OC3D Review: Asus P5E3 Premium X48 DDR3 Motherboard

[JN]

"Asus gives their popular P5* series a makeover with a spangly new X48 chipset, but how does it hold up against its predecessors?"

Asus P5E3 Premium review

 

[Luigi]

Wow nice overclocking, i read somewhere that x48 is just a die shrink of x38, is that true?

 

[JN]

Wow nice overclocking, i read somewhere that x48 is just a die shrink of x38, is that true?

Yeah, IIRC it's a shrink from 90nm to 65nm and obviously has support for 1600mhz FSB. other than that they are pretty much the same.

 

[Luigi]

yeah, thats pretty good as my x38 gets real toasty, i guess thats what aids overclocking the fact it runs cooler, as 680i boards were awful with stock but under water really rocked most of the time..

Nice review btw i look forward to a proper read later

 

[ionicle]

looks nice

performs well

asus have been listening to people and implimenting some good ideas into their motherboards it seems...

 

[JN]

yeah, thats pretty good as my x38 gets real toasty, i guess thats what aids overclocking the fact it runs cooler, as 680i boards were awful with stock but under water really rocked most of the time..

Nice review btw i look forward to a proper read later

It does certainly help, and even with the stock Asus aluminium heatsinks/copper heatpipes I didn't find that the NB got hot in the slightest.

Apparently the 790i is a lot cooler than the 680/708i (according to the marketing dudes), but I'll be able to say for sure in a week or so

 

[Luigi]

Are OC3D getting one in? theyve been on show on cebit, which i spotted one in a hexus article, it looks like a heatsink about the same size as that on 780i, but hopefully your right and it is a lot cooler.

 

[JN]

Are OC3D getting one in? theyve been on show on cebit, which i spotted one in a hexus article, it looks like a heatsink about the same size as that on 780i, but hopefully your right and it is a lot cooler.

I've got one here at the moment. Been playing with it for a while but can't say anything really until the 18th when NDA is lifted

It IS better than the 780i tho....

 

[Luigi]

Well this is what nvidia have been working on am i right? then they realised ppl still wanted ddr2 so mashed up a 680i with the pci-e 2 chip...

 

[ionicle]

w00t! looking forward to that

i'm guessing you've got the review done, and will post it at 00:01 on the 18'th?

 

[w3bbo]

I am sorely tempted to get one of these. Either the P5E3 or the DFI x48lt...hmmmm.

Great review once again Jim.

 

[JN]

I am sorely tempted to get one of these. Either the P5E3 or the DFI x48lt...hmmmm.

Don't ask me to choose. I'm a sucker for lush motherboards. The P5E3 does have the edge of BIOS options/voltages tho...i'll give it that for sure!

 

[Luigi]

mm. and not that your subzero, but it has a very good coldbug (as in you can get to -100 i believe before it wont post..)

 

[-VK-]

It's been booted at -140 degrees C....

For all you LN2 Junkies out there!