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watchforice   05-29-2008 at 02:50:47 AM

Hey all!

I am currently checking into a new system, and am mesmerized by the Antec Mini P180. I have no use for all the extra PCI slots that a normal ATX form MB offers. So I have chose to go with Micro ATX, and I fell in love with this case. For many reasons not related to this topic.

I have been looking at motherboards. Asus recently released the P5KPL-CM for the Intel LGA775 socket CPUs. As far as the specs are concerned, this mobo meets and exceeds my expectations. 1600/1333MHz FSB support! But often, looks can be deceiving. I searched high and low on forums here as well as google, and found zero customer reviews, except for the 4 on Newegg. Wondering if anyone has had a chance to build a system with this MB and what their thoughts are.

EDIT: http://www.newegg.com/product/prod [...] 6813131288

Thanks in advance for any replies and advice. :na:


Message edited by watchforice on 05-30-2008 at 10:38:37 AM
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dragonsprayer   06-08-2008 at 04:08:28 AM
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use the hdmi - its the only one that has killere oc!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813131237

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backstaberer1   04-21-2009 at 10:55:54 PM
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I bought the MB, wasn't impressed at all, actually was pissed off, I kept getting a blue screen when wanting to install OS, OVERHEATING at Southbridge chipset & CPU, only got it going after using another PC (Gigabyte) to install OS onto HDD then afterwards transferring HDD back to Asus MB, still got laggy game play (guess all that fancy talk on the MB box was jus eye candy. Also came across the same problem when a friend of mine bought the same thing, it was then I was convinced that this board was a rip off! 2 motherboard brands I trust from exp are FOXCON & GIGABYTE, (Gigabyte is best, especially for gaming & graphic designing) I'm a serious gamer so PC performance is of upmost concern, take my advice and do not buy the Asus, spend abit more on something better! hav a nice day. p.s i'm stuck with this crappy asus so I have installed 5 extra fans jus to keep it warm (not burning HOT!) and still laggy gameplay. email - lawrencefong@yahoo.com

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IHATEKNOWITALLS   05-14-2009 at 03:57:57 AM
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wtf man, this MOBO runs cool, and is quick. it supports DDR2 duel channel RAM. if your getting laggy gameplay then ur CPU is ***. if its still laggy, with at least 2GB ddr2 and a DECENT duel core processer, then you built your system wrong. im running that board right now, got it cos it was cheap, and its great. and if your a "serious Game" DONT BUY A BUDGET BOARD!

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carlos_89   05-20-2009 at 06:10:27 AM
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its either that or they're dumping defective Mother boards in Fiji


Message edited by carlos_89 on 05-20-2009 at 06:13:07 AM
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meshuggah   06-01-2009 at 06:27:58 PM
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If you're getting overheating, perhaps the CPU heatsink doesn't have proper contact. I recently bought this MB and I'm completely satisfied with its performance. No Bluescreens during installation either. Installed Windows XP media center 2005. If you are installing vista however it has problems installing with more then 1 stick of ram installed (pre SP1 at least that I know of).

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lichocpu   06-07-2009 at 11:49:56 AM
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Any info on how it overclocks? 'Cause i'm running a e5200 @ Stock and want to OC it to at least FSB 1066 (267MHz Base) but i'm not sure how well does this mobo help with that. Also, i can't find on the bios (version 0608 Date 07-May-2009) the options to fix the PCIE bus at 100Mhz and the PCI Bus at 33.33MHz, and i'm unsure if those buses will be OC'd if i raise my FSB from stock 200 to 267 (looking for a 1066 FSB)

Help?

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lichocpu   06-09-2009 at 06:35:01 AM
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Well, i contacted asus support, and they said that setting FSB to 266 (1066) will not affect my pcie or pci buses. Anyone have any experience setting the fsb to something different (or higher?)

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nvasi   06-21-2009 at 12:20:09 PM
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been using this board since june '08. XP Pro, E2180, 8800gts, 500gb hdd.. overclocked the cpu to 2,6ghz using the overclocking feature of the mb. if you wanna oc more, get a mb with more oc features
playing games like crysis, far cry 2, cod 4 & 5, zero problems

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Stevieyus   06-23-2009 at 02:00:20 AM
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Hey, I just bought the Asus P5KPL-CM Motherboard and it has been nothing but a nightmare trying to get windows XP pro to install with it, I've formatted it before trying to install XP but it just keeps rebooting over and over never getting past the XP logo with the blue bar, I managed to get another hardrive from a working computer with xp pro installed to work with this MOBO, but it only worked for about 5 minutes, all the while driver windows popping up all over the place to try and to locate any kind of drivers through windows, as soon as I clicked on something it began to reboot and never made it back to windows, I updated the bios on this board with the latest update from asus as well as someone suggested, didn't help, cannot for the life of me figure out what the problem is I tried to install XP with SP2 integrated as many other forums suggested, that didn't work either, I've tried every setting in the bios, I must have spent 3 days straight day in and day out trying everything to no avail, one poster suggest disabling the PCI-E setting before installing, tried that too, no go..I'm about to give up, don't know what else to try... if anyone has any suggestions or thoughts would love to hear it..Thanks

I have
Asus P5KPL-CM Motherboard
Brand new 450watt power supply
Pentium D 3Ghz Dual Core
2 gig DDR2 800mhz Ram
(which i tested with Memtest)
5 year Old 40 gig Western Digital HD IDE
(sufficient for my needs
(that works perfectly in another pc)
LG DVR/RW

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Stevieyus   06-24-2009 at 09:24:31 AM
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are you guys using nothing but sata drives?

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shawn2571   09-26-2009 at 08:21:50 PM
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i have the p5kpl-cm with a core 2 quad q9300 and a good heatsink and fan, and all 4 of my cores run around 50 degrees C sometimes 60 when gaming, that being said i liked the board when i first got it, but then one of the memory sticks went bad, or so i thought, but now after receiving a replacement i see it is the board doing it. cuz both my memory sticks work by them selves but as soon i install one in the second slot all it does is beep a bunch times and wont boot up at all. so here i am with a lousy 2 gb or ram instead of 4 has anyone else had this problem? and maybe know of a fix? the bios update didn't help. the ignorant people smk superstore were supposed to send me the exact same chip that i sent back and they didn't even after i wrote a big note in large letters to send in with the defective one. this one is only half the height of my other one, but the stickers on it say it is ddr 2 800 like my other one. i wonder too if they sent me one with different timing or something? incompitence really ticks me off sometimes. but this chip does work in my computer if i put it in first slot and don't have anything in the second slot. if anyone knows of a workaround to get my 4gb of ram back please help me! :oP

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jelreyn   09-27-2009 at 09:24:00 PM
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cuz both my memory sticks work by them selves but as soon i install one in the second slot all it does is beep a bunch times and wont boot up at all. so here i am with a lousy 2 gb or ram instead of 4 has anyone else had this problem?



Yeah I've got a similar problem. I'm using the same motherboard, with an Intel Core 2 Duo e6750, with 2x2GB Corsair DDR2-800 (CM2X2048-6400C5) sticks of RAM.

Either stick runs through Memtest86+ v4.00 fine, in either memory slot too, but both together causes issues and runs errors at the same spot every time (about 50% in).

I'm about to throw some RAM in from my main PC, which uses the same kind of RAM. I'm beginning to think that perhaps it's a problem with dual-channel, though some more investigation will probably help.

Perhaps it's an incompatibility with this brand/type of RAM and this motherboard, though that seems quite unlikely to me. This problem has been causing me a great deal of trouble. I actually have 2 of these motherboards... *sigh*

I'll see how I go and get back to you if I remember.

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inomad_44   10-12-2009 at 11:42:39 PM
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i just bought this board and ive tried 2 cpuz 3.4 2 hard drives 2 sets of ram and this thing still freeszes up me at desktop after a few mins so i try reinstalling and it freezes up there to so theres 2 types of asus p5kpl-cm board rolling around 1's that work and 1's that don't

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jelreyn   10-12-2009 at 11:52:46 PM
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jelreyn wrote :

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cuz both my memory sticks work by them selves but as soon i install one in the second slot all it does is beep a bunch times and wont boot up at all. so here i am with a lousy 2 gb or ram instead of 4 has anyone else had this problem?



Yeah I've got a similar problem. I'm using the same motherboard, with an Intel Core 2 Duo e6750, with 2x2GB Corsair DDR2-800 (CM2X2048-6400C5) sticks of RAM.

Either stick runs through Memtest86+ v4.00 fine, in either memory slot too, but both together causes issues and runs errors at the same spot every time (about 50% in).

I'm about to throw some RAM in from my main PC, which uses the same kind of RAM. I'm beginning to think that perhaps it's a problem with dual-channel, though some more investigation will probably help.

Perhaps it's an incompatibility with this brand/type of RAM and this motherboard, though that seems quite unlikely to me. This problem has been causing me a great deal of trouble. I actually have 2 of these motherboards... *sigh*

I'll see how I go and get back to you if I remember.



Actually I worked out what the problem was for me. It was faulty (intermittent) RAM. Weird thing was when I tested each stick with memtest86+ v4.00 individually, they tested fine, however when I (eventually) tested them together, repeatable errors would appear. So I tested both sticks individually in a different motherboard I had handy, and found one of the sticks to be faulty. I've since returned the RAM and received a replacement, and the motherboard is now working fine. So is the other one. So I don't think the motherboard is so bad... I actually bought a 3rd one recently to build another cheap e5300-based PC. Works fine.

Thanks.

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