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| January 25, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Incisive Media, published with the permission of Incisive Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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Ready and waiting to be built

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Q I'd like to build a Core 2 Duo PC and have my eye on the Asus P5W DH Deluxe board as it's supposed to be good for overclocking. I'm sure I read somewhere you have to update it to work with the new processor. Is that true?

Peter Neal

A The Asus P5W DH Deluxe is a very popular motherboard for LGA 775 processors, as it's a rock-solid performer that also offers decent overclocking facilities for those who like to tweak. We tested it in PCW's January Hardware and Performance columns (see www.pcw.co.uk/2168157 and www.pcw.co.uk/2168652 and used it for a media server project in this month's Hands on Hardware.

It's a great choice for the Core 2 Duo, but as you've read, it needs to be updated to support the new processor. Many P5W DH Deluxes are labelled as Core 2 Duo-ready, but are still running an older Bios which won't support them. We tested one such model which was running Bios version 0301. Annoyingly, this earlier Bios version simply won't allow your system to boot up if fitted ...

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