The Asus P5N-T Deluxe is another high-end tri-SLI motherboard from ASUS much like the Asus P5N72-T Premium mobo. It offers tri-SLI through the use of the NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI chipset and GPU transport through 3 PCI-E x16 slots. The P5N-T is Intel socket LGA 775 ready meaning it supports Intel Quad-core, Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Duo and Pentium processors as well as the new 45nm multi-core CPUs. ASUS claims the P5N-T is one of the most energy efficient in the world through the use of ASUS EPU technology which digitally maintains the CPU power supply. The P5N also includes a heat pipe which ASUS notes lowers the overall mobo temp by up to 10 deg Celsius. For memory the motherboard contains 4 DIMM slots which support dual channel DDR2 1066+ ram modules up to 8GB maximum. For additional peripherals the P5N also includes 8 channel audio outputs, ATA100, 2 PCI-E and one PCI slot, a regular 1000Mbps Lan port, 4 USB 2.0, IEEE 1394a, 1 eSATA 3GB/s, and an optical and coaxial S/PDIF Out. The P5N-T Deluxe was released on January 17,2007 and has an MSRP price of $230.
