ASUS P6T LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail

Good Ol' ASUS

Reviewed By: on 1/9/2009

Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Seems well made. Chip-set heat sinks are substantial, well layed out, and well attached. Sturdy back plate supporting the CPU socket which works great to secure after-market cooler w/o damaging the board.

Enough overclocking for me. BIOS was a breeze. Moved the BCLK from 133 to 167, turned off "auto-overclocking" and power-stepping stuff and changed nothing else (no voltages) for a 3.34GHz OC of a i7 920. Running sub-30s idle with an after-market air cooler. No reason to go any higher when this is so easy, so safe and already better than the $1K chip.

Minimal, simple drivers. There were not "super suites" of useless poorly made software like some motherboards come with.

Doesn't have any bells and whistles but bells crack and whistles are annoying. Just a solid board. Every ASUS board I've bought since 10 years ago worked first try and every try since except this one but I blame my cooler not ASUS.

Cons: Only 2 SATA ports facing outward from the face of the board. The other slots are in the plane of the board and it's a real pain to connect them without dismantling everything. Two was enough for me but I don't understand why they can't make these more accessible.

The sound output internal connector pins near the bottom of the board interfere with the last PCI slot. A thick card in that slot might interfere with that.

The "CHA_FAN2" connector won't power a fan with manual speed control. Maybe this is standard but you'd think it could still power it and then control the speed as a percentage of the manually setting or something.

Other Thoughts: That back-plate might end up causing shorts because combined with an after-market cooling bracket standard stand-offs might not be sufficient to give the board separation from the case.

When I first installed it on standard stand-offs the fans would spin up for a moment and then nothing all while the LEDs on the board were lit up fine. Suspecting a short I got ahold of some extra tall plastic stand-offs and once I got it sitting on those it POSTed first try and hasn't had problems since.

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Asus P6T review, with overclock

Reviewed By: Xenozx on 12/30/2008

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

Pros: You cant beat the price. I added up the pro's and cons, and decided, I didnt need 2 NIC's, some overpriced heatsink, 16 phase power, and sas, so I went with the generic P6T. All in all I am impressed. other then the things mentioned above, its pretty much the same board. Same overclocking options, everything. Worked out of the box, great board IMO. Only complaint I have it in the bios you have to manually key in every variable, were most boards let you select the variable you want out of a drop down. This may not bother you but it forced me to write down my settings to make sure I wasnt setting anything too high or low. Great board for the price. I didnt get it from newegg, but got it for 237 shipped.

Cons: The bios thing, is really the only con. if those missing features in the pro's bother you then they may be a con for you, but not for me.

Other Thoughts: Only toyed with overclocking, but got 3.6 ghz rock stable by only changing the QPI/DRAM voltage and CPU Vcore to 1.35 volts. No other settings touched. Idle arround 40c and Load about 80c. Going to go for 4.0ghz.

For the price you cant beat it, especially with the overclocking results.

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Reviewed By: on 2/8/2010

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: Works very well. Seems like it is quality built. Many overclocking options inside.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: I wish I would have bought a mobo that had USB 3.0 support and the new SATA 6GBps support.

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Terrible! I'm one of the unlucky ones! Bad DiMM

Reviewed By: Matt on 2/5/2010

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 day to 1 week

Pros: Board is great! Has some eye candy features! Great oc' abilties and express gate is cool! I have owned a p6t se before. This is my 5th build and going with a p6t deluxe that only was to fail me.

Cons: Board has a bad DIMM SLOT (A1). Wouldn't boot on it or memory wouldn't be recognized from it. ASUS tech support is not the best either. After looking at other reviews, i find it very common to have memory issues. Seems like a 70% work of box rate (kinda like buying a xbox 360) haha!

Other Thoughts: ASUS TECH SUPPORT WAS THE WORST PART of the ordeal! The only reason I’m writing this review is because of the phone support. I called them the day I purchased the board. Explaining my problem, etc etc. The support tech guy not only belittled me but gave me no help watsoever. He told me you have a bad DIMM and didn't try to walk me through any troubleshooting methods. I asked him is this common with this board" He replies "NO, its not common or a KNOWN ISSUE at all". I felt like he didn't care about my problem or care about his job. It could have been a bad employee but i felt intimidated talking to him. He also seemed to want to end the conversation fast and didn’t give a appropriate "thank you" or watever in the end. I hope ASUS will listen to consumers...

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its like a girlfriend

Reviewed By: on 2/4/2010

Tech Level: high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year

This user purchased this item from Newegg

Pros: First off, this board is a beast. I have an SLI setup and my i7 920 overclocks to 3.4ghz with little effort. No complaints about the features or performance.

Cons: Cold boot issue: my board does not detect all 3 ram sticks upon the first cold boot, i.e. when i come home from work. But if it shut it down (not restart) and then turn it on again it will detect all the RAM. It took me 3 weeks of trying every possible timing and voltage until i stumbled upon this fix. Very frustrating.

Other Thoughts: Its like a girlfriend: awesome when you figure out what makes her tick just right.

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