ASUS P6T SE X58 Core i7 LGA1366 DDR3 Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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So today I've got another ASUS motherboard. This is the P6TSE. So P6
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would mean it's an LG 1366 board and SE
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means it's part of their special edition. And so this is a pretty
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valueoriented board. So you can see first of all right off the bat there is
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no SLI logo. So this is a Crossfire board only, but it does support quad
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Crossfire X. It's Windows 7 ready. It's an X58 board. So that means it supports
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the Core i7 as well as the Core i7 Extreme. So, it does not support Core i5
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or any of the LG 1156 CPUs. It has solid
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capacitors upgraded at wow 57 years at 65 degrees. Very cool. 8 plus2 phase
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power design, turbo V. It supports DDR3 up to 2,000 MHz.
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And it has express gate, which is highly
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irrelevant. Okay, so let's have a look at what is on the inside. First of all,
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you've got your IO shield. Okay, so that's a fairly standard IO shield. It
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is silver. Has their little foamy backing on it. Very nice. You've got Q
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connector. So, I'm guessing this board doesn't support FireWire based on there's one that's not or that's not in
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there. You've got four SATA cables. So, two of them are right angle and two of
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them are straight. Then you have an IDE
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cable. Then you have the user's guide as
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well as Oh, there's like a little addendum in here. So, LAN port. Oh, no.
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Okay. This is an information update for the user guide that comes with Yeah. Okay. So, they're telling you about what
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it means if the LEDs are lit on your onboard LAN. Okay. Awesome. Then you
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have a driver DVD which you shouldn't use. You should download the latest off
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the ASUS website. And this user guide is all English. So that's a fairly thick
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user guide there. Although not as thick as the P67 P6T7 WS uh supercomputer
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motherboard. All right, let's get this thing open. Now, like I said, it's a
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more valueoriented board, but don't get me wrong, this is still a full-fledged
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X58 board, so you're going to find most of the features that you would come to
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expect. First of all, you've got an LGA 1366 socket right here, and the
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obligatory support for triple channel DDR3 memory. Okay, they've got a warning
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right here. According to Intel CPU spec, gyms with voltage setting over 1.65 may
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damage the CPU permanently. So, you're going to want to use something like Gskill's Eco brand or eco brand eco line
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of memory or anything else that runs under or at 1.65 volts. The lower the
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better. Okay, so we've got our onboard power switch right here. Let's work our
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way down. So, we've got our 24 pin power connector exactly where it belongs. Six
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SATA ports, two of which are coming right off the board and four of which,
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all of these running off the chipset are coming out the side of the board. Now,
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the reason for that is that you can see the top PCI Express 16x connector would
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run exactly here. So, you can access these two, run them up to the top for
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like an optical drive or whatever else. And then these four you can use for hard drives. Perfect. Then you've got your
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IDE connector. Here's your chipset. Then you've got three USB headers as well as
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your front panel connectors. Then you've got a Oh, there is a FireWire connector
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uh or header. They don't give you a uh Huh. They don't give you an adapter for
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it. Then there's a a spot for a floppy port, but there isn't one on the board.
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Go figure. Then you have your front panel uh audio. Okay. In terms of the
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PCI Express configuration on this board, you've got two PCI Express 16X, and I'm
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going to go ahead and assume this one runs at 8X, although I can't see how
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many connectors are in there. You've got one PCI Express 1X and two PCI slots.
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You've got your chipset, which is connected by a heat pipe up to your VRM
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cooling, one of them. And then you've got the other VRM heat sink up here. It
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doesn't use their cool like Fortress of Solitude style VRM coolers, but no,
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that's okay. I can kind of let it slide this time. In its ideal location, at the
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top left of the board, you've got your eight pin power connector. Okay. And I think that pretty
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much takes care of everything on the front of the
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board. Yeah, I think so. Okay. So, let's have a look at what we've got on the
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back panel. First of all, you've got a PS2 keyboard and PS2 mouse port. That's
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the wrong color. This is the first time I've ever seen a PS2 keyboard port
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that's like a dark blue rather than like a light purple. Totally irrelevant, but
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interesting nonetheless. Okay, then we've got six USB 2.0 ports. This is a
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bit of an older board, so you don't have USB 3.0 support, although it's hard to
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say how important that is yet. You've got both digital audio interfaces, both
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coaxial and optical. FireWire, ESATA, 1
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GB Ethernet, and 7.1 audio. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the
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P60TSE from ASUS.