ASUS P6T Series Features New Intel X58 Chipset

[STaRGaZeR]

You could always take up reverse engineering and figure out a way to add specific chipset support, modify the detection routines in the drivers or plug in two cards and make believe you actually have SLI working ;>

We can't always have what we want, guess the saying goes "tough s**t". SLI without bridge chips is probably a pipe dream at least in the near future. Some have accepted this, others refuse to. I personally wouldn't lose any sleep either way. Just having SLI on an Intel board that works properly is more than I could have asked for.

Yes we could do everything we want, the problem is we don't want to, specially when stability, heat, money, etc. is involved. Well, the alternative is there, but users with a bit of intelligence will not buy those mobos.

[Astratuner]

Crossfire doens't need an extra chip on the motherboard right ?

It's right there on the card itself?

[Akabeth]

A SATA drive can be connected to a SAS controller/port/interface or a SATA interface, while a SAS drive can only be attached to a SAS interface.

Folks, that statement is a pretty important one to notice. Thanks to Helmore for pointing it out

I was doing research on this last winter, after a heads up from some contact and I found that a lot of websites in google search does not make clear of this fact.

[Shintai]

Crossfire doens't need an extra chip on the motherboard right ?

It's right there on the card itself?

SLI doesnt need any extra chips either. Buy 2 quadro cards and they work perfectly in SLI on 975x-X38-48-58 etc etc.

nVidia artificially locks it in drivers. It got nothing to do with hardware.

[duploxxx]

Holy Crap, built in SAS controller?

you can already find msi boards with sas controller for 10 months for about 130euro

this board will cost + 50% or even more for sure.....

[BulldogPO]

Can anybody say what waterblocks will fit for X58 chip?

[Chri$ch]

Some new Asus P6T Deluxe Pics



Source with more Pics

[Silver Bullet]

ooo purdy .. But I'm a little concerned about the back plate for the socket holder thingy ... doesn't look like that's coming off. Going to need new back plates for all the heatsinks for sure.

[Astratuner]

looks sexy!

[XS Janus]

O,Oh, what if they intended the heatspreader of the new CPUs not to protrude from the socket holding bracket like 775 did, but rather to be indented!?
That would be chaos in waterblock world... o_O

[MomijiTMO]

The NB cooling is whacko compared to what we normally see from ASUS.

Hmm this is different O__O

[Chri$ch]

look @ post #107

[sxs112]

new pic


http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...-x58-motherb/2

[Spawne32]

16 phase CPU PWM... Cra-aaazy I tell you!


Btw, why does X58 have so friggin HUGE die?

i know right? half the board is friggin power regulation lol

[XS Janus]

Power and reset buttons!
Nice!

[IanY]

Hang on... help me .. I'm confused here

X58.. basically Nvidia ain't present. Some expensive mobos have that extra chipset, and you gety SLI, but you get short changed and castrated with 8x/8x PCI-E lanes? And tri-SLI is a thing of the past too?

Damn.. I actually like Nvidia video cards...

[Zaskar]

Hang on... help me .. I'm confused here

X58.. basically Nvidia ain't present. Some expensive mobos have that extra chipset, and you gety SLI, but you get short changed and castrated with 8x/8x PCI-E lanes? And tri-SLI is a thing of the past too?

Damn.. I actually like Nvidia video cards...

Is that still an issue if they use 2x of the Nvidia chips? I thinks thats what Skulltail did to overcome that problem.

[IanY]

Yes.. Skulltrail did that, but its still regular SLI.

Say goodbye to Nvidia performance leadership, unless its a quad-SLI style platform.

As it is the 4870 X2 Crossfired whips the regular GTX280 SLI's butt.

I see lots of people rejoicing that Nvidia's gotten their asses burnt. I've had every generation in SLI of Nvidia and 3Dfx card ever released lol

[Trouffman]

Here are part of my pics :

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Source : http://soj.mesdiscussions.net/soj/in...jet_2387_1.htm

[Prince21]

Floppy Support, okden AH makes me sick...

[adamsleath]

and the floppy lives!!!


...see that one on the left? tha's my floppy..for sentimental reasons of course.


so, related to the 'unusual' nb cooler, is it a 'hot' nb or what? relative to existing p45/x48 nb's?

[Anarki]

As soon as a X58 motherboard and Intel's Nehalem CPU is available in the UK I'm going to jump straight in and buy. Also going to get 3 x 1GB DDR3 sticks to go with it.

I need to get involved with the latest tech at some point and my financial situation permits that this year

[Th0r]

Anybody knows if a "WS Professional" Version with PCI-X will be available ?

[bowman]

I don't think even current ASUS WS boards have PCI-X. It's all PCI-E now.

You'll have to look towards vendors like Supermicro or Tyan for such boards.

[Hornet331]

srsly... the slot arangement on this board sucks... if you use cf/(sli) you cant use any other card...