[H]ard|OCP reviews ASUS Commando P965 based motherbaord
ASUS has expanded their line of Republic of Gamers branded motherboards with the ASUS Commando based on Intel's proven P965 Express chipset. Does it compete with what's on the market and offer features beyond current P965 motherboards?
The ASUS Commando is the latest in the Republic of Gamers branded motherboards featuring the proven and highly overclockable Intel P965 Express chipset and ICH8R south bridge. The Commando supports the Intel Core2 Extreme Quad-Core / Core 2 Duo / Intel Pentium Extreme and Intel Pentium D processors. Following Industry trends the ASUS Commando requires only a few components to create a working machine. The required components are: Socket LGA775 CPU, DDR 2 memory, power supply, drives and a video card. ASUS integrated the following components into the Commando:1 ATA-133 port; 1 floppy port; 10 USB ports (4 on the backplane and 3 headers supporting 2 ports each.) ; 6 SATA 3G ports; 2 GigE Ethernet ports; Onboard ADI® 1988B Codec; Coaxial, S/PDIF In/out; 2 IEEE1394 ports (1 on backplane and 1 via header) and of course standard PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports...
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