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Review: ASUS P5AD2-E Premium

by Tarinder Sandhu on 12 February 2005, 00:00

Tags: ASUSTeK (TPE:2357)

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Specifications

ASUS P5AD2-E i925XE Socket-T
CPU Support All LGA775 processors
Northbridge Intel i925XE
Memory Support 4 slots, DDR-II only. 400MHz, 533MHz, and 600MHz support at 200MHz FSB. 4GB max, dual-channel
AGP None
PEG16X One slot
Southbridge Intel ICH6/R
Audio CMI 9880 from ICH6/R - High-definition audio
Audio Connectivity 6-port backplane speaker, Optical and coaxial S/PDIF output
PCI 3 x 32-bit 33MHz PCI 2.1 slots
PCI Express 2 x X1 slots
IDE 1 ATA133 compliant port from ICH6/R
IDE RAID ITE 8212F - 2 ATA133 ports. Capable of RAID0, RAID1, RAID0+1 and JBOD modes
SATA 4 ports from ICH6/R and a further 4 ports from Silicon Image 3114R controller
SATA RAID RAID0 and RAID1 from Intel Matrix Storage and RAID0, RAID1, RAID0+1, RAID5 (via software patch) and JBOD from Sil3114
Networking Dual Gigabit Ethernet Controllers. Marvell 88E8001-LKJ PCI-based controller and 88E8053 PCI Express-based controller
Networking Wireless Marvell 88W8310 two-chip 802.11g Wireless controller with on-board antenna port
USB ICH6/R, 4 x backplane USB2.0, 4 x I/O USB2.0
FireWire 2x FireWire800(1394b) and 1x FireWire400 (1394a) from Ti TSB81BA3 OCHI controller
Other I/O PS/2, Parallel


Not much change from the incumbent i925X ASUS motherboard, but we didn't really expect that. Support for a faster FSB is the main differentiator.