Will this work on an Asus p6t deluxe v2?

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You'd need to check your user manual and the Newegg memory selection tool available on this site. I know this version of memory works very well on my Asus P6X58D Premium Mobo

Also, I'd suggest checking with Mushkin. I've always had very good results using their memory but you need to be sure you pick the right memory for your Mobo. Whatever Mushkin's engineers suggest is what I'd use.

Some of the Asus Mobo's make claims about overclocking abilities. I'm not big on OC'ing. If you want faster memory, spend the extra $$$ for faster RAM. Most of the newer Mobo's allow for various clock speeds for your RAM. Generally, the faster it is, the more expensive.

I picked the DDR3-1600 RAM because it is a good price/speed tradeoff. But I could've purchased faster RAM if I had wanted to. The Asus P6X58D Premium also supports faster DDR3-1800, DDR3-1866, and DDR3-2000. It also supports slower DDR3-1300.

On my machine, the RAM is not the thing bottlenecking speed, it is my RAID array. Even with the increased throughput of RAID 0, it is still the slowest part of the system.

But please understand what I'm saying. My machine is so fast that having an even faster hard disk array isn't going to matter. Programs already load in the blink of an eye. So why fret about the bottleneck? It might improve a little if I went to SSD  or SATA 6.0 15000 RPM drives instead of SATA 6.0 7200 RPM units. But again, it's an issue of performance vs price.

If you're not already running a RAID 0 array, I'd suggest you try that. You will get twice the throughput on reads compared to the throughput of a single drive, not to mention the fact that you'll seldom experience a total loss of data if you lose one of your drives. You can just replace the bad drive and rebuild the array. That takes about an hour with a 1 TB RAID 0 array.

I've not had a total system crash that required reformatting and reloading the C:\ drive since I upgraded to Win 7 64-bit when it first hit the market a few years back.

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