Motherboards ASUS P6T X58 Motherboard for Intel i7 (Nehalem)

BETTER for us to start Saving very dam good!!!!!



A NAKED Asus piece or art



Major features include:

* 36-total PCI-E lanes, enabling full 4 x 8X mode
* ICH10R Southbridge
* Full SAS support
* 16-phase power design



BTW : I think that I wet my self.

 

16-phase? Jeez.
5 fan headers, crazy.
8 sata ports, \o/

Good to see there's no new power connections.

 

16 phase is sheer e-peen only to compete with Gigabytes 12.
5 fan headers - the Asus board I have next to me now has 7
8 SATA + SAS = win, although I'm confused how ICH10R, a chipset currently used with P45, can offer SAS support. Are you sure it's not just the Marvell chipset only?

3 phase memory, 4? phase northbridge and 16 phase CPU (with EPU support).

The top PCI-Express slot might be limited due to the heatsink size on the X58.

 

Keep in mind this is a spy photo the final one will be charming in BLACK COPPER and some SEXY craps and you DROOL and CRY on the store to get it. You will stand and looking like this

 

Why does the CPU socket have to be so damned big..

When i8 comes out we'll all be using eATX just to get a decent gap between the RAM, Socket and PCI-E port..

BTW, by £80 DFI has 5-fan headers so Pff.

 

because they added MORE Pins , we moved from 775 Pins on the cpu to 1366 Pins on the cpu, Why?

Because the Cpu have a controller ( like the south bridge or north or some thing like that I'm not sure )

see the diffrent on the photo ( left 1366 ( New ) Right old 775 )





More info : " High performance will be improved with the built-in memory controller , which supports DDR3-1333 memory with capacity up to 25,6 GB/s. ASUS P6T deluxe support also SAS technology (Serial attached SCSI) . The latter will allow users to connect SAS disks with high perforance (in PC mark test SAS-HDD are faster than SATA- analogs by upto 39% in the regime RAID 0) .
"

We are screwed. It's DDR3 and SCSI

 

I'm talking about the socket as a whole... The HSF mounts... Why not go AM2 style and have the holes on both ends.. you'd save like an inch of board area areound the CPU..

Do we seriously need triple channel DDR3? Its just mindless e-penis-ness.

 

good idea! you should tell intel I don't have a clue why the hell they are making every thing funky.

But to be honest it will not BE CHEAP!! after a year after release, the prices will be responsible

 

I did some research they are saying this is prototype!!! mean they didn't complete it. Still in testing.

I hope it smoke the hell out. but I hope DDR3 prices go down.

 

looks very very nice.

5 fan headers isn't a lot, my current Abit board already have 5 , and im running out.

what i REALLY want to see is heatsinks on the top roll. because p182 have a fan that can directly offer airflow over it, so it'd be very easy to cool those set of MOSFET and, with help of heatpipe, the other components.
most x58 motherboards are now just putting something like 8 PWM at the back of back IO plate, which means bad airflow. think about it, air from tower CPU cooler (most overclockers cooling) will just to straight out through the back fan, creating a dead spot at the MOSFET heatsink.

 

You are right. But I think the PSU fan Cool them Or I'm wrong ?

I think asus will not miss this point.

 

PSU fans cool the top roll of the motherboard. that's where i want heatsinks.

but most X58 motherboards i've seen only have heatsink behind back IO plate. no airflow over that part at all if you are using a tower CPU cooler.

 

True that's why Asus have the small fan bundled on top of the sinks.

 

SAS is not SCSI. While SAS might stand for "Serial Attached SCSI" it is a very different technology. SAS uses a form factor that makes it compatible with standard SATA drives, it also supports a larger number of devices and maintains a higher transfer rate than SCSI. You might want to read up on it first (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Attached_SCSI) before brushing SAS off as "just SCSI". Futhermore, since X58 supports Triple-Channel DDR3, either low-latency 1333 or higher-latency but higher clocked 1600Mhz (maybe overclocked to 2000Mhz?) will provide a noticeable performance increase over DDR2 since we are dealing with a chipset that is both designed and optimized for DDR3.

So why are you using dual-channel DDR2 now? Maybe we should revert back to single channel SDRAM, because dual-channel is just mindless e-penis-ness. (See the logic of your flawed statement? I hope so).

Anywho, the mobo will most likely be branded as a RoG series board and retail for around $350-400 USD as most Asus RoG's retail for when first released.

 

But it is "just SCSI". It's the original SCSI transformed into the serial form. For most of us it's of no interest, because we don't have SAS drives to attatch to it.

 

the only reason i see people complaining about tri-channel DDR3 is because they already bought dual channel DDR3 kits, and know they'd be having problem when moving to Nehalem (sorry, i7)

get over it, it'd be great: 12GB and add another kit for 24GB

 

Umm, in the past Bit has gotten the chance to play with an s5000pal (http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2006/09/05/bit_techs_gaming_server/1). While there are no shots of the drives, does any of the staff remember what was being used there? The midplane in that chassis *should* have had an LSI 1064 (if I remember the chip num correctly) on it, which is a SAS contoller. I have worked on a very similar system for my job I use SATA drives in it all the time running from the SAS controller.
Please, read the SAS specification and see why it's not just a serialized SCSI bus. There is a LOT more to it.

But if the board supports SAS, then the only chip on there that looks like it could be a SAS controller is the Marvell chip. I'm not aware of any currelty shipping Marvell SAS controllers, and they don't mention SAS in any of their current products. So SAS may be a typo, or planted misinformation by Asus. The other big chips that might be interesting are the Via chip, and what looks like a Winbond chip.

There is a floppy header on the board so that would seem to imply that the chip on the left is a Windbond chip, specifically a Super I/O. Then there is the IDE port, which the ICH10 does not support, so I'm guessing that's what the VIA chip is for. So, the Marvell ship may be a bridge to get 2 more SATA ports from the extra IDE channel in the VIA chip.

The memory controller is not part of the CPU, so the pins for memory that used to be on the northbridge had to dgo somewhere Plus there is the extra memory channel too. The triple channel ystem is defiantly not e-peen. Remember that this socket has been spotted on both dual processor and uniprocessor boards, so presumably, all the CPUs are DP capable. Also remember that, like AMD, Intel now has a NUMA memory system. So it is possible for one CPU to want to access memory another CPU is controlling. The extra channel will help a CPU get data for the other CPU while maintaining bandwidth for itself.

 

Thank you! I was going to state the obvious, but I dearly hoped that the Wikipedia link I provided (which has a section cleared stated "SAS versus SCSI" and clearly describes /many/ differences) would be followed by others. But alas, I was wrong.

As for those bashing SAS... yes it's expensive *at the moment* we have yet to see what exactly happens. The Foxxconn X58 Renaissance also features an onboard SAS controller.

Additional X56 mobo's: http://en.expreview.com/2008/06/03/computex’08-other-x58-mobos-following/

From the looks of it, those mobo's will feature an actual SAS controller, rather than an SAS-bridge. Asus has used LSI Logic controllers in the past, something along the lines of the LSI 1068 maybe? It's been employed on their dual-771 server boards so its readily available and probably the cheapest to incorporate.

 

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/06/06/plenty-of-nehalem-boards-on-show/1

Why do I bother to do news and do the same pictures

Please remember that X58 is not "general consumer" it's performance enthusiast, workstation and 1-CPU server. There is more chance of me spontaneously waking up female than SAS dropping in price to accommodate this.

 

Keep praying for that, that's all I can say.

Reel it back a few notches and you'll be hitting the right area