Asus Offers What May Be the Perfect Motherboard for the Intel Crowd - Assembly and Testing
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We tested the P5Q by installing an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 (45-nm, 12MB Level
2 cache, 8.5x1,333MHz; 2.83GHz) and then tried the motherboard out with various
RAM configurations. First, we tried the
system using four 1GB DDR2 800MHz modules
from Corsair and experienced no problems whatsoever. We then tested the unit
with a pair of 2GB DDR2 1066MHz modules from
Crucial Technology and experienced a slight speed increase, with no impact on
reliability. We also tested the P5Q with four 1GB 1066MHz modules from Kingston
Technology.
With the BIOS DRAM (dynamic RAM) frequency setting configured as Auto, all of the tested RAM
performed flawlessly. Once we started changing the DRAM frequency settings to try to overclock the memory, we ran into some problems,
such as system lockups or random blue screens.
Although the P5Q does support overclocking of the various components, we
would recommend that system builders shy away from any overclocking to avoid
any of the problems we encountered by trying to push the components beyond
their advertised limits.
All things considered, Asus has put together an
excellent board with the P5Q, and most any system builder will be well served by
the board's functionality, reliability and support from Asus.
