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ASUS Asus P5N-E SLI

83

Very Good
  • Pros
  • Rear panel eSATA port
  • Cons
  • Rear-panel breakout required for 7.1 analog audio
Performance
PricingAverage $149 (1/22/07)
PerformanceVery Good: 83
WorldBench 5 overall scoreVery Good: 153
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Multitasking 291
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Far Cry 1024 by 768, 32-bit (with antialiasing)154
Far Cry 1280 by 1024, 32-bit (with antialiasing)110
FeaturesVery Good: 83
Chip setnVidia nForce 650i SLI chip set
RAM sockets4
Maximum installable RAM8GB
Memory typeDDR2 800
Expansion slots2 PCIe x16, 1 PCIe x1, 2 PCI
Dual-graphics supportSLI dual-graphics support (8X)
Storage connectors4 SATA, 2 PATA ports
RAID support0, 1, 5, 10
Back-panel USB ports4
Back-panel FireWire ports1
Back-panel eSATA ports1
Ports on bundled brackets2 USB
USB ports on optional breakout panels4
FireWire ports on optional breakout panels1
Back-panel legacy ports2 PS/2, 1 parallel
Gigabit ethernet adapters 1
7.1-channel (192-kHz/24-bit) integrated audio chip Realtek 883 (board's analog ports only provide 5.1 channel sound)
Back-panel digital audio connectionsCoaxial out
Parts/labor warranty (years) Three/Three
Weekday support hours15.5
Weekend support hours9
Toll-free support No
DesignVery Good: 85
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User Reviews for ASUS Asus P5N-E SLI

  • Reviewed by: dp4900

    Duration of ownership: 3 Months

    Strengths: Not sure

    Weaknesses: Does not allow overclocking, frequent freezing and restarts for no obvious reasons. SLI .... and so what???

    Overall Evaluation: I got this motherboard for the reason of having 2 IDE's. But unfortunately it is very poor. I thought my problems were from some other components and for 3 months, I have been doing nothing but changing swapping etc... I took the PC back to the vendor and he discovered the freezing is coming from the MB after he put his own HW. He replaced it and I still see the freezing happening from time to time and now that I saw many other forums it sounds like a "feature" in this motherboard. HAve to live with it. 2 IDE's is a big disaster. I tried few weeks setting 2 HDD on the primary IDE finally gave up. Very disappointed with it my old ASrock was even better. I thought behind the name Asus was something reliable and quality but I fully disagree do not buy this board.

  • Reviewed by: allenp

    Duration of ownership:

    Strengths: No install problems.

    Weaknesses: Support. Unexplained e-sata problems

    Overall Evaluation: Have problems attaching e-sata drive. Hangs system. Must reboot with drive attached. Also get garbled desktop when backing up to e-sata drive. Could be Vista problems.Their website seems to be running on a Commodore 64 and manned by 1 person. Good luck downloading drivers!

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