Asus is a familiar name to the extreme PC crowd, renowned for producing some of the most extensively featured boards for anyone bucks-up enough to afford them.

Of course, Asus also produces lower-range parts for the OEM crowd, but to much less fanfare. But who doesn't love fanfare? With so much excitement surrounding Intel’s new Core 2 Duo processors, we’re eager to go big with a top-of-the-line enthusiast board.

In that spirit, today we're taking a look at one board that promises to help deliver the most from your shiny new processor: the P5B Deluxe WiFi-AP Edition.

Asus’s latest “AI Lifestyle” product offers so many added-value features that we couldn’t wait to put these, plus its performance, into a value perspective.