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Asus P6T Deluxe Palm OC Edition review

With a USB external OC controller, you don't need to fiddle in the BIOS for a few extra clock cycles

Our Score 4

Last reviewed: 2009-04-30April 30th 2009

Price at launch £350.00
LAN Details Dual Gigabit LAN controllers 2*Marvell88E8056® PCIe Gigabit LAN controller featuring AI NET2
Max No. Of Processors 1
Number Of Additional USB Ports Supported 6
No of PCI Express x16 slots 3
Motherboard Type ATX
RAM Type DDR3
MPN 90MIB601G0EAY00Z
No of DIMM Slots 6
Number of PCI Slots 2
Description Intel LGA1366 socket Core i7 motherboard
Onboard sound Yes
Features SLI and CrossFireX / Triple-Channel DDR3 1600(O.C.)/1333/1066 / OC Palm (Real-time OC Hardware Controller) / ASUS TurboV / ASUS True 16+2 Phase Power Design / ASUS Express Gate SSD / ASUS EPU / AI Nap / Wind-Flow Thermal Design / Up to 20°C(36°F) Cooler - Stack Cool 2 / Fan Xpert / Noise Filtering / Q- Shield / Q-Connector / EZ-Flash 2 / O.C. Profile / SAS onboard / eSATA / S/PDIF-out on Back I/O Port
Connectivity 7.1 Surround Output, IEEE1394a Port, RJ-45, SPDIF Digital Output, USB 1.1, USB 2.0
Monitoring Chassis fan tachometer, Chassis thermocouple, CPU core thermocouple, CPU core voltage, CPU fan tachometer, System voltage
Number Of USB Ports On Motherboard 8
No of PCI Express x4 slots 1
Supported RAM Size (GB) 24
BIOS Type AMI
Onboard Sound Properties ADI® AD2000B 8 -Channel High Definition Audio CODEC

Product Summary

P6T Deluxe Palm Edition

Asus P6T Deluxe Palm Edition

Price at launch

£350.00

For

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External USB OC controller

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On a par with other X58 boards

Against

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Expensive

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