Motherboard lettering?

I've wondered this for a while. Its there any meaning to ASUS's motherboard
lettering. In P5, there is P5B, P5E, P5K, P5Q, P5N, P5G, P5W, etc.

The first P6 board is the P6T.

Is there any method to the lettering? Age, release order, chipset,
whatever? How do they pick the letter for each board?

And then there's the oddballs like Maximus II Formula.

Bruce.

On Dec 18, 8:12*pm, "Bruce." wrote:
I've wondered this for a while. *Its there any meaning to ASUS's motherboard
lettering. *In P5, there is P5B, P5E, P5K, P5Q, P5N, P5G, P5W, etc.

The first P6 board is the P6T.

Is there any method to the lettering? *Age, release order, chipset,
whatever? *How do they pick the letter for each board?

And then there's the oddballs like Maximus II Formula.

Bruce.

I don't know about the B, E, K, N, G, W suffixes but it sure seems
like higher numbers in the Pdigit part of the designation mean a newer
series of motherboards. Like we have seen a P3 P4, P5 series and now
we get a P6 series.

Howard

Generally, P# refers to the Intel CPU (P4=Pentium 4, P5=Core2Duo, P6=Core
i7). They have an A# series for the various AMD CPU's.

The next letter refers to chipset, sometimes taken from the codenames used
by the manufacturers (Intel, AMD, Nvidia, VIA, SIS).

"Bruce." wrote in message
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I've wondered this for a while. Its there any meaning to ASUS's
motherboard lettering. In P5, there is P5B, P5E, P5K, P5Q, P5N, P5G, P5W,
etc.

The first P6 board is the P6T.

Is there any method to the lettering? Age, release order, chipset,
whatever? How do they pick the letter for each board?

And then there's the oddballs like Maximus II Formula.

Bruce.

its_timay wrote:
Generally, P# refers to the Intel CPU (P4=Pentium 4, P5=Core2Duo,
P6=Core i7). They have an A# series for the various AMD CPU's.

The P5 series started with the socket 775, not the Core2 series of
CPU's. My P5P800 is running a 3.4 GHz Prescott and I am not sure if it
can even handle the Core2 series of CPUs.


The next letter refers to chipset, sometimes taken from the codenames
used by the manufacturers (Intel, AMD, Nvidia, VIA, SIS).

"Bruce." wrote in message
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I've wondered this for a while. Its there any meaning to ASUS's
motherboard lettering. In P5, there is P5B, P5E, P5K, P5Q, P5N, P5G,
P5W, etc.

The first P6 board is the P6T.

Is there any method to the lettering? Age, release order, chipset,
whatever? How do they pick the letter for each board?

And then there's the oddballs like Maximus II Formula.

Bruce.

"its_timay" writes:

Generally, P# refers to the Intel CPU (P4=Pentium 4, P5=Core2Duo,
P6=Core i7). They have an A# series for the various AMD CPU's.

More like an M# series these days.

The next letter refers to chipset, sometimes taken from the codenames
used by the manufacturers (Intel, AMD, Nvidia, VIA, SIS).

Not really always, though. For example, P5E has X38 and some others in
the series too, but some, like the P5E Deluxe have X48 instead.

If there is a fourth character and it's a '3', then looks like that
means the motherboard takes DDR3 memory.

"its_timay" wrote in message
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Generally, P# refers to the Intel CPU (P4=Pentium 4, P5=Core2Duo, P6=Core
i7). They have an A# series for the various AMD CPU's.

The next letter refers to chipset, sometimes taken from the codenames used
by the manufacturers (Intel, AMD, Nvidia, VIA, SIS).

Thanks. Any guess where the T in P6T comes from? The chipset is X58 but I
can't find a reference to a codename.

Bruce.

Bruce. wrote:
"its_timay" wrote in message
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Generally, P# refers to the Intel CPU (P4=Pentium 4, P5=Core2Duo, P6=Core
i7). They have an A# series for the various AMD CPU's.

The next letter refers to chipset, sometimes taken from the codenames used
by the manufacturers (Intel, AMD, Nvidia, VIA, SIS).

Thanks. Any guess where the T in P6T comes from? The chipset is X58 but I
can't find a reference to a codename.

Bruce.


The "T" is for Tylersburg (name of X58). Just a guess.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA1366

Paul

"Paul" wrote in message
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The "T" is for Tylersburg (name of X58). Just a guess.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGA1366

Cool. Thanks Paul.

Bruce.