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Asus P5W DH Deluxe Review - PAGE 1
William Henning, Geordan Hankinson
- Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Introduction

Conroe has been seeing very solid success since its introduction this summer with many enthusiasts flocking to the new architecture. ASUS have been quite quick to the draw at the high end getting their P5W DH Deluxe to market with decent speed in regards to availability of the new Core 2 chips late this summer. The P5W DH is the highest end Core 2 board to ship from the heavyweight Tier 1 and is centered around the proven 975X chipset.

ASUS have packed in an incredible amount on this board and are targetting it directly at the gamer who wants absolutely everything bundled into what we presume will be a solidly overclocking motherboard. We'll be taking a look at the tried and true 975X chipset and what to expect from it compared to the P965 northbridge we sa
w on our Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 board on the next page.

ASUS have packed a massive number of features into the P5W-DH so keep reading to take a look at what ASUS have managed!

Here's the basic spec sheet giving the full run down of the details.

CPU
LGA775 socket for Intel® Pentium 4/Celeron CPU
Support Inte Pentium® Processor Extreme Edition & Intel Pentium® D Processor
Support Intel 65nm, Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme
Support Intel next generation Mulit-Core CPU
Compatible with Intel 05B/ 05A and 04B/04A processors
Intel EM64T and Hyper-Threading Technology ready
Chipset
Intel 975X
Intel ICH7R
Front Side Bus
1066/ 800 MHz
Memory
Dual channel memory architecture
4 x 240-pin DIMM sockets support max. 8GB DDR2 800/ 667/ 533 ECC and non-ECC memory
Intel MPT (Intel Memory Pipeline Technology)
ASUS Hyper Path3
Expansion Slots
2 x PCI Express x 16 slot for discrete graphics card
2 x PCI Express x 1
3 x PCI
CrossFire
Support ATI CrossFire graphics cards (both @ x8 mode)
ASUS two-slot thermal design
ASUS PEG Link
Advanced Thermal Design
ASUS 8-Phase Power Design
ASUS Stack Cool2
ASUS Fanless Design: Heat-pipe Thermal solution
Storage/RAID
Intel ICH7R South Bridge:
  *1 x UltraDMA 100/66/33
  *3 x Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s with Intel® Matrix Storage Technology with RAID 0, 1, 5 support
Jmicron JMB363 controller
 *1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66
 *1 x External Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s (ASUS SATA-on-the-Go) and 1 x Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s with RAID 0, 1, JBOD support
Silicon Image 4723 Hardware RAID controller (ASUS EZ-Backup)
  *2 x Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s with RAID 0, 1 support
  *Support RAID 10 cross Intel® ICH7R and Silicon Image 4723 controller
LAN
Dual Gigabit LAN controllers
  *2 x Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit LAN Controller, both featuring AI NET2
Wireless LAN: 54Mbps IEEE 802.11g (ASUS WiFi-AP Solo™)
Audio
Realtek ALC882M High Definition Audio 8-channel CODEC
Support Multi-streaming, Jack-sensing and Jack-retasking functions
Anti Pop Function
Coaxial, Optical S/PDIF out on back I/O port
Features Dolby Master Studio technology
- Dolby Prologic IIX
- Dolby Headphone 
- Dolby Virtual Speaker
- Dolby Digital Live
IEEE 1394a
TI 1394 controller supports 2 x 1394a ports
USB
Max. 8 USB2.0/1.1 ports
ASUS Digital Home Accessories
1 x Asus DH Remote™
1 x ASUS DH Remote™ Receiver
1 x ASUS MP3-In™ module
1 x ASUS WiFi-AP Solo Antenna
2 x ASUS EZ-Backup™ SATA cables
ASUS AI Lifestyle Features
Stack Cool 2 patented fanless cooling system
"SATA on the Go" External SATA connector
AI Quiet
Overclocking Features
AI NOS™ (Non-delay Overclocking System)
ASUS PEG Link
Precision Tweaker: 
- vDIMM: 12-step DRAM voltage control 
- vCore: Adjustable CPU voltage at 0.0125 increment 
- SFS (Stepless Frequency Selection): allowing FSB tuning from 200MHz up to 400MHz at 1MHz increment 
- PCIe x16 Frequency: allowing PCIe x16 frequency from 90MHz up to 150MHz at 1MHz increment"
AI Overclocking (intelligent CPU frequency tuner)
Adjustable FSB/DDR ratio. Fixed PCI/PCIe frequencies.
ASUS AI Booster utility
ASUS C.P.R.(CPU Parameter Recall)
Other ASUS Special Features
CrashFree BIOS 3
EZ-Flash2
Q-Fan2
Multi-language BIOS
MyLogo2
BIOS
8 Mb Flash ROM,AMI BIOS, PnP, DMI2.0, WfM2.0, SM BIOS 2.3
Manageability
WOL by PME, WOR by PME, Chassis Intrusion, PXE & RPL
Back Panel I/O Ports
1 x Serial Port
1 x Optical + 1 x Coaxial S/PDIF Output
1 x PS/2 Keyboard
1 x PS/2 Mouse
2 x RJ45
4 x USB 2.0/1.1
1 x IEEE1394a
1 x External SATA port
1 x WiFi-AP Solo™ antenna jack
8-Channel Audio I/O
Internal I/O Connectors
2 x USB 2.0 connectors supports additional 4 USB 2.0 ports
1 x IEEE1394a connector
CPU /  2 x Chassis(system) / 2 x Power Fan connectors
Front panel Audio connector
ASUS EZ-Backup jumpers
Chassis Intrusion connector
CD audio-in connector
MP3-In connector (Red)
SPDIF out connector
System panel connector
Azalia Digital Header
24-pin ATX Power connector
4-pin EATX12V Power connector
Support CD
Drivers
Make RAID driver Disk for Intel ICH7R and JMB 363
ASUS DH Remote Application
ASUS WiFi-AP Solo™ Wizard
ASUS PC Probe 2
ASUS LiveUpdate Utility
InterVideo® Media Launcher (OEM version)
Anti-virus software (OEM version)
ASUS Digital Home Features
ASUS EZ-Backup™  
-  2 x Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s support hardware RAID 0 or RAID 1 mode 
-  Plug and play: Default setting in RAID 1 mode, no driver, no BIOS configuration required

ASUS WiFi-AP Solo  
54 Mbps IEEE 802.11g and backwards compatible with 11 Mbps IEEE 802.11b 
- Software Access point mode  
- Station mode : Infrastruceure mode and Ad-Hoc mode

Asus DH Remote™  
- Power 
- Quick Power 
- Noise Off 
- EZ WiFi 
- Full Screen 
- AP Launch 
- Media Control Zone

ASUS MP3-In™
Accessories

1 x ASUS Q-Connector set (USB, 1394, system panel; Retail version only)
InterVideo® MEDIA LAUNCHER Suite (OEM version)
1 x Optional Fan
1 x IEEE1394a port module
2 x SATA cables
1 x SATA power cable for 2 devices
1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 cable
1 x IDE cable
1 x FDD cable
1 x I/O Shield
1 x 2-port USB2.0 module
User's manual

 

Form Factor
ATX Form Factor, 12"x 9.6"(30.5cm x 24.5cm)

Article Index

1.Introduction
2.The Chipset and the Board
3.The BIOS
4.The BIOS Continued
5.Test Setup & Benchmarks Used
6.PC Magazine Business / Multimedia Winstone
7.RightMark Results
8.Sandra, HDTach & WinRAR results
9.MPEG2, XviD & LAME Encoding
10.Call of Duty & Doom 3
11.Comanche 4 & Halo
12.Jedi Knight & UT4K
13.Overclocking & Conclusion
14.More on Overclocking & Conclusion

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