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flyboy said:NO.
Unless the following doesn't bother you.
Onboard audio doesn't work worth beans. Popping, hissing and distortion. Doesn't work well with MS drivers or the SoundMax drivers. Lots of people having this issue and when I called ASUS, they acted like they had never heard about it before and I was the first to report the problem.
Sometimes it doesn't recognize USB devices and or keyboard. Especially when going into BIOS. Enter BIOS and can't do anything. Have to reboot and try again.
Jmicron drivers suck and really slow down the OS. Don't install them.
Sometimes takes 2-3 pushes of the front button to start system. Rare but it does happen and for no apparent reason.
Slow boot up even without Jmicron drivers installed.
Vista 64-bit takes 40-45 seconds to boot from cold start to login. I have a Dell at work that has half the ram and older cpu that will boot in 30 seconds or less with Vista 64-bit. Mine is suppose to be a hot machine! Hahaha.....
It does run Intel Matrix Raid - but I've had it get corrupted once - not sure what caused the issue, but had to rebuild the raid.
Some folks reporting issues with WiFi. Lots of other issues as well - search the web....
If I had to do over, I would steer clear and go for something else. IMOP too expensive for what you get. Audio ****es me off.
Do you have a optical IDE that is using Jmicron. IF you do what mode is it inRattle said:I have had 2 p5b-d's the first rev and 1.03g
I have had DS3, DQ6, biostar T965, Asus p5n32-e sli plus and a P5w dh deluxe from asus also.
favorite is the p5b-deluxe, second favorite is the p5w dh
I dont have any problems or qurkiness whatsoever with anything, the only thing I dont like is the IDE channel on Jmicron which is taken care of by a sata rim and then you can disable it. If you just have IDE roms or HDD then you dont even need a driver. I dont get slow boot with it enabled regardless.
Onboard audio is pretty much crap on every board, get a sound card or USB audio headset with DSP and thats taken care of.
Are you happy with your optical drive performance with IDEdfonda said:I like it alot.
Had an x-fi
Don't use raid.
No other problems whatsoever.
flyboy said:NO.
Unless the following doesn't bother you.
Onboard audio doesn't work worth beans. Popping, hissing and distortion. Doesn't work well with MS drivers or the SoundMax drivers. Lots of people having this issue and when I called ASUS, they acted like they had never heard about it before and I was the first to report the problem.
Sometimes it doesn't recognize USB devices and or keyboard. Especially when going into BIOS. Enter BIOS and can't do anything. Have to reboot and try again.
Jmicron drivers suck and really slow down the OS. Don't install them.
Sometimes takes 2-3 pushes of the front button to start system. Rare but it does happen and for no apparent reason.
Slow boot up even without Jmicron drivers installed.
Vista 64-bit takes 40-45 seconds to boot from cold start to login. I have a Dell at work that has half the ram and older cpu that will boot in 30 seconds or less with Vista 64-bit. Mine is suppose to be a hot machine! Hahaha.....
It does run Intel Matrix Raid - but I've had it get corrupted once - not sure what caused the issue, but had to rebuild the raid.
Some folks reporting issues with WiFi. Lots of other issues as well - search the web....
If I had to do over, I would steer clear and go for something else. IMOP too expensive for what you get. Audio ****es me off.
MadMan007 said:P5B-deluxe: I like mine and have had pretty much no problems. Supposedly the early on-board audio drivers weren't great but the newer ones worked fine for me (by the time I got the board they were the current ones) when I used them for a while, then I got an x-fi. It's better than RealTek chips which have known serious issues with EAX.
If you have the JMicron enabled for PATA, yes it does slow booting by a whopping 5 seconds if you don't press a button to continue. No big deal, how often do you boot, once a day?
As for the JMicron performance in SATA and PATA:
http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/asus-c2d/index.x?pg=13
http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2006q3/asus-c2d/index.x?pg=14
Seems ok to me. I use a SATA DVDRW on the JMicron and never had any problems but I never benchmarked it either. If anyone has suggestions on how to do that please point me to them.
I don't use wireless at all yet and if I did it wouldn't be a critical thing so I can't comment on that. Real networks are wired anyway
MadMan007 said:I don't know I don't have any others. Basically if you disable the JMicron it doesn't happen. If you do use it all it does is say 'press any key' and it doesn't pause, if you do nothing it adds a few seconds. It's such a non-issue I don't know why anyone would complain about it, if you're at your keyboard just press a key, if you're not then it's only 5 seconds the world isn't going to end.
MadMan007 said:I don't know I don't have any others. Basically if you disable the JMicron it doesn't happen. If you do use it all it does is say 'press any key' and it doesn't pause, if you do nothing it adds a few seconds. It's such a non-issue I don't know why anyone would complain about it, if you're at your keyboard just press a key, if you're not then it's only 5 seconds the world isn't going to end.