Specifications
| ASUS P5AD2-E i925XE Socket-T | |
| CPU Support | All LGA775 processors |
| Northbridge | Intel i925XE |
| Memory Support | 4 slots, DDR-II only. 400MHz, 533MHz, and 600MHz support at 200MHz FSB. 4GB max, dual-channel |
| AGP | None |
| PEG16X | One slot |
| Southbridge | Intel ICH6/R |
| Audio | CMI 9880 from ICH6/R - High-definition audio |
| Audio Connectivity | 6-port backplane speaker, Optical and coaxial S/PDIF output |
| PCI | 3 x 32-bit 33MHz PCI 2.1 slots |
| PCI Express | 2 x X1 slots |
| IDE | 1 ATA133 compliant port from ICH6/R |
| IDE RAID | ITE 8212F - 2 ATA133 ports. Capable of RAID0, RAID1, RAID0+1 and JBOD modes |
| SATA | 4 ports from ICH6/R and a further 4 ports from Silicon Image 3114R controller |
| SATA RAID | RAID0 and RAID1 from Intel Matrix Storage and RAID0, RAID1, RAID0+1, RAID5 (via software patch) and JBOD from Sil3114 |
| Networking | Dual Gigabit Ethernet Controllers. Marvell 88E8001-LKJ PCI-based controller and 88E8053 PCI Express-based controller |
| Networking Wireless | Marvell 88W8310 two-chip 802.11g Wireless controller with on-board antenna port |
| USB | ICH6/R, 4 x backplane USB2.0, 4 x I/O USB2.0 |
| FireWire | 2x FireWire800(1394b) and 1x FireWire400 (1394a) from Ti TSB81BA3 OCHI controller |
| Other I/O | PS/2, Parallel |
Not much change from the incumbent i925X ASUS motherboard, but we didn't really expect that. Support for a faster FSB is the main differentiator.
