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Hi ho everyone. In anticipation of Intel's new X38 chipset, we were surprised with a special package from Asus. What we got, ahead of time was Asus' new X38 board the Asus P5E3 Deluxe. We have no benchmark scores per se but we have taken a good look at the unit itself. Read on for more.
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The board is pretty well designed and solidly built. It'll fit nicely into most ATX cases though in our case most of our casings were rather big already. They layout of the board was well designed as well, allowing for easy access to most of the port when installed into a normal ATX casing. I liked that Asus has angled the SATA and PATA ports outwards which would allow for easy access and housekeeping while doing the overall installation of the board.
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The first thing you'll notice about the board is its cooling mechanism. The entire cooling sink takes up almost half of the board and surrounds the chip socket for reasons of cooling the chipset and voltage regulators. Considering that the cooling solution of the board was massively huge, you'd think that it'll be a bit of trouble trying to fit in anything other than a stock fan. However, my preliminary checks on the board found that it should be able to take most, CPU coolers on the market. And speaking of cooling, the P5E Deluxe comes with a whopping six pin headers for casing fans, all which can be controlled from the Asus BIOS. This is pretty great as there are some of you out there that can get a bit fan crazy for your rig (there never is such a thing as too much fans though).
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The board comes with three physical PCI-E x16 connectors, two PCI-E x1 connectors, and two PCI 2.2 connectors. We found however, that it'll be quite a tight fit to install a graphics card into the slots, due to the proximity of the memory slots to the PCI slots. This is when you're fitting in a full size card however.
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The rear panels come with dual RJ-45 LAN ports with activity indicator lights, six USB ports, and optical/coaxial S/PDIF out ports as well as your standard PS2 ports. I understand that there are supposed to be two WiFi antenna connectors behind as well though our unit did not come wireless ready. So that's pretty much it for our first look at Asus' P5E3 Deluxe X38 chipset board. We'llbe returning with a full review of the board pretty soon with benchmark scores as well.
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Tech Specs
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CPU
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LGA775 socket for Intel® Core™2 Quad / Core™2 Extreme / Core™2 Duo / Pentium® Extreme / Pentium® D / Pentium® 4 Processors
Compatible with Intel® 05B/05A/06 processors
Supports Intel® next generation 45nm Multi-Core CPU
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Chipset
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Intel® X38 / ICH9R with Intel® Fast Memory Access Technology
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Front Side Bus
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1600/1333 / 1066 / 800 MHz
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Memory
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4 x DIMM, max. 8GB, DDR3 1800(O.C.)/1600(O.C.)/1333/1066/800 MHz, non-ECC, un-buffered memory
Dual channel memory architecture
*Refer to www.asus.com or this user manual for the Memory QVL(Qualified Vendors Lidts).
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Expansion Slots
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3 x PCIe x16 (blue @PCIe2.0 x16 mode, black @PCIe x4 or x1 mode) supports CrossFire Technology
2 x PCIe x1
2 x PCI
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Storage
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Southbridge
- 6 x SATA 3.0 Gb/s ports
- Intel Matrix Storage Technology supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10
JMicron® JMB363(JMB368) PATA and SATA controller
- 1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices
- 2 x External SATA 3.0 Gb/s port (SATA On-the-Go)
- Supports SATA RAID 0,1,JBOD
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LAN
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Dual Gigabit LAN controllers
Marvell88E8056® PCIe Gigabit LAN controller featuring AI NET2
RealtekRTL8110SC® PCI Gigabit LAN controller featuring AI NET2
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Audio
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ADI® AD1988B 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC
- Support Jack-Sensing, Enumeration, Multi-streaming
- Coaxial / Optical S/PDIF out ports at back I/O
- AI Audio 2
- ASUS Noise Filter
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IEEE 1394
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Agere® L-FW3227 1394a controller supports 2 x IEEE 1394a ports (one at midboard; one at back panel)
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USB
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12 x USB 2.0 ports (6 ports at mid-board, 6ports at back panel)
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ASUS AI Lifestyle Features
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ASUS Power Saving Solution
- ASUS EPU (Energy Processing Unit)
- ASUS 3rd Generation 8-phase Power Design
- ASUS AI Nap
ASUS AI Lifestyle Features:
- ASUS AI Direct Link
ASUS Quiet Thermal Solution:
- ASUS Fanless Design: Heat-pipe solution
- ASUS Fanless Design: Stack Cool 2
- ASUS Q-Fan 2
- ASUS Optional Fan for Water-cooling or Passive-Cooling only
ASUS Crystal Sound:
- ASUS Noise Filter
ASUS EZ DIY:
- ASUS Q-Shield
- ASUS Q-Connector
- ASUS O.C. Profile
- ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3
- ASUS EZ Flash 2
- ASUS AI Slot Detector
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Special Features
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ASUS MyLogo 3
Multi-language BIOS
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Overclocking Features
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ASUS AI Booster utility
Precision Tweaker 2:
- vCore: Adjustable CPU voltage at 0.00625V increment
- vDIMM: 64-step DRAM voltage control
- vChipset (N.B.): 33-step DRAM voltage control
- vFSB Termination: 15-step reference voltage control
- vCPU PLL: 64-step CPU PLL voltage control
SFS (Stepless Frequency Selection)
- FSB tuning from 200MHz up to 800MHz at 1MHz increment
- Memory tuning from 800MHz up to 3200MHz
- PCI Express frequency tuning from 100MHz up to150MHz at 1MHz increment
Overclocking Protection:
- ASUS C.P.R.(CPU Parameter Recall)
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Back Panel I/O Ports
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1 x PS/2 Keyboard
1 x S/PDIF Out (Coaxial + Optical)
2 x External SATA
1 x IEEE1394a
2 x RJ45 port
6 x USB 2.0/1.1
8-channel Audio I/O
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Internal I/O Connectors
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3 x USB connectors support additional 6 USB ports
1 x Floppy disk drive connector
1 x IDE connector
1 x COM connector
6 x SATA connectors
1 x CPU Fan connector
4 x Chassis Fan connector
1 x Power Fan connector
1 x IEEE1394a connector
Front panel audio connector
1 x S/PDIF Out Header
Chassis Intrusion connector
CD audio in
24-pin ATX Power connector
2 x 4-pin ATX 12V Power connector
System Panel(Q-Connector)
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BIOS
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16
Mb Flash ROM, AMI BIOS, PnP, DMI2.0, WfM2.0, SM BIOS 2.3, ACPI 2.0a,
Multi-language BIOS, ASUS EZ Flash 2, ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3
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Manageability
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WfM 2.0, DMI 2.0, WOL by PME, WOR by PME, PXE
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Accessories
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UltraDMA 133/100/66 cable
FDD cable
6 x Serial ATA cables
1 x 2-port Serial ATA power cable
ASUS Q-Shield
User's manual
3 in 1 Q-connector
1 x 2-port USB2.0 / 1-port IEEE1394 module
2 x Optional Fan for Water-Cooling or Passive-Cooling only
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Support Disc
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Drivers
ASUS PC Probe II
ASUS Update
ASUS AI Suite
Anti-virus software (OEM version)
Image-Editing Suite
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Form Factor
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ATX Form Factor, 12"x 9.6" (30.5cm x 24.4cm)
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