Introduction:

When looking to purchase a new motherboard consumers must ask themselves a few basic questions. It is good to know how many graphics cards you want or need as this will determine the required number of PCI Express x16 slots. Choosing a platform is important if the board will be in a new system. Currently, as a general rule of thumb, Intel is leading performance while AMD is going for affordability. How many SATA ports needed is another thing to keep in mind, six is usually stock, give or take two, but some high-end boards have up to ten! Some will need a motherboard with the intent of running a server. For this task there are workstation class motherboards such as the ASUS P6X58-E WS motherboard. The x58 chipset was designed for workstation usage and can use either i7 or Xeon CPUs. This motherboard has 16+2 phases, dual Intel 82574L Gigabit LAN ports, 2x SATA 3.0, USB 3.0 supporting newer devices, 3x full x16 PCI Express 2.0 slots, and room for 24GB of DDR3 memory! The board also supports a PCI Express x4 SAS card from ASUS based on the Marvell 88SE6440 chipset and called the SASsaby (like the antelope), but good luck finding one. In any case this board should do great for gaming or server-related duties.

The motherboard Asus PT6 Deluxe is designed to house the new Core i7 processors from Intel. The layout and systematization of the components on the lodge is very severe, the stress transmit system that connects sensitive components to the first meals is cooled by a cow-like heatsink that takes drop of the airflow from the CPU fan. A very attractive cut up of the Asus P6T Deluxe is the aptitude to compere up to 3 cards video with three PCI Get across x16 groove compatible with both SLI and Crossfire technology. The Asus channel directorship has two ports for the new SAS uncompromising drives (costly precipitateness) while leaving six ports SATA controller for the accustomed. Asus P6T Deluxe supports the Set Passage technology that consists of an alternate boot through which you can use Linux without having to retire on Windows. The motherboard can 'clench up to six slots for triple watercourse DDR3 RAM up to a whole of 12 GB, thanks to the new homage controller that is integrated quickly into the Heart i7 processors from Intel. The empty measure out around the processor is critical and this testifies to the happening that Asus P6T Deluxe on the feasibility of installing a penetrating-animate sinks is much larger than the archetype ones. The BIOS is gigantic, is full of options for over clocking of the CPU, system bus and tribute. The over clocking of the system is attainable even with the Asus OC Palm, a paltry exposition that connects to the motherboard via USB and can 'bargain associated with tasks in valid period without having to power down the PC and offer the BIOS.