Intel X58 and ASUS P6T Deluxe
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Date: 21.12.2008 |
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On Asus P6T Deluxe, there is the "south bridge" ICH10R with a radiator. In the end, the board supports six SerialATA II ports and allows merging disks into RAID-arrays of levels 0, 1, 5, and 10. The ports are colored red; four of them are orientated in parallel to the board's plane, and two - perpendicularly (positioned near the "south bridge").
Besides, the motherboard supports one Parallel ATA link with an 88SE6111 controller made by Marvell. The same chip supports one Serial ATA II link whose respective port is brought over to the board's rear panel. Besides, the board uses the Marvell 88SE6320 controller which supports two SAS/SATA II links and the RAID 0, 1 modes (ports of orange color; orientated in parallel to the board's plane). In the end, as many as 11 hard disks (9 SATA II + 2 PATA) altogether can be plugged in to ASUS P6T Deluxe.
The board offers 14(!) USB 2.0 ports: eight on the rear panel, with 6 more plugged in with brackets (the board comes bundled with a bracket for 2 ports only). Since the south bridge ICH10(R) supports only 12 ports, it looks like engineers at ASUS have dodged somehow. At the same time, we've got to keep in mind that installation of a hardware Express Gate module on board enables a couple of USB 2.0 ports. So, the trick is about installation of an additional NEC 720114 controller which just supports the four "missing" ports.
The motherboard supports the IEEE1394 ("Firewire"). For that, there is an additional onboard VT6308P controller made by VIA. Therefore, the board offers support for 2 Firewire ports: one mounted on the rear panel, with the other one connected with a plate (available in the package bundle).
ASUS P6T Deluxe offers 8-channel integrated Intel High Definition Audio, with AD2000B chip used as the codec. Now a few words on the network support: the board uses two high-speed Marvell 88E8056 (Gigabit Ethernet) network controllers connected to the PCI Express (x1) bus.
Both the RJ-45 connectors are brought over to the rear panel which has the following configuration:
Engineers at ASUS have completely given up support for the LPT and COM ports. On the other hand, USB 2.0 ports are in abundance; there is a Firewire, SerialATA II, as well as an optical and coaxial SP-DIF outputs. As regards the PS/2 port, there is only one, but it allows either plugging in a matching mouse or a keyboard.
There are four jumpers on ASUS P6T Deluxe: CLRTC to clear the CMOS settings, OV_CPU (to increase the CPU voltage range to 2.1 V), OV_DRAM_BUS (to increase the voltage range on the memory to 2.46V), and OV_QPI_DRAM (to increase the voltage range on the memory controller to 1.9V). Besides, ASUS P6T Deluxe uses buttons to power on and reboot the system:
Now on to the BIOS settings.
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