The P6T BIOS has a wide enough range for each setting to achieve the ultimate clock speed of nearly any processor and RAM combination, in small enough increments to allow extreme overclockers to reach component limits without exceeding them.
BIOS Frequency and Voltage settings (for overclocking) | |
|---|---|
CPU Reference Clock | 133 to 500 MHz (1 MHz) |
Clock Multiplier Adjustment | Yes |
DRAM Ratios | DDR3-800 to DDR3-2133 (266 MHz) |
PCIe Clock | 100 to 200 MHz (1 MHz) |
CPU Vcore | 0.85v to 2.10v (0.00625v), |
QPI/DRAM (CPU Uncore) Voltage | 1.20v to 1.90v (0.00625v) |
IOH (Northbridge) Core | 1.10v to 1.70v (0.020v) |
ICH (Southbridge) Core | 1.010v to 1.40v (0.10v) |
DRAM Voltage | 1.50v to 2.46v (0.02v) |
CASLatencyRange | tCAS: 3-11; tRCD: 3-10; tRP: 3-10; tRAS: 3-31 |
CPU core voltage “droop” can be fairly significant under full CPU load, but enabling “Load-Line Calibration” helps. Unfortunately, the setting also boosts base voltage well beyond the intended setting, forcing us to set 1.4375 volts to achieve an actual 1.45 to 1.46 volts.
The P6T has a variety of memory settings that would be unfamiliar to most overclockers, and allows individual timings to be left in automatic mode.
We enable power-saving features and Intel Turbo mode for our performance and power consumption tests, but disable them for our overclocking assessment.
Asus EZ Flash 2 supports BIOS flashing from its own command prompt, eliminating the need for bootable media.
Asus O.C. Profile allows up to two custom BIOS configurations to be saved onboard as profiles, and also supports transferring these profiles externally via USB flash drives.
Accessories
Accessories | |
|---|---|
Documentation & Software | Motherboard Manual |
| Asus case badge |
| Motherboard driver DVD |
Hardware | 4 x Serial ATA Cable |
| 1 x 80-conductor Ultra-ATA Cable |
| 1 x Quick Connector Kit |
| 1 x I/O Panel Shield |
| 1 x NVIDIA SLI Bridge |
| 1 x 3-way SLIBridge |
It’s hard to believe that a motherboard priced well over $200 is now considered mid-range, but the “better value” P6T comes with an installation kit typical of the middle market. The only stand-out accessory is its 3-way SLI bridge, which has questionable value when one of the slots employs x4 lane width.
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Warpedsystems has tested a least half of these, my Evga failed out of the box, i would normally let that slide but with all the 680i and 780i issues and failures over the years - beware. So i can not speak of the evga - i will say the 780i FTW is kick butt mobo!
Asus is asus and 90% or so of my stuff i ship, i switched to the new P6t from the deluxe and have had some issues - i am sitll working on the P6T tonight as i type. Opps- my jr tech set the blk to 180 and over clocked the QPI to max - i think he smoked the mobo ran amd cpu = its first in 5 years if so?
Some did not make it? no gigabyte? gigabyte is really pushing on asus for number one - really! Ya, all the evga fans are what? I can say how many evga mobos break and fail: pci-e slot fail, pressure around the cpu mounting failure, lock ups - evga lock ups are just accepted as part of life! We all know that evga error code!
I have to say the gigabyte and the higher end asus deluxe version sure seem a lot more reliable for 4ghz systems - again - we only took 1 evga and it locked up and i said "that is it the last time" - the FTW 780i gives me faith evga will come around on x58.
what ever you do - do not oc the blk and QPI - poof!
nice stuff THG!
One of the companies forgot to send a board and didn't respond in time to the reminder...see the introduction of the article. What makes you think that company wasn't Gigabyte?
Judging from the feature list, the board was plain P6T, but all pictures seem to be of P6T SE.
http://media.bestofmicro.com/7/3/192063/original/asus_p6t_kit.jpg
Sorry, but you can't make a good review without including one of the top manufacturers of X58 motherboards.
Sorry, but you can't make a good review without including one of the top manufacturers of X58 motherboards.
I am not the extreme overclocking kinda guy. In fact, I still am running on default settings on my Core 2 Duo E6750. I don't plan to overclock over 3,2Ghz on my new 920, if I ever do overclock.
Neither boards support SLI, but I'd be interrested in a dual Radeon 4870 1GB Crossfire config.
Thanks in advance
Tell that to Gigabyte.
No salavat23. Sorry but you can't make a good reader without reading the introduction.
I have the P6T and love it. 3.8 GHz using DDR3 1333 RAM. All I need to do is change these settings:
Ai Overclock Tuner: Manual
CPU Ratio: Auto
Intel Speed Step: Disable
Bclk: 190
DRAM: DDR3- 1523
DRAM: Bus 1.66
That's all that you need to do to get 3.8 GHz out of it. Works like a charm.
Agreed. While manufacturers not meeting the deadline is somewhat annoying, I'd really like to know which brand, and especially which motherboard model had the spectacular failure. I'm about to buy components for a Core i7 build, and knowing which one had issues would add some piece of mind to the decision.
Tom's guys, can you help us readers out on on this?
I'm curious what's the difference between their reviews and the ones here?
As for the reviews here you go..
http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/motherboards/1861_16.html
http://www.thinkcomputers.org/index.php?x=reviews&id=943&page=11
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1761/13/asrock_x58_supercomputer_motherboard/index.html
I guess my concern is who is right??
From my discussions with Thomas, it seemed that this board was solid until you started overclocking it, after which we had two different boards burn up. Thomas can clarify, though.
I would really love to know where the Intel board stacks up in this.