The P5GD2 is another full-featured motherboard by Asus. Everything you'll ever ask for in a motherboard is already supported and included inside the packaging. Wireless LAN, PCI-Express, Gigabit LAN, HD-AUDIO, SATA/IDE RAID, Dual Channel, N.O.S. are only some of the board's long list of features.

To measure the performance of the P5GD2, we ran a series of tests covering both 2D and 3D applications. The motherboard managed to pleasantly surprise us as it outperformed both of its contestants in all of our benchmarks by usually large differences, especially in PCMark04 and 3DMark01.

Just when we thought overclocking was easy with the P5AD2-E, Asus surprised us with the overclocking available on the P5GD2. With just the press of a button in the BIOS, our P4 3.0GHz was successfully turned into a P4 3.9GHz system. We didn't have to mess with any voltage settings or even clock frequencies!

The motherboard costs approximately US$180. Consider the money you might have spent on a Wireless card, HD audio card or some other extra component. Add to that the performance of the motherboard and all its features, be it hardware or even BIOS based and you have a winner motherboard, totally worth its money.

Pros:
- Full-featured at the right cost
- Excellent performance
- Easy yet high overclocking

Cons:
- Only 2 PCI slots

Features
Performance
BIOS/Overclocking
Value for money