Asus X58 P6T Deluxe Core i7 Nehalem Motherboard

GSte · #1 20-08-2008, 20:37

Thought this was interesting enough to pluck from Newsbot.....

http://en.expreview.com/2008/08/20/m...rd-p6t-deluxe/

Clunk · #2 20-08-2008, 20:44

Nice plucking job

Clunk · #3 20-08-2008, 20:48

The link is broke for now, so I've added a pic to tide us over

Triple channel

Clunk · #4 22-08-2008, 18:31

Source expreview and http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,65...rt_bestaetigt/

MustRotate · #5 22-08-2008, 19:10

What the heck is that silver thing on the bottom of the mobo? Is that for socket reinforcement? LOL.

Clunk · #6 22-08-2008, 19:25

It might be, it certainly looks like it would strengthen it up a bit.

Might also be to do with cooling as the mem controller is no on chip?

supershanks · #7 22-08-2008, 22:44

I like the battery holder saves space on mobo & easy to remove , nice design.

affiliate13 · #8 22-08-2008, 22:51

More on this here:
bit-tech.net | Review - Early Look: Asus P6T Deluxe

Looks nicely laid out, seem to have SAS RAID too which is nice.

Kelainefes · #9 22-08-2008, 23:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by MustRotate

What the heck is that silver thing on the bottom of the mobo? Is that for socket reinforcement? LOL.

It's a CPU backplate, about time they included one and let's hope it's a solid one.
If i recall correctly it's also on socket 1366 specs.

MustRotate · #10 23-08-2008, 08:56

Yeah ok but we are going to see some radical new looks on the heatsink backplates. There isnt a lot of room around the holes to work with. Or would they just skip the backplates?