Asus P5WD2 Premium Desktop Motherboard - Intel 955X Chipset - Socket T LGA-775

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Description:

This motherboard supports the latest Pentium 4 CPU from Intel in LGA775 package. With 1066/ 800/ 533MHz FSB, 1MB L2 cache, Hyper-Threading Technology and core-speeds up to 3.6GHz and beyond, Intel's LGA775 Pentium 4 is one of the fastest desktop processors to date.

Quick Glance

Supported Processor: Pentium 4 (Extreme Edition), Pentium 4, Pentium D, Celeron D

Interface Connection: Parallel Port Yes, Audio Line In Yes, Audio Line Out Yes, Microphone Port Yes, S/PDIF Yes, Network (RJ-45) Yes

System Board Style: ATX

# of Memory Slots: 4

Processor Socket: Socket T LGA-775

System Chipset: Intel 955X

Memory Technology: DDR2 SDRAM

Multi GPU Support: ATI CrossFire Compatible

# of PCI-e x16 Slots: 2

Summary

Product Title: Asus P5WD2 Premium Desktop Motherboard - Intel 955X Chipset - Socket T LGA-775

Manufacturer: Asus

Power Score: 4.1 | 11 Reviews

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Product Reviews (11)

Fantastic motherboard!

Strengths: Stable, powerful, good price, dual GigaBit LAN, dual-core support, and SATA as IDE.

Weakness: Heat.

For the most part this is a fantastic motherboard. I had no problems installing it and adding components to it. I really like the feature where SATA drives can appear to be IDE drives. That features helps a lot when installing Windows being that you don't have to specify additional drivers for those drives. Having a dual-core processor helps a lot with the amount of stress I put on it. Also...
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By Luke Spragg - Jul 29, 2006

good MB so far

Strengths: Great features and good price

Weakness: over heat and some problems with sound card

It is a great MB and if you know what you are doing you can get plenty more from it but you have to try to control the CPU heat but for that, as is expected, now you can buy some good fans that will reduce this some 20 C that will help wen you try to do multi task especially when you like to edit videos wile you chat or surf the internet. And wen you install windows XP media center edition it...
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By jfspdlg - Jun 17, 2006

I have this board with PC2 800 Mhz...

Strengths: FAST ! Easy to setup and use

Weakness: AI booster doesnt really do anything, runs a little hot.

I have this board with PC2 800 Mhz ram and a intel 930. I have OC this to 1066FSB, no probs, and then 3.15 Ghz with no probs. Great board if u know what you what u are doing, not for the beginners.

By Aegiscrash; - Apr 25, 2006

Great !! Asus P5WD2 Premium Motherboard

Strengths: Awesome MB Working Stable no problem..

Weakness: so far no problem..

Since like i have this MB first time, everything working prefect!! no problem for me. I do a lot multi tasking program & gaming, i will recommend this MB to other user.

By shen1238 - Jan 24, 2006

Asus P5WD2 Premium Motherboard a pain to install!

Strengths: Fantastic feature set (DDR2, Firewire, 2-GigaBit LAN, PCI-E, USB2, SATA, RAID, IDE, etc)!

Weakness: Poor install documentation! Lame technical support! StackCool2 does nothing (for me)!

I have had this for about a month now, and am very happy with its performance, with one exception! The CPU core temperature is outrageous, much worse than what I had in my P5P800 MB. Same CPU, different MB, but about +20 degrees C higher! Heck, the specs on the MB state there is a StackCool2 on the back of the motherboard which is supposed to dissipate 20 degrees C by itself! Ha!

I was also disappointed with the documentation during the install process. The manual should have been more explicit saying that you pretty much need to install your windows XP onto a SATA drive. I was trying to do this on an IDE drive, but you needed to install a driver during the install in order to make the IDE visible. And these IDEs are Asus add-ons, so are not visible by the BIOS. I have no problem with this, HAD THEY JUST EXPLAINED THIS up front! It took hours going thru the asus forum before finally figuring it out. Why didn't they put this sort of information on the FAQ for the board? Just read their forum and you will find a ton of folks with the same problem. Plus its a pain (if not impossible) to get any tech support. They are just relying on the extremely helpful users out there to bail them out! And on top of this, their server is oftentimes busy and you cannot even get to their support site. TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE!!

Okay, enough of the negatives. I love the board performance wise, and it does everything I need, plus provides an excellent upgrade path. Feature set is pretty much top-of-the-line. That is why I am giving it 4/5 stars. Was tempted to knock it down one more level due to my complaints highlighed above! ;-)

Note that if you are interested in the Wi-Fi TV Edition, you will be hard pressed to find it anywhere. They might have even discontinued it.

UPDATE on 1/6/06. After having this for another month, my rating has now dropped a couple of notches! It has proven unstable, no matter what settings I apply in the BIOS. One big one is that during bootup, just after memory test and before identifying all the drives/devices installed, it just hangs from 10-seconds up to 20-minutes!! You can go to the ASUS forum and read lots of complaints about this issue. Meanwhile, ASUS has done nothing to address it! Their customer service is absolute awful. Never will I buy an ASUS product again!!

UPDATE on 3/8/06. Well, with no help from Asus, but lots of help from the forumns at the ASUS support web-site, I found the bootup problem. Apparently, by attaching my Antec PSU fan monitor cable to the motherboard, the slow boots would occur. Not sure if its a problem with the PSU unit (would surprise me, as Antec has a great reputation) or the BIOS not dealing with this properly. So, I just unplugged it, and stopped monitoring the PSU Fan RPM in the BIOS, and ouila, the slow boots stopped. So, I've bumped my review back up one star! Still, terrible tech support from Asus. They should monitor and contribute to their forums!

By SDTechDeals - Dec 8, 2005

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