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Reviews for Asus AI Lifestyle P5LD2 Deluxe Desktop Motherboard - Intel 945P Chipset - Socket T LGA-775

1 x Processor Support - 4 GB - Floppy Controller, Serial ATA/300, Ultra ATA/133 ATA-7 RAID Support Controller - 2 x PCIe x16 Slot - MPN: P5LD2DELUXE

  • 4
  By member: HoyleB - Jul 26, 2006

Solid Board

Strengths: Supports many processors, including dual cores, nice open design, many included elements onboard

Weakness: The support for IDE is spotty. The two red RAID IDE controllers are not recognized by XP.

This board is a great deal for the price. I have have very solid response and everything necessary is on board, so you can use your PCI slots for fun things.

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  • 5
  By member: mynd - Jul 26, 2006

Excellent Board! Just Awesome!

Strengths: This board has it all from an easy layout to perfect precision part location. With the case I chose the connectors for the mobo are just perfect.

Weakness: None, everything about this board screams perfection and it does work with SLI.. No problems there.

This board is really quite amazing. Everything is in a great location, well for my case that is. I went with the Antec TX635 and replaced the power supply with a new one from zipzoomfly the sp500.

www.antec.com/us/produ...

Here is a list of the parts and prices I purchased just in case anyone is looking for an excellent machine.

101208-11 Western Digital Caviar SE WD1600JS 160GB Serial ATA II 7200RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer ***Free Shipping*** 1 $65.90

110403 Mitsumi MTM43W 1.44MB 3.5in Floppy Disk Drive ***Free Shipping*** 1 $12.99

172513 NEC ND-3550A 16X Double Layer DVD±RW Bare Drive (Beige) OEM ***Free Shipping*** 1 $40.99

247004 Asus P5LD2 Deluxe 945P P4/Pentium D/Celeron 1066FSB LGA775 DDR2 ATX Motherboard w/Audio, Gigabit LAN, RAID/Serial ATA Retail ***Free Shipping*** 1 $153.99

273503 Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-500 500W Power Supply Retail ***Free Shipping*** 1 $67.99

315006-1 ZipZoomFly ATA66/100/133 IDE 24in Round Cable w/Blue PVC Pipe 3 Connectors Retail ***Free Shipping*** 1 $10.99

315290 Coolermaster TEC-F24-EB 24in EL Light Floppy Round Cable (Blue) Retail ***Free Shipping*** 1 $9.99

321057 XFX PV-T71G-UDE7 GeForce 7900 GT 256MB PCI Express DDR3 Video Card w/TV-Out & DVI Retail ***Free Shipping*** 1 $289.99

80852 Intel® Pentium® D Processor 940 3.2GHz, 800MHz FSB, Socket 775, 2x2MB Cache, Dual Core Retail ***Free Shipping*** 1 $216.20

85016-16 Corsair TWIN2X2048-5400C4 2GB DDR2-675 XMS2-5400 Xtreme Performance Memory w/Black Heat Spreader Retail ***Free Shipping*** 1 $167.00


Subtotal $1036.03

Excellent parts for an excellent motherboard!!

Kind regards,
Mynd

www.myndpollution.com...

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  • 5
  By member: aznpryde009 - Mar 13, 2006

asus p5ld2 deluxe

Strengths: This board has all the features I need plus more, great for gamers as well as video and graphics. Allows me to have ample pci cards and pci express with dual channel memory very fast

Weakness: Had to get another processor to flash the bios so that was a hassle

This is a good board but beware if you have a 9XX series pentium D you will need to flash the bios and its a major pain if you do not have a extra chip

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Reply by member: ronaldpippin
Mar 24, 2006

I purchased this motherboad and a Pentium D930. It did not work (would not boot) so I had to take it back to Fry's Electronics for at check. They advised me the board was bad and that they had to flash the bios. It works great now. Are you suggesting that maybe the only problem was flashing the Bios?

  • 5
  By member: simon788 - Apr 19, 2006

great motherboard

Strengths: great motherboard , not hot and none noise.stability and credibility, and it support dual cpu.

Weakness: don't support SLI

asus good at all, black color, 4 ddr2 slot. support sata II, 2 PCI Express x16,1 PCI Express x1,3 PCI. 7.1 channel surround, sounds good, very powerful.

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Reply by member: cameronk
Jul 12, 2006

This motherboard does support SLI. I've tried it and it runs great.

  • 4
  By member: litirte - Dec 19, 2009

great board!

Strengths: cool running; dependable; lots of options for PCIE; IDE; lots of abuse and still ticking (forgot to vacuum fan ports and led to overtemps but no harm)

Weakness: none, really; it's getting a little old (ex: only support Pentium D as cpu upgrade. But that's not the board's fault - I've had it for eons).

currently P4 next step to update to Pentium D 94x dual core then replace it in a couple of years with 21st century model - but it'll be an ASUS. I think I got my money's worth!

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  By member: Rufous03 - Aug 16, 2007

P5LD2 Deluxe not great

Strengths: none that I can find

Weakness: continual problems, no ASUS support

I have had this board for over two years now. Replaced 3 times under warranty. It seems to have problems recognizing USB 2 hardware. All drivers etc have been updated. Error messages keep popping up advising that the USB 2 device could run faster if plugged into a USB 2 port....they are. Boot up problems recognizing USB and IDE devices. I also keep getting error message on boot up that over clocking has failed...interesting because I haven't made any adjustments to that, factory settings.
One other user with similar system using this board has experienced the same problems....his board has been replaced 5 times!

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