ASUS P5W DH DELUXE/WIFI-AP ATX Intel Motherboard

ASUS is reputated for its high quality products, especially motherboards, and the P5WDH Deluxe is not an exception. The Asus P5WDH Deluxe is based on Intel's 975 chipset, which supports Intel Core 2Extreme, Core 2Duo, Pentium 4EE, Pentium D, Pentium 4, CeleronD processors for Socket LGA775. It features 1066/800/533MHz FSB, dual-channel un-buffered DDR2 667/533/400 x 4DIMMs up to a maximum of 4GB. ASUS P5W DH Deluxe is specially designed for Gamers, Personal Workstation, SoHo, high-end and multi-tasking PC users. The Intel 975X is Intel most high-end desktop chipset designed to support Intel next generation CPU, ATI CrossFire Graphics, maximum 8GB dual-channel DDR2 800/667/533 architecture, 1066/800 FSB (front-side-bus). Easily build an entertainment PC or create a multimedia environment with its exceptionally high bandwidth. Together with the Serial ATA ports enabled through the SATA 3Gb/s RAID controller integrated in the ICH7R Southbridge, the Intel 975X satisfies multi-task processing and data security.

The main features are:

Intel Quad-core CPU Ready

LGA775 socket for Intel Core2 Duo,

Core2 ExtremeIntel 975X +Intel ICH7R 1066/800MHz

Dual-channel DDR2 800/667/ 533 max 8GB2 x PCI-E x 16 / 2 x PCI-E x 1/ 3 x PCI Support ATI CrossFire graphics cards

Intel Matrix Storage technology

Dual Gigabit LAN

Dolby Master Studio technology

ASUS EZ-Backup

ASUS Digital Home features

LGA775 Intel Quad-core Processor Ready

Intel 65nm Dual-Core CPU support

IntelMPT (Intel Memory Pipeline Technology)

ATI CrossFire Technology

ASUS EZ-Backup

Asus DH RemoteASUS WiFi-AP Solo

ASUS MP3-In

ASUS Q-Connector Stack Cool 2

8 Phase Power Design Fanless Design: Heat-pipe Thermal solution

ASUS two-slot thermal design (ASUS exclusive)DDR2 800 SupportASUS Hyper Path3

Bytesizedreviews.com] has a 3-page review, which simply introduces the motherboard layout, and focuses on the test performance of the motherboard and its overclockability. [Bytesizedreviews.com] Asus has once again produced an excellent enthusiast motherboard that's great for overclocking Intel's latest and greatest. While we don't have much here to make a comparison with, we're confident that the Asus should be on your short list if you're intending to upgrade to Conroe. The board layout is good if not perfect, the overclocking features are plenty and the package is full of nice surprises such as the remote control....more

CDRinfo.com has a detailed review on BIOS, installation, test performance (3D Mark, F.E.A.R and etc), overclockability of the motherboard. [CDRinfo.com] Asus has a well established name in motherboards for both Intel and AMD platforms. The Asus P5W DH Deluxe board has been on the market for quite a while and we finally had the opportunity to test and compared it with other, latest release Asus boards for the Core2Duo platform. So how does the "older" Asus P5W DH Deluxe stack up against the newer P5B Deluxe and P5W64WS Pro motherboards? Let's find out... more

Diefferent from CDRinfo.com, [Sg.vr-zone.com]'s review puts more attention on details of the motherboard, e.g. the storage and sound, accessories and etc. [Sg.vr-zone.com] A glimpse of what can be found on the bottom right corner of the mainboard. As you can see in the picture above, there is only 3 ports available to the ICH7R Controller, with one port being replicated to two via the Silicon Image 4732 Steelvine Storage Processor, which is a pure hardware RAID implementation that will not take up additional CPU resources. Asus' has modified the BIOS of the Steelvine as such that users can only run RAID 0 or 1 on it via jumpers on top of the ICH7R SATA ports as pictured above. You will be able to perform Cross-RAID with the SATA ports on ICH7R via this controller....more