dlx is just for you.
i think especially with current ddr2 prices, that it would be silly to move upto ddr3 so soon (remember how ddr2 rolled out, ddr1 was still king for many months until faster and tighter ddr2 came out) as you can probably buy 8gb of decent ddr2 for the same price (obviously for 4x2gb kits) as a single 1gb or 2gb kit of ddr3.
just my 2p worth...
Was walking home today and guess what was @ my door step!
A P5K
A P5K
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