ASUS's P5K3 Deluxe is one of the first motherboards to use Intel's new P35
Express chipset. It has 2PCI Express based x16 graphics card slots. This board
has 4 DIMM slots which support up to 8GB 1333/1066/800 non-ECC unbuffered
memory. It has 6 SATA ports which support SATA RAID 0, 1, and JBOD. It supports
Dual Gigabit LAN with WiFi-AP. It has 2.0 based 10 USB Ports. We tested the
motherboard with 800 W SMPS, 120 GB 7200 rpm HDD with Quad Core 2.66 GHz
Processor, with 2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz RAM and XP SP2.The benchmarks we used are
3DMark, PC Mark and Pov-Ray and the scores were 6971, 8871, 62601.55
respectively. In Cinebench 10, it gave 2989 single CPU and 5580 XCPU. Gaming
performance was tested by using ZOTAC GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB Video Card, using
UT3, Crysis and Company of Heroes. The scores obtained were 59.56 frame relay,
39.19 FPS and 104.7 FPS respectively.
This board performs very well, almost like Asus P5K3 Premium. The only
difference is in the features front. Both Deluxe and Premium board support 45nm
CPU but in case they don't support you have to update both boards with the
latest BIOS.
Price: Rs 14,650 (3 years warranty) Key Specs: Support for DDR3 memory, dual Gbps LAN, SATA RAID 0, 1, and JBOD Contact: ASUS Technology, Mumbai Tel: 67668800 E mail: mamta_bhatia@asus.com SMS Buy 130880 to 56677 |
Bottomline: If you don't need to overclock then this motherboard is a
good choice as it supports upto 8GB RAM which P5K3 Premium doesn't.