P5K Deluxe Wifi AP Thread.
Hopefully, this will be a worthy successor to the P5B Deluxe Wifi AP.
Some pics first.
Suspicious - No footprint.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/IMG_0399.jpg
Box.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/IMG_0400.jpg
Board fully clothed.
Note how close the southbridge is to the main PCI-E slot. This makes it almost impossible to use the larger heatpipe coolers such as the HR-05 or Noctua if you are using an air cooled card. The good news is that if you are using a waterblock, a HR-05 just fits with a few MM to spare. The SLI version of the HR-05 should fit better.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/IMG_0401.jpg
Arty farty shot.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/IMG_0402.jpg
CPU area before interference. Plenty of room, and the mosfets arent partially hidden like on some of the 965 boards.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/IMG_0403.jpg
Stupid Fecking Eejit sockets. For me, this is a silly design error. If you are running a large graphics card like an 8800GTX, 2 of the 6 SATA ports are obscured, and the location of the SATA ports makes it really fiddly for plugging cables in. As much as I hated them, the angled connectors from the Commando/Striker would have been better here.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/IMG_0404.jpg
Arty farty shot 2.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/IMG_0407.jpg
Back of the board.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/IMG_0412.jpg
Back of the mosfets.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/IMG_0418.jpg
Heatpipe sits flat for a change. Unlike almost every Asus board Ive used recently, the heatpipes sit nice and flush and might actually work. I wont be trying them though.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/IMG_0423.jpg
And so does this one.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/IMG_0424.jpg
And this one.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/IMG_0429.jpg
This one was only making proper contact at either end :rolleyes:
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/IMG_0430.jpg
Southbridge
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/IMG_0431.jpg
Bearlakeyness.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/IMG_0434.jpg
Board Nekkid.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/IMG_0436.jpg
Thermal tape for HR-09 mod.
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...2/IMG_0439.jpg