OC3D Review: Asus P5K P35 Socket 775 Motherboard

"Today I'll be taking a look at Asus' first Bearlake (P35) chipset motherboard. Still based around DDR2, and with stiff competition from its elder P5B (P965) brother, how will it hold up?"



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Great review Jim, article linked @ XS!

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Nice review, god things are moving on so fast, soon DDR3 and heres me just upgraded and still on DDR1 lol.

name='FragTek' said:

Great review Jim, article linked @ XS!

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Cheers dude

looks awsome

cool review

Great review jimbo

Think I'll wait a while to upgrade tho

name='Kempez' said:

Think I'll wait a while to upgrade tho

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If you had to buy now, P35 or P965 based board?

Good review though Jim, most helpful

name='dave87' said:

If you had to buy now, P35 or P965 based board?

Good review though Jim, most helpful

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Depends. If there was a P35-based board with DDR3 support that was as cheap as P965, mebbe that

If not P965 tbh

EDIT: Am I right in saying 680i supports the new Intel CPU's? If so I'll have an IN9

name='dave87' said:

If you had to buy now, P35 or P965 based board?

Good review though Jim, most helpful

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Tough call really. If you're buying a board for a Conroe then I'd personally stick with P965. More mature, cheaper and there's some nicer boards out there (me loves my Commando).

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...

Was walking home today and guess what was @ my door step!

A P5K