Over the years I have owned numerous ASUS
motherboards. Of those I have owned I have never had a hardware failure. This is
a testament to the engineering and materials that ASUS incorporates into their
products.
The only reason I have had so many different mother boards is that each mother
board is specific to a certain processor. That is to say the original 486 ASUS
motherboard would not accommodate a Pentium processor, nor would the Pentium
ASUS motherboard accommodate a PIII processor, and so on. I currently have a
ASUS P4B motherboard,. I have upgraded processor four times on this motherboard.
My P4B motherboard is at the end of it's upgrade path, I have the fastest P4 478
socket processor installed, need a new motherboard. What I find with the ASUS
motherboards is that they have foresight when they engineer their products. I am
currently considering an upgrade, this is a review of one of my choices.
This is one of the best boards I have found, the board presents two problems for
me, I
have a very fine AGP video card. If I upgrade to this motherboard I will have
to purchase yet another Video card. The memory provisions are for DDR and there
are only two slots, therefore I have to buy the memory now that I want to
install instead of using my available
memory then later on adding more memory.
So I will have to add another $200+ for the two gig of memory I want the system
to have. The board does support PCI-Express 16, so I can buy a video card
with 512 meg of ram for around $150, more expense but with a high quality card
and lots of ram I will not have to upgrade the video for a long time. The board
has features that most other boards of the same class doesn't, such as the FSB
starts at 533 and goes to 1066, this means that any new processor that Intel
produces in the LGA775 package will work with the board. The Hype-Threading and
core speeds past 3.8Ghz is a plus and you will save if you decide to upgrade the
processor in the future. So if I run down the cost of my upgrade for this motherboard I will have to buy:
Processor: $129
Memory:
$252
Video:
$143
Mother board: $114
Total;
$638
Not bad, for less than $700 I will have a system with a processor,
memory, and video that will not require upgrades for at least three years and
will run all the latest and greatest Operating System, games, and applications
with out any problems. If in say a year from now I want to go to a processor
that runs above 3 gig the motherboard will accept it, this path is cheaper than
buying a new system by $300 and it is upgradeable.
Asus P5LD2 R2.0 ASUS Motherboard
CPU:
Socket 775 support Intel Pentium D/ Pentium 4/ Celeron processor;
Intel EM64T/ EIST/ Hyper-Threading Technology;
Support Intel next generation 04B/04A & 05B/05A CPU;
FSB 1066/800/533 MHz
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