asus p5e-vm hdmi Reviews

It's official: People who buy motherboards with mainstream chipsets such as the P45 don't want to pay for DDR3. At least, that's what it seems like to us. Asus's impressive Maximus II Formula is the third P45-based board we've tested, and not one of ...

Tons of SATA ports, some X-Fi support, an eye-pleasing color scheme

Pricey ; we couldn't enable the EAX4 modes

In hardware features, it's close, but we give the edge to the MIIF, with its eight SATA ports and superior audio. We also prefer its ADI-based codecs and drivers over Realtek's. We've been worried about ADI software support since the company quit the ...

Motherboard naming conventions have never been easy to follow, but Asus threw us for a loop with its P5E3 Premium board. Is it an even better version of the stellar P5E3 Deluxe that we reviewed in January? Nope. The board actually features Intel's ...

Official 1,600FSB support, eSATA, and 802.11n for free

Flaky BIOS problems and no SLI

Also aboard is the Express Gate feature. It lets you boot into a mini OS that sits in a bit of flash RAM on the motherboard. From this pre-boot environment, you can browse the Internet or access Skype without having to start your OS. It's an ...

The ASUS P5E3 Premium/WiFi-AP @n is an Intel X48 chipset-based motherboard that combines performance with great energy efficiency. It supports DDR3 2000MHz dual-channel memory architecture and Dual PCI Express 2.0 x16 lanes for ATI CrossFire graphics ...

So, when it comes down to it, is the Asus P5E3 Premium a board that you should be looking at? Does it fit your situation? Let's take it through the process..