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I have had three of these P5N-Ds in my PC over the last few years, but I haven't been replacing it because it's not a good board. The first time was because I messed up a BIOS update and most recently was because my machine was crashing and I thought I had a thermal issue, but it turned out not to be the board - so now I have two functioning boards, but less of my problems... Buy this board because of its various options, FireWire, eight USB 2 ports (four on the IO shield and another four that break out to the case or a backplane), onboard nVidia RAID, etc. It supports a maximum of 8GB of RAM. If you're building or rebuilding a machine around an Intel Core 2 then it's a good board with fairly good overclocking options as well.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
PROS: Where do I begin? Well for starters this board is a full size ATX mobo so make sure you have a case that fits ATX boards. This is great because it gives you more room to access ports on the inside as well as giving you more space for ventilation between PCIe & PCI slots. Supports PCIe-SLI which is nice for future upgrades as well. GRAPHX: built around an nvidia 750i SLI-based chipset, better than standard intel chipsets and has a 1333 FSB. Chipset comes with its own large heatsink as well which is great to keep the heat down. STORAGE: supports many common RAID configurations, which was a big selling point for me. Board also has an ATA controller for those older IDE drives. 4 SATA ports. OVERCLOCKING: Supports high-end CPU overclocking as well as memory overclocking and full voltage control. Looking forward to boosting my E8400 core speeds to around 4GHz. RAM: Supports DDR2 which for me is ideal because no need to purchase DDR3. Also if you've done your research you'd know that DDR3 right now has latency issues and in many situations is barely faster than DDR2. More of a gimmick than anything. AUDIO: built in HD 5.1 support. Supposed to be a 'green' motherboard which is cool I guess. Not a huge selling point for me but there's nothing wrong with saving a little energy. MAYBE solid state capacitors. They appear that way but I'm not 100% sure. ASUS: Very reliable and probably the foremost in motherboard technology. These guys really make great products and if we're lucky will continue to do so for many years to come. CONS: More than 4 SATA controllers would be wonderful. **If you have a 775 setup with DDR2 and want to upgrade your board in a cost effective way this is probably the best board out there.Read full review
After my Asus P5n-e SLI crashed, I was looking for a substitute and found the that the P5N-D gave me the necessary SLI technology to support my nVidia graphics cards. Supporting 6 monitors on the nVidia Quadro and two additional on and FX serires, this is an excellent match that gives good service. I do not have matching graphics cards but they still work better than the P5Q. I'm assuming it's because the p5n-D has a nVidia chip set on it. Although it's not a big deal to me, overclocking with a Core Duo Quad processor, however, is not stable. I don't think it's the motherboard as much as the processor as I've read about this complaint on Asus blogs. Overall... its a great motherboard.
A good sound well made board with the CPU, HeatSink & Fan, + RAM, all you need is a Tower case and PSU and you got a nice PC. At least it would have been a good buy if the CPU worked and the product wasn't defective! I installed the board and everything when I finally got the time to, on 4/29/2017 only to find out it would not post, so I replaced CMOS Battery, still no go, then as a last ditch effort I replaced the CPU, Thermal Paste, and proceeded with the install, after replacing CPU & Thermal Paste everything went on without a hitch.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
The board looks great, and runs even better. Installation is a piece of cake. Provided you don't forget the heatsink bracket. (Whoops.) Everything mounts nice. Started up great, double check your power switch hooks up though, very hard to get it right the first time. Things are arranged badly on the board, like audio hooks ups, sata connections, etc. But I recommend the board. Nothing can be engineered purfect. But it functions purfect.
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