ASUS P5K Deluxe WiFi (Intel P35)
ASUS P5K Deluxe WiFi Layout and Features
The PCB design has only one thing to complain about: blocking
of DIMM slots by a PCI Express video card.
There won't be other issues during assembly, in particular,
the power connectors are installed over the board's edges: 24-pin - on
the bottom edge, with a 8-pin on the right-hand. We note that the board
has retained a backward compatibility to the "old" PSUs and allows
using them with 20+4 cables. At the same time, the unused pins of the
additional connector are closed with a plastic lid:
Near the processor socket, there is a 4-pin CPU_FAN connector
for a respective cooler.
Besides it, there are four more 3-pin connectors: CHA_FAN1 -
near the rear panel, with CHA_FAN2 to CHA_FAN4 on the bottom edge of
the board.
On the north bridge, there is only a passive radiator
connected to the radiator on power supply module with two heat pipes.
Also, using the heat pipe the heat from the south bridge is transferred
to the north bridge. Note that one of the radiators on the power supply
module allows for installation of a turbine fan which is missing in the
bundle, unfortunately.
Under the north bridge, there are four 240-pin DIMM slots for
DDR2 memory modules. They are partitioned into two groups with two
slots in each. The first two slots refer to the first controller
channel, with the other two to the second controller.
The board offers support for DDR2-533/667/800/889/1066, and
the maximum memory capacity makes 8GB. Once voltage is applied to the
board, a large green LED in the bottom-left corner of the board lights
up.
There are two PCI Express x16 slots onboard (both with
latches) which are meant for video cards.
Because of the inner limitations of P35 chipset, merely 2 or 4
PCI Express bus lanes are allocated to the second PCI Express x16 slot.
Besides the above listed slots, ASUS P5K Deluxe WiFi uses
three more "regular" PCI slots as well as two PCI
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