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Asus Computer ATX MBD 865PE S478 800FSB-ETH SATA RAID 8X 6CH AUD ( P4P800-E DLX ) | List Price: $225.73
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Brand: Asus
Binding: Electronics
Features: - 800/533/400 MHz FSB
- Dual-Channel DDR400 Memory
- Intel Hyper-Threading Technology
- ASUS Intelligence Features
- Wi-Fi slot for optional wireless LAN upgrade
These are in fact great boards [Posted on 2005-12-12]
We have at least eight of the P4G800-E between my office and my home, and have not seen any USB issues except for one NT machine with bad plug and play (a SW issue). This has become our Std ASUS board for servers and for heavy developer use and I love it. Get the "e" option with built in gigi-bit lans and save a bit more. The first few of these we bought I had plug in lan cards with large buffers, but this proved to be a waste of $, the built in is quite fast. The USB on this board is generic as far as I can tell, do not see any reason for this specific model to give problems. The only gripe I can make is the SATA drives when used in RAID mode are hard to set up, we ended up just setting them up as individual drive sets. I came to Amazon today to get a couple more when our local clone retailer had closed.
Best m/b I've ever had... but still not perfect [Posted on 2006-01-19]
I always find some issue w/ every m/b I own. This one had a problem w/ the Intel SATA. I have a Maxtor 300GB SATA drive and when connected to the onboard Intel SATA controller in IDE (non-RAID) mode would kick up connection errors (replace cable) in WinXP during heavy loads (eg. large file copy or Virus scanning each night) and sometimes the drive would become inaccessable (XP disabled drive due to excessive errors). I replaced the SATA cable twice and tried the shortest one I could find to reduce any EMF issues. This helped, but errors still occured during virus scans each night. I chose the Intel controller because it has native SATA support (no 3rd party drivers needed in WinXP; Southbus recognizes it w/o drivers).
It looks like Promise has more stable SATA support than Intel. I finally connected the drive to the onboard Promise RAID controller, loaded the SATA Promise drivers in XP and no more errors.
I've not had any problems w/ USB ports going bad, but I have had USB ports become unusable until the system was rebooted (eg. USB drives are not recognized). Usually when a hub is connected to the port.
I love ASUS m/bs and will continue to buy them in the future.
Simply Great [Posted on 2006-03-24]
All went well with this product. No probs on the install and no glitches after install. All in all, A+.
USB problem with P4C800-E [Posted on 2006-09-14]
I spent a couple of weeks building a computer based on this board. When it came time to use it, all USBs on the board blew the first time I plugged in my MP3 player. It's clear from the web that many other people have had the same experience. I'm livid. I wouldn't advise touching this board with a bargepole.
Bad INTEL SATA [Posted on 2007-03-12]
Same problem as others noted with Intel SATA on RAID mirror. Had to pay Best-Buy to debug it for me, and they just said that the Intel SATA was no good and to use the promise controller. After that it worked OK for a long time. I still had to replace a cable once.
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