Overclocking
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an above average overclocker; I was able to run it with a 500MHz FSB stably, albeit with only a 7x multiplier. However, for most benchmarks, the best scores were obtained at 450x8 with the DDR3 memory running at 1800MHz data rate with a 8-8-8-24 timing.
In order to reach 3.6GHz, we took the following simple steps:
3.6GHz with a Core 2 Duo E6400 is nothing to sneeze at, and a stable 500MHz FSB is quite a good result. I know, there are some golden samples out there that will reach a higher FSB frequency, and I was able to POST and even get into Windows at somewhat higher speeds - but I do not report unstable results.
Conclusion
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an excellent motherboard, with the best DDR3 performance I’ve seen to date.
The benchmark results earlier in this article speak for themselves – in the vast majority of cases the P5E3 was at the top of the stock results, and almost always dominated the overclocked results.
Personally, I can hardly wait to see how this board will perform with future 45nm processors such as Penryn based 45nm dual and quad core processors!
DDR3 seems to come into its own above 1600MHz; at 1800MHz it finally has a performance edge over low latency 1066MHz DDR2 in the vast majority of the benchmarks – however, this does again drive home the discrepancy between the cost and performance of DDR3, because when you look at the costs of high performance low-latency DDR2 at 1066MHz, against the cost of DDR3 at 1800MHz, the price advantage still remains with DDR2.
Some aspects of this board could not yet be tested, as we do not currently have two PCIe 2.0 x16 Crossfire boards to test it with; however, as higher speed video cards come on line, we are likely to revisit this board to see how they will perform.
Here's the bottom line:
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is a very fast board, with excellent overclocking potential. Add to the mix the extensive PCIe 2.0 support, great SATAII transfer rates, and more I/O than you can shake a stick at - and it becomes an obvious choice for gamers and overclockers looking for a good high-end X38 DDR3 board. Really, the only 'flies in the ointment' for the P5E3 Deluxe WiFi are the poor IDE performance, and the expense of high-end DDR3 memory modules; neither of which will stop devoted enthusiasts with money from plunking down cold hard cash for the great performance offered by this board.
Overclocking
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an above average overclocker; I was able to run it with a 500MHz FSB stably, albeit with only a 7x multiplier. However, for most benchmarks, the best scores were obtained at 450x8 with the DDR3 memory running at 1800MHz data rate with a 8-8-8-24 timing.
In order to reach 3.6GHz, we took the following simple steps:
3.6GHz with a Core 2 Duo E6400 is nothing to sneeze at, and a stable 500MHz FSB is quite a good result. I know, there are some golden samples out there that will reach a higher FSB frequency, and I was able to POST and even get into Windows at somewhat higher speeds - but I do not report unstable results.
Conclusion
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an excellent motherboard, with the best DDR3 performance I’ve seen to date.
The benchmark results earlier in this article speak for themselves – in the vast majority of cases the P5E3 was at the top of the stock results, and almost always dominated the overclocked results.
Personally, I can hardly wait to see how this board will perform with future 45nm processors such as Penryn based 45nm dual and quad core processors!
DDR3 seems to come into its own above 1600MHz; at 1800MHz it finally has a performance edge over low latency 1066MHz DDR2 in the vast majority of the benchmarks – however, this does again drive home the discrepancy between the cost and performance of DDR3, because when you look at the costs of high performance low-latency DDR2 at 1066MHz, against the cost of DDR3 at 1800MHz, the price advantage still remains with DDR2.
Some aspects of this board could not yet be tested, as we do not currently have two PCIe 2.0 x16 Crossfire boards to test it with; however, as higher speed video cards come on line, we are likely to revisit this board to see how they will perform.
Here's the bottom line:
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is a very fast board, with excellent overclocking potential. Add to the mix the extensive PCIe 2.0 support, great SATAII transfer rates, and more I/O than you can shake a stick at - and it becomes an obvious choice for gamers and overclockers looking for a good high-end X38 DDR3 board. Really, the only 'flies in the ointment' for the P5E3 Deluxe WiFi are the poor IDE performance, and the expense of high-end DDR3 memory modules; neither of which will stop devoted enthusiasts with money from plunking down cold hard cash for the great performance offered by this board.
Overclocking
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an above average overclocker; I was able to run it with a 500MHz FSB stably, albeit with only a 7x multiplier. However, for most benchmarks, the best scores were obtained at 450x8 with the DDR3 memory running at 1800MHz data rate with a 8-8-8-24 timing.
In order to reach 3.6GHz, we took the following simple steps:
3.6GHz with a Core 2 Duo E6400 is nothing to sneeze at, and a stable 500MHz FSB is quite a good result. I know, there are some golden samples out there that will reach a higher FSB frequency, and I was able to POST and even get into Windows at somewhat higher speeds - but I do not report unstable results.
Conclusion
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an excellent motherboard, with the best DDR3 performance I’ve seen to date.
The benchmark results earlier in this article speak for themselves – in the vast majority of cases the P5E3 was at the top of the stock results, and almost always dominated the overclocked results.
Personally, I can hardly wait to see how this board will perform with future 45nm processors such as Penryn based 45nm dual and quad core processors!
DDR3 seems to come into its own above 1600MHz; at 1800MHz it finally has a performance edge over low latency 1066MHz DDR2 in the vast majority of the benchmarks – however, this does again drive home the discrepancy between the cost and performance of DDR3, because when you look at the costs of high performance low-latency DDR2 at 1066MHz, against the cost of DDR3 at 1800MHz, the price advantage still remains with DDR2.
Some aspects of this board could not yet be tested, as we do not currently have two PCIe 2.0 x16 Crossfire boards to test it with; however, as higher speed video cards come on line, we are likely to revisit this board to see how they will perform.
Here's the bottom line:
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is a very fast board, with excellent overclocking potential. Add to the mix the extensive PCIe 2.0 support, great SATAII transfer rates, and more I/O than you can shake a stick at - and it becomes an obvious choice for gamers and overclockers looking for a good high-end X38 DDR3 board. Really, the only 'flies in the ointment' for the P5E3 Deluxe WiFi are the poor IDE performance, and the expense of high-end DDR3 memory modules; neither of which will stop devoted enthusiasts with money from plunking down cold hard cash for the great performance offered by this board.
Overclocking
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an above average overclocker; I was able to run it with a 500MHz FSB stably, albeit with only a 7x multiplier. However, for most benchmarks, the best scores were obtained at 450x8 with the DDR3 memory running at 1800MHz data rate with a 8-8-8-24 timing.
In order to reach 3.6GHz, we took the following simple steps:
3.6GHz with a Core 2 Duo E6400 is nothing to sneeze at, and a stable 500MHz FSB is quite a good result. I know, there are some golden samples out there that will reach a higher FSB frequency, and I was able to POST and even get into Windows at somewhat higher speeds - but I do not report unstable results.
Conclusion
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an excellent motherboard, with the best DDR3 performance I’ve seen to date.
The benchmark results earlier in this article speak for themselves – in the vast majority of cases the P5E3 was at the top of the stock results, and almost always dominated the overclocked results.
Personally, I can hardly wait to see how this board will perform with future 45nm processors such as Penryn based 45nm dual and quad core processors!
DDR3 seems to come into its own above 1600MHz; at 1800MHz it finally has a performance edge over low latency 1066MHz DDR2 in the vast majority of the benchmarks – however, this does again drive home the discrepancy between the cost and performance of DDR3, because when you look at the costs of high performance low-latency DDR2 at 1066MHz, against the cost of DDR3 at 1800MHz, the price advantage still remains with DDR2.
Some aspects of this board could not yet be tested, as we do not currently have two PCIe 2.0 x16 Crossfire boards to test it with; however, as higher speed video cards come on line, we are likely to revisit this board to see how they will perform.
Here's the bottom line:
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is a very fast board, with excellent overclocking potential. Add to the mix the extensive PCIe 2.0 support, great SATAII transfer rates, and more I/O than you can shake a stick at - and it becomes an obvious choice for gamers and overclockers looking for a good high-end X38 DDR3 board. Really, the only 'flies in the ointment' for the P5E3 Deluxe WiFi are the poor IDE performance, and the expense of high-end DDR3 memory modules; neither of which will stop devoted enthusiasts with money from plunking down cold hard cash for the great performance offered by this board.
Overclocking
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an above average overclocker; I was able to run it with a 500MHz FSB stably, albeit with only a 7x multiplier. However, for most benchmarks, the best scores were obtained at 450x8 with the DDR3 memory running at 1800MHz data rate with a 8-8-8-24 timing.
In order to reach 3.6GHz, we took the following simple steps:
3.6GHz with a Core 2 Duo E6400 is nothing to sneeze at, and a stable 500MHz FSB is quite a good result. I know, there are some golden samples out there that will reach a higher FSB frequency, and I was able to POST and even get into Windows at somewhat higher speeds - but I do not report unstable results.
Conclusion
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an excellent motherboard, with the best DDR3 performance I’ve seen to date.
The benchmark results earlier in this article speak for themselves – in the vast majority of cases the P5E3 was at the top of the stock results, and almost always dominated the overclocked results.
Personally, I can hardly wait to see how this board will perform with future 45nm processors such as Penryn based 45nm dual and quad core processors!
DDR3 seems to come into its own above 1600MHz; at 1800MHz it finally has a performance edge over low latency 1066MHz DDR2 in the vast majority of the benchmarks – however, this does again drive home the discrepancy between the cost and performance of DDR3, because when you look at the costs of high performance low-latency DDR2 at 1066MHz, against the cost of DDR3 at 1800MHz, the price advantage still remains with DDR2.
Some aspects of this board could not yet be tested, as we do not currently have two PCIe 2.0 x16 Crossfire boards to test it with; however, as higher speed video cards come on line, we are likely to revisit this board to see how they will perform.
Here's the bottom line:
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is a very fast board, with excellent overclocking potential. Add to the mix the extensive PCIe 2.0 support, great SATAII transfer rates, and more I/O than you can shake a stick at - and it becomes an obvious choice for gamers and overclockers looking for a good high-end X38 DDR3 board. Really, the only 'flies in the ointment' for the P5E3 Deluxe WiFi are the poor IDE performance, and the expense of high-end DDR3 memory modules; neither of which will stop devoted enthusiasts with money from plunking down cold hard cash for the great performance offered by this board.
Overclocking
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an above average overclocker; I was able to run it with a 500MHz FSB stably, albeit with only a 7x multiplier. However, for most benchmarks, the best scores were obtained at 450x8 with the DDR3 memory running at 1800MHz data rate with a 8-8-8-24 timing.
In order to reach 3.6GHz, we took the following simple steps:
3.6GHz with a Core 2 Duo E6400 is nothing to sneeze at, and a stable 500MHz FSB is quite a good result. I know, there are some golden samples out there that will reach a higher FSB frequency, and I was able to POST and even get into Windows at somewhat higher speeds - but I do not report unstable results.
Conclusion
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an excellent motherboard, with the best DDR3 performance I’ve seen to date.
The benchmark results earlier in this article speak for themselves – in the vast majority of cases the P5E3 was at the top of the stock results, and almost always dominated the overclocked results.
Personally, I can hardly wait to see how this board will perform with future 45nm processors such as Penryn based 45nm dual and quad core processors!
DDR3 seems to come into its own above 1600MHz; at 1800MHz it finally has a performance edge over low latency 1066MHz DDR2 in the vast majority of the benchmarks – however, this does again drive home the discrepancy between the cost and performance of DDR3, because when you look at the costs of high performance low-latency DDR2 at 1066MHz, against the cost of DDR3 at 1800MHz, the price advantage still remains with DDR2.
Some aspects of this board could not yet be tested, as we do not currently have two PCIe 2.0 x16 Crossfire boards to test it with; however, as higher speed video cards come on line, we are likely to revisit this board to see how they will perform.
Here's the bottom line:
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is a very fast board, with excellent overclocking potential. Add to the mix the extensive PCIe 2.0 support, great SATAII transfer rates, and more I/O than you can shake a stick at - and it becomes an obvious choice for gamers and overclockers looking for a good high-end X38 DDR3 board. Really, the only 'flies in the ointment' for the P5E3 Deluxe WiFi are the poor IDE performance, and the expense of high-end DDR3 memory modules; neither of which will stop devoted enthusiasts with money from plunking down cold hard cash for the great performance offered by this board.
Overclocking
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an above average overclocker; I was able to run it with a 500MHz FSB stably, albeit with only a 7x multiplier. However, for most benchmarks, the best scores were obtained at 450x8 with the DDR3 memory running at 1800MHz data rate with a 8-8-8-24 timing.
In order to reach 3.6GHz, we took the following simple steps:
3.6GHz with a Core 2 Duo E6400 is nothing to sneeze at, and a stable 500MHz FSB is quite a good result. I know, there are some golden samples out there that will reach a higher FSB frequency, and I was able to POST and even get into Windows at somewhat higher speeds - but I do not report unstable results.
Conclusion
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an excellent motherboard, with the best DDR3 performance I’ve seen to date.
The benchmark results earlier in this article speak for themselves – in the vast majority of cases the P5E3 was at the top of the stock results, and almost always dominated the overclocked results.
Personally, I can hardly wait to see how this board will perform with future 45nm processors such as Penryn based 45nm dual and quad core processors!
DDR3 seems to come into its own above 1600MHz; at 1800MHz it finally has a performance edge over low latency 1066MHz DDR2 in the vast majority of the benchmarks – however, this does again drive home the discrepancy between the cost and performance of DDR3, because when you look at the costs of high performance low-latency DDR2 at 1066MHz, against the cost of DDR3 at 1800MHz, the price advantage still remains with DDR2.
Some aspects of this board could not yet be tested, as we do not currently have two PCIe 2.0 x16 Crossfire boards to test it with; however, as higher speed video cards come on line, we are likely to revisit this board to see how they will perform.
Here's the bottom line:
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is a very fast board, with excellent overclocking potential. Add to the mix the extensive PCIe 2.0 support, great SATAII transfer rates, and more I/O than you can shake a stick at - and it becomes an obvious choice for gamers and overclockers looking for a good high-end X38 DDR3 board. Really, the only 'flies in the ointment' for the P5E3 Deluxe WiFi are the poor IDE performance, and the expense of high-end DDR3 memory modules; neither of which will stop devoted enthusiasts with money from plunking down cold hard cash for the great performance offered by this board.
Overclocking
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an above average overclocker; I was able to run it with a 500MHz FSB stably, albeit with only a 7x multiplier. However, for most benchmarks, the best scores were obtained at 450x8 with the DDR3 memory running at 1800MHz data rate with a 8-8-8-24 timing.
In order to reach 3.6GHz, we took the following simple steps:
3.6GHz with a Core 2 Duo E6400 is nothing to sneeze at, and a stable 500MHz FSB is quite a good result. I know, there are some golden samples out there that will reach a higher FSB frequency, and I was able to POST and even get into Windows at somewhat higher speeds - but I do not report unstable results.
Conclusion
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an excellent motherboard, with the best DDR3 performance I’ve seen to date.
The benchmark results earlier in this article speak for themselves – in the vast majority of cases the P5E3 was at the top of the stock results, and almost always dominated the overclocked results.
Personally, I can hardly wait to see how this board will perform with future 45nm processors such as Penryn based 45nm dual and quad core processors!
DDR3 seems to come into its own above 1600MHz; at 1800MHz it finally has a performance edge over low latency 1066MHz DDR2 in the vast majority of the benchmarks – however, this does again drive home the discrepancy between the cost and performance of DDR3, because when you look at the costs of high performance low-latency DDR2 at 1066MHz, against the cost of DDR3 at 1800MHz, the price advantage still remains with DDR2.
Some aspects of this board could not yet be tested, as we do not currently have two PCIe 2.0 x16 Crossfire boards to test it with; however, as higher speed video cards come on line, we are likely to revisit this board to see how they will perform.
Here's the bottom line:
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is a very fast board, with excellent overclocking potential. Add to the mix the extensive PCIe 2.0 support, great SATAII transfer rates, and more I/O than you can shake a stick at - and it becomes an obvious choice for gamers and overclockers looking for a good high-end X38 DDR3 board. Really, the only 'flies in the ointment' for the P5E3 Deluxe WiFi are the poor IDE performance, and the expense of high-end DDR3 memory modules; neither of which will stop devoted enthusiasts with money from plunking down cold hard cash for the great performance offered by this board.
Overclocking
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an above average overclocker; I was able to run it with a 500MHz FSB stably, albeit with only a 7x multiplier. However, for most benchmarks, the best scores were obtained at 450x8 with the DDR3 memory running at 1800MHz data rate with a 8-8-8-24 timing.
In order to reach 3.6GHz, we took the following simple steps:
3.6GHz with a Core 2 Duo E6400 is nothing to sneeze at, and a stable 500MHz FSB is quite a good result. I know, there are some golden samples out there that will reach a higher FSB frequency, and I was able to POST and even get into Windows at somewhat higher speeds - but I do not report unstable results.
Conclusion
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an excellent motherboard, with the best DDR3 performance I’ve seen to date.
The benchmark results earlier in this article speak for themselves – in the vast majority of cases the P5E3 was at the top of the stock results, and almost always dominated the overclocked results.
Personally, I can hardly wait to see how this board will perform with future 45nm processors such as Penryn based 45nm dual and quad core processors!
DDR3 seems to come into its own above 1600MHz; at 1800MHz it finally has a performance edge over low latency 1066MHz DDR2 in the vast majority of the benchmarks – however, this does again drive home the discrepancy between the cost and performance of DDR3, because when you look at the costs of high performance low-latency DDR2 at 1066MHz, against the cost of DDR3 at 1800MHz, the price advantage still remains with DDR2.
Some aspects of this board could not yet be tested, as we do not currently have two PCIe 2.0 x16 Crossfire boards to test it with; however, as higher speed video cards come on line, we are likely to revisit this board to see how they will perform.
Here's the bottom line:
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is a very fast board, with excellent overclocking potential. Add to the mix the extensive PCIe 2.0 support, great SATAII transfer rates, and more I/O than you can shake a stick at - and it becomes an obvious choice for gamers and overclockers looking for a good high-end X38 DDR3 board. Really, the only 'flies in the ointment' for the P5E3 Deluxe WiFi are the poor IDE performance, and the expense of high-end DDR3 memory modules; neither of which will stop devoted enthusiasts with money from plunking down cold hard cash for the great performance offered by this board.
Overclocking
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an above average overclocker; I was able to run it with a 500MHz FSB stably, albeit with only a 7x multiplier. However, for most benchmarks, the best scores were obtained at 450x8 with the DDR3 memory running at 1800MHz data rate with a 8-8-8-24 timing.
In order to reach 3.6GHz, we took the following simple steps:
3.6GHz with a Core 2 Duo E6400 is nothing to sneeze at, and a stable 500MHz FSB is quite a good result. I know, there are some golden samples out there that will reach a higher FSB frequency, and I was able to POST and even get into Windows at somewhat higher speeds - but I do not report unstable results.
Conclusion
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an excellent motherboard, with the best DDR3 performance I’ve seen to date.
The benchmark results earlier in this article speak for themselves – in the vast majority of cases the P5E3 was at the top of the stock results, and almost always dominated the overclocked results.
Personally, I can hardly wait to see how this board will perform with future 45nm processors such as Penryn based 45nm dual and quad core processors!
DDR3 seems to come into its own above 1600MHz; at 1800MHz it finally has a performance edge over low latency 1066MHz DDR2 in the vast majority of the benchmarks – however, this does again drive home the discrepancy between the cost and performance of DDR3, because when you look at the costs of high performance low-latency DDR2 at 1066MHz, against the cost of DDR3 at 1800MHz, the price advantage still remains with DDR2.
Some aspects of this board could not yet be tested, as we do not currently have two PCIe 2.0 x16 Crossfire boards to test it with; however, as higher speed video cards come on line, we are likely to revisit this board to see how they will perform.
Here's the bottom line:
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is a very fast board, with excellent overclocking potential. Add to the mix the extensive PCIe 2.0 support, great SATAII transfer rates, and more I/O than you can shake a stick at - and it becomes an obvious choice for gamers and overclockers looking for a good high-end X38 DDR3 board. Really, the only 'flies in the ointment' for the P5E3 Deluxe WiFi are the poor IDE performance, and the expense of high-end DDR3 memory modules; neither of which will stop devoted enthusiasts with money from plunking down cold hard cash for the great performance offered by this board.
Overclocking
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an above average overclocker; I was able to run it with a 500MHz FSB stably, albeit with only a 7x multiplier. However, for most benchmarks, the best scores were obtained at 450x8 with the DDR3 memory running at 1800MHz data rate with a 8-8-8-24 timing.
In order to reach 3.6GHz, we took the following simple steps:
3.6GHz with a Core 2 Duo E6400 is nothing to sneeze at, and a stable 500MHz FSB is quite a good result. I know, there are some golden samples out there that will reach a higher FSB frequency, and I was able to POST and even get into Windows at somewhat higher speeds - but I do not report unstable results.
Conclusion
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an excellent motherboard, with the best DDR3 performance I’ve seen to date.
The benchmark results earlier in this article speak for themselves – in the vast majority of cases the P5E3 was at the top of the stock results, and almost always dominated the overclocked results.
Personally, I can hardly wait to see how this board will perform with future 45nm processors such as Penryn based 45nm dual and quad core processors!
DDR3 seems to come into its own above 1600MHz; at 1800MHz it finally has a performance edge over low latency 1066MHz DDR2 in the vast majority of the benchmarks – however, this does again drive home the discrepancy between the cost and performance of DDR3, because when you look at the costs of high performance low-latency DDR2 at 1066MHz, against the cost of DDR3 at 1800MHz, the price advantage still remains with DDR2.
Some aspects of this board could not yet be tested, as we do not currently have two PCIe 2.0 x16 Crossfire boards to test it with; however, as higher speed video cards come on line, we are likely to revisit this board to see how they will perform.
Here's the bottom line:
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is a very fast board, with excellent overclocking potential. Add to the mix the extensive PCIe 2.0 support, great SATAII transfer rates, and more I/O than you can shake a stick at - and it becomes an obvious choice for gamers and overclockers looking for a good high-end X38 DDR3 board. Really, the only 'flies in the ointment' for the P5E3 Deluxe WiFi are the poor IDE performance, and the expense of high-end DDR3 memory modules; neither of which will stop devoted enthusiasts with money from plunking down cold hard cash for the great performance offered by this board.
Overclocking
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an above average overclocker; I was able to run it with a 500MHz FSB stably, albeit with only a 7x multiplier. However, for most benchmarks, the best scores were obtained at 450x8 with the DDR3 memory running at 1800MHz data rate with a 8-8-8-24 timing.
In order to reach 3.6GHz, we took the following simple steps:
3.6GHz with a Core 2 Duo E6400 is nothing to sneeze at, and a stable 500MHz FSB is quite a good result. I know, there are some golden samples out there that will reach a higher FSB frequency, and I was able to POST and even get into Windows at somewhat higher speeds - but I do not report unstable results.
Conclusion
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an excellent motherboard, with the best DDR3 performance I’ve seen to date.
The benchmark results earlier in this article speak for themselves – in the vast majority of cases the P5E3 was at the top of the stock results, and almost always dominated the overclocked results.
Personally, I can hardly wait to see how this board will perform with future 45nm processors such as Penryn based 45nm dual and quad core processors!
DDR3 seems to come into its own above 1600MHz; at 1800MHz it finally has a performance edge over low latency 1066MHz DDR2 in the vast majority of the benchmarks – however, this does again drive home the discrepancy between the cost and performance of DDR3, because when you look at the costs of high performance low-latency DDR2 at 1066MHz, against the cost of DDR3 at 1800MHz, the price advantage still remains with DDR2.
Some aspects of this board could not yet be tested, as we do not currently have two PCIe 2.0 x16 Crossfire boards to test it with; however, as higher speed video cards come on line, we are likely to revisit this board to see how they will perform.
Here's the bottom line:
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is a very fast board, with excellent overclocking potential. Add to the mix the extensive PCIe 2.0 support, great SATAII transfer rates, and more I/O than you can shake a stick at - and it becomes an obvious choice for gamers and overclockers looking for a good high-end X38 DDR3 board. Really, the only 'flies in the ointment' for the P5E3 Deluxe WiFi are the poor IDE performance, and the expense of high-end DDR3 memory modules; neither of which will stop devoted enthusiasts with money from plunking down cold hard cash for the great performance offered by this board.
Overclocking
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an above average overclocker; I was able to run it with a 500MHz FSB stably, albeit with only a 7x multiplier. However, for most benchmarks, the best scores were obtained at 450x8 with the DDR3 memory running at 1800MHz data rate with a 8-8-8-24 timing.
In order to reach 3.6GHz, we took the following simple steps:
3.6GHz with a Core 2 Duo E6400 is nothing to sneeze at, and a stable 500MHz FSB is quite a good result. I know, there are some golden samples out there that will reach a higher FSB frequency, and I was able to POST and even get into Windows at somewhat higher speeds - but I do not report unstable results.
Conclusion
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an excellent motherboard, with the best DDR3 performance I’ve seen to date.
The benchmark results earlier in this article speak for themselves – in the vast majority of cases the P5E3 was at the top of the stock results, and almost always dominated the overclocked results.
Personally, I can hardly wait to see how this board will perform with future 45nm processors such as Penryn based 45nm dual and quad core processors!
DDR3 seems to come into its own above 1600MHz; at 1800MHz it finally has a performance edge over low latency 1066MHz DDR2 in the vast majority of the benchmarks – however, this does again drive home the discrepancy between the cost and performance of DDR3, because when you look at the costs of high performance low-latency DDR2 at 1066MHz, against the cost of DDR3 at 1800MHz, the price advantage still remains with DDR2.
Some aspects of this board could not yet be tested, as we do not currently have two PCIe 2.0 x16 Crossfire boards to test it with; however, as higher speed video cards come on line, we are likely to revisit this board to see how they will perform.
Here's the bottom line:
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is a very fast board, with excellent overclocking potential. Add to the mix the extensive PCIe 2.0 support, great SATAII transfer rates, and more I/O than you can shake a stick at - and it becomes an obvious choice for gamers and overclockers looking for a good high-end X38 DDR3 board. Really, the only 'flies in the ointment' for the P5E3 Deluxe WiFi are the poor IDE performance, and the expense of high-end DDR3 memory modules; neither of which will stop devoted enthusiasts with money from plunking down cold hard cash for the great performance offered by this board.
Overclocking
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an above average overclocker; I was able to run it with a 500MHz FSB stably, albeit with only a 7x multiplier. However, for most benchmarks, the best scores were obtained at 450x8 with the DDR3 memory running at 1800MHz data rate with a 8-8-8-24 timing.
In order to reach 3.6GHz, we took the following simple steps:
3.6GHz with a Core 2 Duo E6400 is nothing to sneeze at, and a stable 500MHz FSB is quite a good result. I know, there are some golden samples out there that will reach a higher FSB frequency, and I was able to POST and even get into Windows at somewhat higher speeds - but I do not report unstable results.
Conclusion
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an excellent motherboard, with the best DDR3 performance I’ve seen to date.
The benchmark results earlier in this article speak for themselves – in the vast majority of cases the P5E3 was at the top of the stock results, and almost always dominated the overclocked results.
Personally, I can hardly wait to see how this board will perform with future 45nm processors such as Penryn based 45nm dual and quad core processors!
DDR3 seems to come into its own above 1600MHz; at 1800MHz it finally has a performance edge over low latency 1066MHz DDR2 in the vast majority of the benchmarks – however, this does again drive home the discrepancy between the cost and performance of DDR3, because when you look at the costs of high performance low-latency DDR2 at 1066MHz, against the cost of DDR3 at 1800MHz, the price advantage still remains with DDR2.
Some aspects of this board could not yet be tested, as we do not currently have two PCIe 2.0 x16 Crossfire boards to test it with; however, as higher speed video cards come on line, we are likely to revisit this board to see how they will perform.
Here's the bottom line:
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is a very fast board, with excellent overclocking potential. Add to the mix the extensive PCIe 2.0 support, great SATAII transfer rates, and more I/O than you can shake a stick at - and it becomes an obvious choice for gamers and overclockers looking for a good high-end X38 DDR3 board. Really, the only 'flies in the ointment' for the P5E3 Deluxe WiFi are the poor IDE performance, and the expense of high-end DDR3 memory modules; neither of which will stop devoted enthusiasts with money from plunking down cold hard cash for the great performance offered by this board.
Overclocking
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an above average overclocker; I was able to run it with a 500MHz FSB stably, albeit with only a 7x multiplier. However, for most benchmarks, the best scores were obtained at 450x8 with the DDR3 memory running at 1800MHz data rate with a 8-8-8-24 timing.
In order to reach 3.6GHz, we took the following simple steps:
3.6GHz with a Core 2 Duo E6400 is nothing to sneeze at, and a stable 500MHz FSB is quite a good result. I know, there are some golden samples out there that will reach a higher FSB frequency, and I was able to POST and even get into Windows at somewhat higher speeds - but I do not report unstable results.
Conclusion
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an excellent motherboard, with the best DDR3 performance I’ve seen to date.
The benchmark results earlier in this article speak for themselves – in the vast majority of cases the P5E3 was at the top of the stock results, and almost always dominated the overclocked results.
Personally, I can hardly wait to see how this board will perform with future 45nm processors such as Penryn based 45nm dual and quad core processors!
DDR3 seems to come into its own above 1600MHz; at 1800MHz it finally has a performance edge over low latency 1066MHz DDR2 in the vast majority of the benchmarks – however, this does again drive home the discrepancy between the cost and performance of DDR3, because when you look at the costs of high performance low-latency DDR2 at 1066MHz, against the cost of DDR3 at 1800MHz, the price advantage still remains with DDR2.
Some aspects of this board could not yet be tested, as we do not currently have two PCIe 2.0 x16 Crossfire boards to test it with; however, as higher speed video cards come on line, we are likely to revisit this board to see how they will perform.
Here's the bottom line:
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is a very fast board, with excellent overclocking potential. Add to the mix the extensive PCIe 2.0 support, great SATAII transfer rates, and more I/O than you can shake a stick at - and it becomes an obvious choice for gamers and overclockers looking for a good high-end X38 DDR3 board. Really, the only 'flies in the ointment' for the P5E3 Deluxe WiFi are the poor IDE performance, and the expense of high-end DDR3 memory modules; neither of which will stop devoted enthusiasts with money from plunking down cold hard cash for the great performance offered by this board.
Overclocking
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an above average overclocker; I was able to run it with a 500MHz FSB stably, albeit with only a 7x multiplier. However, for most benchmarks, the best scores were obtained at 450x8 with the DDR3 memory running at 1800MHz data rate with a 8-8-8-24 timing.
In order to reach 3.6GHz, we took the following simple steps:
3.6GHz with a Core 2 Duo E6400 is nothing to sneeze at, and a stable 500MHz FSB is quite a good result. I know, there are some golden samples out there that will reach a higher FSB frequency, and I was able to POST and even get into Windows at somewhat higher speeds - but I do not report unstable results.
Conclusion
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is an excellent motherboard, with the best DDR3 performance I’ve seen to date.
The benchmark results earlier in this article speak for themselves – in the vast majority of cases the P5E3 was at the top of the stock results, and almost always dominated the overclocked results.
Personally, I can hardly wait to see how this board will perform with future 45nm processors such as Penryn based 45nm dual and quad core processors!
DDR3 seems to come into its own above 1600MHz; at 1800MHz it finally has a performance edge over low latency 1066MHz DDR2 in the vast majority of the benchmarks – however, this does again drive home the discrepancy between the cost and performance of DDR3, because when you look at the costs of high performance low-latency DDR2 at 1066MHz, against the cost of DDR3 at 1800MHz, the price advantage still remains with DDR2.
Some aspects of this board could not yet be tested, as we do not currently have two PCIe 2.0 x16 Crossfire boards to test it with; however, as higher speed video cards come on line, we are likely to revisit this board to see how they will perform.
Here's the bottom line:
The Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi is a very fast board, with excellent overclocking potential. Add to the mix the extensive PCIe 2.0 support, great SATAII transfer rates, and more I/O than you can shake a stick at - and it becomes an obvious choice for gamers and overclockers looking for a good high-end X38 DDR3 board. Really, the only 'flies in the ointment' for the P5E3 Deluxe WiFi are the poor IDE performance, and the expense of high-end DDR3 memory modules; neither of which will stop devoted enthusiasts with money from plunking down cold hard cash for the great performance offered by this board.
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