Thread: As Rock X58 Extreme6 motherboard

Although As rock rather has made a name with good, cheap a name, the Taiwanese manufacturer that is offers luxury boards. The X58 Extreme6 for Intel's high-end base for 1366 is about 200 € a precisely examined. In this case the name is slightly misleading: 666 instead of 6 would be a suitable name, because Asus has provided the X58 Deluxe with 6 USB 3.0 ports, 6 SATA ports III and support for 6-core CPUs. Two USB 3.0 ports can be installed using a 3.5 inch screen on the front panel. This therefore requires the usual tools of a luxury terminal board is available: 7.1 Reaktek sound, two FireWire, and eSATA.

The layout of the X58 is Extreme6 are mixed. The large spacing between the PCIe 16x slots pleased SLI users with air cooling, the very bottom slot enthusiasts annoyed with three graphics cards and small packages without water cooling. Moreover, this focus leads to a very top pushed CPU socket - of large coolers and small packages. Performance-wise, the board offers no grounds for criticism. The benchmark values are at a level compared with the X58 board, sometimes over, sometimes including within the measurement accuracy. This so Applies to the onboard equipment.

The BIOS could detect any weaknesses. The fan controller is provided with a slightly lean control range and auto-OC option, as always lavish with Voltage. In other respects all the good X58 luxuriously. The fan control works, but is limited in the control range. Too bad, here is room for improvement! It would therefore be nice if you could map the three-pin connectors for case fans a temperature threshold (motherboard or CPU temperature) turn so Which on those later.