BEST MOTHERBOARD
Asus P5AD2 Premium
We secretly call the Asus P5AD2 Premium
“the Sink” for short. That’s because it jams every mobo
feature you’d ever want onto a PCB. We’re talking
FireWire B, dual Gigabit LAN, onboard Wi-Fi, an external
SATA adapter, and no fewer than three—three!—RAID
subsystems. Couple this with Intel’s new 925X PCI
Express chipset (which heralded the brave new world
of PCI Express) and you’ve got what is clearly the best
motherboard of 2004.
http://www.asus.com, $260 (925X chipset: http://www.intel.com)DECEMBER 2004 MA XIMUMPC 33