For the chipset Asus officially supports 1.66GHz front side bus up from 1.33Ghz of Intel's spec and all the way up to DDR2 1200MHz RAM. The P5Q Deluxe supports true 16 phase power, as mentioned their EPU power saving support, Asus Q-Shield, Q-Connector, Drive Xpert, Die Hard BIOS, O.C. Profiles, Fan Xpert and more. Read more about these features over at Asus' website. Suffice to say the Asus P5Q Deluxe is overloaded with unique features from Asus but the largest and newest by far is Express Gate SSD. This is a proprietary pre-boot environment with the OS loaded from the BIOS ROM and a Linux stack on a flash drive onboard the motherboard. We'll go into detail soon with a review of the software but suffice to say it is a very interesting and cool feature from Asus.



Link: AMDZone