ASUS P5N-E SLI Motherboard Review
By Gabriel Torres on June 11, 2007 Page 3 of 9

Main Features

Hardware Secrets Golden AwardASUS P5N-E SLI main features are:

  • Socket: 775.
  • Chipset: nVidia nForce 650i.
  • Super I/O: ITE IT8718F-S
  • Parallel IDE: Two ATA-133 ports controlled by the south bridge chip.
  • Serial IDE: Four SATA-300 ports controlled by the south bridge chip, supporting RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 and JBOD and one eSATA port controlled by JMicron JMB360 chip.
  • USB: Eight USB 2.0 ports (four soldered on the motherboard and four available thru 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 VIA VT6308 chip.
  • On-board audio: Produced by the chipset together with Realtek ALC883 codec (eight channels, 24-bit resolution, up to 96 KHz sampling rate for the inputs and up to 192 KHz sampling rate for the outputs, 85 dB signal-to-noise ratio for the inputs and 95 dB signal-to-noise ratio for the outputs).
  • On-board video: No.
  • On-board LAN: One Gigabit Ethernet port controlled by the chipset together with one Marvell 88E1116 chip.
  • Buzzer: No.
  • Power supply: ATX12V 2.x (24-pin).
  • Slots: Two x16 PCI Express slots (SLI at x8), one x1 PCI Express slot and two PCI slots.
  • Memory: Four DDR-DIMM sockets (up to 8 GB up to DDR2-800/PC2-6400).
  • Number of CDs that come with this motherboard: Two.
  • Programs that come with this motherboard: Drivers, utilities, Norton Internet Security, Corel Snapfire 11 SE and Intervideo DVD Copy 5 Trial.
  • Extra features: Q-Connector for the case frontal connectors.
  • More Information: http://www.asus.com
  • Average price in the US*: USD 138.00

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


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