ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution

I just ordered this motherboard along with the rest of the things I need for my Core i7 setup. If anyone has this board or can chime in with BIOS tweaks or guides, please post them here.

Here is the info page from Asus:
http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1...97&modelmenu=1

Here is the download page for this mobo:
http://support.asus.com/download/dow...Language=en-us

This mobo just came into stock late last night on Zipzoomfly. I was going to buy the Rampage II Extreme but got distracted and wound up waiting before placing my order. I'm glad I waited because I wanted this board more but wasn't sure when it was going to come in stock anywhere. Below will be my system:

Intel Core i7 920 CPU
Asus P6T6 WS Revolution Mobo
Corsair DDR3-1866 3gb Memory Kit
Silverstone 1200W Mdular PSU
HIS 4870x2 Video Card
Asus ASUS Xonar HDAV1.3 Sound Card
2 WD 300gb Velociraptor Hard Drives

Unrelated - Zipzoomfly is giving 4 games away if you buy a Core i7 CPU...I got FarCry2 and Assasin's Creed so their not bad games either...so grab your Core i7s and get some games for free!

I sure hope you dont run out of pci-e slots

Wow. That is a ton of PCI slots... Nice looking board. Also, dual RAID and SAS... Nice professional board, Asus made

Been looking at this for a long time, looks good.

It's available at Zipzoomfly...I don't know how long it's going to stay in stock...I'm still waiting for my 1336 socket kit for my TRUE Black and then I can start tweaking away...right now I'm just using the stock HSF...the board is solid though and it was very easy and straight forward in setting up.

I am eager to hear the results...

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Which case is this new gear going into?

I have an ASUS P5E64 WS Evolution. This is the motherboard I have been keeping an eye on. Glad to hear it is now in stock. :D

*must have*

scary ... is it possible to slot all the slots with gpu?

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Originally Posted by Serpentarius

scary ... is it possible to slot all the slots with gpu?

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if ur psu can handle it - why not? :D
oh & they gotta use same driver if in vista :shakes: :down:

apart from that - hell yeah! :D :up:

I'm not going to be able to give you guys anything until next week...I just sold a bunch of hardware and am in the process of getting some new parts...hopefully a week longer and I should have everything going. Hopefully some other people can give up some OC results with this board before me.

i just got the pci-x brother of this board
a.k.a. ASUS P6T6 WS Proffesional

everything running smoothly so far ~4ghz (i7940)

only problem is that when i use triple channel mushkin ram kits
(1333 & 1600) it only recognizes 4 out of 6 gb installed
all dimms are working fine when used seperately
but when put together
it seems to cause some sort of problem.
note that CPU-Z sees all installed dimms
but both bios info, mem count during post and windows properties
report only 4088mb as usable
(vista 64 Ult.)

weird quirk of the board or poor spd programming?
all i know is that the equivalent Gskill triple kits work flawlessly on the same motherboard

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Originally Posted by SlackerXL

i just got the pci-x brother of this board
a.k.a. ASUS P6T6 WS Proffesional

everything running smoothly so far ~4ghz (i7940)

only problem is that when i use triple channel mushkin ram kits
(1333 & 1600) it only recognizes 4 out of 6 gb installed
all dimms are working fine when used seperately
but when put together
it seems to cause some sort of problem.
note that CPU-Z sees all installed dimms
but both bios info, mem count during post and windows properties
report only 4088mb as usable
(vista 64 Ult.)

weird quirk of the board or poor spd programming?
all i know is that the equivalent Gskill triple kits work flawlessly on the same motherboard

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How hard was it to get to 4ghz? Could you post your BIOS settings for 4ghz please?

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Originally Posted by Etherwolf

Which case is this new gear going into?

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Finally settled on the Silverstone FT-01 BW....should have everything up and running by early next week (prays for no roadblocks). I tested the TRUE on this board outside on the box and cooling was good, but I'm going to go with the new Coolermaster V8 once I put everything in the case.

Tagging along on this thread as I am planning on buying one of these on Friday.

Ordered my board this morning, it will be here on Monday. I've been wanting this board ever since I first saw it announced as it delivers many things I've been asking for for a long time.

[H]ard|OCP reviewed this board last week and really liked it. However, there are two issues presently. With the BIOS currently shipping with the board, 3-way SLI doesn't work (normal 2-way works fine). However, ASUS is aware of this and already has a BIOS in BETA that fixes the problem. The other issue relates to CPU voltage over-volting. While most boards either over or under volt the CPU voltage to some degree, it’s normally kept to a maximum of .01-.05V. However, in the review, there was a 0.2V over volt on this board and this could be very deadly to the CPU for the unaware user. This will probably be resolved with a BIOS update as well.

Despite these two issues, Kyle and Morry really liked the board and summed up the review by stating "Once ASUS gets a working public BIOS that fixes the 3-Way SLI and vCore overvolting issues fixed, this will undoubtedly be a Gold Award winner with HardOCP."

If anyone needs the beta BIOS that resolves the 3-way SLI issue, I should have a copy of it soon.

I did not know about this MB when I ordered my R2E, had I known, I would have waited. I have a thing for workstation MB's.

Do you think ASUS will be as aggressive with BIOS updates as they are with...say...the P6T D? Also, does this suffer the optical SATA performance issues like the P6T D?

Looks like a great board.

Am thinking of ditching the deluxe and go with this.

Any updates?

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Originally Posted by IronWarrior

Am thinking of ditching the deluxe and go with this. Any updates?

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I ordered my board today from NewEgg. If it ships today, I will have it on Monday. Otherwise, I will have it on Tuesday. I will be providing feedback as soon as it arrives. Not sure where the OP disappeared to. :shrug:

I picked mine up from UPS's will-call on the way to work tonight. Not a lot of "work' getting done here. But when I get home I plan on being very busy...

PRETTY!

Updates?!?!

I'm about to pull the trigger on this board... and any word if the optical performance sucks like it does on the P6T D??

Sorry it took so long, but I finally got it up tonight...just doing burn in tonight..I haven't overclocked Core i7 yet so I still have to figure everything out...I'm reading that there is an over-volting issue with this board...I haven't experienced it with everything set to auto but once I start tinkering, I'll see.