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Date 2007-12-14
Provider: Rbmods
Author: Niko Lupala
Editor: Amber Lupala
Asus P53K Deluxe motherboard review
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This board comes with alot of accessories, for example you get three SATA cables, two flat IDE cables, SATA power adapter, and extra USB ports. This is not all though as you might have seen on the right picture, you also get the I/O back plate, jumpers, optional fan, and a WIFI antenna.
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The card itself has many colors but the color scheme goes very well together. The first thing you might have noticed is the heatpipes going around the cpu socket. The heatpipe is connected to three different heatsinks, this is to keep the heat of the chips and maintain stability even under heavy load.
The fins on the heatsinks are extremely well made and perfectly aligned from each other. Does this help the board then? Well we will see that a bit later in the review.
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The memory slots are colored in both orange and black. This is so you know which slots to put your ram in. The ATX power plugin is actually placed in a good place this time on the edege of the card right below the memory slots instead of being right by the cpu slot. As you can see you have 6! SATA slots and one IDE connector if you still want to run some IDE drives.
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The ports are all color coded, so you can easily connect the parts and get your computer running.
On the back of the card there is alot of various connectors; from the left we have USB, Ps/2, SPDIF, LAN, USB, HDMI (red ones), LAN again and USB connectors along with the surround sound connectors.
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The major problem with the heatpipes are that they go really close to the memory sticks, the heat will increase on the memory sticks if you got a tight case.
The PCI-E slot on the other hand is placed at a perfect range from the memory slot so you can still unmount and mount new memory sticks without removing the videocard.
Testing:
Asus P5K3 Deluxe
Intel QX6700
Corsair Pc3-12800 DDR3
Asus 8600GT
Zalman 500W PSU
Maxtor 80GB IDE HDD
Testing was done with the following software. Sisoft Sandra XI, Pcmark2005, SuperPi, and HDspeed and we compared this setup vs a MSI P965 Neo motherboard with a Intel Extreme X6800 and a Corsair Dominator memory kit to give you an idea on how well this perform.
Pcmark2005:
We used Pcmark2005 in this review since we had a XP installation on the computer. Pcmark shows speeds from Cpu, memory, and HDD. This test shows that CPU wise we got alot faster setup but memory wise it is pretty much the same. Does DDR3 really cost more than it performs for? HDD performed about the same though since it has the same standard.
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Testing Time >>>>> Page 3
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