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Asus P4P800E Deluxe Intel Socket 478 Motherboard with AGP 8x, firewire and WiFi

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005 | Motherboard Reviews, Reviews

The ASUS P4P800E motherboard provides everything you could need from a motherboard. With this motherboard in place there is little that is lacking in building a powerful computer.

ASUS have a good reputation for their motherboards. Great quality and a whole host of extras contribute to the good name.

The details at a glance…

• Socket 478
• Intel Northbridge and Southbridge
• Supports 400MHz DDR RAM
• On-board 8 channel audio
• AGP 8x
• 4 SATA headers with RAID support
• WiFi (wireless network)

Basically this board has all the things I would ever want from a motherboard.

Personally I don’t go with neverending upgrades to the CPU processor in my computer. For what I do which is mostly multi-tasking lots of programs in Windows, I don’t need the power of the most up to date processors.

A motherboard upgrade offers all of the extras that you need for your computer.

I already had a Pentium 4 2.0GHz at home and wasn’t ready for anything newer. But I found that the motherboards on offer for the now slightly outdated Socket 478 had gained many new features over what I got on the board I first bought.

Full 800MHz bus supporting DDR 400 memory. My original board only supported 333MHz.

SATA gives the option of using much more up to date hard drives that are much bigger and easy setup of RAID arrays makes data protection easy.

Built in audio that has benefitted from a few years of advancement.

Other great extras are WiFi and firewire. Firewire is not used by everyone but is a very worthwhile extra to have, especially for video editing.

This is not the newest motherboard buy certainly offers what I need. There is also a model with similar specs available for Socket 775 which supports newer Pentium chips.

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