only one ide may cause a problem, lose a usb conector to the wifi
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Did u know asustek sold one third of all motherboards last year because of there great quality and this board is no exception
Chipset Intel P965 Express ICH8R North Bridge Intel 82P965 MCH Socket LGA775 Socket Processor Types Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Duo, Pentium 4, Pentium D Number of CPUs 1 Front Side Bus 1066/800/533MHz x2 Memory Type DDR2 Memory Channels Dual Maximum Memory 8GB External Graphics PCI Express x16 South Bridge Intel 82801HR ICH8R Audio 8-channel IDE 133/100/66/33 SATA 3.0 GB/s RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, 10 LAN 10/100/1000 Firewire IEEE 1394a USB USB 2.0 BIOS AMI Form Factor ATX
included in the box
* Six SATA cables * Three SATA power Cables * FDD Cable * PATA Cable * SoundMAX SuperBeam * 2 USB port bracket * 1 port Firewire bracket * MediaLauncher * ASUS Driver CD * Wi-Fi-AP Solo User guide * P5B Deluxe User Guide * Q-Connector * Wi-Fi antenna * Driver CD * Optional fan for water coling or passive CPU cooler only
There is a Wi-Fi connection right on the motherboard. To install it simply plug in the included Wireless antenna into the Wi-Fi card on the rear IO and you're done. It kept losing its conection but i updated the drivers havnt had a problem since.
This board is great value my dual core E6600 runs like a dream, a nice feature is that you can update the bios by putting the file on a usb stick and pluging it in so you can update this board straight away.
the ony bad point i could find was there is only one ide slot so people with older drives may have a problem (upgrade to sata)
get the latest bios and drivers and this will be a sure buy.
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