ASUS P5E3 Deluxe: X38 and DDR3 arrives... almost
by Gary Key on September 18, 2007 4:00 AM EST- Posted in
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ASUS P5E3 Deluxe Additional Features
WiFi
ASUS includes their standard WiFi-AP applet for configuration of the wireless connection. Our initial testing with the board's Draft N capabilities was very good with general compatibility across a wide range of routers. However, we will wait on final production hardware and software before passing judgment on this feature.
Audio
Audio duties are left to the Analog Devices 1988B codec that ASUS has used extensively over the past year in their Deluxe and Premium boards. The move to Windows Vista has allowed ADI to introduce Sonic Focus's Blackhawk - for SoundMAX technology. This technology encompasses the full suite of Sonic Focus's PC audio technologies, including their Adaptive Dynamics, Extrapolator, and X-Matrix processes.
We will have full details and benchmarks in an upcoming audio article, but to put it simply, this program suite allows the user optimize the quality of compressed audio streams from a wide variety of sources. Our subjective opinion is that it works, and works very well for an integrated audio solution and provides sound quality that easily exceeds the current Realtek offerings.
The above screenshots represent a sampling of the control panel and configuration settings available within the BlackHawk audio suite.
WiFi
ASUS includes their standard WiFi-AP applet for configuration of the wireless connection. Our initial testing with the board's Draft N capabilities was very good with general compatibility across a wide range of routers. However, we will wait on final production hardware and software before passing judgment on this feature.
Audio
Audio duties are left to the Analog Devices 1988B codec that ASUS has used extensively over the past year in their Deluxe and Premium boards. The move to Windows Vista has allowed ADI to introduce Sonic Focus's Blackhawk - for SoundMAX technology. This technology encompasses the full suite of Sonic Focus's PC audio technologies, including their Adaptive Dynamics, Extrapolator, and X-Matrix processes.
We will have full details and benchmarks in an upcoming audio article, but to put it simply, this program suite allows the user optimize the quality of compressed audio streams from a wide variety of sources. Our subjective opinion is that it works, and works very well for an integrated audio solution and provides sound quality that easily exceeds the current Realtek offerings.
The above screenshots represent a sampling of the control panel and configuration settings available within the BlackHawk audio suite.
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tiggerjedi - Saturday, December 15, 2007 - link
Can you use DDR2 on the P5E3 Deluxe too or are you restricted to using only DDR3 with this motherboard?Deusfaux - Friday, September 21, 2007 - link
Something with features like the remote?chipsetguy - Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - link
Some notes on Bearlake-XIt has 2 Gen2 (5Gbps) x16 PCIE slots - 32 lanes off of the north-bridge
There are of course the 1x4 (or 4 x1's) on the south bridge - these are gen1. (ICH9)
There is a hardware prefetcher to help decrease memory latency (CPU -> DRAM reads)
It natively will support 1600/1600 (X48 version).
Support for new 45nm CPU's (single quad core)
With new DDR3 already at 1800Mhz, its going to really fly!
chipsetguy - Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - link
Guys - all a G35 is a re-packaged 965p - with support for fsb 1333. You guys are funny.8steve8 - Monday, September 24, 2007 - link
the g35 is not a rehashed g33 or g965your statement is false or at least misleading..
chipsetguy - Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - link
My bad - is a G965. Of course it has internal graphics... My bad.Jodiuh - Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - link
"...but then again we do not express any love for several board manufacturers who tend to use the entire Crayola color palette on their boards."THANK YOU!! I sincerely hope the hippies @ Gigacolor hear about/read this. What is so hard about using 3 colors like the DFI Dark, eh?
Jod
457R4LDR34DKN07 - Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - link
Where is the Maximus Formula SE/Xtreame? The only thing this has really got going for it is eSata.Gary Key - Wednesday, September 19, 2007 - link
The R.O.G. boards will probably be released in November. ASUS is trying to pull the date in but we do not have a final schedule, yet.larson0699 - Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - link
What about disabling prefetch/superfetch, if not also a few services?