ASUS P5B Premium Vista Edition
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ASUS P5B Premium Vista Edition


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Overall rating 8/10

ASUS gives the P5B Deluxe an upgrade to Premium status, removes the WiFi-AP component, but adds a set of Vista ready functionality. The new P5B Premium Vista Edition is also an incredible enthusiast board as well.

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Product Specification

Processor Support and Chipset Type
  • Supports 90nm/65nm LGA775 processor package
  • Supports Intel Core 2 Duo / Core 2 Quad / Core 2 Extreme
  • Supports Intel Pentium D / Pentium Processor Extreme Edition
  • Supports Intel Pentium 4 / Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
  • Intel Virtualization Technology ready
  • Northbridge: Intel P965
  • 533 / 800 / 1066MHz front side bus
  • PCI Express x16 graphics
  • Southbridge: Intel ICH8R
  • Intel High Definition Audio
  • Supports six PCI Express x1 lanes
  • Supports up to ten USB 2.0 ports
  • Supports six SATA 3.0Gbps ports (with Matrix Storage Technology)
  • Integrated 10/100/1000Mbps MAC
  • Intel Quiet System Technology
Memory
  • Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 1.8 Volt DDR2 SDRAM
  • Supports 800/677/533/400 dual channel DDR2 memory architecture
Storage
  • Intel ICH8R Southbridge
  • 6 x SATA 3.0Gbps interface
  • Intel Matrix Storage Technology
  • Supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, RAID 10
  • eSATA support
  • JMicron JMB363 Controller
  • 1 x Ultra ATA 33/66/100/133 (data transfer rate up to 133MB/sec.)
  • 2 x SATA 3.0Gbps interface
  • Supports RAID 0, RAID 1
  • eSATA support
Audio
  • Intel High Definition Audio (Azalia)
  • ADI 1988B HD Audio CODEC
  • Optical and coaxial S/PDIF
Video
  • Marvell 88E8053 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
  • Marvell 88E8001 PCI Gigabit Ethernet controller
FireWire (IEEE 1394)
  • Texas Instrument TSB43AB22A FireWire controller
  • 2 x 1394a ports @ 400 Mbps speed
Rear I/O
  • 1 x Floppy connector
  • 1 x Ultra ATA IDE connectors
  • 7 x SATA connectors
  • 1 x eSATA connector
  • 8 x USB 2.0 ports (4 x rear, 2 x bracket, 2 x header)
  • 2 x IEEE 1394a ports (1 x rear, 1 x bracket)
  • 2 x RJ45 LAN port
  • 1 x Coaxial S/PDIF Output
  • 1 x Optical S/PDIF Output
  • 8-Channel Audio I/O ports
  • 1 x 9-pin serial port
  • 1 x mini-DIN-6 PS/2 mouse port
  • 1 x mini-DIN-6 PS/2 keyboard port
Expansion Slots
  • 2 x PCIe x16 slots, PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant
  • 1 x PCIe x1 slots, PCI Express Bus specification v1.0a compliant
  • 3 x 32-bit PCI slots, PCI 2.3 compliant
Form Factor ATX Form Factor, 12"x 9.6"(30.5cm x 24.4cm)