Review: ASUS COMMANDO TAKES ON ALL-COMERS

by Tarinder Sandhu on 31 January 2007, 08:50

Tags: ASUSTeK (TPE:2357)

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Specifications



Specification

ASUS COMMANDO -ROG- P965
Item Specification
Processor Support All Intel LGA775 processors, including Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Extreme models
Northbridge Intel P965
Southbridge Intel ICH8R
Memory Support 4 DIMMs, DDR2, 533/667/800/889/1067, 8GiB max
Graphics (main) 1 x PCI Express Graphics 16x
PCI Express 1 x PCIe x4 (x16 mechanical) from P965
PCI Conventional 4 slots; PCI2.2
ATA 1 port, JMicron JMB363 PCIe to ICH8R
SATA 6 ports SATA2 AHCI, ICH8R
RAID 0/1/0+1/5/10, ICH8R
LAN Dual Gigabit, (2 x 10/100/1000), Marvell PCIe and PCI to ICH8R
Audio HD Audio, 8-channel, ADI 1988B, ICH8R
Floppy 1 port
FireWire 2-port VIA VT6308P, 1394a
USB 10 ports, USB2.0, ICH8R
I/O ports PS/2, Serial, Parallel, eSATA, 4 x USB2.0, 1 x FireWire400, 2 x RJ45, audio, optical S/PDIF-out
Monitoring ASIC ASUS AI
Form factor ATX - 12in x 9.6in
Street price as at 31/01/07 £139 inc. VAT

Discussion

ASUS has gone for the jugular with its COMMANDO Intel P965 motherboard. It's strong in almost every regard.