ASUS P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP AiLifestyle Series - motherboard - ATX - iP965

Advantages: Good layout, Excellent overclocker, Good feature set.
Disadvantages: On-board Wi-Fi and Sound are poor. Expensive

...boards I decided on the Asus P5B Deluxe. As I wanted to purchase the motherboard, processor and memory from a local company I eventually had to buy the Wi-Fi addition of the board which included an integrated Wi-Fi card which could also run as a wireless access point. I am writing this review having used the board for nearly 3 months. *****************The Board*************************** As soon as I received the board I could see it was a quality ...
...require to setup the board. ASUS also provide the following accessories with the board. Microphone WiFi-AP antenna Metal I/O Bracket Six SATA cables 1 IDE cable 1 floppy cable Three molex to six SATA power cable Two port USB 2.0 Bracket One port 6pin IEEE1394a Firewire bracket Q-Connector - This is really useful and allows for easy connection to the headers on the motherboard for the power on, reset, Hard Disk light, Power light and USB2/firewire ... Read review

Advantages: Silent heatpipe, PCI express, Supports Core2Duo
Disadvantages: Price

...a computer before, and did ASUS make it easy for me! The manual is very clear, and tells you where everything is. All the connectors matched up with my Akasa Zen Case connectors, which I thought was great, as since then I didn't have the same experience with a Thermaltake case. The silent heatpipe, makes this a very quiet motherboard, whereas most normal motherboards would have a rubbish little fan that gets clogged with dust and ends up making ...
...on the chipset heatsink, asus provide a fan that slots on to the top of the heatsink. Aswell as the chipset fan, ASUS provide loads of other stuff. This includes USB expansion, firewire expansion, SATA cables, and more! Great if you need any of this stuff. Overall I think this is a great motherboard, but that's reflected in the price ... Read review

Advantages: Stable, Excellent BIOS options, Asus, Great for overclocking
Disadvantages: Price, Sound

This is a great motherboard offered by Asus, a company known as the best motherboard manufacturer. Based on my experience, their products are top-notch and no other company can compete (except perhaps DFI or Gigabyte). This is an excellent motherboard with many features and options. The BIOS allows more options than almost any other motherboard of this price range. It is strongly recommended to look at all the features offered: http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=307&model=1179 ...
...no fans but great cooling with heat pipes and such. This is a great, stable board. Also one of its advantages, is the overclocking potential. This is one of the best boards out there right now for overclocking. (Note: Overclocking voids your warranty). It allows the great Core 2 Duo line of Intel's processors to reach very high clock speeds with very little effort. Edit: (Adding info) This supports up to 4 gigabytes of memory, more than enough ... Read review

Advantages: wifi built in plenty of usb ports
Disadvantages: only one ide may cause a problem, lose a usb conector to the wifi

...* 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 ...
...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. ... Read review

Advantages: good overcocker, upgradable , no fans, wifi, good accesories
Disadvantages: no sli/crossfire, expensive, only 1 IDE port

...seems to get faster as asus are regularly releasing new bios updates(which are very easy to use). onboard wifi is fine, comes with a small aerial that gets a good signal from my router. also packaged is an excelent directional microphone thats great for voice communications apps. asus support is aledgedly excelent, altho i'v found their website to be a little slow here in the uk. asus also claim that this board will support the upcoming core2quadro, ... Read review