ASUS P6T family - all about it.

Hence the design would not be changed anymore, i decided to create dedicated P6T-series thread. Next models to come:

-P6T Deluxe (without OC Palm)
-P6T WS Professional
-P6T WS Revolution

I bet specs are know, just to mention SLI solution is avaliable through licensed BIOS, SAS controller is a software one, but still it would be a nice base for upcoming i7 based PCs.

More P6T series are of course on the way, as soon as they would be ready - i would update the thread.

BIOS shots / performance shots p: - i will post them soon, now comparing to some other non ASUS branded X58 board... guess which :rofl:

I will measure mounting holes for MCH/SB/FETs as this info maybe usefull in close future.

Some voyeurs below.
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Within my free time i would post some performance shots with i7 920 and i7 965 Extreme.

i have that motherboard sitting here

Just a cool looking NB. Do want!

Does the black 16x slot run off the ICH or the NB, if it runs off the NB does it support PCI-E 2.0?

Oh!! Geesush!.......

What's with ASUS putting VIA crap chips on their boards lately?

I mean, I was going to go quad and pair it with the Maximus II but when I saw a VIA chip in there? I ran for the hills..........oh well, I guess I'm gonna stay in the P5B-Deluxe (VIA crap free ) hills for a lot longer than I thought.

Nice board overall........9.5 out of 10, I'd be an 11 "IF" it didn't have that crap I just talked about.

@ pmp

can you say something about the price?

Thanks
Chris

Nasgul: That VIA chip is a Firewire controller, what's wrong with it?
I never use FW anyway so I couldn't care less, just disable it in BIOS.

Nice pictures pmp! Waiting for BIOS shots

Could you please send me one of those boards? :rofl:

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Originally Posted by Chri$ch

@ pmp
can you say something about the price?
Thanks
Chris

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For today - unfortunately not. More to come around November.

Thanks for sharing m8 :up:

That'll be my next board for sure!

BIOS shots:

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OC Palm shots:

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With extreme CPU both multipliers, voltages could be set via this device. Kinda convinient, usage is very simple.
Not sure if OC Palm software running in the OS background would have any impact on results though.

Some results :) WinXP SP3 clean install without _any_ single tweaks. Notice dual channel instead of triple, due to my lack of more DDR3 modules at this moment :(
Lavalys Everest memory performance (dual-channel)
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SuperPI 1.5 XS without single tweak
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Cinebench R10
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Great looking boards and very usefull info, thx pmp!

Thanks for the Pics pmp, but only 2 different memory multipliers and no qpi multiplier? :(

So far... yes.

I thought Intel unlocked the QPI/DRAM multiplier on all chips now? Or was this an earlier ES chip?

i hope this will be fixed with the next bios or if the mainboard is available...

By the looks of the bios it seems the scope of voltage monitoring is limited to vCC and transformed PSU supply voltages? Seems like waiting for the RIIE board will probably be the way to go. The added adjustment of DIMM data/clock ref voltage per channel is a neat feature though! So many more memory timings to figure out as well! It's good to see there is finally an option to change tFAW which will surely come in handy with some ICs.

pmp, do you happen to know what DD stands for? Different Dimm perhaps? DR and SR are standard but never come across DD.

Wow...nice stuff!

That board is really packed.

Hardly any space left.

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By the looks of the bios it seems the scope of voltage monitoring is limited to vCC and transformed PSU supply voltages?

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Yes indeed. Basic information only, but TurboV shows more (under OS).

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Seems like waiting for the RIIE board will probably be the way to go. The added adjustment of DIMM data/clock ref voltage per channel is a neat feature though! So many more memory timings to figure out as well! It's good to see there is finally an option to change tFAW which will surely come in handy with some ICs.

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It should've been avaliable (or it was actually but not user-adjustable) alread y on older boards. IIRC it was for high-density modules mainly, though may impact the performacne/OCbility of RAM modules. Correct me if i'm wrong.

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pmp, do you happen to know what DD stands for? Different Dimm perhaps? DR and SR are standard but never come across DD.

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Not really, haven't figured it out yet.

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I thought Intel unlocked the QPI/DRAM multiplier on all chips now? Or was this an earlier ES chip?

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At least for i7 965 Extreme - yes, more multi's are available. But regular i7 ? We have to wait for anybody with C0+ stepping to see if all are available too.

Those are available _potential_ very _theoretical_ memory speeds when i7 965 Extreme CPU is being used.

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Chinese fancy imagination :-)
And some better/bigger scores :-)

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Wondering how far it can goes. The rally FTW begins :)

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Nice bus speed. over 200mhz looks good for the lower chips getting 4ghz+ :)

The Core i7 920 on stock did 1m superpi in 15sec, this is good, right? my q6600 does 21 sec on stock! How fast does an e8400 do 1m?

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The Core i7 920 on stock did 1m superpi in 15sec, this is good, right? my q6600 does 21 sec on stock! How fast does an e8400 do 1m?

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About 15.500s. i7 is way faster even with 300MHz lower clocks

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can you say something about the price?

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Asus P6T Pre-order in the UK, £252. £282 for the Palm edition.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...%20Motherboard