My ASUS P6T7 WS Supercomputer is here...

[kgk]

I don't know whats the problem here? Perhaps it is my English as this is not my mother-tong.

1. I don't work for ASUS or any reseller.
2. I never said that there was a cold boot issue with my RIIE. I used BIOS 1406
3. I wrote that the new Mobo feels smoother while working and gaming and not that RIIE was a crappy Board. The RIIE was one of the best Mobos I ever had and I had about 40 different Boards!
4. The OS is booting much faster, that's a fact! In my case
5. I don't now where the on board sensor is on this mobo, but asus wrote to nge769 that there is no sensor for the x58 Chip or I simply misunderstood this.

And what relay pisses me of is, that this should be a Forum to share some impressions of new released Hardware but some people try to offend you if you write your personal view

If you have an other view then tell us, but please don't do that in this way.

If you misconstrued it that badly just write in German. I'm perfectly fluent in that as well.

I never said you work for ASUS. Stop misdirecting.

You implied there was a cold boot issue in your comparison, perhaps unintentionally due to the language barrier.

How can a board "feel smoother" while working and gaming? You either had bad manual BIOS settings for an overclock with undervolt or a defective board. I've used them both with identical hardware and they function the same. Aside from a minimal Vantage difference there is no discernible difference to someone using a program. Also, I never claimed you said the RIIE was a crappy board.

The OS booting faster could simply be due to a shorter BIOS screen. The P6T7 doesn't have the ROG Graphic, although you can turn that off on the RIIE.

My response had nothing to do with criticizing the board and everything to do with criticizing the fanboyism. The P6T7 is a fantastic board, but there's no need to invent things in an attempt to elevate it. It's already at the top of the pecking order, so the arbitrary "figures" are really pointless.

[burningrave101]

The OS booting faster could simply be due to a shorter BIOS screen. The P6T7 doesn't have the ROG Graphic, although you can turn that off on the RIIE.

You say you've used them both with identical hardware. Did you time the process it took for each to finish their boot sequence and load the OS? The P6T7 is a workstation class board which may have a better optimized BIOS that recognizes and initializes the hardware in a faster sequence than the R2E thus shaving off several seconds in boot time. X58 boards don't all have the exact same boot times regardless of their POST screen graphics because every boards BIOS is going to be a little different.

[kgk]

You say you've used them both with identical hardware. Did you time the process it took for each to finish their boot sequence and load the OS? The P6T7 is a workstation class board which may have a better optimized BIOS that recognizes and initializes the hardware in a faster sequence than the R2E thus shaving off several seconds in boot time. X58 boards don't all have the exact same boot times regardless of their POST screen graphics because every boards BIOS is going to be a little different.

It's not really a "workstation" board. It can run 7 GPUs for CUDA, but it's still an X58 single socket board. I'd consider a "workstation" board a dual socket 1366.

The hardware detection is almost identical in time between the two. The only difference between my setup and my co-worker/friend is he has an Nvidia GPU setup, while I have an ATI. Disable the ROG flashy crap and SAS drive search on the RIIE and it's practically identical in bootup to windows start. I'm really temped to switch over to the P6T7 for the added PCIe availability since I run a lot of devices. But not because of any inherent performance advantage (aside from the ability to run more GPUs).

[burningrave101]

It's not really a "workstation" board. It can run 7 GPUs for CUDA, but it's still an X58 single socket board. I'd consider a "workstation" board a dual socket 1366.

Well despite what you consider it to be it's still a workstation developed board that's been certified for supporting NVIDIA's Tesla GPUs and so that's why it's marketed with the name "Workstation" in it's title. Number of sockets doesn't classify whether or not a board is a workstation board.