http://www.maximumpc.com/tags/asus_p5e3 used for category lists, takes arguments en http://www.maximumpc.com/article/asus_p5e3_deluxe_wi_fi_ap <!--paging_filter--><p> We’ll be the first to admit that we were unimpressed by DDR3 when we first tested it last year, but there’s finally a glimmer of hope. </p> <p>What changed our minds? Asus’s spanking-fast P5E3 Deluxe WiFi-AP@n mobo, which uses the enthusiast-oriented X38 chipset. The X38’s main highlights are apparently useful DDR3 support and PCI Express 2.0 support. We say “apparently” in reference to DDR3 because we didn’t have a DDR2 version of the board for a direct comparison, but from our tests, the X38 with DDR3 is a winning combination. Also good to have but not a proven performance boost yet is PCI-E 2.0, which doubles the bandwidth of PCI-E 1.0 from 8GB/s to 16GB/s. But does PCI-E 2.0 matter? </p> <p>Click Read More for more.  </p> <p><a href="http://www.maximumpc.com/article/asus_p5e3_deluxe_wi_fi_ap">read more</a></p> http://www.maximumpc.com/article/asus_p5e3_deluxe_wi_fi_ap#comments Hardware January 2008 Reviews Motherboards From the Magazine asus ASUS P5E3 ASUS P5E3 Deluxe Wi-Fi bearlake build a pc DDR3 Gordon mobo motherboard pci express 2.0 Review 2008 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:18:12 -0600 Gordon Mah Ung 1662 at http://www.maximumpc.com