Quote Originally Posted by burningrave101 View Post
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).