Hi,
I just replaced my P6T with the P6X58D premium and its a great board that needs its own thread. It has USB3/ Sata 3 and native support for gulftown. Its not cheap, it was $30 dearer than the deluxe but so far its worth it. Its the 2nd generation X58 board from Asus and they got it right with this one. Its a solid board and the best i've used in the last few years.
Everything just works like its meant to, cool temps, no squealing noises or EMI noise.
For the first time in years this board is a keeper, i'm happy to hang on to it for a while.
Heres some pics: (thanks to katanai)
Heres a review from youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF7Y_QxRXHc
Asus Link:
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_I...ukj&templete=2
The board has the same power phases as the deluxe models and has some nice features like memok for solving ram compatibility issues. It also has "Xtreme Phase" which is like a turbo power boost for high overclocks. You can enable or disable it in the bios. Layout is good and runs cool as a cucumber.
Xtreme Phase seems to help when going for 4 Ghz+ or you can turn it off for a moderate overclock and keep temps/voltages lower. It uses the lotes socket instead of the foxconn sockets that are used on other Asus X58 boards(and other brands like Gigabyte). And that is good news imo. I've read too many dodgy things about foxconn X58/P55 sockets.
When compared to the P6T it is rock solid. The P6X58D booted first time and my overclock settings stuck first time. The P6T was fairly good but there was a little tweaking involved to get the overclock right. I'm using the same ram/CPU and the same overclock and its running almost 8 degrees cooler. Also it needs less voltage for the same overclock. The board overclocks so much easier than the P6T.
I've had the board a couple of weeks and cant find any issue worth complaining about. The only thing that didnt work right was TurboV was misreporting Dram voltage but that has already been solved with bios 0604.
The P6T had some minor issues like electrical noise through the speakers but the P6X58D doesnt have any of these minor issues.
I upgrade everytime something new comes out, and tried many Asus/Gigabyte boards for X58/X48/X38 P965 etc and i can honestly say its the best board i have owned.
I will put latest bios here:
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/...-ASUS-0604.zip
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/...-ASUS-0702.zip
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/...-ASUS-0703.zip
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/...-ASUS-0808.zip (BETA VERSION)
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/LG...-ASUS-0813.zip
[url]http://hotfile.com/dl/62749091/4527f5b/P6X58D-PREMIUM-ASUS-0904.rar.html[/url
Bios 1002,1201, 1301 and 1402 can be found here:
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Int...6X58D_Premium/
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