ASUS P6X58D PREMIUM ARRIVING MONDAY

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UPDATE - FURTHER STOCK ARRIVING 28/1/2010

We've got our first batch of Asus' latest X58 entry arriving on Monday with support for SATA 6Gb/s and USB 3.0. Stock is limited guys so I'd get a pre-order on ASAP if you want to get your hands on one of these.

Asus P6X58D Premium Intel X58 (Socket 1366) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard @ £249.99 inc VAT

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The P6X58D motherboard provides a host of new features and latest technologies such as true USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB/s. It supports the Socket LGA1366 Core i7 processors including the upcoming 32nm 6-Core CPU and offers better overclocking capabilities with less power consumption thanks to a groundbreaking 16+2 phase VRM design. Experience ultra-fast data transfers up to 4.8Gb/s with USB 3.0 - the latest connectivity standard. Built to connect easily with next generation components and peripherals, USB 3.0 transfers data 10x faster and is also backward compatible with USB 2.0 components. The next-generation Serial ATA storage interface delivers up to 6.0Gb/s data transfer rates for faster data retrieval - double the bandwidth of current bus systems.

- CPU: Intel Core i7 Processors (Socket LGA1366)
- Chipset: Intel X58 Express
- Memory: 6x DDR3 DIMM 2000(OC) / 1600 / 1333 / 1066 MHz (Max. 24GB) / Triple Channel / Intel Extreme Memory Profile (XMP)
- Expasion slots: 3x PCIe 2.0 x16 Slots, 1x PCIe x1 Slots & 2x PCI Slots (Supports ATI CrossFireX & NVIDIA SLI Technology)
- Storage: 6x SATA 3Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10) & 2x SATA 6Gb/s
- LAN: Dual Marvell 88E8056 Gigabit LAN
- Audio: ALC889 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC
- 8x USB 2.0
- 2x USB 3.0/2.0
- 2x IEEE 1394a
- 1x PS/2 Keyboard
- 1x PS/2 Mouse
- 1x S/PDIF Out (Optical)
- 1x S/PDIF Out (Coaxial)
- 16+2 Phase Power Design
- TurboV Overclocking
- MemOK!
- EPU
- Express Gate SSD
- Fanless Design
- Stack Cool3+
- CrashFree BIOS 3
- EZ Flash 2
- MyLogo 2

Only £249.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW
 
Recently i always feel massively let down by asus board layout :(

on this board if you go dual sli/xfire then u have access to no pci slots :confused:

msi seem to have it nailed for me at the moment, looking forward to ocuk getting the big bang series in stock :D
 
I'm happy to see the first ASUS X58 motherboard with USB 3 and SATA 6GB/s support arriving in the UK. Now I just need to wait for the micro ATX version (Rampage III Gene or whatever). Sorry, I know I've posted about it before but the waiting is killing me.
 
Good to see it isn't the p6t deluxe v4 like the original design suggested
can't wait to see what these are like
 
Been waiting for some reviews of this board nice to see it's arriving at last :). Do you have any info on the Rampage 3? Although if this is the price of the premium I dread to think how much the Rampage 3 is going to cost, even if it is the successor and should cost the same as the Rampage 2 but hey, it never works that way lol.
 
Been waiting for this for a while, nice to see it in stock.

I'm building a PC for the first time, so I'm a little new to this. Can someone please explain to me why, if I was to run two Nvidia cards in SLI, why I wouldn't have access to any more slots? The board has five PCI slots, surely two Nvidia cards wouldn't take up all the space around the five slots?
 
The cards and coolers are physically so big they actually take up 2 expansion card spaces, so 2 large graphics cards will actually take up 4 expansion slots, they aren't plugged into these other slots they cover but nothing else can use them either because they are covered up.
 
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Andydigital said:
The cards and coolers are physically so big the actually take up 2 expansion card spaces, so 2 large graphics cards will actually take up 4 expansion slots, they aren't plugged into these other slots they cover but nothing else can use them either because they are covered up.
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Is there anything out there of any use that is still made on PCI? All the new sounds cards, RAID cards, network cards, they are all being made on PCI-E, I don't see what the worry of not having any PCI slots is??
 
creed said:
well having already paid £50 on a PCI soundcard it would be a shame to ditch it for equivalent PCI-e version...
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Well you are a very silly boy for buying a PCI sound card then aren't you! :p I understand people still have PCI cards, i'm using a PCI soundcard now, but I just think if you are willing to spend 250 on a mobo I would've thought you wouldn't have an 'old' PCI sound card?
 
My Soundblaster Audigy 2 still sounds better than anything ASUS has ever included with its Rampage and Extreme boards, I will be sticking with it until it no longer works.
 
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Thanks for the clarification Andy. I'm in the same boat as you and Creed; I have an X-Fi Xtreme Gamer PCI card which I bought nearly three years ago now and it's a perfectly good card, so I might as well use it. I just checked OcUK and they have it on sale for £63.99, so it's still worth something!

I won't be running SLI at first so I'll fit it into the 2nd PCI slot for the meantime but I guess in the future if I do go SLI, I'll have to ditch the X-Fi for a PCI-e version (or just use the integrated audio, hopefully it's at least half decent!).
 
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