P5K Deluxe WiFi AP Thread.

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Hopefully, this will be a worthy successor to the P5B Deluxe Wifi AP.

Some pics first.

Suspicious - No footprint.


Box.


Board fully clothed.

Note how close the southbridge is to the main PCI-E slot. This makes it almost impossible to use the larger heatpipe coolers such as the HR-05 or Noctua if you are using an air cooled card. The good news is that if you are using a waterblock, a HR-05 just fits with a few MM to spare. The SLI version of the HR-05 should fit better.


Arty farty shot.


CPU area before interference. Plenty of room, and the mosfets arent partially hidden like on some of the 965 boards.


Stupid Fecking Eejit sockets. For me, this is a silly design error. If you are running a large graphics card like an 8800GTX, 2 of the 6 SATA ports are obscured, and the location of the SATA ports makes it really fiddly for plugging cables in. As much as I hated them, the angled connectors from the Commando/Striker would have been better here.


Arty farty shot 2.


Back of the board.


Back of the mosfets.


Heatpipe sits flat for a change. Unlike almost every Asus board Ive used recently, the heatpipes sit nice and flush and might actually work. I wont be trying them though.


And so does this one.


And this one.


This one was only making proper contact at either end


Southbridge


Bearlakeyness.


Board Nekkid.


Thermal tape for HR-09 mod.

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Sticky. The HR-09 heatsinks wouldnt fit on the P5K, one side was too long, one side was too short, so I fitted the clip to one end of the HR-09 and tried to use double sided Sekisui thermal tape, but unfortunately it wasnt sticky enough and one end kept lifting up.


More Tape.


HR-09 in place (not for long!).


Both in place.


Tother one.


Backplate held on.


Backplate. This thing reduced my temps by around 18-20c on the P5B, and its less than a fiver, so worth doing.


HR-09 Mod - screwed into motherboard standoff hole. As mentioned above, the clips wouldnt fit in the holes, so I used a clip at one end and then removed the pushpin at the other and used a 8mm M3 screw and screwed it directly into one of the motherboard standoffs


HR-09 mod - Unfortunately there were no spare holes to bolt this one down, so I made a little bracket and bolted it to the bottom left CPU bolt. Works well, and I am really surprised how hot these get.

Some overclocking results later hopefully, thats if it doesnt explode in a ball of flames

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