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    Reviews - ASUS P6T SE X58 motherboard: a new lease of life?

    Does the X58 chipset still have a future? We take a look at a budget board from ASUS and find out.
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    Re: Reviews - ASUS P6T SE X58 motherboard: a new lease of life?

    we'd probably chop the legacy PS/2 ports and add in a further two USB 2.0s.
    Why oh Why do people keep saying this? That board already has 6 USB 2.0 on the rear, and I assume at least 3 on board headers for 6 more. That's a possible 12 devices without even taking USB Hubs into consideration. Seriously, how many USB ports does one computer need?!

    The one thing that tends to stay with me through upgrade after upgrade and replacement PC after replacement PC is my trust PS/2 mouse and keyboard. I've had my current mouse over 5 years, and I've never found one as comfortable. I don't want to have to choose between changing my mouse and buying a USB - PS/2 converter just because someone else decides it's time everyone moves on from PS/2! PS/2 does a great job for mice and keyboards, so why not keep it on there?

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    Re: Reviews - ASUS P6T SE X58 motherboard: a new lease of life?

    C'mon, we're living in 2010 and not 1990.

    We'd be interested to hear what other users have to say, because we'd happily see the back of PS/2 and have some other form of connectivity on the back.

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    Re: Reviews - ASUS P6T SE X58 motherboard: a new lease of life?

    PS2 is dead and gone... (or should be )


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    Re: Reviews - ASUS P6T SE X58 motherboard: a new lease of life?

    Must be one of the few legacy ports remaining!

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    Re: Reviews - ASUS P6T SE X58 motherboard: a new lease of life?

    I'd rather see floppy and IDE gone rather than PS/2 as i still use a PS/2 keyboard
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    for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.

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    Re: Reviews - ASUS P6T SE X58 motherboard: a new lease of life?

    Quote Originally Posted by Terbinator View Post
    I'd rather see floppy and IDE gone rather than PS/2 as i still use a PS/2 keyboard
    ditto. Floppy headers should be long dead but still seem to be on a lot of boards. I think IDE and PS/2 have a better argument to still be around.

    With IDE, It's not that long ago that sata CD/DVD drives were reasonably thin on the ground, and people still have old CD/DVD drives around that are still useful. On an x58 board though, I would excuse them dropping IDE as you'd assume people buying x58 would either have sata optical drives or be willing to shell out £20.

    As for mice/keyboards - personally I would lose the IDE first. Some people do seem very, very attached to their old mice and keyboard

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    Re: Reviews - ASUS P6T SE X58 motherboard: a new lease of life?

    Quote Originally Posted by Tarinder View Post
    C'mon, we're living in 2010 and not 1990.

    We'd be interested to hear what other users have to say, because we'd happily see the back of PS/2 and have some other form of connectivity on the back.
    So why hasn't it got SATA 6gbps and USB3.0?

    I'd rather have PS/2 and the debugging safety line it offers than yet another pair of USB2.0 ports.

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    Re: Reviews - ASUS P6T SE X58 motherboard: a new lease of life?

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    So why hasn't it got SATA 6gbps and USB3.0?

    I'd rather have PS/2 and the debugging safety line it offers than yet another pair of USB2.0 ports.
    It's got no Sata 6gbps and usb3 because the board was released before those standards came out.

    The board was being reviewed last September....

    http://tech-reviews.co.uk/reviews/as...rboard-review/


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    Re: Reviews - ASUS P6T SE X58 motherboard: a new lease of life?

    I have 12GB of RAM installed but the BIOS only sees 8GB. Win7 x64 also sees 8GB. CPU-Z can see the full 12GB installed. The mobo is running the latest BIOS.

    Any suggestions?

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    Re: Reviews - ASUS P6T SE X58 motherboard: a new lease of life?

    Scrub my reply - missed the CPU-Z thing.

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    Re: Reviews - ASUS P6T SE X58 motherboard: a new lease of life?

    Quote Originally Posted by Guacks View Post
    I have 12GB of RAM installed but the BIOS only sees 8GB. Win7 x64 also sees 8GB. CPU-Z can see the full 12GB installed. The mobo is running the latest BIOS.

    Any suggestions?
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    for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.

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    Re: Reviews - ASUS P6T SE X58 motherboard: a new lease of life?

    Woo! Glad to hear I'm not the only one who's not desperate to see the back of PS/2.

    The thing is (IMNSHO) PS/2 just *works* for mice and keyboards. Floppy drives and IDE have been replaced by something better, but PS/2 hasn't. The only real advantage of USB over PS/2 is that you can plug and unplug your mouse / kb as often as you want, but how often do people actually do that on a desktop?! Let's here it for PS/2!!

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    Re: Reviews - ASUS P6T SE X58 motherboard: a new lease of life?

    GTFO floppy, IDE, and PS/2.

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    Re: Reviews - ASUS P6T SE X58 motherboard: a new lease of life?

    Quote Originally Posted by scaryjim View Post
    but how often do people actually do that on a desktop?! Let's here it for PS/2!!
    I do when I switch keyboards/mice between machines aand can't be bothered to wire a KVm up.
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    Re: Reviews - ASUS P6T SE X58 motherboard: a new lease of life?

    What do you do about your monitor? And if you have several monitors, why not several kb and mice?

    Anyway, that's another good point. My KVM is PS/2, too

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