My ASUS P6T7 WS Supercomputer is here...

[RNeon]

Can somebody say with certainty, if the Asus P6T7 WS Supercomputer has the B3-Chipset?

yes it do

[burningrave101]

Where's the link to download the latest BIOS for this board? I didn't find anything up on the Asus FTP and I see you have an updated one nge.

And what's the highest Prime stable CPU clock you've gotten with your W3540 Crashmax?

[burningrave101]

Hopefully Asus will come out with a fix for the thermal throttling on Turbo mode when reaching 80C. So far I'm Priming 4.1Ghz with my W3520 and a couple of the cores keep hitting 79-80C causing the multiplier to start to drop below 21x. I need to reseat my TRUE though because I don't think I applied the thermal paste that great the first time with the way I had to keep twisting the TRUE around to get it screwed down. I may try to lap it as well which would probably knock off another 5C or so on temps.

Also let me just say that the NB/SB/NF200 plate does get pretty hot to the touch if you don't have direct airflow on it. I tested mine without any direct airflow on it while overclocked and under load and it was too hot to keep your finger on it for more than a few seconds. I put a 120mm fan on it though and that seemed to take care of it.

[Fire4Wire]

yes it do

latest everest shows b2 step and latest cpuz too

[nge769]

Where's the link to download the latest BIOS for this board? I didn't find anything up on the Asus FTP and I see you have an updated one nge.

And what's the highest Prime stable CPU clock you've gotten with your W3540 Crashmax?

No , i have the original (210),I'm still waiting for bios update.

I think firewire has a beta bios , but not allowed to share it.

[crashmax]

Where's the link to download the latest BIOS for this board? I didn't find anything up on the Asus FTP and I see you have an updated one nge.

And what's the highest Prime stable CPU clock you've gotten with your W3540 Crashmax?

With my W3540, witch I have sold, 210BCLK was the max on P6T7 (220BCLK max on RIIE).

Now I'm going to holiday for the next two weeks. Hope there will be a new bios after I'm back.

read you soon

[JohnMike]

I got this board for testing and the first thing that i find is.... This board really BURNS!!

The block that covers the two NF200 and NB chip, i hardly can touch it after i play for a few minutes a 3D game with my 285GTX.

This is not a board for any regular case.

[ACE76]

I got this board for testing and the first thing that i find is.... This board really BURNS!!

The block that covers the two NF200 and NB chip, i hardly can touch it after i play for a few minutes a 3D game with my 285GTX.

This is not a board for any regular case.

That's what I figured but the OP kept insisting that heat isn't an issue! I have the P6T6 and it gets hot with one NF200...maybe if they designed it to have seperate sinks, that would help...one sink covering all that area is bound to get hot...I hope people water-cool it and then post back what it can do because aside from the heat it still looks like a good board.

[JohnMike]

That's what I figured but the OP kept insisting that heat isn't an issue! I have the P6T6 and it gets hot with one NF200...maybe if they designed it to have seperate sinks, that would help...one sink covering all that area is bound to get hot...I hope people water-cool it and then post back what it can do because aside from the heat it still looks like a good board.

It's a great board, no dout. But the heat generated is very high on the sink. I have the board on my desk, maybe on a case with good air flow the heat could be better dissipate, but anyway these chips (2x NF200) and the board it self are very, VERY hot. I'm going to keep my eVGA X58.

[kgk]

It's a great board, no dout. But the heat generated is very high on the sink. I have the board on my desk, maybe on a case with good air flow the heat could be better dissipate, but anyway these chips (2x NF200) and the board it self are very, VERY hot. I'm going to keep my eVGA X58.

Careful, you may get shouted down like I did for suggesting that the heatsink isn't sufficient........

Did you get temp readings?

[bill_d]

has anyone tried crossfire or 3 way cf on this board yet?

[kgk]

has anyone tried crossfire or 3 way cf on this board yet?

That Trubitar clown on Youtube has benchmarks of it running tri-sli and a fourth in physx without issue. So I'd assume 3 way cf should work just fine.

[JohnMike]

Careful, you may get shouted down like I did for suggesting that the heatsink isn't sufficient........

Did you get temp readings?

No i didn't, just a simple touch is enough to sense and fill the very hot sinks on this board, i just can hold my fingers on the chips sink for a very few seconds after playing 3D game then i may burn my skin. Even with the SO on idle the temps are very high.

I have tried hundreds of boards in the past and i don't need to read the temps to know that this board is one of most hotters boards...Ever!

The board is very good, really fast and good quality components. The bios is very limited regarding OC Ram because it's Xeon CPU limited. Need new bios.

[kgk]

No i didn't, just a simple touch is enough to sense and fill the very hot sinks on this board, i just can hold my fingers on the chips sink for a very few seconds after playing 3D game then i may burn my skin. Even with the SO on idle the temps are very high.

I have tried hundreds of boards in the past and i don't need to read the temps to know that this board is one of most hotters boards...Ever!

The board is very good, really fast and good quality components. The bios is very limited regarding OC Ram because it's Xeon CPU limited. Need new bios.

Yea but an X58 chipset is generally around 50C anyway on air, with the heatsink being too hot to touch under load. I Have a TJ 07 with two 120's filling up the front bays so we'll see how well it mitigates the temps when I get it next week. The heatsink obviously needs air moving across the fins to dissipate the heat more effectively so having yours sitting in the open probably didn't help.

Try sticking a single 120mm fan near the fins and see how the temps look after that. Also, replace the stock thermal grease with AS5 or something similar. That'll drop your temps another few degrees C. The stock thermal grease that ASUS uses on their chipset coolers is crap.

I'm going to swap out the thermal grease on mine with AS5 and have decent airflow so it shouldn't give any problems. But as soon as a water block is released for it I'm putting that sucker on water.

[nge769]

Wow, sorry to hear your boards heat up like that,mine is barley warm to the touch and never goes over 38c idle,and 41c load on probe,with 22c room temp.

I remember with out the memory fan, the heatsink fins would be hot. (the one's next to the memory) Also those fins+pipe are the closest link to the sink,I remember that those fins were hotter than the rest of the fins next to CPU.

I wished some one lived in NY so they can come over and see my rig and temps.( If any1 lives near me, their welcomed to stop by)

BTW.. If my board over heated , I would of sold it the next day.

[LiberalElephant]

So does this board resume from S3 okay?

[lawtq]

Wow, sorry to hear your boards heat up like that,mine is barley warm to the touch and never goes over 38c idle,and 41c load on probe,with 22c room temp.

I remember with out the memory fan, the heatsink fins would be hot. (the one's next to the memory) Also those fins+pipe are the closest link to the sink,I remember that those fins were hotter than the rest of the fins next to CPU.

I wished some one lived in NY so they can come over and see my rig and temps.( If any1 lives near me, their welcomed to stop by)

BTW.. If my board over heated , I would of sold it the next day.

Hey people, new boy here. I totally agree with this guy. My P6T7 heatsink is barely warm to the touch too. I too have the corsair fans over the memory which does a good job of cooling the heat pipes and fins next to it, and I have 40mm fans on the other fins, the board is never in danger of overheating from what I'm experiencing

My 760 evga classified is hotter.

[nge769]

Hey people, new boy here. I totally agree with this guy. My P6T7 heatsink is barely warm to the touch too. I too have the corsair fans over the memory which does a good job of cooling the heat pipes and fins next to it, and I have 40mm fans on the other fins, the board is never in danger of overheating from what I'm experiencing

My 760 evga classified is hotter.

Hello lawtq, and welcome ,I'm glad your experiencing good temp results too with this mobo.This is the most stable mobo for this platform Ive ever owned.

The only regret i have is i should of waited and bought 2 sas drives instead
of 2 raptors, but who knew this mobo would come out,but its ok cause my 2 veloci raptors in raid0 are pretty fast too.

[lawtq]

Thanks man!

Its a lovely mobo, just neeeeeeeeeeeed a bios update, cant take the turbo multiplier throttling any more, lol. And one of my usb ports aren't working, cant bare to rma just for that, hoping a bios update somehow fixes it (hey, let a man dream) Looks like rma it might be, for the price EVERYTHING should be working. Aint touched my classified since getting this mobo.

Am hunting for the 0303 beta I think someone on here has, wont stop till I find it somewhere.

But right now I'm on 4.5 GHZ with HT stable (I think so far, no crashes after 2 days) with a vcore of 1.45, and vtt/QPI of 1.3625. Idling around 36-37c for cpu and max load temps with linx at 77c, not bad for 4.5ghz with hyperthreading!

[kgk]

Thanks man!

Its a lovely mobo, just neeeeeeeeeeeed a bios update, cant take the turbo multiplier throttling any more, lol. And one of my usb ports aren't working, cant bare to rma just for that, hoping a bios update somehow fixes it (hey, let a man dream) Looks like rma it might be, for the price EVERYTHING should be working. Aint touched my classified since getting this mobo.

Am hunting for the 0303 beta I think someone on here has, wont stop till I find it somewhere.

But right now I'm on 4.5 GHZ with HT stable (I think so far, no crashes after 2 days) with a vcore of 1.45, and vtt/QPI of 1.3625. Idling around 36-37c for cpu and max load temps with linx at 77c, not bad for 4.5ghz with hyperthreading!

Not bad at all. Pretty high vcore though What's your bclck x multi combo? Or are you on an i7 920? I'm assuming that's on water too, right?

Also, the USB problem is unlikely to be fixed with BIOS, I'd RMA it now. By the time you get it back, the new BIOS might be available.

Anyway. For all doubting nge's temps, I have this mobo coming tomorrow or tuesday, and I'm an uncompromising ass when it comes to my pc components. I'm leaning towards thinking that people with high chipset temps have them on a workbench and not in a case where you get good airflow across the fins. Any board sitting idle in the room with no airflow will get hot.

I'm going to throw a chipset block on this as soon as it's available though, just for the hell of it.

[kgk]

Also, for those that have mentioned Turbo throttling, is it not possible to disable it in the BIOS? What about Speedstep? Because I hate those two and always turn them off on OC's.

EDIT: Nevermind, saw in the BIOS screenshots that the Speedstep option is available. But yea that Turbo throttling option isn't there. Argh.

[JohnMike]

Anyway. For all doubting nge's temps, I have this mobo coming tomorrow or tuesday, and I'm an uncompromising ass when it comes to my pc components. I'm leaning towards thinking that people with high chipset temps have them on a workbench and not in a case where you get good airflow across the fins. Any board sitting idle in the room with no airflow will get hot.

I'm going to throw a chipset block on this as soon as it's available though, just for the hell of it.

I know that a board in workbench gets warmed higher then in a case with airflow. But i had Asus P6T V2 and Gigabyte X58 Extreme on the same position and they were not even close to this temps that i'm experience. The others boards were cool when on workbench with good temps, on idle the temps look like the boards were power down.

Anyaway, i believe this board will work better in a case with good airflow. People must be aware and look close for temps.

[lawtq]

Not bad at all. Pretty high vcore though What's your bclck x multi combo? Or are you on an i7 920? I'm assuming that's on water too, right?

Also, the USB problem is unlikely to be fixed with BIOS, I'd RMA it now. By the time you get it back, the new BIOS might be available.

Anyway. For all doubting nge's temps, I have this mobo coming tomorrow or tuesday, and I'm an uncompromising ass when it comes to my pc components. I'm leaning towards thinking that people with high chipset temps have them on a workbench and not in a case where you get good airflow across the fins. Any board sitting idle in the room with no airflow will get hot.

I'm going to throw a chipset block on this as soon as it's available though, just for the hell of it.

Yep, its a 920 D0 with a 215 bclock. 1.4325v is doable but it freezes sometimes, a little more tweaking needed, memory is 6gb corsair at 1700+mhz at it rated 1.64v. It just my chip it needs a big jump in vcore to do 4.5ghz with HT, cause I'm doing 1.36v at 4,4ghz wiht HT

The board is on its first bios which impresses me, turbo thrittling better be sorted out with ther next bios. I'll probably rma due to the single usb port not working, it doesnt recongize some devices but recognizes that they've been pluged in at aleast, while nothing happens at all when some other devices are plugged in.

I just feel the board is VERY solid, can I live without that single usb port (yes) but it'll niggle me till I just cant sleep no more! I'm just a bit reluctant to rma cause the board they replace it with could be worse, and not as stable.

The guy with the beta bios 0303 I think it was, he give any feedback as to how the bios is??

[nge769]

Yep, its a 920 D0 with a 215 bclock. 1.4325v is doable but it freezes sometimes, a little more tweaking needed, memory is 6gb corsair at 1700+mhz at it rated 1.64v. It just my chip it needs a big jump in vcore to do 4.5ghz with HT, cause I'm doing 1.36v at 4,4ghz wiht HT

The board is on its first bios which impresses me, turbo thrittling better be sorted out with ther next bios. I'll probably rma due to the single usb port not working, it doesnt recongize some devices but recognizes that they've been pluged in at aleast, while nothing happens at all when some other devices are plugged in.

I just feel the board is VERY solid, can I live without that single usb port (yes) but it'll niggle me till I just cant sleep no more! I'm just a bit reluctant to rma cause the board they replace it with could be worse, and not as stable.

The guy with the beta bios 0303 I think it was, he give any feedback as to how the bios is??

No he didn't.

I would definitely send it back ,and you would probably get a new one, cause it just came out, and not that many refurbs/returns in circulation yet.

About the bios, i saw a review on the net Where asus sent them the 0410 bios to use for the review , so that makes me think there working on it.

[kgk]

I would definitely send it back ,and you would probably get a new one, cause it just came out, and not that many refurbs/returns in circulation yet.
.

What he said. Probability of getting a refurb with the P6T7 is probably very slim. Compared to say, an RIIE or Classified, where there are a lot of refurbs floating around now.


Also, if they already shipped a review sample with a 400 something BIOS, then I'm surprised the one that the guy earlier in this thread had(303, or something) hasn't been released yet. Maybe it has some major bug or they just decided to skip over it with the 400 version.