ASUS P6T Deluxe OC Palm
Category : X58
Published by Jean-Luc Hadey on 28.11.08
With the P6T Delux OC-Palm ASUS presents a mainboard which is based on Intels latest X58 chipset. ASUS packed this product full with features and tools. The most significant one is the OC-Palm. A external terminal with which one can overclock its mainboard and therefore CPU on-the-fly
The board also comes with a 16+2 phase power design, an onboard SAS controller (Serial Attached SCSI) and a lot of features. These attributes aim especially at PC-enthusiasts.
On the following pages you will see what the new ASUS P6T Deluxe OC-Palm is capable of.
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Specifications
| CPU | Intel LGA 1336 Core i7,45nm CPUs |
| Chipset | Intel X58 + ICH10R |
| QPI | 6.4 GT/s |
| Memory | Triple Channel DDR3, 6 x DIMM, Max. 12 GBDDR3 1600(O.C.)/1333/1066 Non-ECC, Unbuffered |
| Multi-GPU | SLI & CrossfireX |
| Slots | 3 x PCI-Ex16 (x16/x16/x1 oder x16/x8/x8 mode) 2 x PCI 1 x PCI-Ex4 |
| Sound | ADI® AD2000B 8 Channel High Definition Audio CODEC |
| Storage | 6 x SATA 3 Gb/s (RAID 0, 1, 5, 10) Intel ICH10R 2 x SAS (RAID 0 & 1) Marvell SAS Controller 1 x eSATA 3 Gb/s port Marvell Controller 1 x ATA 100/66/33 |
| LAN | Dual Gigabit Ethernet |
| Firewire | 2 x 1394a ports (1 via Backpanel, 1 via Mainboard Header) |
| USB | 14 x USB2.0/1.1 Anschlüsse (6 via Backpanel, 6 via Mainboard Header) |
| Divers | Onboard Switches: Power, Reset, CMOS-Clear OC-Palm ASUS TurboV |
| Dimensions | ATX (30.5cm x 24.4cm) |
Included in delivery
| Cables and divers |
| 1 x OC Palm |
| 1 x ATX I/O bezel |
| 6 x SATA cable |
| 1 x IDE Kabel, 1x Floppycable |
| 1 x 2 in 1 Q-connector |
| 1 x USB/Firewire-bezel |
| 1 x SLI Bridge |
| 1 x Northbridgefan (40mm) |
| ASUS driver and utilities DVD |
| Manual |
| Anti Virus Software OEM |
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Goodies
The ASUS P6T comes with a whole bundle of features for overclockers and standard PC-users. On the following pages you will find most of them:
ASUS OC-Palm LCD: Allows reading out mainboard specific information as well as dynamic overclocking. During the test everything worked well and the OC-Palm did its job without attracting a lot of attention.
ASUS TurboV: Windows overclocking tool.
ASUS Express Gate: is a small linux on an SSD which comes with a browser, a skype applications and an instant messenger. It is booted within five seconds and it works withoud windows.
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Layout and I/O
The layout is clearly arranged. All connectors are well placed and accessible. Installing new hardware is very convenient because on the whole board there is plenty of space around the bigger components. With its 90 degree angled SATA connectors ASUS lets the you arrange its cables neatly (A) and the onboard power- and reset button are very practical (B).
For the first time on a mainstream mainboard you can find two (C) SAS connectors (Serial Attached SCSI) for high performance mass storage media. Altogether there are six memory slot on the P6T Deluxe which officially support DDR3-1066/1333 with up to 12 GByte/s transferrate. If you want to overclock the memory subsystem ASUS says DDR3-1600 is also possible.
If you are looking for external connectors on the P6T-Deluxe OC-Palm you can find two Gigabit ethernet ports, eight USB 2.0 connectors, PS/2 keyboard and mouse connector, optical and coaxial S/PDIF connectors as well as firewire, eSATA connectors and 8-channel audio I/O.
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BIOS
| BCLK Frequency | 100 - 500 MHz in 1 MHz steps |
| UCLK Frequency | 1600 - 5600MHz in 1 MHz steps |
| QPI Frequency | 4800 / 5866 / 6400 MHz |
| PCIE Frequency | 100 bis 200 MHz in 1 MHz steps |
| CPU Voltage | 0.85 - 2.1V |
| CPU PLL Voltage | 1.8 - 2.5V |
| QPI/DRAM Voltage | 1.2 - 1.9V |
| DRAM Voltage | 1.5 - 2.46V |
| ICH PCIE Voltage | 1.5 - 2.76V |
| ICH Voltage | 1.1 - 1.7V |
| IOH PCIE Voltage | 1.5 - 2.76V |
| IOH Voltage | 1.1 - 1.7V |
It takes some time until you have a good overview of all the settings ASUS delivers. The many different voltage settings and the possibility to save different BIOS configurations a very interesting. This makes it possible to save an overclocking- and a standard profile. Now it is also possible to change all the settings in the Windows tool ASUS TurboV.
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Test environment
| Hardware | |
| Mainboard | Asus P6T Deluxe OC Palm, Intel X58 Express Chipset, LGA 1366 Sockel |
| CPU | Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition, 3.20 GHz |
| Memory | Corsair 3 x 2GB DDR3 1067 MHz CL8 (Triple Channel Kit) |
| Graphic card | ATI Radeon HD 4870 512 MB GDDR5 |
| Harddisk | Samsung 620GB F1 |
| PSU | Corsair HX 1000 Watt |
To test the mainboard on performance and stability we use the following games and benchmark programs.
Benchmark programs
Futuremark PCMark Vantage: Checks the system performance with five different tests: System, CPU, memory, graphics and HDD.
Futuremark 3DMark Vantage: Checks the systems gaming performance.
Sisoft Sandra XII 2008: Performance- and stability test through memory bandwidth, multi-media performance and arithmetic performance.
Super PI mod 1.5XS: Performance and stability test which calculates PI on a specified number of decimal places.
HD Tach 3.0.4.0: measures the performance of hard disks. We use HD Tach 3.0.4.0.
Games
- F.E.A.R (DX9.0c)
- Crysis (DX10)
Resolution: 800 x 600
Anit Aliasing: none
Filtering: by system
Details: medium
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Test results and overclocking
| PCMark Vantage | ASUS P6T Deluxe OC Palm | Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 | Intel DX58SO |
| PCMarkSuite | 7434 | 7453 | 7457 |
| Memories Suite | 5583 | 5592 | 5601 |
| Gaming Suite | 10455 | 10441 | 10462 |
| Hard disk | 3679 | 3681 | 3688 |
| 3DMark Vantage (Punkte) | Asus P6T Deluxe OC Palm | Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 | Intel DX58SO DDR3 |
| Gesamt | 9864 | 9893 | 9683 |
| GPU Score | 8456 | 8474 | 8286 |
| CPU Score | 19712 | 19874 | 19837 |
| SiSoft memory bandwidth MB/s | ASUS P6T Deluxe OC Palm | Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 | Intel DX58SO |
| Floating point | 18610 | 18850 | 18260 |
| SiSoft memory bandwidth MB/s | ASUS P6T Deluxe OC Palm | Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 | Intel DX58SO |
| Integer | 18500 | 18620 | 18150 |
| SuperPi | ASUS P6T Deluxe OC Palm | Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 | Intel DX58SO |
| 1M | 12.371s | 12.322s | 12.106s |
| 32M | 11m 46.321s | 11m.45.681s | 11m.20.875s |
| HD Tach USB-2.0-interface | ASUS P6T Deluxe OC Palm | Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 | Intel DX58SO |
| CPU load | 3% | 3% | 3% |
| Burst (MB/s) | 36 | 37 | 35 |
| Read average (MB/s) | 31.7 | 32.4 | 32.5 |
| HD Tach SATA interface | |||
| CPU load | 3% | 2% | 2% |
| Burst (MB/s) | 216 | 219 | 213 |
| Read average (MB/s) | 91.6 | 92.5 | 90.2 |
| Games results in (FPS) | ASUS P6T Deluxe OC Palm | Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 | Intel DX58SO |
| F.E.A.R (DX9) | 462 | 459 | 457 |
| Crysis (DX10) | 72.45 | 73.46 | 70.23 |
With our overclocking attempts we are looking for the highest possible Busclock. As a stabilitytest we use SuperPI 1.5 which has to run a 32M calculation. Therefore the results can be considered as stable.
| Intel I7 965 Overclocked 23 x 184MHz = 4.22 GHz, VCore 1.53V | Intel I7 965 Standard 14 x 133MHz = 3.2 GHz, VCore 1.20V | |
| SuperPI 1.5 32M | 9m 28.636s | 11m 46.321s |
With the corresponding BIOS settings we were able to clock the CPU to 4.2 GHz and the board to a BCKL of 183 MHz. Therefore the CPU needed 1.53 volts and a multiplyer of 23.
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Conclusion
With the P6T Deluxe OC-Palm ASUS presents a mainboard thouroughly designed for PC enthusiasts. The boards performance and stability is on a high level but some numbers a lower than on a Gigabyte GA-EX58 UD5.
The BIOS settings on the other hand are very good, especially the voltage settings are well thought.
The layout is perfect: ideal placed connectors, angled SATA ports, enough space around the components and onboard power- and reset button make it very easy to assemble a system on an ASUS P6T OC-Palm. The attractive equipment - onboard SAS controller and OC-Palm - perfect the already very good package.
In summary we can do the following statement: very good equipment, perfect layout, well thought BIOS as well as very good performance and overclocking abilities make this mainboard an ideal basis for a brandnew Intel Core i7 System.
You can buy the ASUS P6T Deluxe OC-Palm at Brack Electronics to a price of CHF 459.-
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Author: jl.hadey@ocaholic.ch
Revised by: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch