This motherboard was compared to the ASUS P6T & Rampage II GENE, EVGA X58 SLI, MSI Eclipse SLI & X58 Platinum.
Conclusion: This mobo was easy to overclock, allthough it was behind the Rampage II Extreme, the chips' heatsinks kept it very cool, and the constuction is of a very high quality. This board is ready for the upcoming i7 hexacore 'Gulftown' processors and is of course equipped with USB3.0 and SATA6.0Gb/s, next to that it has Tri-SLI capabilities.
Overclocking: A core i7 920 was OCed @ 3990MHz, 190BCLK x 21multiplier. The test setup -- Memory: 6GB Mushkin HP3 12800 -- Graphics Card: nVidia GTX 260 -- Power Supply: CoolerMaster Real Power Pro 850w.
Benchmarks: 3DMark 06 Professional, 3DMark Vantage, Apophysis, BioShock, Call Of Duty: World at War, Cinebench 10,, Excel, Fallout 3, HD Tune, Left 4 Dead, PC Mark Vantage, POV Ray, Sciencemark, Sisoft Sandra, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II, WinRar.
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Building my new i7 (1366 socket) PC Specs: Motherboard: Asus P6X58D Premium CPU: Intel i7-920 PSU: Corsair TX750W Memory: Corsair Dominator DDR3 (3 X 2GB) GPU: EVGA GTX 260 HDD: WD Caviar Bl...
My first computer build. Intel i7 920 processor paired with Asus P6X58D Premium motherboard with the new SATA 6.0 and USB 3.0 technology along with 12 gb of ram ddr3 and a NVIDIA GTX 260 XLR8 video...






