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Asus P5W DH Deluxe/WIFI-G Socket 775 Digital home Series Motherboard
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Feature-packed board, good price
(5 out of 5) by Dr. P. J. A. Wicks on Aug 9, 2007 (London, England)I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume most of the sort of people who would buy a motherboard are fairly technically competent. If you're not, upgrading your motherboard is only really worth it if you're upgrading to a new processor, such as Intel's new dual or quad core processors. There are a few things to bare in mind.
If you're upgrading from a machine that's say, a couple of years old, there are a number of technologies that have moved on since then, and this motherboard by itself isn't going to be much use unless you upgrade a number of other items too.
- Power supply unit: You're going to need a PSU chucking out at least 500W to satisfy one of the new Intel chips plus USB ports, graphics cards, etc. Even if you do have a 500W PSU already you need to make sure you've got a 24 pin power supply, a 20 pin won't cut it.
- RAM: This board only takes DDR2 memory, you'll probably want at least 2gb
- Video card: This has only got a PCI Express interface so your old graphics card might not cut it.
Right, well I learnt that the hard way today and went back and forth to PC World a lot for my sins. Now that I've got it up and running it's great. The new chips run a bit cooler and the board controls everything smoothly. This model is packed with extras; a slot at the back to plug in your MP3 player, built-in WiFi, at least 6 USB ports (plus room for more if you have them), and even a remote control if you want to use this as a media PC. If you really want to get hardcore it's well set up for overclocking, with big ol' heatsinks onboard already, and it can accomodate duel-linked SLI NVidia graphics cards if you just want ridiculous amounts of FPS when Crysis finally comes out.
If you're upgrading from a machine that's say, a couple of years old, there are a number of technologies that have moved on since then, and this motherboard by itself isn't going to be much use unless you upgrade a number of other items too.
- Power supply unit: You're going to need a PSU chucking out at least 500W to satisfy one of the new Intel chips plus USB ports, graphics cards, etc. Even if you do have a 500W PSU already you need to make sure you've got a 24 pin power supply, a 20 pin won't cut it.
- RAM: This board only takes DDR2 memory, you'll probably want at least 2gb
- Video card: This has only got a PCI Express interface so your old graphics card might not cut it.
Right, well I learnt that the hard way today and went back and forth to PC World a lot for my sins. Now that I've got it up and running it's great. The new chips run a bit cooler and the board controls everything smoothly. This model is packed with extras; a slot at the back to plug in your MP3 player, built-in WiFi, at least 6 USB ports (plus room for more if you have them), and even a remote control if you want to use this as a media PC. If you really want to get hardcore it's well set up for overclocking, with big ol' heatsinks onboard already, and it can accomodate duel-linked SLI NVidia graphics cards if you just want ridiculous amounts of FPS when Crysis finally comes out.