Thread: Asus p5gd2 premium wireless edition motherboard.

CPU board producers haven't wasted much time in carrying out Intel's most recent conventional chipset, the i915. The newly chipset brings defend for several newly technologies with it; PCI Express graphics and expansion slots, DDR2 storage and Intel's newly socket for the Pentium 4, the 775-pin Socket T.

The newly socket is a radical difference from the previous 478-pin 1, as the pins are no longer on the back of processor but are instantly component of the socket itself, so you have to take a bit more care when installing and removing any processor.

With the P5GD2 Premium Wireless, Asus has assumed the chipset and contributed all bar the kitchen sink to it, creating it 1 of the most characteristic-rich boards we have



assured. There is so much constructed onto the board that 1 of the LAN connections has to be provided on an expansion plate, as there is no free space left on the board for it.

To afford you an idea of what the board defends, you acquire triple RAID array defend, 1 for ATA, 2 for SATA; onboard Wireless LAN; double Gigabit LAN and the most recent edition of FireWire, FireWire 800. If this wasn't plenty there is a totally host of Asus utilities, plus the largest bundle of bits in a CPU board box you are probably to check.

1 of the major troubles with Intel's Prescott processor is the quantity of heat generated by it and Asus has accepted stairs with the P5GD2 to try to minimise the troubles. If you turn the board over you will notice the little PCB which is piled against the main PCB.