Asus P5LD2 motherboard: features, processors and connectivity

The features, features and specifications of the Asus P5LD2 motherboard will be discussed in detail in the review material you are offering. Also, the connection of this computer product to other components of the PC will be described, and the owners' feedback is given.

In brief about this product

Essentially Asus P5LD2 is a whole series of motherboards. But since the set of system logic and the socket are identical, there are no such essential differences between them. The most advanced version of this motherboard was denoted by the code word DELUXE. More modest versions were designated as VM, SE, VM-DH and VM-SE.

Chipset of this motherboard

Like most solutions of that time, Asus P5LD2 is based on a 2-component set of system logic, which consists of the north and south bridges. The first was Intel P945, and the second was ICH7R from the same Intel corporation. An important feature of the cooling system of this family of products was that they were equipped with a passive cooling system. A larger radiator was installed on the north bridge, and a small one - on the south bridge. This constructive solution was more than enough for a stable and reliable operation of the computer system. But the noise level due to this technical solution remained at an acceptable level.

Socket

Any Asus P5LD2 card was based on the 775 processor socket. These solutions allowed installing both single-core CPUs and dual-core processors. But 4-core chips, although they were at this platform, but because of limitations from the "BIOS" they could not be installed in such motherboards.

Processors

An impressive list of chips supported the solutions of the Asus P5LD2 family. The processors of the following modifications could be installed in the motherboards of this series:

• "Pentium 4" with one computing module and with system bus speeds 533/800/1066 MHz.

• Two-module "Pentium D" and "Pentium E" with system bus frequencies 800/1066 MHz.

• Dual-core "Celeron D" with a system bus frequency of 533 MHz.

• "Cor 2 Duo" with two computational units and a system bus frequency of 1066MHz. Also with the same characteristics supported chips "Cor 2 Extreme".

Separately, it should be noted that more powerful solutions based on central processing units with 2 compute modules could be installed with such a motherboard only after updating the BIOS. If this procedure is not followed, then there might be problems with determining the CPU model.

Graphic arts

To implement the graphics subsystem, this family of motherboards was equipped with only one PCI Express x16 slot. Therefore, it is impossible to install two video accelerators in such a PC at once. But the presence of such a slot allows such computer systems to install even modern graphics cards, for example, Ge Force 970. But the question of expediency remains open. When installing such an advanced graphics solution, the remaining components of the computer system will not allow it to fully reveal its potential.

RAM

All motherboards of this series were made in the format of ATX. As a result, they were equipped with 4 slots for installing RAM modules. In this case, only DDR2 with frequencies of 400, 533 and 667 MHz could be used. Another feature of this family of computer products is that the 2-channel mode was supported. That is, these motherboards are aimed at using just 2 RAM modules and at the same time increasing the level of performance. That is more correct in such a computer system to use 2 modules of 1GB, than one, but 2GB. This will allow in practice with other identical components to obtain a 10-15 percent increase in productivity. The maximum amount of RAM that can be addressed by such a motherboard was 4GB.

Interfaces

An impressive set of interfaces was implemented in the products of the Asus P5LD2 family. Characteristics They had the following in this regard:

• PCI slots - 3 pcs.

• Slots PCI Express x1 - 3pcs.

• IDE ports for connecting hard drives and CD-ROM drives - 2pcs.,
  But at the same time the total number of such devices can be 4.

• SATA ports for connection to a computer system of a drive of a compact disc and a hard disk - 4 pcs.

• The sound card based on the Realtek ALC882 chip is integrated into the motherboard and, as a result, there are audio ports on the motherboard for the speaker system and microphone.

• There is also a network Ethernet port on the motherboard , at the hardware level, which is provided by the Marvell 88E8053 chip.

• For connection of peripheral devices 2 PS / 2 ports are provided. Also
  There is one COM port and one LPT port.

• The number of ports on the Universal Serial Bus motherboard is 4. Additional 2 USB ports can be output to the back of the system unit using a special expansion board.

Connectivity

A 20-pin connector whose top row is numbered from left to right from 1 to 10, and the bottom row from 11 to 20, the front panel is in the right corner of any Asus P5LD2 series motherboard. The connection of the front panel is given in Table 1.

Table 1. Connecting the front panel to the series of Asus P5LD2 motherboards.

Note: All power wires on the front panel of the chassis of the system unit are always the same color - white. The remaining wires are of a different color.

Reviews

Any Asus P5LD2 motherboard is a time-tested solution. Of course, now its performance leaves us to be definitely better. The most serious tasks on such computer systems normally will not work. This is the most demanding toys, and graphics editors, and other demanding applications to the hardware resources of the PC. But for such simple tasks as WEB-surfing, office packages and unpretentious toys, their computing resources will be exactly enough. Reviews also highlight the high reliability of such personal computers. At the time of this series of products, the level of functionality they had one of the best. Now it is not enough to create a good computer system. Among other advantages of such PCs, it is necessary to allocate a low level of their noise in the process of work: after all, a passive cooling system based on two aluminum radiators of the motherboard makes itself felt.

Results

The series of motherboards from Asus P5LD2 in 2006-2008 allowed to assemble really productive PCs that could solve a wide range of tasks. At the same time, an impressive list of modifications of this product made it possible to choose exactly the solution that was ideally suited for the financial capabilities of a specific customer.