Asustek P5E AiLifestyle Series

Advantages Excellent gaming board, automatic stability control
Disadvantages Expensive, needs SATA boot disk to install windows

...is a way of increasing the processors speed from a standard settings (i.e. - Intel Pentium D 3.0GHz (3000MHz) to about 3.3GHz (3300MHz)). This motherboard I would recommend for gamers and professionals mainly due to the features and control for the hardware within your computer. I feel it was designed for gamers in mind as 90% of the features are aimed at the games and performance of the items connected this board. You get the normal stuff as a bundle - ASUS Motherboard Driver and software CD SATA cable IDE cable Floppy drive cable A very well designed bundle pack.... Read review

Advantages Advnced.
Disadvantages Not Finshed.

...Asus as a company make some of the best motherboards. They provide quality products at reasonable prices. There boards are some of the most reliable and are manufactured to perfection. So does this board live up to there name? To start with I would like to list the board's specs. P5N32-E SLI CPU Socket Type LGA 775 CPU Supports Intel processors up to Quad Core FSB (Front Side Bus) 1333/1066/800MHz Chipsets North Bridge NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI Memory Number of Memory Slots 4×240pin Memory Standard DDR2 800 Maximum Memory Supported 8GB Dual Channel Supported Yes Expansion Slots PCI Express x16 2 x PCI Express x16 slot, support NVIDIA SLI technology, at full x16, x16 speed 1 x PCI Express x16, at x8 speed (Yes That's 3 PCI-E Slots) PCI Slots 2 Storage Devices PATA 1 x ATA100 up to 2 Devices... Read review

Advantages Future Proof, Plenty of Upgrade allowance
Disadvantages Large Components

...When I first set out to have a PC built for me, I found it remarkably quick and simple to choose the processor, graphics card, Ram and so on. However when it came to the Motherboard it was a whole different story. My main driving points when selecting a motherboard were in the following order - - Can it support the preselected components - Support up to 8GB of ram for future upgrades - Allow for an additional Graphics card to be installed - Built in sound card with option to upgrade This one I am glad to say after narrowing it down, met all my targets with flying colours. Next I got my PC built and delivered to my house... and this is how it's stood up so far. On install of my own Operating System, I screwed up a few times and partially wrote to my Hard Drive but failed to complete the installation. (My fault entirely not... Read review