Customer Reviews

ASUS P5KPL-CM LGA775 Intel G31 DDR2-800 Intel GMA X3100 IGP mATX Motherboard

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

As the other review said, this is a very good motherboard for your basic builds. Watch out for Deal Barn however, they did not mention that this was an OEM board (did not come in retail box, did not come with any IDE or SATA cables for connecting hardware). Also, it was a first generation board, so the bios should be updated. This is the only reason I give it 3 stars. If it were not OEM, I would have given it 5 stars.

Posted in the first 7 sec. after power on. Used EZ flash from my other sister computer to set BIOS. No problems so far.

I have used over 300 of these boards in work station installs, NOT 1 ISSUE!! Been using these since they came out and have been very happy with the reliability. Have also used them in my 3 home HTPC's and they work great for that application. What else can I say, GREAT PRODUCT!!

This motherboard is a tiny m-ATX board. Has onboard graphics and supports lga775 up to core 2 quad. The northbridge however, would overheat when i installed a pci-e graphics card. I tried first with an nvidia 7900gs, then with an nvidia 9800gt. Both would overheat the northbridge so that the only way i could use it was to leave the side panel off and blow a big fan directly onto the northbridge heatsink. Alternative solution would be to get a better heatsink/fan for the northbridge. I double-checked for good contact of the heatsink and verified that the heatsink would be very hot when operating. After a few minutes, the whole system would freeze-even with 3 case fans and a large cpu heatsink/fan. Blowing a fan directly onto the northbridge heatsink would cause unfreeze within a matter of seconds. Turn the fan off, freeze, fan on, unfreeze. I ended up using the onboard graphics and giving the computer to my aunt as an office pc. In that capacity, it works fine.

I would beware this particular product especially if purchased from Deal Barn.

1. The Board I received from them was NOT the board listed here, it was the P5KPL-CM/1600. This board is an Engineering Board and support is practically non-existent. I discovered this through ASUS Support over the phone with them today. The P5KPL-CM/1600 is a supposedly a European Board.

2. BIOS Cannot be updated due to it being an Engineering Model.

3. Drivers for this board are VERY hard to find and require that you know the particulars about just about everything on the board to find the right ones.

The P5KPL-CM board is a decent board but MAKE SURE that the board you get is NOT a P5KPL-CM/1600. If you get that board return it promptly as it is NOT the same board.

i just installed a new computer and i got this motherboard and intel 2 quad 2.83 pro
it work great only problem i had with it is the sound use via chepset and my pci dvr recording card does not like via chipset
my second point is the pci slots are too low on the bottom of case and i have a high end graphic card that takes two spaces on the motherboard.
i couldn't install it in the lowest pci slot because there is no room.
but overall great motherboard i recomend it for biggeners.