ASUS P6T motherboard

CK61938 · 13 Mar 2009 at 15:56

Ok I have finally decided I am going forget getting AMD Phenom II and go straight for Core i7...I already have Intel for my gaming machine this is actually to upgrade said gaming machine and swap the parts into my current AMD main machine (confusing I know lol)

The plan is to get the above motherboard, with a Core i7 920, 6GB DDR3 RAM, Antec 902 case and a CPU cooler...but I jsut want to know how well the ASUS P6T can overclock the i7 920 so it gives me an idea what I can do when I get hold of it.

Thanks in advance

Bomag · 13 Mar 2009 at 22:36

Everything is relative and if you have a limited CPU the choice of MB wont help.

I originally had a P6T DL and switched to vanilla P6T when the SAS ports went. It made no difference to the OC.

CK61938 · 14 Mar 2009 at 01:21

Fair point mate...thank you

reflux · 14 Mar 2009 at 01:26

Well as you know Kal I have mine sitting here @ 3.8ghz. Can't get it to boot @ 4ghz, but that might be the CPU's fault.

The P6T is quite a good mobo, but mine's been a bit flaky. For example, it took me three attempts to boot after putting it all together, Vista was very slow to install, and if you have C-State enabled in the BIOS, scrolling on web pages is very laggy and choppy.

Other than that, it's good, but it feels like it needs a little bit more tweaking on Asus' part.

CK61938 · 14 Mar 2009 at 04:01

reflux said:
Well as you know Kal I have mine sitting here @ 3.8ghz. Can't get it to boot @ 4ghz, but that might be the CPU's fault.

The P6T is quite a good mobo, but mine's been a bit flaky. For example, it took me three attempts to boot after putting it all together, Vista was very slow to install, and if you have C-State enabled in the BIOS, scrolling on web pages is very laggy and choppy.

Other than that, it's good, but it feels like it needs a little bit more tweaking on Asus' part.

Cool...thanks for the heads up mate

Steeps · 14 Mar 2009 at 13:06

Just built one of these and it POST'ed first time, sits in bios happy. Can't give anymore info because I'm still waiting for my OS to come and I don't want to OC it until it's settled in.

anjs · 14 Mar 2009 at 15:31

I have the deluxe version. Did not see all the 6 gb at start up but thats becasue the memory was not seated correctly. Will clock al the way to 4.2 with no problems.

Meridian · 15 Mar 2009 at 15:20

Like reflux I've got an i920 at 3.80GHz on one of these. The steady escalation of voltages needed for the last few speed rises tells me it's the chip limit, not the board.

Worked first time after one failure - caused by me not plugging the aux power connector in properly.

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reflux · 15 Mar 2009 at 15:21

Either of you guys getting laggy scrolling with C1E, SpeedStep and C-State enabled in the BIOS, when the CPU is overclocked?