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Two Asus P45 motherboards pixelized

by on25 April 2008

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Many more models to come

Matbe has scored some high resolution pictures of two upcoming P45-based motherboards from Asus, the P5Q-E and the P5Q Pro. The two boards are quite different and the P5Q-E appears to be the higher-end model of the two, although neither is a top-of-the-range model.

The P5Q-E features some rather fancy heatpipe cooling, eight-phase power regulation, three x16 PCIe slots, although the last one will only have x4 bandwidth with the other two sharing 16 lanes for dual x8 action. There's also two x1 PCIe slots and two PCI slots, eight SATA ports and one eSATA port, one rear FireWire port with a header for a second one, six rear USB 2.0 ports with headers for another four, dual Gigabit Ethernet, one PS/2 port, 7.1-channel audio jacks and optical and coaxial S/PDIF out. Finally, this board also features a power and reset button and Asus's EPU.

The P5Q Pro, on the other hand, has a much more basic chipset cooling setup with only a single heatpipe, but it retains the eight-phase PWM. This board has a pair of x16 slots which will operate in dual x8 mode when both are used for CrossFireX, it also has three x1 PCIe slots and two PCI slots. We're not quite sure about the rear ports on this board, but it might have a pair of PS/2 ports, six USB 2.0 ports with headers for another six, Gigabit Ethernet, one FireWire port around the back and a header for a second one and 7.1-channel audio with coaxial S/PDIF. Finally, the board also has eight SATA ports.

Both boards use DDR2 memory and the P5Q-E looks like it will come in a WiFi model as well, as there's a space for one of Asus' USB WiFi cards just above the top x1 PCIe slot. Now we're just waiting for pictures of the remaining Asus P5Q boards, which includes the plain vanilla P5Q, the P5Q3 Deluxe, the P5Q-SE R, the P5Q WS which is a workstation board, the P5QC, the P5Q-EM HDMI which should be a G45 board, the P5QL which we'd say is a P43 board along with the P5QL Pro and the P5QL-E, and finally we have the P5QL-EM HDMI which should be a G43 board.

You can check out the pictures here  
Last modified on 25 April 2008
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