ASUS P5QL PRO - motherboard - ATX - iP43

Advantages: cheapest i could find with UK online retailer
Disadvantages: open box item

...REVIEW FOR ASUS M4A78 PRO purchased from LUCMOS.CO.UK PROS: Built in video (VGA, HDMI, DVI), fiber optic out, RAID 0,1,5,10, JBOD; capable of locating and flashing bios under windows; 6 SATA slots, potential of 12 USB; 3 PCI slots handy to recycle various cards from old computer (ie old TV card) CONS: Bios only partially recognizes my Microsoft wireless photo keyboard set (mouse, not keyboard); Utilizing the optical out blocks one USB out (TOO CLOSE TOGETHER), No Firewire inputs on board (yet STILL with COM1 and floppy inputs?!) Other Thoughts: This was an open box item for 65 quid all in which Lucmpos indicates will not ship with the full complement of stuff, but I was expecting the I/O backing to at least cover up the back of my tower for this system of outputs...Alas, no. This baby shipped with just the board and non else... Read review

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Advantages: soo many, cannot describe them in just few words
Disadvantages: none apparent

...and so I went to open it and so I went to install it and so on only to find out that my old motherboard wouldn't support it. Its BIOS was un-upgradeable (plus few more other reasons) and so I went out again to look for new motherboard. This time I had to have it instantly (yes the very same day) but you wouldn't believe me how very few shops in London sell motherboards. I managed to find one and only ( Asus P5Q PRO ATX iP45) and there I was on my way home with smile totally excited to set it up and get it running. Well again to my dissapointment I realised that this motherboard just won't fit in my old Dell chassis because Dell's speciality is probably custom made hardware or at least motherboards which are fitted in the chassis basically upside down + few extra weird things which are here (in my humble opinion) to prevent you from upgrading... Read review

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Advantages: Fast, Cool, Supports Quad core processors
Disadvantages: None

...Hi all my friends in this review i will be talking about one of the most advanced mainboard present... yes my friends im talking about a very powerful motherboard bu ASUS and the model number is P5Q PRO... Let me explain to you the features of this motherboard... first of all this motherboard is ATX which means that it requires type ATX power supply unit installed in the case.. and secondly this motherboard supports Socket LGA775 type processors which are either dual or quad core mostly... these processors are really fast and upto 2 to 4X faster than ordinary p4 processors... The motherboard also supports upto 4 GB of DDR 2 ram and also has 2 PCI Express ports for upgrades such as graphic cards and stuff.. and a lot more...the motherboard has upto 8 SATA input connectors... inbuilt fire wire and heaps of great features... And just by... Read review

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