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

...Excellent motherboard. This is the first motherboard that I have installed in 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 a terrible noise. If you need to have a fan 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... Read review

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Advantages: Stable, feature rich
Disadvantages: None

...The Asus P2B is a stable and feature rich motherboard. It replaced a TMC motherboard I had which had ‘issues’ with Nvidia graphics cards. Since the swap my computer has been more stable in general use, as well as when the graphics card is working hard. Asus support the board well, a recent BIOS update added APCI power saving support. You get onboard USB, two EIDE channels, floppy disk controller, two serial ports, one parallel port and two ps/2 ports and the option to connect an infra red port. Wow! There’s lots of setup options to keep the tweakers happy and even the option of an Asus network card, which adds wake on LAN capability. Asus even have free motherboard monitoring/trouble shooting software available for download! If your slot 1 computer crashes a lot, try changing motherboards – you could be pleasantly surprised.... Read review

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Advantages: Inexpensive and useful
Disadvantages: Does not install on all motherboards tried

...the person dealing with returns was on holiday? On receipt of replacement - again no joy so I abandoned the whole thing and vowed never to try TV cards again. As it happens I decided to build a new computer for Vista soon after that, and as I had a spare PCI slot on the ASUS P5B Premium Series motherboard I inserted the card just to see what would happen. Immediately I had installed Vista it started working! I'm using Windows Vista Home Premium Media Centre to view TV so don't have to install the rather dated looking software that comes with this card. With Media Centre you can choose which channels appear in the channel list and it downloads info to the EPG every day. I have not tried the remote nor the FM radio side of this card (some radio channels are included in with Freeview so I have no need of this) Read review

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Advantages: Fast and can Cope with anything I've thrown at it easily Overclockable.
Disadvantages: New range of Intel CPUs are cheaper and faster

...The Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 is a great processor for any PC gamer. It works amazingly in my set up consisting of Asus P5B Motherboard, Corsair HX 520w Modular Power Supply, BFG 8800 GTS 320MB, Geil 2GB Ultra PC2-6400 RAM, 320GB Samsung Spinpoint and the Arctic Freezer 7 Pro. The E6600 comes with a Stock Intel heatsink fan, the CPU manual, a Core 2 Duo sticker which is attached to the back of the manual and of course the processor itself. The CPU takes a matter of seconds to install as all you have to do is bull the lever on your motherboard to release the CPU socket cover line up the pins on the bottom of the CPU with the ones it the socket and slide it in it should fall in itself you will have to apply no pressure at all. As for the heatsink fan i didn't use the Intel stock fan i used a Arctic Freezer 7... Read review

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Advantages: Cheaper and faster than Intel
Disadvantages: Fewer and more expensive motherboards

...After suffering with a P200 for too long, I decided to build a new system - and my sights fell towards AMD. The Athlon is a great chip, which offers the desirable combination of performance and price. The chips are significantly cheaper than similar Intel ones, but Slot A motherboards do run more expensive. Even so, the combination of an Athlon 700 and Asus K7V (£230)was much cheaper than the same Intel combo would have been. Installation was simple, with Asus providing a great manual. There was a problem with the motherboard initially (wouldn't POST), but a second one worked perfectly. My system has been running dead stable, cool, and fast! Even with a less-than-ideal AGP 2x graphics card, the performance in games and graphics apps is fantastic. I am completely satisfied with the AMD processor, and am currently shopping... Read review

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

...*****************Intro*************************** You know that when you move house something is going to go wrong, On this occasion everything looked great until I went to switch the hub of my life on, POP! There went the power supply, motherboard and processor! Oh Joy! Anyway my planned PC project was moved forward a few months. I spent all of Christmas and some part of the New Year researching the components and selecting the best mix. For this new PC I decided to go with an Intel E6400 Core2-Duo processor as it lets you overclock it to a higher level.To go with this I obviously needed a compatible motherboard that was stable during normal operation and also allowed for a good degree of o