Asus P5E3 WS PRO Motherboard Specification and Technical Details

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Features

CPU
Socket LGA775 processors for Intel ® Core ™ 2 Quad / Core ™ 2 Extreme / Core ™ 2 Duo / Pentium ® Extreme / Pentium ® D / Pentium ® 4
Compatible with Intel ® 05B/05A/06
Support for future Intel ® engraved in 45 nm


Chipset
Intel ® X38 / ICH9R with technology Intel ® Fast Memory Access
Front Side Bus 1600/1333 / 1066 / 800 MHz
Memory 4 x DIMM, max. 8 GB of memory DDR3 1800 (OC) / 1600 (OC) / 1333/1066/800 MHz, Un-buffered
Architecture Dual Channel memory
Slots extension 2 x PCIe 2.0 x16
1 x PCIe x 1
2 x PCI-X
1 x PCI


Storage
Southbridge
-- 6 x Ports SATA 3.0 Gb / s
-- Intel Matrix Storage Technology that supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10
PATA and SATA controller
-- 1 x ATA
-- 2 x SATA external 150/300 (RAID 0,1,10,5)
-- 2 x SATA 150/300 (RAID 0,1,10,5)


LAN
2 x dual Gb LAN Controllers Marvell88E8056


Audio
System high definition 8-channel audio codec operator ADI AD1988B ®
-- Support Jack-Sensing, Enumeration, Multi-streaming
-- S / PDIF coaxile / optical
-- ASUS Noise Filter


USB
12 x USB ports 2.0/1.1


Unique Features
-- AI Slot Detector
-- Q-Shield
-- Q-Connector
-- Solution heat without fan: Heat-pipe solution
-- Solution heat without fan: Stack Cool 2
-- Noise Filter
-- MyLogo 2
-- CrashFree BIOS 3
-- EZ Flash 2
-- CPR (CPU Parameter Recall)
-- SFS (Stepless Frequency Selection)
-- OC Profile


Ports E / S at the rear
1 x PS / 2 port for keyboard
1 x S / PDIF (optical + Coaxial)
2 x SATA external
1 x IEEE1394a
2 x RJ45 Ports
6 x USB 2.0/1.1
E / S 8 audio channels


Connectors E / S internal
Power connector ATX 24-pin
Power connector ATX 12V 8-pin
Intrusion chassis
Fan CPU-controlled PWM
Fan chassis 1 with Q-control fan
Fan chassis 2 with Q-control fan
Fan PWR
IDE connector
Floppy connector
CD audio in
6 x USB2.0
20-pin connector panel
1 x Port IEEE 1394a
1 x COM port
Taking TPM
Connector audio


BIOS
16 MB Flash ROM, AMI BIOS, PnP, DMI2.0, WfM2.0, SM BIOS 2.3, ACPI 2.0a, BIOS multilingual, ASUS EZ Flash 2, ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3
Manageability WfM 2.0, DMI 2.0, WOL by SMEs, WOR by SMEs, PXE
Accessories 1 x USB2.0 / 1 module IEEE1394
Module 1 x COM port
Cable signal Serial ATA devices for 8
Power cable Serial ATA devices for 8
Cable 1 x Ultra DMA 133/100
1 x floppy cable
1 x Q-Shield
Q-connector 3 to 1
CD support AI Booster
ASUS PC Probe II
Software anti-virus
Adobe Acrobat Reader ver 7.0
Microsoft Direct X worm 9.0C
Form Factor Format ATX, 12 "x 9.6" (30.5 cm x 24.4 cm)


LAST BIOS
-- BIOS 0124 (BIOS Pre-penryn): Extremely fast to SuperPI 1m, pretty bad at SuperPI 32m and it seems to be little difference for the rest of applications bench).


IMPORTANT INFORMATION
-- It would seem that the 306 bios can be problematic start of the motherboard, then unplug the power cable and plug.
- Pc Probe + AI Suite: blue screen au demarage, faut les desinstaller. -- Pc Probe + AI Suite: blue screen at startup, must be uninstalled.
-- Problem formatting (bsod) => set ports Legacy in the bios and not raid as default
-- OCZ XTC Cooler incompatible graphics card if present in the first slot.


Strengths
-- Motherboard ultra stable (0 whims)
-- Very good for overclocking RAM
-- Floor feeding extremely resistant (no problem in Penryn 2V)


weaknesses
-- Problems with the ports PS / 2 in very cold or very large FSB.
-- No button on / off on the motherboard.
-- Slow FSB max in a 45nm dual (memory), the order of 540-550Mhz a dual, single, can be expected to 50Mhz better.