Looks like Newegg has the P5Q Deluxe in stock as of this morning. Although, there's no mention of the wi-fi with it in the pictures or specs.

Perhaps there's a P5Q deluxe "wifi edition" as well? Nothing on Asus' global site about it, seems that the DDR3 version is currently the only model listed to include the wi-fi.

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The P5Q Deluxe manual doesn't have any mention of available onboard wi-fi, and it doesn't look like there's any kind of connection on the board for the wifi module. Maybe the P5Q3 Deluxe is the only one that supports it?

It looks like there's a space for another USB header on the regular P5Q (and, oddly, the header exists on the P5Q-E according to its manual), right where the wifi connects on the P5Q3... any chance of getting a few shots of it to see how they're connected, or something like that?

I'm mostly curious because the P5Q Deluxe looks like a great board, and if I could get my hands on the wifi adapter somewhere else and make use of it then it's still good to go (though if it needs a USB connection there, the P5Q-E looks nice, too, and I'm really not sure what the difference between that and the P5Q Deluxe is now that I'm looking at the manuals).

I wonder why Asus isn't selling that thing separately for their boards...

Yet again TR drinks the Vista koolaide in it's testing while the majority of us are still using the reliable, compatible and for the most part stable XP platform.

interesting to see how little difference Asus' and Gigabyte's energy saving apps make. Oddly, gigabyte's DES makes some 7W difference at load - I thought these apps were all about lowering idle power.

Otherwise impressive power consumption though. Be good if you could throw in an equivalent P35 board when you do a full/ post launch review.

Personally I'm looking forward to seeing the P5Q-E, which, if it is in line with the P5B-E and P5K-E, will hopefully sell for around $150. They've got a picture of it on their Express Gate website (odd site):

http://event.asus.com/mb/expressgate/index.htm

P5Q Pro could be a little lower priced as well. As long as they keep producing boards that don't use any Realtek components...

Anyways, a small handful of questions for you guys:

1) I thought ICH10R was to have integrated 802.11n. Does it?
2) Can you flash BIOS from within Express Gate?
3) Did they say anything about EFI on P45 boards you can share?

BTW, thanks for providing all of the chipset info for the various components in the specs! That's hugely helpful and I'm glad you guys do it, some sites gloss over it. Knowing that the bundled wifi on the P5Q isn't using a Realtek chip is enough to make me consider that model, whereas previously I wasn't interested in their bundled wifi boards.

I'd like to see a Crossfire comparison between P35, P45 and X38/X48, just to see how the PCIe lane configuration affects performance.

It's funny for me to see Gigabyte ads on ASUS review. :-D

http://www.techreport.com/r.x/asus-p5q3-deluxe/expressgate.jpg

The board is nice and all, but I'm having a hard time figuring out why it's worth more than $200. I can get a solid P35 board with similarly good performance and power consumption for less than $100. Sure, it doesn't include stuff like an 802.11n adapter, but I don't need that and could buy a PCI adapter for it anyway. That doesn't even get into sillier stuff like twin gigE ports that will never see any use on 95% of the boards sold. The multiple "x16" slots are OK, but anybody who wants a multi-GPU setup can go for nVidia or just pick up an HD3870X2, and besides graphics cards and server hardware, there's not much non-x1 PCIe hardware out there.

It's not just this board, of course. "Premium" motherboards seem to have a hard time justifying their existence. Once you get out of the low build quality doldrums, one desktop motherboard is pretty much the same as another for most users. The new midrange stuff might not be as sexy to review, but I'd be much more interested in seeing it.

If you need 2 PS2 ports, something like this will do it for you:
http://www.cputopia.com/ps2-m-to-dual-female-cable.html
(I am not endorsing this vendor, the link is only for example)

Laptops PS2 ports have been designed to use these little splitters for years.

Just a quibble: One the first page 'copper heatsinks' are mentioned. All I see is lots of yellow dye/paint. Are the heatsinks underneath really copper, or Asus still doing that retarded 'aluminum painted yellow == copper' thing?

in the memory oc section CPU-Z sais DDR3 on the P5Q http://techreport.com/r.x/asus-p5q3-deluxe/overclock-mem-p5q.jpg
and i hope in future reviews we'll see some oc tests on quads (45nm) since that's where a high FSB matters more(for most ppl) because of the low multiplier of q9300/q9450

The only thing weirder than offering just one PS/2 port is making it both green and purple.

And yes, my PS/2 KVM would hate that, though I suppose two mice on a desktop aren't the end of the world (four would get to be a bit much, though). Granted, in light of DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort its days are numbered anyway (has anybody seen a DVI+PS/2 KVM? No?)

page 6: Gaming seems to suite the P5Qs

minus one 'e', please. :)

No P35 DDR2 configuration? That's the most practical (and most common, I imagine) enthusiast configuration right now, and the P5Q is only compared with a DDR3 board with its direct predecessor (P35) in this review. Even if DDR3 prices halve by the end of the year, DDR2 will still be more interesting.

Let me go looking for one of your earlier reviews of P35 with DDR2.

Edit: There's the E6750 review by Damage:

http://techreport.com/articles.x/12737/2

But it's not directly applicable because of the different video card, OS (Vista x64 vs Vista x86) and hard disk.

I'd like to point out that Asus is stonewalling in their response to Gigabyte over the power saving features and high quality capacitors: Gigabyte said NOTHING about the new "Q" series boards from Asus. Gigabyte claims that Asus lied about those features on its older "K" series boards. It is Asus who is claiming that the "Q" series boards prove Gigabyte wrong to which Gigabyte has pointed out that Asus's supposed proof is irrelevant.

Well, I'm totally unimpressed. It's a good chipset with low power and decent features, but it doesn't seem like a next generation from the P35. That's all Intel wanted but it's just not impressive. And ICH10R gets a big yawn too. They could have added more native SATA channels.

Maybe they've been focusing on G45.

Thank you Intel, for removing IDE drive support. You saved us some hassle and money, because every mb maker now adds an extra chip to bring back this functionality... oh wait

Memtest and other diagnostic applets would be a big plus for ExpressGate.

You know, if they added a media player you could get a lot of use out of this in an HTPC without ever booting Windows.

http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/14655/4

P5Q3 is listed twice on the power consumption charts, I assume one was supposed to be the P5Q?

Damn guys I can't wait to dive into this review, much appreciated.

More for show (useless) heat pipes/sinks crowding the CPU sockets.