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Out of 15 Review(s)
5 star: (8)
4 star: (5)
3 star: (2)
2 star: (0)
1 star: (0)
Average Rating
GeorgesCollombia
06/05/12
Experience: 1 Months
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Pros
Worked Without any problem on the first try, worth to buy it so far
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Cons
For me the price is abit high but well it is the buyers decision to decide wether to buy or not.
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Summary
I heard that this thing is not that great.but for more i really like it. I think it was what i wanted to be.
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David L
04/23/09
Experience: 6 Weeks
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Pros
Stability&Price
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Cons
Location of the two PCI-E 1x slots (directly below the PCIE 2.0 slot)
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Summary
Been using this board for several weeks now with a Core 2 E8400 3Ghz CPU. This board is a great board for the price. Having two PCI 2.0 slots is only nessasary if you want crossfire support which I don't so I didn't care at all that is only comes with one 1 2.0 slot.
The location of the ATX power connector is in my opionion in a better location then to the right side like most motherboards are. Simply re-angle the PSU power cord around your CPU cooler. This really is not that hard but for some reason many people can't seem to realize this lol. As far as the location of the two PCI-E 1x slots, well, that is a different story. Todays video cards are mostly dual-slot cards, meaning they take up at least two slots in your case. This means one of those PCI-E 1x slots will be covered with only one remaining. You can barely get away with using it but it will block air flow to your video cards cooler depending on how big the cooler on it is. I took away 1 star for this reason and this reason alone...
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Tyreman
03/22/09
Experience: 3 Weeks
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Pros
Works Good.
If you are only going to use only
1 video card this board does the job perfectly.
Good for any decent dual OC.
Running dual here.
Very Stable
Has individual heat sinks which does as good a job.
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Cons
None Period
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Summary
As far as complaints about the atx power connection in the middle of the motherboard?
I have no trouble with that in my
Antec P180b
I have the cable formed under the rear fan between the video card then down along rear of the case, straight down, handi tyed twice to the rear.
The power cable is completely out of the way for video card removal and does not impede airflow!!
Bios pretty similar to the "higher" models in the series
if you look them over.And going to use only 1 video card.
Very feature rich!!
This review was modfied by poster j 03-22-09 09:27 AM
This review was modfied by poster s 03-23-09 06:11 AM
This review was modfied by poster @ 03-23-09 06:21 AM
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nightstalker
01/31/09
Experience: 3 Days
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Pros
Good quality
Not too bad of the price
Support for 16GB of DDR2 Ram
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Cons
second pci-e 2.0 slot
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Summary
Good maintstream motherboard for the price when its on sale. Decent overclocker. The fancy heatsink is just for display IMO. a nice number of SATA cables are included, 4 cables. Overall great product as i would expect from ASUS.
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Joshua_s
01/22/09
Experience: 7 Days
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Pros
-Good Looking
-Affordable
-P45 chipset
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Cons
-1 PCI-Express slot
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Summary
This is a good board for someone who wants a gaming system on a budget, knows they wont need that extra PCI-E slot and wants the P45 chipset at an affordable price. I was pleased that on a 32 bit operating system the board was able to manage about 3.25 GB of the 4 GB of ram I had installed along with a 280 GTX. It performs decently but take that comment with a grain of salt as I have not benchmarked it. I like the easy features of these new P5Q boards, they are easy to install and look cool in a windowed case. Easy 4 stars and id recommend it to anyone who wants performance on a budget, otherwise id look into some higher end boards.
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dogod
10/05/08
Experience: 6 Days
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Pros
uses heatsink - no chipset fan
runs cool
stable oc
12 usb
8 sata
cheap
intel chipset
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Cons
power connector location
no usb ports for internal usb connectors
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Summary
I'm oc this to 3.56GHz with a Q9450 stable, and a 9800GX2. It runs pretty cool w/o the need of a chipset fan, so its quieter than my previous mobo. The 24pin power connector is located at a weird location next to the cpu. it has 6 external usb and 6 internal usb, but it doesn't come with a usb port for the internal usb connectors.
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surfed
10/01/08
Experience: 14 Days
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Pros
Price, looks?, lots of SATA ports, lots of USB ports
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Cons
Power connector in a very bad spot
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Summary
After i ordered this board i found out about incompatibility with linux but installing a distro with a 2.6.27 kernel or newer seems to work for both SATA and Network. The BIOS has lots of options for OC. I was happy to see that my Ninja Cooler fit no problem but I must say that I scratched my head over where ASUS decided to place the power connector on this board, bad design choice.
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Choo
09/02/08
Experience: 1 Weeks
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Pros
P45 Chipset, Great clocking, EPU, Firewire and lots of happy features
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Cons
The main power connector, Cable management
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Summary
Nice looking board with a great chipset and many ports and features. Unfortunately mine was defective and failed, but it worked great while it did. Cable management was the downfall of this board, because the main power connector is located in the middle of nowhere, forcing the cable to push up on larger CPU heatsinks and destroying airflow. Nice yellow heatsinks though.
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Choub890
08/21/08
Experience: 2 Days
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Pros
Good overclocker, OC profile really useful, runs stable, good RAID controler, 3 PCI slots, other than the connectors everything is well placed
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Cons
The 24 pin and 8 pin ATX connectors are really poorly placed, boot is a bit slow
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Summary
I'm really happy with this board so far, it has very good overclocking abilities and the RAID controller that comes with it is very good. Having used RAID-0 on my old EVGA 590i sli board, i can see a big difference in HDD performance. The only downside is the 24 and 8 pin ATX connectors: they are so poorly placed that people might have problems reaching them, so just be sure you can, and this board is perfect for you.
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Bill_W
08/06/08
Experience: 1 Months
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Pros
Amazing build quality, good OC options, looks nice
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Cons
None
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Summary
Great P45 chipset MB, can't go wrong with ASUS, although I have heard some people having OC problems with the P35 series released by them. This board is awesome and running at 4.8 GHz on air!
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Features:P5Q Desktop Board delivers a host of new features and latest technologies, making it another standout in the long line of ASUS quality motherboards!
| Quick Specs: |
| Package Contents |
- P5Q Desktop Board
- 1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 cable
- 1 x FDD cable
- 4 x Serial ATA cables
- 1 x 2-port Serial ATA power cable
- 1 x e SATA bracket
- 1 x 1394 bracket
- 3 in 1 Q-connector
- ASUS Q-Shield
- User manual
- Support Disc
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| Maximum Memory |
16 GB
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| S/PDIF |
Yes
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| Limited Warranty |
3 Year
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| Form Factor |
ATX
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| Processor Supported |
Pentium D
Pentium 4
Core 2 Quad
Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core
Core 2 Extreme
Core 2 Duo
Celeron Dual-Core
Celeron
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| RAID Levels |
1+0
5
1
0
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| Total Processor Supported |
1
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| Controller Type |
Ultra ATA/133 (ATA-7)
Serial ATA/300
Floppy Controller
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| Processor Socket |
Socket T LGA-775
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| Memory Technology |
DDR2 SDRAM
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| Width |
12"
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| Depth |
8.8"
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| Environmentally Friendly |
Yes
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| Environmental Certification |
RoHS
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| Chipset Manufacturer |
Intel
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| Number of Memory Slots |
4
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| Audio Channels |
7.1
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| Gigabit Ethernet |
Yes
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| Number of SATA Interfaces |
8
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| Number of PCI Express x1 Slots |
2
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| RAID Supported |
Yes
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| Number of Total Expansion Slots |
6
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| Number of PCI Express x16 Slots |
1
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| Total Number of USB Ports |
6
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| Total Number of Onboard USB Ports |
3
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| Onboard S/PDIF Header |
Yes
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| Total Number of PCI Express Slots |
3
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| Memory Speed Supported |
667 MHz
800 MHz
1.07 GHz
1.20 GHz
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| ProductId | 1011752322 |
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| Audio |
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| Audio Channels: |
7.1
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| Sound Controller Manufacturer: |
Realtek
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| Sound Controller Model: |
ALC1200
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| General Information |
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| Brand Name: |
Asus
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| Manufacturer: |
ASUS Computer International
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| Manufacturer Part Number: |
P5Q
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| Manufacturer Website Address: |
https://www.asus.com
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| Product Model: |
P5Q
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| Product Name: |
P5Q Desktop Motherboard
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| Product Type: |
Desktop Motherboard
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| I/O Controller |
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| Controller Type: |
Floppy Controller
Serial ATA/300
Ultra ATA/133 (ATA-7)
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| RAID Levels: |
1+0
5
1
0
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| RAID Supported: |
Yes
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| I/O Expansions |
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| Number of PCI Express x1 Slots: |
2
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| Number of PCI Express x16 Slots: |
1
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| Number of PCI Slots: |
3
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| Number of Total Expansion Slots: |
6
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| Total Number of PCI Express Slots: |
3
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| Interfaces/Ports |
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| Audio Line In: |
Yes
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| Audio Line Out: |
Yes
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| Microphone Port: |
Yes
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| Network (RJ-45): |
Yes
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| Number of FireWire/i.LINK 400 Ports: |
1
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| Number of S/PDIF Out Ports: |
1
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| Number of USB 2.0 Ports: |
6
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| S/PDIF: |
Yes
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| Total Number of FireWire/i.LINK Ports: |
1
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| Total Number of USB Ports: |
6
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| Memory |
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| Maximum Memory: |
16 GB
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| Memory Speed Supported: |
667 MHz
800 MHz
1.07 GHz
1.20 GHz
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| Memory Standard: |
DDR2-667/PC2-5300
DDR2-800/PC2-6400
DDR2-1066/PC2-8500
DDR2-1200/PC2-9600
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| Memory Technology: |
DDR2 SDRAM
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| Number of Memory Slots: |
4
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| Miscellaneous |
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| Additional Information: |
BIOS: - 8 Mb AMI BIOS
- PnP
- DMI 2.0
- WfM2.0
- SM BIOS 2.4
- ACPI 3.0
Manageability: - WOL by PME
- WOR by PME
- WOR by Ring
- Chassis Intrusion
- PXE
Support Disc contents: - Drivers
- Express Gate
- ASUS PC Probe II
- ASUS Update
- ASUS AI Suite
- Anti-Virus software
- Image-Editing Suite
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| Environmental Certification: |
RoHS
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| Environmentally Friendly: |
Yes
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| Package Contents: |
- P5Q Desktop Board
- 1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 cable
- 1 x FDD cable
- 4 x Serial ATA cables
- 1 x 2-port Serial ATA power cable
- 1 x e SATA bracket
- 1 x 1394 bracket
- 3 in 1 Q-connector
- ASUS Q-Shield
- User manual
- Support Disc
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| Network & Communication |
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| Gigabit Ethernet: |
Yes
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| Onboard Interfaces |
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| Number of IDE Interfaces: |
1
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| Number of SATA Interfaces: |
8
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| Onboard Audio Header: |
Yes
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| Onboard LEDs Header: |
Yes
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| Onboard S/PDIF Header: |
Yes
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| Total Number of Onboard FireWire/i.LINK Ports: |
1
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| Total Number of Onboard USB Ports: |
3
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| Physical Characteristics |
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| Depth: |
8.80" (223.52 mm)
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| Form Factor: |
ATX
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| Width: |
12" (304.80 mm)
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| Processor & Chipset |
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| 64-bit Processing: |
Yes
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| Chipset Manufacturer: |
Intel
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| Front Side Bus: |
533 MHz
1066 MHz
1333 MHz
1600 MHz
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| Processor Socket: |
Socket T LGA-775
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| Processor Supported: |
Pentium D
Pentium 4
Core 2 Quad
Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core
Core 2 Extreme
Core 2 Duo
Celeron Dual-Core
Celeron
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| Processor Technology: |
Enhanced SpeedStep Technology
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| Total Processor Supported: |
1
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| Warranty |
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| Limited Warranty: |
3 Year
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