ASUS P5B Premium Vista Edition Motherboard Review

Main Specifications

ASUS P5B Premium Vista Edition main features are:

• Socket: 775.
• Chipset: Intel P965 Express.
• Super I/O: Winbond W83627DHG
• Clock Generator: Cypress CY28551LFXC
• Parallel IDE: One ATA-133 port controlled by JMicron JMB363 chip.
• Serial IDE: Six SATA-300 ports controlled by the south bridge chip, supporting RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 plus one SATA-300 and one eSATA port controlled by JMicron JMB363 chip.
• USB: Eight USB 2.0 ports (four soldered on the motherboard and four available through I/O brackets. This motherboard came with a bracket with two ports, so two ports are left over).
• FireWire (IEEE 1394a): Two ports controlled by Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A chip, one soldered on the motherboard and another available through an I/O bracket that comes with the motherboard.
• On-board audio: Produced by the chipset together with Analog Devices AD1988B codec (eight channels, 24-bit resolution, up to 192 kHz sampling rate for both inputs and outputs, 92 dB signal-to-noise ratio for the inputs and 101 dB signal-to-noise ratio for the outputs).
• On-board video: No.
• On-board LAN: Two Gigabit Ethernet ports, one controlled by a Marvell 88E8056 chip connected to one PCI Express x1 bus and the other controlled by a Marvell 88E8001 chip connected to the standard PCI bus.
• Buzzer: No.
• Power supply: ATX12V 2.x (24-pin), EPS12V optional.
• Slots: Two x16 PCI Express slots supporting CrossFire (one of them, black, working at x4), one x1 PCI Express slot and three PCI slots.
• Memory: Four DDR-DIMM sockets (up to 8 GB up to DDR2-1066/PC2-8500).
• Number of CDs that come with this motherboard: Two.
• Programs included: Drivers and utilities.
• Extra features: Passive cooling, Q-Connector for the case frontal connectors, array microphone, remote control (AI Remote), LCD display (ScreenDuo), on-board flash drive for ReadyBoost (32 MB controlled by Phison PS2135 chip) and TPM connector (TPM module does not come with the motherboard).
• More Information: https://www.asus.com
• Average price in the US*: USD 250.00

* Researched at Shopping.com on the day we published this review.