Asus P5WD2-E Premium Intel Socket 775 ATX Motherboard / Audio / PCI Express / Crossfire Ready / Dual Gigabit LAN / S/PDIF / USB 2.0 / Serial ATA / RAIDItem#: A455-1088  |  Model#: P5WD2EPREMIUM

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Asus P5WD2-E Premium Product Details

AI Life Series
Lifestyle To Personal Computing

AI Life Series motherboards bring lifestyle and personal computing together. They entertain you with TV, radio and Dolby support, and link you to the rest of the world via wireless connection(WiFi-TV bundle edition only). To create a peaceful environment, several new and improved innovations are also included to reduce noise and temperature. Don't change your way of life for a computer. Instead let the ASUS Life Series improve the quality of your life.

AI Quiet
With PCs serving as the entertainment centerpiece and playing a bigger role in our lives, quiet operation is in high demand. No one wants to hear the cooling fan spinning when watching a movie or listening to music. The ASUS AI Quiet function dynamically controls CPU speed and reduces temperature and fan speeds when peace and quiet are what you desire.
Stack Cool 2
Stack Cool 2 is a fan-less and zero-noise cooling solution. It effectively transfers heat generated by the critical components to the other side of the specially designed PCB (printed circuit board) for effective heat dissipation.
SATA on the Go (External SATA port on back I/O)
The external SATA ports located at the back I/O provide smart setup, hot-plug and support up to 16 devices with port-multiplier functions. Easily backup photos, videos and other entertainment contents on external devices.
Intel® MPT (Intel® Memory Pipeline Technology)
The Intel® Memory Pipeline Technology (Intel MPT) delivers additional system-level performance by optimizing memory access between CPU and system memory, and allows increased performance at standard operating specifications.

ATI CrossFire Technology
ATI's CrossFire boosts image quality along with rendering speed, eliminating the need to crank down screen resolutions to get the high image quality you want. CrossFire ignites with the higher antialiasing, anisotropic filtering, shading, and texture settings you desire. Adjust your display configurations, experiment with your advanced 3D settings, and check the effect with a real-time 3D-rendered preview within ATI's Catalyst™ Control Center to rule your CrossFire system.


A Closer Look

Socket
This motherboard features a Socket 775
design. The Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) style socket makes it easy to install and upgrade your processor.

Chipset
The P5WD2-E Premium motherboard is based on the Intel 975X Northbridge chipset and the Intel ICH7R Southbridge chipset. It supports Intel Pentium Extreme Edition and Pentium D Processors, with Hyper-Threading Technology and 533/800/1066MHz Front Side Bus support.

Memory Expansion
The P5WD2-E Premium provides 4 DIMM sockets using Dual Channel 240-pin DDR2 with a total capacity of up to 4GB. You can install DDR2 533/667/800MHz Memory.

PCI Express Support
The P5WD2-E Premium fully supports PCI Express, the latest I/O interconnect technology that speeds up the PCI bus. PCI Express features point-to-point serial interconnections between devices and allows higher clockspeeds by carrying data in packets. This high-speed interface is software compatible with existing PCI specifications. This board includes a Univrsal PCI-E (max. x2 speed).

IDE
The P5WD2-E Premium includes built in IDE facilities that support Ultra DMA 33/66/100 and Ultra DMA 66/100/133.
Audio
The P5WD2-E Premium comes with a Realtek ALC882M audio codec which supports high quality 8-channel audio.

Serial ATA RAID Support
The P5WD2-E Premium supports the Serial ATA technology through the Serial ATA interfaces. Doubles bus bandwidth which provides blazingly high disk performance, up to 3.0Gb/s, with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support. (Note: The SATA RAID4 connector and External SATA port can not be used simultaneously)


What's Included


  • Asus P5WD2-E Premium Intel Socket 775 ATX Motherboard
  • User's Msnual
  • InterVideo® WinDVD Suite (OEM version)
  • IEEE1394a port module
  • SATA cables
  • SATA power cable for 6 devices
  • 2-port USB2.0 / Game module
  • COM Port module
  • UltraDMA 133/100/66 cable
  • IDE cable
  • FDD cable
  • I/O Back Panel Shield

Specifications

Motherboard Specifications
Processor Interface Socket 775
Form Factor ATX
Processors Supported Intel Pentium D
  Intel Pentium XE
Additional Technologies HyperThreading Technology
Front Side Bus 533MHz
  800MHz
  1066MHz
Chipset
Northbridge Intel 975X
Southbridge Intel ICH7R
Memory
Memory Supported 533MHz DDR2
  667MHz DDR2
  800MHz DDR2
Number of Pins 240-Pin
Maximum Memory Supported 4GB - 32bit
Number of Slots 4
Audio
Channels 8 Channels
Audio Chipset Realtek ALC882M
LAN
LAN Type 10/100 Mbps
I/O Ports
PS/2 Keyboard Connectors 1
PS/2 Mouse Connectors 1
Parallel Ports 1
USB Ports (Total) 8
LAN Ports 2
Audio Out Jacks 1
IDE Headers 1
FDD Headers 1
Serial ATA Headers 8
  1 - External
ATX Power Connectors 1 24-Pin Connector
PC Power Connectors 1
S/PDIF Connectors 2
Expansion Slots
PCI Slots 3
PCI Express X1 Slots 1
PCI Express X16 Slots 2

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Reviewer:
BartholomewFatima
Date:
Mar 02, 2006

This card is the best card I've ever seen since the A8N-SLI I had a while back. Everything works fine on it and I just seem to get in love with the Dolby Digital Output Sound (SPDIF only). The Marvell Chipset on the card is a little tricky because the drivers on the CD doesn't work with it (You get an Error and can't install the drivers) so if you don't install them you can't see what on your Chipset (PATA or SATA connected devices) but if you go to Asus.com and download the latest drivers for it, everything works just fine after that !! The legendary Asus stability, the AC'97 (Realtek High Definition Audio) onboard soundcard and the versatility of this board makes it a must have for Intel User these days... (Oh yeah !! This card does the Crossfire from ATI too but not with ATI chipset but with Intel chipset and that's cool !!!)

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    Mfg Part No: P5WD2EPREMIUM
    UPC No: 610839134519
    Box Size: ( Length: 13, Width: 10, Depth: 3 )
    Shipping Weight: 3.2500 pound(s)
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