Asus P5LD2 Deluxe (Intel 945P)
Performance
It turned out that while determining the starting FSB speed, the board detects it at a high enough precision.
In our test setup, we used the following hardware:
| Test setup |
| Processor |
Intel Pentium4 LGA775 660 (3.6GHz; Prescott-2M) |
| Cooler |
Gigabyte 3D Cooler GP Edition
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| Video Card |
Abit Radeon X600XT |
| Sound card |
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| HDD |
IBM DTLA 307030 30Gb |
| Memory |
2x256 MB DDR2-533 SDRAM made by Samsung (timings as per SPD) |
| Housing |
Inwin506 with PowerMan 300W power supply unit |
| OS |
Windows XP SP1 |
Let's first take a look at the results of synthetic benchmarks.
Now on to the gaming benchmarks.
Final Words
On the whole, Asus P5LD2-Deluxe left quite a good impression. Among the board's pros is the very good package bundle with a WiFi-TV tuner, excellent expansion capabilities (additional SerialATA II and ParallelATA controllers, a Gigabit LAN controller, support for Firewire), and excellent overclocking tools. Also, among the pros of the board are the numerous proprietary technologies and utilities (the latter are a bit raw for now). Of special mention is support for dual-core processors, as well as two PCI Express x16 slots, which allows building a system with two video cards.
Among the cons of the board is partial incompatibility to Kingmax DDR2-533 memory modules.
Conclusion
Pros:
- High stability and good performance level.
- Support for SerialATA IIRAID (6 channels; ICH7R + Sil3132R)
- Additional dual-channel ParallelATA controller.
- Integrated 8-channel audio and Gigabit Ethernet LAN controller.
- Support for USB2.0 (8 ports) and IEEE-1394 (Firewire, 2 ports).
- Good package bundle (including a WiFi-TV tuner)
- A wide selection of Asus' proprietary utilities (PC Probe II, POST Reporter, CrashFree BIOS 2, MyLogo2 etc.);
- Additional set of technologies - AI Proactive (NOS, AI Net 2)
- Additional cooling for the power supply module - Asus Stack Cool.
Cons:
- Partial incompatibility to Kingmax DDR2-533 memory modules
The board's specific features:
- Excellent results of overclocking the processor and memory.
- SerialATA II port on the rear panel
- Additional power connectors: 8-pin and 4-pin Molex.
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