Pros: Seems well made. Chip-set heat sinks are substantial, well layed out, and well attached. Sturdy back plate supporting the CPU socket which works great to secure after-market cooler w/o damaging the board. Enough overclocking for me. BIOS was a breeze. Moved the BCLK from 133 to 167, turned off "auto-overclocking" and power-stepping stuff and changed nothing else (no voltages) for a 3.34GHz OC of a i7 920. Running sub-30s idle with an after-market air cooler. No reason to go any higher when this is so easy, so safe and already better than the $1K chip. Minimal, simple drivers. There were not "super suites" of useless poorly made software like some motherboards come with. Doesn't have any bells and whistles but bells crack and whistles are annoying. Just a solid board. Every ASUS board I've bought since 10 years ago worked first try and every try since except this one but I blame my cooler not ASUS.

Cons: Only 2 SATA ports facing outward from the face of the board. The other slots are in the plane of the board and it's a real pain to connect them without dismantling everything. Two was enough for me but I don't understand why they can't make these more accessible. The sound output internal connector pins near the bottom of the board interfere with the last PCI slot. A thick card in that slot might interfere with that. The "CHA_FAN2" connector won't power a fan with manual speed control. Maybe this is standard but you'd think it could still power it and then control the speed as a percentage of the manually setting or something.

Overall Review: That back-plate might end up causing shorts because combined with an after-market cooling bracket standard stand-offs might not be sufficient to give the board separation from the case. When I first installed it on standard stand-offs the fans would spin up for a moment and then nothing all while the LEDs on the board were lit up fine. Suspecting a short I got ahold of some extra tall plastic stand-offs and once I got it sitting on those it POSTed first try and hasn't had problems since.

Pros: (*This is for 'Tom', I know your not suppose to, but I can't let his reviews just go.) @Tom Nehalem is the architecture for all Core i CPU's, - 'Bloomfield' is the 45nm Quad-Core 1366 version, all Core i7's on 1366 are Bloomfield, from the Core i7 920 (C0) to the Core i7 950 (D0). - 'Bloomfield XE' is the the Code-Name given to the Extreme Edition 45nm Quad-Core 1366 Nehalem CPU's, both the Core i7 965 (C0) and the Core i7 975 (D0). - 'Lynnfield' is the 45nm Quad-Core 1156 version, both the Core i5 and i7 (B1) 1156 CPU's are Nehalem, these are the replacement for Yorkfield, the difference between i5 and i7 is Hyper-Threading support. - 'Clarksfield' is the mobile 45nm Quad-Core version of the 'Lynnfield' Nehalem CPU's, Core i7 720QM & 820QM. - 'Clarksfield XM' is the Extreme Edition Mobile 45nm Quad-Core 'Lynnfield' CPU, Core i7 920XM.

Cons: See my previous review.

Overall Review: The ASUS P6T Motherboard can support all Bloomfield (including Extreme Edition) CPU's depending on the BIOS version, C0 is the original Stepping for the first Bloomfield CPU's, 920/940/965, so any BIOS version will work with them, to use D0 Stepping Bloomfields, 920/950/975, you will need at least BIOS version 0403 for the 920 (D0) CPU and 0502 for 950/975, the latest BIOS right now is 0801 released 09-30-2009. I recommend for 'Tom' that he have someone who has an understanding of these types of things to perform an update if he wants to use the latest CPU's on this board or taking it to a computer repair store and getting them to do it, if nothing else he could see if ASUS will send him one with and updated BIOS in exchange for his current board.

Pros: This board does everything I want. It uses the ram I put in, the processor, and includes every cable you will need for your accessories (4 sata cables, pata cable, everything you need). Also, it seems to run Fedora 10 64bit very well, along with Vista 64bit as well. With an N*idia graphics card, I have had 0 problems with drivers.

Cons: I have a problem where when I switch from using headphones (plugged in the front of the case) to the main speakers (plugged in the back on the motherboard) I get a loud pop in the speaker output. It is very loud, like a static pop in the speakers. Also, when I am using headphones, whenever my graphics card is being used (moving a window, writing this review, anytime the monitor changes the pixels it is displaying) I hear a buzzing in the headphones. It can also be quite annoying. I would not recommend this board for audiophiles if they plan on using the on board audio. Does not make coffee.

Overall Review: Great board - Audiophiles will want a separate sound card. I have not tested it with dual or triple graphics cards. Works with linux.

Pros: I know this will be cliche, but Rock Solid board! Board layout was clean and very functional. Plenty of options for connecting the front USB, FireWire, and eSata connectors to your case. With 8 SATA connectors I had my choice of where to organize my connections. 2 SATA connectors use ASUS' version on "RAID" called Xpert Drive. Plenty of USB options......plenty... Bios is easy to understand, once you read the manual (at least for me, been a while since I have built a new system, last one was an early dual core). I changed the Bios AI Tweaker to Manual, keeping everything else at Auto, I was able to increase the BCLK to 167 for a smooth 3.34 GHz OC of the i7 and I chose the 1600MHz for the RAM. System was very stable and temps were sub 30's on idle.

Cons: Maybe it was just me but the manual did not clearly distinguish between which SATA connections were to be used for RAID and which were for Xpert Drive... I eventually figured it out, but again I had never heard of this Xpert drive and just figured all SATA connectors were created equal, not the case. The orange connectors will not allow you to create a standard raid, you must use Asus' controller and it must be setup after the OS is installed...still don't get it, just used two of the remaining 6 SATA connectors for standard raid and I'm getting 190+ Mb/s with a 640Gb 7200 rpm WD Caviar Black x2 in Raid0.

Overall Review: I wanted to be gentle when installing the board, but the rear panel plate has a cushy backside which made for a tight fit against the ports. I had to apply constant force against it so I could line up the screw holes for the board. It wasn't a big deal and I figured it just created a nice air tight seal, but it required some patience. Vista Ultimate SP2 64bit Core i7 920 OC'd at 3.34ghz 34c - Idle, 58c - Full Load 12gb Corsair Dominator OC'd 1600mhz EVGA GTX 260 Core 216 SE x2 SLI COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Corsair 850w PSU SAMSUNG 22X DVD Burner SATA w/ LightScribe WD Caviar Black 640gb x2 Raid0 Zalman 9900 120mm

Pros: Don't know yet. Need to try and get a refund. Go with MSI instead.

Cons: It seemed like a good board at first, but then i started having app failures. Then on a boot the CPU temp. went up to almost 80 degrees. No Oc'ing. Everything at default in the bios. Looked at some of the voltages and the voltages on the rail for 5 volts was at 6.14 volts, 12 volts was at like 14.3 volts. Re-booted and everything went back to normal. Should have bought an MSI. Trouble is I probably can't get my money back.

Pros: 2 pcie express 16 slots! Very easy raid IU config! I set this machine up with 6 250 Gb harddrives and the raid set up 4 perfectly! the other 2 use a sata quick boot or easy backup application the motherboard includes. Very cool. Very fast boot with my i7 processor.

Cons: Coulda used a 4 more sata connectors for harddrives since i put this in a media box but i knew what i was buying.

Overall Review: I switched to this motherboard because the 'MSI X58 Eclipse SLI LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel ' I initially ordered arrived DOA. I was very unhappy with newegg's RMA process as they failed to replace the exact mobo with what I sent back even though it was in stock?!?!?? Trying to convey this with customer service was an exercise in futility. Had to pay 3x for shipping to receive 1 item but in the end, I have a great mobo. It was my first RMA experience with newegg, unfortunately it was bad. =(

Pros: problems seem to outshine any pros at this time since I use my PC for music creation etc...

Cons: makes a noise that goes with the refresh rate of the monitor does not do it with an add on card I have. Asus told me to try with one stick of memory which I believe is an automated response because e I received the same one twice which did not solve the problem and they closed the ticket without solution.

Overall Review: customer service is lacking. I was hoping Asus would be better than my Gigabyte mobo I gave asus time to respond but I am not sure if they are even aware of the problem. If this is not resolved soon I will try another manufacturer for my other builds. or go back to Gigabyte which I probably should have stayed with time will tell. I will build another in about a month. we will see who is better.

Pros: Works great with my Core i7 920 proc and 6GB of DDR3 RAM. Comes with useful power-saving software (EPU) and overclocking software (TurboV).

Cons: The IO shield has this cushion thing that makes it really difficult to screw the motherboard into the case. I had to push the side of the board with just the right angle and force while a friend quickly put the screw in. Other than that, this is a great motherboard.

Overall Review: I'm using it on the first PC I've ever built: Intel Core i7 920 processor XIGMATEK Dark Knight CPU cooler ASUS P6T motherboard XFX GeForce GTX 260 graphics 6GB of OCZ DDR3 1600 memory Western Digital 500GB hard drive NZXT Tempest case