ASUS P5K3 Premium and Deluxe
While determining the starting FSB speed, it turned out that
the board overstated it by 1.3 MHz.
In our test setup, we used the following hardware:
Let's first take a look at the results of synthetic benchmarks.
Now on to the gaming benchmarks.
Final Words
In my view, the time of motherboards with support for DDR3 has
not yet come. Therefore, however good a motherboard is, the five-fold
price difference between DDR2 and DDR3 is fully made up for by its
attraction. For instance, technically, we had no claims regarding ASUS
P5K3 Premium and Deluxe during the tests. But we recommend to buy them
only once the price difference between DDR2 and DDR3 becomes
affordable. In its current form, DDR3 is in demand among overclockers
only, who are no longer content with the capabilities of DDR2-1200.
Now, more details on the motherboards. They are almost
identical; the only difference - the Premium model uses welded-in
memory modules, whereas the Deluxe model doesn't. At the remaining
specifications, there are no differences in specifications. In
particular, they offer two PCI Express x16 slots, 8 SerialATA II links
(2 - on the rear panel),one ParallelATA link, two Gigabit network
controllers, as well as a Wi-Fi module. The boards also support 2
Firewire and 10 USB 2.0 ports.
The BIOS settings of the three motherboards are 99% identical;
the overclocking results are very high but almost identical.
ASUS P5K3 Premium, ASUS
P5K3 Deluxe
Conclusion
Pros of all these boards:
- High stability and performance;
- 8-phase power scheme;
- Two PCI Express x16 slots;
- Support for SerialATA II RAID ( 8 links; ICH8R + JMB363);
- Support for one P-ATA link (JMB363);
- Integrated 8-channel audio and two LAN (Gigabit Ethernet)
controllers;
- Support for USB2.0 (10 ports) and IEEE-1394 (Firewire, 2
ports);
- Support for Wi-Fi;
- A wide selection of ASUS' proprietary technologies (PC
Probe II, EZ Flash 2, CrashFree BIOS 3, MyLogo2, Q-Fan 2, etc.);
- Additional set of AI Proactive features (AI Overclock,
N.O.S., AI Net 2, etc.);
- Passive/active system for cooling the chipset and the power
supply module.
Cons:
The boards' specific features:
- Superb CPU overclocking results;
- On the rear panel, there are two SerialATA II and 6 USB 2.0
ports; no LPT and COM ports, no PS/2 for the mouse.
- Premium model: Advanced power supply module and 10-layered
PCB;
- Premium model: Two DDR3-1333 modules with a cooling system.
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