Asus crippled ICH10 performance on their X58 boards.

[Brahmzy]

As you can see from the title change, I seem to have found the problem.
Will post the results in the next hour.

Ridiculous R&D and business decisions, shame on you, Asus... You just lost a long time, dedicated customer...

Yeah, I'm been a long-time buyer of ASUS. This new x58 board I have is PISSING ME OFF. The whole x58 thing in general is a freakin' bug-ridden joke. I mean I love my i7, but these motherboards are just a big waste of friggin' money. Sleep resume doesn't work, SLi doesn't work on my board etc. AND THE F'ING THING COST $325!!

[Chosen.]

So this is how the "heart touching" engineering works:


First, you advertise loads of lanes for Tri-SLI, CrossfireX etc.


Then you put the graphics ports on a PCI-e v2.0 x16 bus:


Then the Gbit LAN on a PCI-e x1 bus (mainly because Gbit would be capped by PCI's bandwidth):


Then the sound card on a PCI-e x1 bus as well (don't know why, probably cheaper):



And then what do you do? You put the RAID controller & ICH10 on a PCI 66MHz bus:







So, to recap
ICH10@P45 located on a PCI-e bus, cap at ~650Mb/sec:

Fast storage not limited.

ICH10@X58 located on a PCI 66MHz bus, capped at 266Mb/sec:

Fast storage crippled.

With one foot in the SSD era, Asus decides to cut costs back, by sacrificing the Southbridge, well played and well designed...

Intel specsheet


By the way, this was also verified on a Rampage 2 Extreme, so don't get your hopes up, that paying more will guarantee you a decent design.

So, anyone else wants to test their X58 board with Everest and post the results back here?

I apologise for the emotional post, but if I hadn't paid $300 for this POS, I wouldn't feel the way I feel now

[One_Hertz]

Why are the randoms so crippled as well then? PCI bus shouldn't matter at all for those.