Asus P5B-VM Micro-ATX Motherboard
 

This review will be taking a look at the P5B-VM from Asus. We paired this motherboard with a Core 2 Duo processor, but it's quad-core ready, and has some nice specs including an Intel G965/ICH8 chipset, four memory slots, and a 1066 MHz FSB. In case you want to keep things simple is has on-board graphics, courtesy of Intel, but it also has a PCI Express x16 slot you so you can throw in a video card if you want. On paper this looks like a very solid Micro-ATX motherboard, one that has many of the features one would need from an ATX motherboard, but is considerable smaller. For testing we put this motherboard in a SilverStone SG03 case, one of the more compact Micro-ATX cases on the market, with an Intel E6600 processor, 500GB Western Digital WD5000KS, and 2GB of Kingston DDR2 RAM. The end result was a Micro-ATX system that was designed to offer serious performance without taking up much space. Let's take a closer look at the heart of the system, the P5B-VM..

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