Motherboard compatibility test
ASUS P5LD2 Deluxe





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Motherboard specifications

Revision 1.02
CPU Single socket 775
Intel Pentium 4
Chipset Intel 945P
Expansion slots 2 PCI Express (x16)
1 PCI Express (x1)
3 PCI
Storage South Bridge Intel ICH7R:
1 x Ultra DMA 100 EIDE
4 x serial ATA

IT8211 ATA RAID:
2 x Ultra DMA 133/100/66
Onboard Silicon Image 3132 controller
I/O Onboard Realtek ALC880/882 audio controller
Onboard Marvell 88E8053
Gigabit Ethernet network controller
Front Side Bus 1066/800/533MHz


Windows XP test results

Tested configuration
CPU  Single Pentium 4 3.4 GHz (Hyper-Threading enabled)
Front Side Bus 800 MHz
BIOS AMI version 0312 Date: 06/14/2005
Memory 1 GB DDR2 RAM
Storage  System drive on serial ATA channel 1. The A/V drives were striped together in a software RAID on channels 3 and 4.
Software Matrox X.tools build 6122 with Hotfix 2 and Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.1

Installed expansion cards
PCI
slot #
Slot type Card installed
1 PCI Express (x16) Matrox Millennium P650 PCIe 128
2 PCI (32-bit)
3 PCI (32-bit) Creative Sound Blaster Live!
4 PCI Express (x16)
5 PCI Express (x1)
6 PCI (32-bit) Matrox RT.X

Additional required software
We installed patches and drivers in the following order:
1 Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows XP Updates
2 Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility, version 7.0.0.1019 Date: 04/22/2005
(downloaded from the ASUS web site)
3 Onboard Realtek ALC880/882 audio controller, version 5.10.0.5125 Date: 04/25/2005
(installed from the CD that comes with the motherboard)
4 Onboard Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet network controller, version 8.20.10.3 Date: 05/09/2005
(downloaded from the ASUS web site)
5 Onboard IT8211 ATA RAID controller, version 1.3.2.0 Date: 03/04/2005
(installed from the CD that comes with the motherboard)
6 Onboard Silicon Image 3132 controller, version 1.0.0.9 Date: 01/19/2005
(installed from the CD that comes with the motherboard)
7 Matrox PCI Optimizer

Comments

Note: Unless otherwise specified, validation testing is performed using the system/motherboard default settings.

The onboard Realtek ALC880/882 audio controller is not compatible for use with a Matrox RT.X system.

Tested AGP display cards
Card Driver 16* 32*
Matrox P650 PCI Express Version 1.09.01.014
Date: 05/10/2005
Yes Yes
GIGABYTE GV-NX59128D Version 77.72
Date: 06/22/2005
Yes Yes

Tested sound cards
  Card   Driver   PCI  
Creative Sound Blaster Live! Revision SBLW-XPWEB-W4-US
Date: 02/28/2003
3
Hercules Fortissimo III 7.1 Version 6.09
Date: 02/28/2003
3


*16 and 32 refer to color depth in bits



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The information in this document is subject to change. For the latest updates to this information, please check this site often. Matrox does not guarantee that the hardware listed as recommended will perform adequately to meet any particular customer's needs. This document shows our results at the time of testing. Changes to these systems may have occurred since completion of our tests. Contact the motherboard and computer system vendor for particular BIOS versions. Other untested computer systems may provide adequate performance; however, you may experience configuration difficulties. This document was last updated November 10th, 2005.


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