Which P5B?

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I am building a new PC. My current MB is Asus P4T-E and this MB serves me well over the years. I am now looking into Asus P5B and I found different variations of this MB: P5B, P5B-E, P5B-Deluxe, P5B-Deluxe-WiFi, P5B-VM.

I know that P5B-VM has a smaller form factor and for the 2 deluxe models, one has Wi-Fi.

I am looking for a fast, reliable and stable MB. I may OC but not too much; I am running a P4-2.2 GHz and I only OC it to 2.4 GHz. I rarely game. Primarily I use my PC for browsing, office use and burning CD/DVD.

Which MB should I purchase, P5B, P5B-E or P5B-Deluxe? I am considering the E6400 CPU.
 
Hahah.

I JUST posted a thread asking this same very question. We both want the same CPU as well. Nice! Hope to get some answers soon.
 
Deluxe, Deluxe Wifi or the "-e" varient are the only good P5B's.

The Vanilla one won't OC much past 400FSB, and has very low RAM voltages.

The P5B-VM has major problems clocking over 350FSB or so.

The "-e" is the best budget board of the series... But the -deluxe is great if you need an extra ethernet port, or have to have a pretty PCB colour.
 
I would like a fast and reliable MB. Even if I OC, I would only OC a bit. The color of the PCB is not important to me, I would not see it too much after the install.

Is an extra ethernet port important? Don't we all have mullti-ports routers? What am I missing here?

During my research, I read that some poeple are having problems to connect their optical drives because of the JMicron interface. Is this somthing I should worry about? I plan to connect 2 DVD writers to the MB.
 
You'll be fine with the P5B-e, it should suit your needs fine. The Jmicron controller is on the majority of P965 boards, the only one I can think of that doesn't use it is the Biostar (which uses VIA), I also think the Abit IB9 uses a different controller. The Asus should be fine for you though.
 
P5B-E is awesome.

It OCs really well and is overall very stable. Also works with Vista perfectly :)

I love my P5B-E and am glad I picked it over the other C2D boards.
 
If you're not doing major overclocking, I'd personally opt for the DFI Infinity 975. I've had major problems with Asus boards recently (P5B and P5B-E, but primarily the former), but the DFI's I've used in builds have been rock solid and problem-free. They do actually overclock rather well for a 975X board (mainly the cooling holds them back, but 400FSB is a piece of piss with the new BIOS and a HR-05 isn't exactly expensive), cost less than all but the vanilla P5B and perform a little better. If you don't mind the green PCB they are an absolute bargain. I won't rant on about my lack of success with P5B and P5B-E boards; suffice to say, Asus can kiss my coin goodbye.
 
I love my deluxe, but I didn't need the wi-fi. I'm building a comp. for my dad and he wants the wi-fi so I'll get the same thing for him. If I had today's choices I'd probably just get the p5b-e reviewed by H since I don't need wi-fi.

This board has been taken out and back in of my case a million times (water setups/HSF exchanges); it's tough and kicks butt to boot!
 
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