Asus p6x58d

[ChuckR]

Are there any reviews of this motherboard? I know this board is a little early to have many Sata 6.0 devices available, as well as USB 3.0. I would think with CES coming up that Anand has early devices to use with this and the Gigabyte boards.
Early next year I want to build or buy pre-built a system and this board with a 900 series chip looks like a good starting point.

 

[Interitus]

I've been looking for a good, thorough review of this board as well. Trying to justify purchasing it despite its lack of eSATA.

Be careful looking for reviews, when I searched I found a lot of old news out there since it was announced a long time ago, then got scratched, and now it has resurfaced. Or at least that's what I got from the articles I did find.

 

[wwswimming]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131614

i think AT or Tom's Hardware will be running a review in the next few weeks. that's a real new board, but it has some of the new features like SATA 6.0 & USB 3.0, so it's the kind of board that gets reviewed.

 

[sethk]

I'm not sure if the new Gigabyte is out, that will also have USB 3.0 / SATA 6Gb.

 

[Bolas]

I'm trying to decide between the Asus P6X58D and the Asus P6T7 Supercomputer.

Thoughts?

 

[MyLeftNut]

I'm trying to decide between the Asus P6X58D and the Asus P6T7 Supercomputer.

Thoughts?

For overclocking, the P6X58D would probably be the better choice as supposedly, it doesn't have the turbo throttling issue. The P6T7's advantage would only be the amount of pci-e slots on board. Both boards use the newer B3 revision X58 chipset. It's up to what you'll be using it for, which on the P6X58D you'll get USB 3.0 and SATA 3.0, although, the SATA 3.0 may not perform as well as if it were a native solution.

 

[ChuckR]

It will also be interesting to see what the case makers will do with USB 3.0 to differentiate them from USB 2.0 connections.

 

[Rubycon]

For overclocking, the P6X58D would probably be the better choice as supposedly, it doesn't have the turbo throttling issue. The P6T7's advantage would only be the amount of pci-e slots on board.

There is a BIOS that fixes that!

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=4096679&postcount=286

 

[MyLeftNut]

Yes, I'm aware of those unofficial bioses. Problem is, they're unofficial and the Asus rep who posts these have said himself that they will never release any official bioses with the throttling removed, as well, no support for these unofficial test bioses.

 

[d33nl0]

The e-sata port is not onboard, but hooked up via expansion bracket. Check out the manual.

 

[Interitus]

The e-sata port is not onboard, but hooked up via expansion bracket. Check out the manual.

Oh wow. Thanks for pointing that out, I completely overlooked that.

 

[d33nl0]

Oh wow. Thanks for pointing that out, I completely overlooked that.

Actually if it weren't for your post, I would've totally missed that too. Thanks!

 

[Rubycon]

Yes, I'm aware of those unofficial bioses. Problem is, they're unofficial and the Asus rep who posts these have said himself that they will never release any official bioses with the throttling removed, as well, no support for these unofficial test bioses.

Well then might as well not overclock either since that is not guaranteed nor supported!

The source is good and the person knows people over at Asus so they would not "leak" crap that would hose your system. I have two of everything anyway so if I were to hose it no problem. To date this has not happened! (from BIOS flashing)

 

[ChuckR]

How did my interest in p6x58d become a discussion of BIOS? Does this mean some people have it already?

 

[awer26]

How did my interest in p6x58d become a discussion of BIOS? Does this mean some people have it already?

Mine's in transit from Newegg, along with 3x2GB of G.Skill 1600 RAM and an i7-920

 

[imaxcpu]

How did my interest in p6x58d become a discussion of BIOS? Does this mean some people have it already?

I am putting mine together right now,

Parts:
P6X85D
Megahalems (3Rsystems Boss II on the way just to try as well)
Patriot 6gb 2000 mhz 8-8-8-24
CoolerMaster 840
BFG 285GTX

I have a "p6x58d" post in hereas well that I should update soon.

So far, the board is in with the HS installed, Nochtua Fans have been dyed Black and tomorrow I expect to install and Win7/OSX

My goal is a stable 4ghz+ O/C with 12 GB of that patriot ram

 

[Bumpeez]

Mine's in transit from Newegg, along with 3x2GB of G.Skill 1600 RAM and an i7-920

I just put one together am pretty happy so far.

Intel i-7 920
Asus P6X58D
CORSAIR xMS3 3x2 gig
Xfx Ati 4890
Windows 7 32bit
Antec 1200
Megahalems Cpu Cooler
VelociRaptor 300 gig
Antec 1200 Case
Zalman 1000 Power Supply
X-Fi Titanium Pci-e

 

[InfiniteImp]

I have the P6X58D and man, I am beyond thrilled with it. Not only does it support all the latest goodies (SATA3, USB3), it also overclocks incredibly well. I've had the board now for about a week so I figured it was time to see how well it would OC. After about a 1 hour, I'm up to 3.8 GHz on this Core i7-920... that's on air cooling as well (CoolerMaster V10).

Very happy with this board.

 

[peebee]

I'd have to agree with everyone else here, awesome board. Plenty of overclocking headroom.

 

[InfiniteImp]

I'd have to agree with everyone else here, awesome board. Plenty of overclocking headroom.

I'm up to 4.1 GHz now.. averaging 70 C temps on 100% load, all cores, running at 1.26 CPU voltage.

Man, I'm in OC heaven.

 

[peebee]

I'm up to 4.1 GHz now.. averaging 70 C temps on 100% load, all cores, running at 1.26 CPU voltage.

Man, I'm in OC heaven.

What kind of cooling?

 

[InfiniteImp]

As I said in post #18, a CoolerMaster V10. It's a hybrid TEC cooler, 2 120mm fans, massive.... so, a little better than plain old air cooling. You pay a premium for it but it's really been worth the money.

So far it's outdoing my Swiftech water cooler which is running with a 3x120mm radiator. I wouldn't have expected that from an air cooler.

What kind of cooling?

 

[bmoranx]

Hi all - I just finished putting my system together and I am having some OCing issues. My sytem specs are below. I have played with many Bios settings and have had difficulties getting a stable OC. It seems that setting my multiplier to 21 and bclock to 190 works best but i need to have my vcore up to 1.4 r slightly higher. My mem is set to 1.66 and my incore is 2x of my mem speed 15xx (dont recall exact). My core temp in Prime 95 after a couple hours is 68 72 69 70. If i up my bclock, the system wont boot into windows. Also, CPUz reports 3990Ghz and my system (Windows) reports 3.8Ghz. My speed step is disabled and no turbo enabled probly because of the 21x setting.

My other i7 920 C0 chip ran at 4.1Ghz with 1.42v on my EVGA X58i MOBO with no issues but the bios OC menus were very different. Perhaps I am missing some key settings?

Can one of you gurus post your P6X58D settings?

Intel i-7 920 D0 stepping
Asus P6X58D
CORSAIR xMS3 3x2 gig CL8
2 ASUS 5870HD running in CrossFire
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Coolermaster HAF 932
Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme-1366 RT Rev. C
2 Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB (raid 0)
1 OCZ Colossus 512 GB (borrowed from neighbor)
Sony 24X SATA DVD Burner
Enermax Revolution 85+ 1050 Watt Power Supply

thanx/Bruce

 

[PCboy]

MSI Big Bang X58 is going to be released to compete with the ASUS R3E motherboard.

Keep an eye on both if you're willing to go the extra mile.

 

[InfiniteImp]

I left everything at default (as far as I can recall) and only changed the following:

BCLK 194
CPU V 1.25250
DRAM 1.32
QPI/DRAM V 1.2500

The above gives me a stable overclock of 4.01 GHz. Still running at that now.. been, what, about 5+ weeks now..