ASUS P5K Pro OC Review

[windwithme]

let’s take a look on packing design.


Inside stuff


ASUS P5K Pro board




Left down side


Down right down side


Up right side


Up left side


IO port


North bridge.


BIOS












Test platform setup
CPU:INTEL Core 2 Duo E2160
MB: ASUS P5K Pro
DRAM:CORSAIR Dominator TWIN2X2048-6400 G
VGA:ELSA 850GT RA 256B3 2DT RH
HD:Seagate 7200.10 320G
POWER:Corsair HX520W Modular Power Supply
Cooler:Thermaltake Max Orb


Intel E2160,400X8=>3.2G


CORSAIR DDRII 800 CL5
OC DDRII 1113 CL5 2.08V full loading


ELSA 8500GT RA 256B3 2DT RH,600/2000
3DMARK2003


3DMARK2005


3DMARK2006



Test platform setup
CPU:INTEL Core 2 Extreme QX6800
MB: ASUS P5K Pro
DRAM:CORSAIR Dominator TWIN2X2048-8888C4DF
VGA:MSI NX8800GT T2D256E
HD:Seagate 7200.10 320G
POWER:Corsair HX520W Modular Power Supply
Cooler:Thermaltake Max Orb


Intel QX6800,OC 500Mhz


518Mhz,Single SuperPI 32M


CORSAIR DDRII 1111 CL4
OC DDRII 1200 CL5 2.10V full loading


DDRII 1200 CL4 4-4-9 memory bandwidth test


MSI 8800GT 256MB,660/1900
3DMARK2003


3DMARK2005


3DMARK2006


ASUS P5K Pro about 142USD
Thanks

[vikings]

How much is vdrop (dual and quad)?

[Cronos]

This board cannot run G.Skill F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ PC8000 2x2GB kit stable at 1000MHz with all memory slots populated, i.e. with 8GB. Tested with 3 different boards and 8 kits in total.

Vdrop is ~0.04 and vdroop is ~0.03 with Quads around 1.4V-1.5V.

Latest BIOS 0701 is broken, it does not change memory voltage at all.

Overall, I would be happy with the board if it could run my memory stable at 1000MHz. But this is not necessary MB's fault, the same happens with GA-P35-DS3P.

[Corsa]

Power plug position ...otherwise nice board, just checking prices here in Aus, P5KE-WI/FI is cheaper

[BTK]

awesome 500fsb on quad

on the caught my eye was how similar the NB cooling looks to the gigabyte-ga-p35-ds3r

[Cronos]

The radiator on P5K-Pro NB is very efficient. Not only it is large, but, most importantly, is has very thick base. It is much more efficient than many heatpipe solutions. Big plus here.

[GripS]

Very poor placement on the 24pin.

[palese]

odd 24 pin placement to say the least

[jonny_ftm]

I agree to the 24 pins power connector misplaced. The ATX power cable will cross the board.

But, compared to the P5K Premium, they corrected the SATA connectors placement (no more conflict with a 8800 GTS 512), the analog audio CD input connector will no longer conflict with a 8800 GTS 512 too.

Removing the heatpipe system is a good thing. If you want to replace stock heatsinks you won't loose all of them by removing the NB only.

The PWM are 8 phase all with a heatsink looks like newer than the premium and it includes the new EPU feature we see on high end X38 models.

It looses one LAN connector, WiFi and eSATA and the PS-2 connector is back now.

500 FSB on a quadcore at 1.3v on FSB an 1.7v on NB is impressive on stock heatsinks. Should I regret my 2 weeks old Premium