Asrock P45TS (from Asus P5Q Deluxe)

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I actually downgraded from a P5Q Deluxe to an Asrock P45TS. Basically, moved from an all singing all dancing board to about the cheapest P45 board you can get.

And it's great.

I wasn't using any of the added features of the P5Q, so downgraded and have released a chunk of money from ebay when I sold it. More so, have got the Asrock board to overclock just aswell as the Asus.

As can be expected there are little or no posts on the Asrock board so I was wondering if anyone has one and has worked out what all the BIOS settings are for? Actually more, than the Asus it seems.
 
The biggest negative things I can see with this board are no VRM cooling, no RAID, and absolutely horrible ATX power connector placement.

However, it's still very cheap for a P45 board. I'm glad it works well for you.
 
Don't use the RAID so not worried about that. Was worried about the cooling but it's running a 400 FSB and all is fine. The ATX connector is in an odd position, but it actually works well with a horizontal mounted heatsink and the cable doesn't get in the way.

My surprise was only one chassis fan power connector on the motherboard. But got a PWM cable from Akasa which supports two fans tied to the CPU heatsink fan speed.
 
glade you are happy with it, although I don't see why you downgraded unless there was something wrong with the p5q
 
I "downgraded" recently from a P5Q Pro to a Foxconn G45 board. For me it was about picking up some cash for my board while it was worth something and using something that was 98% as good for what I needed it to do, as well as getting an IGP so I could use the board for other things once it wasn't my main computer anymore.
 
I "downgraded" recently from a P5Q Pro to a Foxconn G45 board. For me it was about picking up some cash for my board while it was worth something and using something that was 98% as good for what I needed it to do, as well as getting an IGP so I could use the board for other things once it wasn't my main computer anymore.

Absolutely. I realised when I first got in to custom builds, I wanted the best products. I'd scour reviews. But so much of the features "are bollocks" and just style over substance. Law of diminishing returns really. Spend £100 and get 98% of what you want. Spend £200 and get 99.5%. Marketing has a lot to answer for.
 
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