At the start of sales in 2005, the Asus boardP5LD2 Deluxe was positioned by the manufacturer as a premium solution. It supported the most productive processor units at that time and allowed to assemble the most high-speed computing systems.
The following components were included in the list of configuration of the motherboard in question:
The LGA775 was equipped with a system connectorAsus P5LD2 Deluxe. Its characteristics indicated that it was based on the Intel 945P chipset. More specifically, this is the name of the northern chipset chipset. The south bridge, in turn, was designated ICH7. This implementation of motherboards is now completely outdated due to the fact that the current similar solutions are based only on one south bridge, and the northern manufacturers have safely incorporated into the processor unit.
An impressive list of additional controllerscould boast Asus P5LD2 Deluxe. With their help, the level of functionality of this board has significantly improved. In this list, the manufacturer has included the following chips:
Передовым списком чипов, которые можно было set on this motherboard, by the standards of 2005 could boast Asus P5LD2 Deluxe. Supported processors belonged to one of three families:
Budget class solutions are Celeron. One core, minimum cache size and low frequencies allowed them to be used only as part of office PCs.
Chips of the middle class are Pentium 4. Improved specifications, larger cache and increased frequencies made it possible to play quite comfortably in most toys.
The flagship in this case were the devices of the Pentium D series. They had 2 computational modules, and this provided a significant increase in performance and speed.
As noted earlier, the controllerthe operational storage device in Asus P5LD2 Deluxe was a part of the north bridge. It could only work with DDR2 standard RAM modules, the clock frequencies of which could be 400/533/667 MHz. It was also possible to install and higher-speed strips of RAM, for example, DDR2 - 800 MHz. But at the same time, the clock frequency of the latter would be artificially lowered to the maximum possible in this case 667 MHz.
The amount of RAM that is capableThis motherboard was addressed, it was equal to 4 GB. There were 4 slots for installing RAM in this case. That is, in each of them it was possible to install only a 1 GB bar. The controller of the operational device was able to work in dual channel mode. Therefore, it was more preferable to install 2 modules of 512 MB instead of one per 1 GB. This allowed in some cases to increase the performance of the computing system by an additional 10-15 percent.
Asus P5LD2 Deluxe was equipped with the following expansion slots:
2 slots format PCI-E version 16X.The main one was blue, and the additional one was black. These slots were intended for installation of discrete graphic accelerators. And it was necessary to install 2 immediately and use it in SLI mode (only NVidia video cards were supported), it was possible to significantly increase the speed of the video subsystem. This circumstance made it possible to create full-fledged graphic stations on the basis of such a motherboard.
The PCI-E version 1.0 slot was equipped with the motherboard in question. New modifications of expansion controllers could be installed in it: TV tuner, sound card, network adapter.
Also, this solution was equipped with 3 slots of the PCI standard. Their purpose was similar to PCI-E revision 1.0, but only in this case outdated modifications of external expansion controllers were used.
P5LD2 Deluxe was equipped with a fairly good set of integrated communication ports. In this list, the manufacturer included:
2 PS / 2 format connectors for switching with a manipulator (it was green) and a keyboard (purple).
1 parallel port LPT. With it, connected printers and scanners.
4 ports of USB 2.0 standard. In this case, it was possible to connect various peripheral devices to the PC.
RJ-45 without any problems allowed to carry out switching to a computer network.
A set of 3.5 mm Audiojack connectors could output sound to an external speaker system.
Reasonably high was the cost of the Asus P5LD2Deluxe even by today's standards - $ 250. And this is its main drawback. Considering that this is a premium level solution, there was nothing supernatural about this pricing. But there were significantly more advantages in this case: the high functionality of the motherboard, support for all available models of processor devices at that time, large amounts of RAM, the presence of a PCI-E slot for installing a discrete graphics system. As a result, practically any system units based on this solution were not difficult to implement. But still the use of such a motherboard was more justified in the case of the assembly of high-performance PC.
