Asus P5Q Pro Review

• Intel Core 2 Extreme / Core 2 Quad / Core 2 Duo / Pentium dual core / Celeron dual core / Celeron Processors

• Compatible with Intel 05B / 05A / 06 Processors

• 1600 / 1333 / 1066 / 800 MHz System Bus

• Four DDR2 dual channel memory sockets

• DDR2 1200 / 1066 / 800 / 667 MHz nonECC, unbuffered DIMMS

• Up to 4GB per DIMM with a maximum of 16GB

Expansion Slots

• Two PCI Express 2.0  x16 slots (Supports ATI CrossFireX  at x8 speed)
• Three PCI Express x1 slots
• Two PCI slots

• Six SATA 3Gb/s ports
• Intel Matrix Storage supporting SATA RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10

Marvell 88SE6111 PATA controller

• 1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices

Silicon Image Sil5723 (Drive Xpert Technology)

• 2 x SATA 3 Gb/s ports
• Supports EZ Backup and SuperSpeed functions

Realtek ALC1200 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC

• Supports jack detection, multi-streaming, front panel jack retasking technology
• Coaxial S/PDIF out ports at back I/O
• ASUS Noise Filter

• PCIe Gb LAN Controller
• Featuring AI NET2

Back Panel I/O Ports

• One PS/2 mouse port
• One PS/2 keyboard port
• One S/PDIF Out (Coaxial)
• One IEEE 1394a
• One RJ45
• Six USB ports
• 8-channel Audio I/O

System BIOS

• 8 Mb Flash ROM AMI BIOS

• PnP, DMI 2.0, WfM 2.0, SM BIOS 2.4, ACPI 3.0a

Form Factor

• ATX

• 12” x 9.6”

• 3 year warranty

• $100 - $115