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Mine is actually a P5Q. There are a wide array of variants to this series mobo. What makes these boards really great is the ability to build a low cost 8GB RAM box, but energy conservation circa 2008/2010 was simply not on par with 2017/2018 boards. The best energy usage I was able to achieve (measuring at the wall with my Kill-a-Watt) was 56 to 75 watts (depending on load) using a 500W EVGA PSU w/4 X 2GB DDR2 RAM & a 3GHz Pentium dual core E5700. Any C2D or quad core significantly increased energy usage. But performance is rock solid and there are lots of overclocking options, some of which require changing jumpers on the board. ASUS documentation is still good for these boards, as was finding the latest BIOS (circa 2010). If you have a bunch of DDR2 RAM and socket 775 CPU's laying around like I do go for it!Read full review
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it would have been a great board if it worked. The ASUS P5Q series is known for having issues. i unfortunately, researched this after i received it. what i found was not good. it is limited in the brand and type of memory it can take, as well as either not working or having Motherboard/CPU problems. this was supposed to be a brand new product., and probably was.
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I wish that the 24-pin connector was on the other side versus the back panel side. That feature made for some interesting cable management. It runs Win 7x64 okay, but a bit slow even with a Samsung 850Pro 256Gb SSD as the OS drive. Bios updating may cure some slowness as I have an Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad @2.40Ghz as the CPU. Some tweaking of the BIOS settings should yield better performance.
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I bought a new old stock board. The 775 chipset is getting old but is still fast enough for an HTPC or even some decent gaming. I had Gigabyte 775 board that failed and this was similar and could operate all my drives, peripherals and a good processor so it was a logical move to just replace it and count myself lucky that I could find a board that worked with everything in my rather huge system. Asus makes very good and stable boards and this one certainly is that. I had no trouble with revalidating my w7 over the internet and installing new drivers and, after a bios update, it even let me easily install my newer E5700 CPU at full potential too. It runs like a champ now and with Japanese solid state capacitors and Asus quality I expect it will continue to do so for several years at least. I don’t overclock and see no need to with a decent processor and video card but if you do I think you can get a decent overclock with this board depending on your processor and memory. I would advise strongly against buying a used board of any type excerpt as perhaps a direct replacement as you will have a much higher chance of either an early failure or even am immediate one; although if you can't find a new direct replacement it can certainly be the easiest way to go but you will still have to do is make sure your bios update level and settings etc. are the same as your old boards for it to work smoothly.Read full review
Would have been a nice motherboard for the aged Core 2 Quad CPU. Unfortunately these old motherboards are the first component to die in a computer. Mine did not work.
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