My ASUS P6T7 WS Supercomputer is here...

[kgk]

Patience! This is a brand new mobo with initial BIOS.

After one day I can say, that this P6T7 is rock solid and that the CPU needs 0.08 VCore less as on my RIIE and that is very very good!

Furthermore, the system boots much faster than with RIIE, there is no cold boot issue (in my case) and the overall performance feels better (smooth, no lag) while loading programs and playing games.

This evening I will run Vantage to compare the P6T7 with my RIIE.

The only two things that concerns me are max BCLK and the heat (shows 57C but feels much hotter???, but hey, it is stable!!) of the NF200. In case of the max BCLK I’m sure that new BIOS releases will fix this!

For all my Tests I'm using exactly (switchting from one mobo to the other) the same CPU and Memory as on my RIIE!

Best wishes!

1. There is no cold boot issue with the RIIE. You just didn't update your BIOS. Was fixed as of 1306. BIOS is currently past that.

2. There isn't any lag or lack of "smoothness" with programs or games between the two. That's an asinine statement. Either your board was defective or you're pulling observations out of your ass. I've seen them both in action running identical CPU's and high end RAM. Both were also using Intel SSDs. Also, you'll likely get a larger FPS hit on the P6T7 due to the two NF200's.

I'm sorry but I debated between the RIIE and the P6T7 because a good friend of mine purchased it. I ended up going with the RIIE with the option of sending it back for a P6T7. I may still send it back for the P6T7, but only because of the extra PCIe slots. We have identical setups with 975's, 2000Mhz C8 RAM and Intel SSDs. What you wrote reads like an ASUS press release.

I think nobody is saying that anybody is laing...

As nge769 mentioned, there is no sensor for the x58 chip itself. Everest only reads the Motherboard Temp witch is in my case equal to the external sensor. Both sensors reads between 45 and 57C, idle to load.

Perhaps my skin is thinner then the one of nge769.

No, Everest is likely just misreading the sensor. There's no way your motherboard temp is 57C. Motherboard temps don't vary that much between idle and load and never that high. Unless you live in the desert. That is likely the average of the chipset temp between the two NF200's and the Northbridge.

Someone was asking me what about turbo throttling with this board.

This is my experience during Prime and Linx sessions. As soon the CPU reaches 81C it drops to a multi of 20. If you stop prime or Linx the multi goes back to 21.

That's standard throttling on most any board that supports it.


Yes, you're excited to have your new motherboard, we get it. But don't write your observations like an ASUS press release. It helps no one.