The best one from category 2, the Asus P5K Deluxe sports the latest Intel P35 Express chipset and Asus P5K Deluxe the LGA775 and socket that supports Intel Core 2 Quad, Core2 Extreme, Core2 Duo, Pentium D, and Pentium 4 Processors and also has the support for the next gener¬ation 45 nm multi-core CPU technology. This motherboard supports FSB 1333/1066/800, and its chipset officially supports dual-channel D D R2 memory that fea¬tures data transfer rates of 800/667/533 MHz to meet the higher bandwidth requirement of the latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications.

Apart from all the specs this motherboard also has on offer some eye candy too: its shiny copper silent heat pipe design adds some neat looks and performance to it. This motherboard has 2 PCI-E x16 which supports SLI technology and 2 PCI- E xl slots that can be used for further expantion. This motherboard has Dual chip SATA and 2 External e-SATA 3.0 Gb/s port which supports RAID 0, 1. The Asus P5K Deluxe has Dual Gigabit LAN con¬troller and if you like to be wirefree, then it also has on¬board WiFi too that supports 54 Mbps IEEE 802.11 band backwards compatible with 11 Mbps IEEEE 802.11 b.

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In PCMark05 it scored 5659 PC marks that was the best score in this category of boards. Asus P5K Delux gave an outstanding performance scoring 5570 in PC¬Mark05, the second best score for this test and it scored 8181 3DMarks in our 3DMark06 test which is impressive, also it performed really well in our other tests too. So seeing the perform¬ance that it gave over all shows and answers very well why this motherboard deserves to bet the top one for this category.