1.3Special features

1.3.1Product highlights

Green ASUS

This motherboard and its packaging comply with the European Union’s Restriction on the use of Hazardous Substances (RoHS). This is in line with the ASUS vision of creating environment-friendly and recyclable products/packagings to safeguard consumers’ health while minimizing the impact on the environment.

Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition / Core™ i7 Processor support

This motherboard supports the latest Intel® Core™ i7 processors in LGA1366 package with integrated memory controller to support 3-channel (6 DIMMs) DDR3 memory. Supports Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) with a system bus of up to 6.4GT/s and a max bandwidth of up to 25.6GB/s. Intel® Core™ i7 processor is one of the most powerful and energy efficient CPUs in the world. See page 2-5 for details.

Intel® X58 Chipset

The Intel® X58 Express Chipset is the latest chipset designed to support latest Intel® Core™ i7 Processors and Intel’s next generation system interconnect interface, Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (QPI), providing improved performance by utilizing serial point-to-point links, allowing increased bandwidth and stability. It also supports up to 36 PCI Express 2.0 lanes providing better graphics performance.

Triple-Channel DDR3 2000(OC)*/1866(OC)*/1800(OC)*/ 1600(O.C.)/1333/1066 support

The motherboard supports DDR3 memory that features data transfer rates of 2000(OC)/1866(OC)/1800(OC)/1600(OC)/1333/1066 MHz to meet the higher bandwidth requirements of the latest 3D graphics, multimedia, and Internet applications. The triple-channel DDR3 architecture enlarges the bandwidth of your system memory to boost system performance. See page 2-12 for details.

Hyper DIMM (DDR3 1800MHz or above) support is subject to the physical characteristics of individual CPUs.

SLI and CrossFireX on Demand

P6T Deluxe V2 breaks the boundaries to bring you the multi-GPU choice of either SLI™ or CrossFireX™. Expect a brand-new gaming style you’ve never experienced before! See chapter 5 for details.

P6T Deluxe V2 supports 2-Way SLI or Quad-GPU SLI only.

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Chapter 1: Product Introduction