ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 vs EVGA X58 SLI LE

Hello there, sorry to hear you're having problems with this board as i am about to get one myself

Anyway, interested in your problem, i did a quick search and came up with a reply from a gentleman who claims the p6t series mb's are plagued with crook cmos batteries. Bad batch hopefully?

I quote: "A weak CMOS battery can cause the board to seem DOA and other strange behavior. The P6T series is notorious for having weak/dead CMOS batteries. Replace the battery with a new one to see if anything changes, and before you ask NO you can't use your volt-meter to test a battery, you need a battery tester for that."

from this forum
here

Hoping your problem is just cmos battery related and nothing else.

Good luck ;p

When I am trying to figure out the best product between multiple products, I use Newegg's customer ratings. First look at what percentage of people rated it 3 or 4 eggs. If its not 80% I don't even consider it. Next look at the percentage of people that rated it 1 egg. If it's more than 10% I don't even consider it. I like to have at least 100+ customer ratings, but when I adopt early that's not always possible. When I still have a 'tie' between multiple products, I look at each customer's experience with manufacturer support.

The one component where I don't look at reviews is for the case. It needs: #1 - Fan capacity. #2 - as little plastic as possible.

This has worked for me quite well. Since I started this methodology, I've never had a component fail. I'm still running my original 36GB Raptor after 5 years.