ASUS P5KPL-CM Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

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I bought this motherboard for a friend of mine who wanted a new computer to surf Internet so this low budjet board is perfect for him.

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I have buy this MB to build a second PC at home for my wife and kids. So i don't need to have The MotherBoard with all the lastest super duper Freak High technologies. If my kids can play the games he want, i will be happy !!I just buy it today and i also do a price match !!I have it running and it run very fine.Also, very easy to overclock.Got my E5200 overclocked at 3.15 Ghz !! This review was modfied by poster @ 01-12-09 09:22 AM

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This MB is very good for everything. It support almost all LGA775 CPUs, and has all expansion slots.

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The motherboard was fine for a low end office computer for general purpose work. Used a E5200 CPU. One thing I found out that with the OCZ Platinum XTC REV.2 PC2-6400 2GB 2X1GB DDR2-800 CL4-4-4-15 I could not find anyway of adjusting the memory timing. As well having the unit boot CD then HD caused a 30 sec boot up delay. Once I changed to boot off HD as first item the delay was only 6 secs from end of POST screen to XP Logo showing up. This review was modfied by poster @ 11-20-08 10:49 PM

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This board had everything i needed, good onboard video, audio and ethernet. The only negative point is that i think it came with a dead battery. each time the pc was shut down, it said during POST : setting have been F1 to continu or del to enter setup.i changed the battery and it looks good.

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I wanted a cheap Linux box that I could try a new Intel Quad Q8200 chip on. I put in 4GB (2x2GB) of Corsair memory and installed the latest Ubuntu (version 8.10) and everything seems to have worked. The bios that shipped worked with the chip with no problem. The Intel graphics work well with Linux due to Intel's open source policy for drivers. The integrated NIC works (so far) with the latest Ubuntu. The only thing I haven't tested yet is the sound, but I'm not expecting any problems there. I don't overclock and have not explored those options. I didn't choose either the chip or the board for overclocking capabilities. I got the board on sale from NCIX and for the price I can't complain.