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Board defective after a month, but RMA in ONE day

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I bought this board a month ago and the board got defective.
I called Asus tech support and they issued an RMA w/o giving me too much hassle. I asked for cross shipment of the new board and filled out a RMA form.
Guess what? I filled it out on Thursday afternoon and got it on Friday! What an awesome tech support!

My specs:
Core i7 930 OC to 4.21ghz
Corsair 1600mhz 6GB
RADEON 5850

Great Motherboard.

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Easy setup. Large feature set, except parallel port.
Runs cool.
Overclocks quite well and quite stable.
A great buy.

P6T

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This was my frist time not buying a brand new computer from someone like Dell, I thought it would be fun to build my own. I order these motherboard to go with my i7 3.0. the set up on the board its nice there is alot of room for iteams and the PCI-E slots arent close like on a Dell system so it can hold the Gtx 285 with no issues. It has a really great on board sound care and the 1G on board Lan its sweet for anyone who can use it. I not had any issues out of it and Find Asus is a great buy when you look at other companys who want twice the price for the same hardware set up

Works great, no complaints

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I used this MoBo to rebuild an aging Alienware computer. The main components are the P6T, Intel i7 975 Extreme, 6 gigs Corsair ram and 850 watt power supply, ATI 8570, and CoolerMaster V8 CPU cooler. Assembled everything, booted it up, and it's been running smoothly ever since. I had a very minor issue in that I wanted to setup 2 WD Velociraptor Hard Drives in raid one, and the raid setup screen went by so fast that I couldn't read it, but a little research told me to hit -i as soon as I saw it, and after that setting up the raid array was easy. I haven't tried overclocking as I haven't seen a need to, I've been playing Bioshock 2 with everything set at maximum with no problems.

I may try another 8570 in crossfire if the need arises, but so far there is no need. No crashes (Windows 7 Pro), no heat issues, and no complaints.

P6T Memory recgonition problem

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I am building a new system: got a i7 920, 3x2 (6G) Kingston 1600 DDR3 memory, and the ASUS P6T. I followed all directions about placement of DIMMs, spent an entire day trying different DIMM arrangements, but the BIOS would only recognize 4078 even though all 3 2G DIMMS were in place. I confirmed the memory was all OK. The problem seemed to be related to DIMM slot A1. I then searched GOOGLE and found MANY hits of others with this exact problem, but there were a number of different theories as to why. Some believe it is how the CPU was seated. Others, say it is a bent CPU pin on the MB. I've checked all, and cannot find anything obvious. So, I took the board back and instead got a "EVGA X58 x3". Added the memory, CPU and BAM - everything works fine.

Before investing in the ASUS, you might want to do further research to prepare for this problem. I read a lot of positive things about the P6T, but after all the headache I went thru, I am staying away from ASUS for now.

One other thing to note - make sure you get a power supply with the connector types for your specific motherboard. The one I had for the ASUS (Antec BASIC 500W) worked fine with the ASUS, but did not have to correct ATX 12V 8pin connector for the EVGA card and I could not find an adapter. I ended up getting a new power supply (CORSAIR 750W) that has the needed EPS/ATX12V 8pin connector. And in general, make sure the power supply you do select is powerful enough for what you want to accomplish - if you're going to run multiple graphics cards, have a number of SATA drives, and a high end CPU, get a good power supply > 500W.