ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo Motherboard Review :: Features

• Intel LGA-775 Core 2 Processors
• PCIe 2.0
• Dual Channel DDR2-1300
• ATI CrossfireX
• 8-Phase Power Design
• TurboV/Turbo Key
• ASUS EPU
• ASUS Drive Xpert
• 100% All High-Quality conductive polymer capacitors
• Express Gate
• ASUS Quiet Thermal Solution
• Fan Xpert
• CrashFree BIOS3
• Q-Shield
• Q-Connector
• EZ-Flash 2
• OC Profile
• ASUS Crystal Sound
• MyLogo2
• SATA on the Go
• IEEE-1394a
• HDA
• S/PDIF-out on Back I/O Port
• GreenASUS

ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo Spec Sheet
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Part Number	P5Q Pro Turbo
Manufacturer	ASUS
Price Check	Find Best Price
Downloads	BIOS Drivers Manuals
Chipset	Intel P45
North Bridge	Intel P45
Socket	LGA775 Socket
Processor Types	Quad Core, Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Duo, Pentium 4, Pentium D
Number of CPUs	1
Front Side Bus	1600/1333/1066/800 mHz
Memory Type	DDR2
Memory Channels	Dual
Maximum Memory	16GB
External Graphics	PCI Express x16x2
IGP	None
South Bridge	Intel ICH10R
Audio	8-channel
IDE	133/100/66
SCSI	None
SATA	3.0 GB/s
RAID	0, 1, 0+1, 5, 10
LAN	10/100/1000 4 LAN Ports
Firewire	IEEE 1394a
USB	USB 2.0
Expansion Slots
BIOS	AMI
Form Factor	ATX

The P5Q Pro Turbo motherboard uses the Intel P45 chipset. This offers support for Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad CPUs and some of the earlier CPUs on the market. The P45 chipset was the mainstream version of the X48 enthusiast chipset for the Intel market. Today, Intel has moved on to the X58 chipset for the enthusiast market and the P55 chipset that is coming in a few months to address the mainstream end of the market.

The motherboard supports up to 16GB of DDR2-1300MHz DDR2 memory. As most motherboards have moved on to DDR3 memory this is both good and bad for the enthusiast looking at this board. The good news is if you have some DDR2 memory from your old computer it may work with this motherboard. The bad news is it will likely provide less memory bandwidth than with better memory. ASUS has qualified a large list of DDR2 memory for this board including some DDR2-1300MHz memory.

The first consumer video card company to release a video card with multiple graphics chips to improve game performance was a company known as 3DFX. Unfortunately they are gone, leaving NVIDIA with their SLI solution and ATI with their CrossfireX solution for multiple graphics chips. Intel adopted Crossfire support with their 975X motherboard chipset. The P45 chipset the P5Q Pro Turbo supports two ATI cards operating in CrossfireX mode.

ASUS's TurboV is their overclocking tool in Windows. It allows 1MHz incremental increases in the FSB and voltage changes of 0.02v. What's nice about TurboV is you don't have to reboot the system after changing a setting. Turbo Key allows the user to turn their Power button into an overclocking button. The environment is one of the concerns of most computing companies and ASUS designed the Energy Processing Unit 2(EPU) to deliver lower power on idle. Express Gate is ASUS's customized operating system that is loaded onto a flash drive and boots within 5 seconds or so. This works well but the flash drive is not included on the P5Q Pro Turbo motherboard.