Yesterday we published a review of ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe, world’s first review of a working Intel P45 motherboard. P5Q3 Deluxe has all the goodies ASUS’ high-end boards usually has, but it also uses DDR3, a memory standard which is yet to be embraced by everyone. There’s no need to panic though, because ASUS has a DDR2 version of the same board coming. It’s called ASUS P5Q Deluxe and has almost all of the features P5Q3 Deluxe has, the only thing missing is the wireless network interface.
P5Q Deluxe has a 16-phase CPU voltage regulation, 3-phase for the memory and the same for the northbridge. It also offers ExpressGate and Drive Xpert for a quick RAID assembly. The Intel P45 northbridge has been paired with the new ICH10 southbridge, and supports up to DDR2-1200 memory.
Even though we don’t have the exact pricing we’ve been told that it will be aggressive.
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