Hello everyone.Decided to build a system using one of my old ATX cases around P5Q-EM, E8500, 2 GB Corsair, 880GTS, 600W Supply.Fry had some good buys on combo and decided t spend a couple of hours to get it built. I

The Asus P5Q-EM appears to be a microATX board. There are many people that seem to be having fitment issues with big video cards and this board, based on the limited info I have seen on it. Some of the issues are vid card but some are also SATA related.The P5Q-EM is really intended to be a home theater board, not really ideally suited for us building an FS rig around it. For space around connectors and vid cards I really think you ought to got with a standard ATX size board for an FS box.Too bad you had all of those problems. Sometimes, nothing goes right. Other times, everything goes right. I think you're due for some good luck now!RhettFS box: E8500 (@ 3.80 ghz), AC Freezer 7 Pro, ASUS P5E3 Premium, BFG 8800GTX 756 (nVidia 169 WHQL), 4gb DDR3 1600 Patriot Cas7 7-7-7-20 (2T), PC Power 750, WD 150gb 10000rpm Raptor, Seagate 500gb, Silverstone TJ09 case, Vista Ultimate 64ASX Client: AMD 3700+ (@ 2.6 ghz), 7800GT

Hi, Mike and everyone.I am not sure who the target market for this board is? One thing is certain, they Do Not have an XP original (non SP1-2) compatible release, and this is false advertising, and demeaning, as far as I am concerned.Over the weekend I decided to see what you have to do to get this board running and I purchased some more components, DVD, SATA drives.Here are my findings:This board has a Marvel IDE controller and it appears to be half baked, it will not recognize the ATAPI CD Rs, and or some of the DVDs in my case are about 2 years old.With the new DVD and some of my IDE Drives it will only recognize them if they are set up as Master and Slave configuration, no Cable Select etc.At first you would think, no big deal, but if you cannot run a CD R then you cannot use the Western Digital Life guard tools to set up / partition your larger drives to something XP can handle.If you can manage to get XP installed, is where the deceptions really show up. You cannot install the Graphic Accelerator, PCI drivers etc. You are greeted by this Giberish / Chinese English with messages like,

Just built a new system using an ASUS P5Q-E and everything went smoothly. Seems like a quality board to me, and with the P-45 chipset I easily overclocked a q9550 C1 to 3.8 GHz on air (using after-market cooling obviously).I decided to install a new SATA DVD-RW drive however. Cost: about $30 from Newegg.Not sure what you're getting at with some of your other comments, but Taiwanese designed motherboards are pretty much where it is at these days in the PC market (ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, ASRock, Foxconn). They've accumulated a lot of expertise.

>Just built a new system using an ASUS P5Q-E and everything>went smoothly. Your P5Q-E is a full-size ATX motherboard. The original poster had a P5Q-EM motherboard...not the same. The -EM is a MicroATX board. Hence some of the fitment problems and aggravation he encountered.RhettFS box: E8500 (@ 3.80 ghz), AC Freezer 7 Pro, ASUS P5E3 Premium, BFG 8800GTX 756 (nVidia 169 WHQL), 4gb DDR3 1600 Patriot Cas7 7-7-7-20 (2T), PC Power 750, WD 150gb 10000rpm Raptor, Seagate 500gb, Silverstone TJ09 case, Vista Ultimate 64ASX Client: AMD 3700+ (@ 2.6 ghz), 7800GT

> Your P5Q-E is a full-size ATX motherboard. The original poster had a P5Q-EM motherboardYou already made this point (a good one) in this thread. Why you think however that I would be confused about this point is beyond me? His list of problems go significantly beyond fitment, problems which I have not experienced with my closely related P5Q-E board.

>>You already made this point (a good one) in this thread. Why>you think however that I would be confused about this point is>beyond me? Well, for starters, chipset is different. P45 <> G45I now retire from this thread. I don't want any trouble from you.RhettFS box: E8500 (@ 3.80 ghz), AC Freezer 7 Pro, ASUS P5E3 Premium, BFG 8800GTX 756 (nVidia 169 WHQL), 4gb DDR3 1600 Patriot Cas7 7-7-7-20 (2T), PC Power 750, WD 150gb 10000rpm Raptor, Seagate 500gb, Silverstone TJ09 case, Vista Ultimate 64ASX Client: AMD 3700+ (@ 2.6 ghz), 7800GT

Hi Clipper.I am not sure what you are trying to accomplish by your postings? I would recommend that you get an exact duplicate of the hardware / OS components that I have before you try to contest something. Just having a superficial knowledge of something you assume it

>> Well, for starters, chipset is different. P45 <> G45What? I didn't say the chipsets were the same!

Where did I assume the hardware was the same?>> Do not respond to this thread, to contest what I said, without using the same exact configuration that I did. Does that make sense?Guess you won't have many people contesting you then, because the home theater version of the P5Q won't be a popular choice on a flight simming board.>> By the way this board is made in CHINA, I am not sure you know the difference between it, and the other countries you mentioned?I said the board was DESIGNED in Taiwan, NOT manufactured there! Geez, people are really putting words into my mouth today.I'm sorry if my initial post was not more constructive. I just thought perhaps you could have installed new SATA optical drives(real cheap these days) rather than reuse your old IDE optical drives. I also think the ASUS PQ5 line of boards is good, with the new P45 chipset being a good quad-core overclocker (and also economical). This is not based on my experience alone, but also upon what I've read.