So today I've got another ASUS motherboard. This is the P6TSE. So P6
would mean it's an LG 1366 board and SE
means it's part of their special edition. And so this is a pretty
valueoriented board. So you can see first of all right off the bat there is
no SLI logo. So this is a Crossfire board only, but it does support quad
Crossfire X. It's Windows 7 ready. It's an X58 board. So that means it supports
the Core i7 as well as the Core i7 Extreme. So, it does not support Core i5
or any of the LG 1156 CPUs. It has solid
capacitors upgraded at wow 57 years at 65 degrees. Very cool. 8 plus2 phase
power design, turbo V. It supports DDR3 up to 2,000 MHz.
And it has express gate, which is highly
irrelevant. Okay, so let's have a look at what is on the inside. First of all,
you've got your IO shield. Okay, so that's a fairly standard IO shield. It
is silver. Has their little foamy backing on it. Very nice. You've got Q
connector. So, I'm guessing this board doesn't support FireWire based on there's one that's not or that's not in
there. You've got four SATA cables. So, two of them are right angle and two of
them are straight. Then you have an IDE
cable. Then you have the user's guide as
well as Oh, there's like a little addendum in here. So, LAN port. Oh, no.
Okay. This is an information update for the user guide that comes with Yeah. Okay. So, they're telling you about what
it means if the LEDs are lit on your onboard LAN. Okay. Awesome. Then you
have a driver DVD which you shouldn't use. You should download the latest off
the ASUS website. And this user guide is all English. So that's a fairly thick
user guide there. Although not as thick as the P67 P6T7 WS uh supercomputer
motherboard. All right, let's get this thing open. Now, like I said, it's a
more valueoriented board, but don't get me wrong, this is still a full-fledged
X58 board, so you're going to find most of the features that you would come to
expect. First of all, you've got an LGA 1366 socket right here, and the
obligatory support for triple channel DDR3 memory. Okay, they've got a warning
right here. According to Intel CPU spec, gyms with voltage setting over 1.65 may
damage the CPU permanently. So, you're going to want to use something like Gskill's Eco brand or eco brand eco line
of memory or anything else that runs under or at 1.65 volts. The lower the
better. Okay, so we've got our onboard power switch right here. Let's work our
way down. So, we've got our 24 pin power connector exactly where it belongs. Six
SATA ports, two of which are coming right off the board and four of which,
all of these running off the chipset are coming out the side of the board. Now,
the reason for that is that you can see the top PCI Express 16x connector would
run exactly here. So, you can access these two, run them up to the top for
like an optical drive or whatever else. And then these four you can use for hard drives. Perfect. Then you've got your
IDE connector. Here's your chipset. Then you've got three USB headers as well as
your front panel connectors. Then you've got a Oh, there is a FireWire connector
uh or header. They don't give you a uh Huh. They don't give you an adapter for
it. Then there's a a spot for a floppy port, but there isn't one on the board.
Go figure. Then you have your front panel uh audio. Okay. In terms of the
PCI Express configuration on this board, you've got two PCI Express 16X, and I'm
going to go ahead and assume this one runs at 8X, although I can't see how
many connectors are in there. You've got one PCI Express 1X and two PCI slots.
You've got your chipset, which is connected by a heat pipe up to your VRM
cooling, one of them. And then you've got the other VRM heat sink up here. It
doesn't use their cool like Fortress of Solitude style VRM coolers, but no,
that's okay. I can kind of let it slide this time. In its ideal location, at the
top left of the board, you've got your eight pin power connector. Okay. And I think that pretty
much takes care of everything on the front of the
board. Yeah, I think so. Okay. So, let's have a look at what we've got on the
back panel. First of all, you've got a PS2 keyboard and PS2 mouse port. That's
the wrong color. This is the first time I've ever seen a PS2 keyboard port
that's like a dark blue rather than like a light purple. Totally irrelevant, but
interesting nonetheless. Okay, then we've got six USB 2.0 ports. This is a
bit of an older board, so you don't have USB 3.0 support, although it's hard to
say how important that is yet. You've got both digital audio interfaces, both
coaxial and optical. FireWire, ESATA, 1
GB Ethernet, and 7.1 audio. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
P60TSE from ASUS.