The ASUS P5AD2 Premium i925X Motherboard Review!

[Chai]

Yes it will work on Linux, but I doubt there's full driver support for all the onboard devices. Check the ASUS website for more details on driver support for Linux.

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by lerum

i'm a millionaire so i'm gonna buy on right now if one of you can answer my question!

Does it support Linux?

Cool! You are probably the first millionaire we know.

Yeah, Chai is right. The motherboard will run in Linux but the other third-party features, well, that will depend on whether their manufacturers have Linux drivers.

[rebelsoul76]

i'm not sure if you guys have read this b4, but is the latest news from Tom's Hardware, date September 16, 2004 (yesterday)


The latest P5AD2 BIOS can unlock P4's multiplier, which is widely known to be locked by Intel!

from Tom's Hardware website:

Asus Bios Unlocks P4 Overclocking Potential
It can finally be done. Asus now delivers BIOS versions with its Socket 775 motherboards that allow you to tweak Pentium 4 Prescott multipliers, which represents a first step by a mobo maker to unleash the processor's overclocking potential.

While Asus' 'CPU Lock Free' mobo BIOS feature won't unlock the full potential of Pentium 4 multipliers, it does makes use of Intel Prescott's Performance Requirement Bit feature. It is now thus possible to unlock the multiplier for high-end P4 Prescott processor.

This news is not ground breaking, but significant all of the same. Think about running a Pentium 4 Processor 550 or 560 with a next-generation FSB1066, DDR2 at 350 MHz (DDR2-710) and a 3.72-GHz core clock speed? Sound like fun?

We dug our P5AD2 out of a stack of other motherboards, installed a new BIOS version Asus sent us and gave it a try.