Hardware Asus P5K3 Premium

If the A8N32 was supposed to be a heavy board, I shudder to imagine how heavy this monstrosity is...

Not having the liberty to move up to 4GB is a real deal-breaker

 

Lol I need 6 they are good ( 4 X 500GB, 2 X RWS ) so no problem ( My future upgrade I hope )

 

How many people are going to buy 2 x esata hdd's then?

 

I own one.


That didn't come with an eSATA cable


**** you WD.

 

^^ Indeed.

 

the cable come with the motherboard my 965 dq6 came with 2 slots ( 4 Ports ) and 4 cables and I use WD they make noise at night, **** you WD.

 

Can anyone recommend a comparably featured board with DDR2? I like the features the board offers, but I'm still making the jump from DDR to DDR2, DDR3 is still just too expensive for me to be interested in switching.

 

high end mobos should have 6 min (and NATIVE as well, this mobo is 3 native/ 3 silicion image)

 

oddly, the only ESATA cable i ever got was with an ECS mobo... i used that, plus E-SATA backplates to use them external ports for internal drives

 

Have to aggree there, one of the more important descisions for me when i chose parts for my new PC was a lot of SATA ports, as i have a tendancy to buy lots of drives (my old nforce-2 PC ended up with 5 IDE devices: 4x IDE disks, 1x IDE optical drives, and a SATA HD, some of the drives on a combo IDE/SATA PCI card)

my new PC has 4/6 of it's native ports filled from day1: 2x SATA RAID0 array, 1x SATA (moved from old PC as a boot/backup drive) and a SATA DVD burner.
The board also has an extra SATA port + eSATA port on a separate controller, giving 7xSATA + a eSATA on the board. That should be enough to last even me

But 6x as default feels like a good number if you ask me

 

Imo, if six isn't enough, you really should be looking a nice raid card, leave the optical drives on the NB and get some Raid 5 going ! Yes a good PCI-e raid card will set you back a pretty penny, but if you're after pure raid powha, thats what you'll want !

After all you've got all those PCI-e Slots, too use up

-Fr4nk

 

If You have only one PC with one WD hdd, That's one thing, I have 5 PCs with a Raptor in each and a 6th PC waiting for some parts and yep It has a Raptor hdd too, Of course all the cases are insulated for sound(foam) and have a pretty good cooling solution in each.

As to this P5K3 Premium motherboard, All I'd need is a QX6850 cpu, A CoolIT Freezone cpu cooler, a very good single +12v rail psu(Silverstone DA-750 or PC P&C Silencer 750?) and a cheap nvidia pci-e video card, It would make a good Boinc cruncher. Of course the 3yr warranty on the motherboard mounted ram sucks, But after 3yrs If It fails go buy a New one I say If You have the money, It costs $1,299(US) or so Legion Hardware says.

 

QFT. If you've got more than 6 drives you should be looking to get a decent RAID card.

 

$1.299(US), mm I can say **** IT, dude I can get the best high end mobo with $300-$400 I think And 4GB or even 8GB rams with 2X $200-$400.

SO it's not worth, This mother board is SUX!

Thanks. CK

 

I think this is the start of something much bigger.

It won't be long before a manufacturer like Asus is shipping a motherboard with integrated RAM and a unified CPU/GPU as a one piece system.

 

WE was wrong.. ASUS not Idiot crap company... they just try to do some thing new and they did it

This is the right motherboard that we want to get
http://vr-zone.com/articles/ASUS__Black_Pearl_Special_Edition:_P5K_Premium/5175-1.html
But really this motherboard is awsome support 8GB 1066 and every thing is amazing on it

Thanks ASUS, Sorry to say that about you

 

On the one hand, I'd like to applaud ASUS for the innovation. But sadly, it seems the execution (specifically pricing) appears to burst the bubble on this one

 

very innovative, kudos for them, but integrated memory is very bad.

 

I've merged the two threads to make discussion a little easier!

 

My old raptors made so much noise (74gb and 36gb), then they died out of nowhere...
**** you WD.