With the ASUS as a more profound boards and also peripherals manufacturer with monitors, video cards and not to mention motherboards, with a better various and almost confusing range of each chipset from Intel and AMD makes it very hard to start with, but eventually you get use of the gibberish and find you the thing you like, it can be a what size board you want or how many expansion slots you want or both.
With the P5Q is a new range of the Intel P45 series with the inclusion of the P5Q3 deluxe with Wi-Fi N network, with the WI-FI installed when you order it is a good no cost upgrade when using a wireless connection or for those people tyring to make a LAN based PC platform in the jiffy, from any infrastructure (network router or another computer) with no need of the expense of a PCI slot. But it may have some problems with the strength of the network because you can have microwave interference and also the ping number can be as high as 50 to 75, so the wired version looks a better option. With the board layout with the use of the standard eight phase power regulator, and a chocolate flavoured PCB silicon board, tasty, not really, and it the chocolate will never melt, unless you over clock it. And a more usual sight on the board is the placement of the memory slots, yes they go to 16 GB’s of memory, there is nothing bad about it, it is just adjacent to the first PCI express which will be hard removing the memory sticks without removing a long graphics card.
And it has for the rest of the features in the P5Q deluxe, the usual six SATA ports, two PCI express slots for crossfire, no SLI support, one IDE port, Two Ethernet connectors and six USB ports at the back. Also to add, two PS/2 connectors for the mouse and the keyboard, the BIOS, which I rarely mentioned, is kind of the same of all the newer P45 series they have, except the ROP series, with the same, power and voltage readings and the peripherals connected to the board and AI tweaked added for over clocking and some voltage tweaking.
With the testing methods I used are the E8400 with the stock speed 3.00GHz and for the stress test at 3.64GHz, and also just used the 800MHz, with some problems on booting time with the higher frequency and a 9800GT, the speed of the thing is not bad for $150 price, with a stress test can stand for about a day, then giving up. With a simpler offer being given to ASUS on their mid-ranged P45, but just ignoring the placement of the memory modules.
