puntoMX Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 (edited) ASUS wants to be the first with onboard DDR3 RAM. Don´t know what to think about it but I would see what you guys and girls think about it .General specs are:- Intel LGA775 Platform - Intel® P35 chipset- Intel® Core™2 Quad / Core™2 Extreme / Core™2 Duo / Pentium® Extreme / Pentium® D / Pentium® 4 Processors- Onboard memory, 2GB, DDR3 1333MHz- Onboard memory feature Guaranteed to overclock above DDR3 1500- Pure Copper Heat Pipe - 6*SATA/2*SATA on the Go/ 1394a- Dual Gigabit LANLink to the P5K3 Premium/WiFi-AP. Edited July 9, 2007 by puntoMX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 ya i saw the video review of it with an asus guy. suppose to be fairly cheap too, compared to buying the ram separatly. it is hand picked ram that should overclock very nicely and stay very cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted July 9, 2007 Author Share Posted July 9, 2007 Well, the board is like 250 US$ online, 2GB RAM is like 70 US$ for DDR2 and for 210 US$ you have DDR3.I still think that people who buy highend motherboards will stay with non-onboard RAM, even if they sell the combo for 350 US$... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noguru Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 The combo like this is relatively cheap and separate RAM won't be cooled with these very nice heatpipes. I would like to have this board for the looks alone.But if this memory ever fails it can't be replaced! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted July 9, 2007 Author Share Posted July 9, 2007 (edited) Well, the memory doesn´t die that fast, not even when you OC it to the max. with the ASUS software/hardware settings.But ASUS gives normaly 3 years on there products, so does iNTEL on there CPUs (boxed versions). In Europe you got 2 years on consumer electronics any way, and the law in holland is protecting consumers well.More woried about the RAM that isn´t be upgradeable... Looks are indeed okay with those nice coper ribs . Edited July 9, 2007 by puntoMX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Whoa... that's actually not too bad of an idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weEvil Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 Cool idea. But can you add more ram? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Whoa... that's actually not too bad of an idea. Changing your mind on the mobo for your file server?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 Cool idea. But can you add more ram?No you can´t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brando569 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 thats a pretty cool idea, but i dont like the idea of it not being upgradeable. i would like to see a setting in the bios that would allow you to disable the onboard RAM and use the RAM slots and vice versa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 thats a pretty cool idea, but i dont like the idea of it not being upgradeable. i would like to see a setting in the bios that would allow you to disable the onboard RAM and use the RAM slots and vice versa.there are no ram slots..but what i want to know is what is under the ram heatsink? are there slots there? if so, how many? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brando569 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 i noticed that, that kinda fell in with my "not being upgradeable" statement, i should of stated that more clearly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weEvil Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Cool idea. But can you add more ram?No you can´t.Well, that's pretty useless then. Just buy a motherboard and you can pick how much RAM to put in and then upgrade. Instead of buying a new one everytime you need more RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbolt 2864 Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Motherboard with onboard RAM, nice, but you can't put any more RAM? Not good.Not a fan of ASUS anyway, the design and the layout of most ASUS motherboards aren't appealing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted July 10, 2007 Author Share Posted July 10, 2007 I wonder why you say that the design isn´t good, any good reason for it? Only design from them that wan´t good was the A7V; problems with the USB bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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