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I bought this board to replace my 5+ year old MSI board that seemed to have gone bad, causing random crashes and failing to even boot up after multiple attempts before finally getting there and otherwise being unpredictable. Once I went through the process of pulling the old board and installing this one, my suspicions were confirmed, as bootup was instant into my OS of choice (Linux), as well as WinXP (dual boot system). Unsurprisingly, all the onboard functions worked fine within XP using the downloadable Asus drivers. I was able to get everything working on this within Linux except the onboard Marvell 88E8056 LAN, even though current stock Linux kernels have support for this specific onboard LAN. I finally was able to get it working by updating the LAN firmware, using a DOS-based firmware patcher originally intended for Gigabyte boards on a floppy disk. I have since found that I probably could have gotten around this without an update by making a slight edit to my /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules by changing the line that mentions "eth1" to "eth0," or by starting my DHCP client command line from "dhcpcd eth0" to "dhcpcd eth1." Either way, once I modified the firmware, I was able to get it working fine within Linux and Windows, but I chose to get another board anyway and ordered an ASUS P5Q-SE2 because I wanted to be able to use all three of my legacy PCI cards (three PCI slots as opposed to this one only having two) and because this board's chipset (ICH9) doesn't coexist well with my Promise TXT2000 IDE card. I'll keep this board as a reserve for now, but I was right to get the P5Q-SE2 as a replacement, as everything on it worked right the first time, including the LAN (after making the above mentioned edit to my udev file) and coexistence with my Promise IDE card.Read full review
Grab this board for $50.00 or less and it's a great value. Minor overclocking features but you will want to properly cool the board to use them. You will want a fan directed at chipsets + diamond grade T.M.I to keep them cool to prolong life past 2 years as they were prone to death by heat. Nice solid mid range board that needs a little help to use it's "high end" features safely.
I had one of these boards on one of my first builds. It performed extremely well until it died on me. It lasted a long time and did everything i needed it too. Its a great medium range item that will support most midrange games
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
As expected. Thought the video out would be better.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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