Asus P5Q setup - Pics :)

[Mark]

Asus P5Q setup - Pics

If you're following the madness you'll understand the addiction, which is now almost fixed. I present you a Asus P5Q utilising 2 graphic cards and running 3 monitors. In Ubuntu!

Hardware and specifications
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- LGA775 socket
- Supports Intel® 45nm Multi-Core CPU
- Intel P45/ICH10R with Intel® Fast Memory Access(FMA) support.
- FSB 1600/1333/1066/800 MHz
- 4 x DIMM, max. 16GB, DDR2 1200/1066/800/667MHz, non-ECC, un-buffered memory
- Dual channel memory architecture
- 2 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots, support ATI CrossFireXTM technology, at x8 speed
(PCIe x16_1 blue, PCIe x16_2 black*)
- 1 x PCI Express x16 slot at max. x4 link(black)
- 2 x PCIe x1
- 2 x PCI
- Support ATI CrossFireXTM technology, up to Quad CrossFireX
- 6 x SATA 3Gb/s Intel® Matrix Storage Technology with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support
- 1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices
- 1 x External SATA 3Gb/s port
- Dual Gigabit LAN controllers
- ADI® AD2000B 8-channel High Definition Audio
- Coaxial/Optical S/PDIF out ports at back I/O
- ASUS Noise-Filtering
- LSI3227 controller supports 2 x 1394a ports
- Max. 10 USB2.0/1.1 ports(4 ports at mid-board, 6 ports at back panel)

Card 1: 8800GTX
Card 2: 8400GS
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First off, a thumbs up to the post man. :thumbs


Surprise! You should of seen it coming really.






Apparently it does all this funky stuff. As well as having 100% Japan-made Solid Capacitors!




Lets take a look at the good stuff.




Plenty of cables but... no screws or stand offs - this really is a poor effort, good job i had some spares. Also, the "Quick start guide" is in every language known to man, except English.




The man himself, Mr Deluxe.




This thing is awesome, it saved me so much time messing about with motherboard headers!




0.o, Who's this!? *Drum roll please*




My old setup. Not too bad.




Empty. It needed a good dusting anyway. Two birds, one stone jobby.






Testing. Checking if the thing boots with just the basics, CPU, cooler, 1 stick of RAM and my basic graphics card. Works perfectly.






Time to get this thing built.






The graphics cards in comparison. The 8800GTX is like 3x bigger. xD




End result... Finally i can get my mcompute goodness on three screens.




Cons to this motherboard and overall

• No screws or stand offs.
  
• The north bridge is too close to the CPU cooler, meaning i had to fit it sideways.
  
• The Quick install guide wasn't in English.
  

[bigsharn]

LOL at the baby card next to the 8800

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.. :facepalm you use far too many pictures in your tutorials.

[Mark]

0.o I like to give people a visual experience.

You'll love my next thread on DD-WRT (40 pictures)

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Still too many. Which reminds me, I need to finish My Server tutorial Part 2... I'll do it later.