Asus Presents a Top of the Line Intel Mainboard

Asus announced the launch of a truly high end mainboard that is compatible with the Intel hardware platform, the P5E3 DELUXE/WiFi-AP@n motherboard. This new product from Asus is based on the latest generation of Intel made desktop chipsets, X38, that enables users to achieve great performance while keeping the overall energy consumption at a reasonable level.

Apart from the high end Intel X38 chipset, this new mainboard from Asus supports DDR3 dual channel memory modules that run at a maximum frequency of 1800MHz, as well as Dual PCI Express 2.0 x16 lanes for extreme performance in the graphics department when coupled with the latest graphics cards. Asus integrated into this mainboard its very first Energy Processing Unit, EPU for short that allows for a better control and fine tune over the central processing unit's power supply. The EPU chip also improves the overall efficiency of the VRM circuits under very heavy or idle conditions, allowing for an increased global energy saving.

The Asus P5E3 DELUXE/WiFi-AP@n is one of the very few mainboards that come with integrated support for the wireless standard 802.11n and thanks to the integrated wireless controller, users will be able to experience faster data transfers that are in fact up to six times speedier than the ones encountered with the 802.11b/g standards. Thanks to the two bundled wireless antennas, a wider network coverage is assured, so users will meet fewer blind spots and better network performance.

The presence of the latest generation of 8-phase VRM chips allows a very high, up to 95 percent, energy efficiency that is directly translated into a longer component life, as well as lower power wasted, thanks to the high quality materials that were used when designing and manufacturing this line of Intel compatible mainboards.

Another innovative trait that can be found integrated into this new motherboard is the presence of the Asus Express Gate that is in fact a customized Linux based minimal operating system that can offer users the capacity to almost instantly boot into a graphical environment and performing a variety of tasks like surfing the Web and other multimedia related activities.

The Asus EPU chip that is integrated into the DELUXE/WiFi-AP@n product is the very first hardware-based on-demand power saving IC controller that can be used to fine tune and adjust the power needed by all internal components, while also providing real-time monitoring for the power required by the central processing unit. The new integrated circuit can help users achieve higher performance while at the same time saving a lot of energy when the computer system is running under light workloads.