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I was looking for a budget friendly mid range platform to start. This worked out great! Where I've been using it for a test bench system. But sometime down the road I'll get a nice case and build it for playing games on my TV. Not a bad 6 Core CPU for being 8 or 9 years old.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
I bought an I7 980X CPU for myself a short time ago and was impressed with the performance. I bought this package to build a computer for my grandson. New case with lots of blue lights. We have it running at just under 4.0ghz The cooler is great. It keep the CPU at least 10C cooler than my system. We changed to an overclock graphics card that runs 49 FPS. My grandson is very pleased with his new desktop system. I was also impressed with your innovative packaging. It did a good job of protecting everything.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
The observation that within a few short years, any computer system is outdated--"an antique" of sorts is tough to refute. (I'm in my late 50s, and the technological evolution I've watched unfold between my high school days and the present has been relentless and truly breathtaking!) That said, pieces of kit like this Asus P6x58D MoBo lead me to conclude that in at least certain regards, the rate of techno-evolution has either slowed somewhat, or perhaps that this board--and the Intel X58-ICH10R chipset upon which it is based--were simply ahead of their time. Anyway, the bottom line is that equipped with a later edition i7 processor--say the 950 or higher--any decent DDR3 RAM, video card, and an SSD, this exceptional board will STILL keep pace with many of today's higher-end systems, and that's pretty amazing given the aforesaid race to obsolescence that has traditionally prevailed. As far as negatives, while 6GB SATA III ports were novel at the time, Asus added them to this board using only a single PCIE lane and basing them on the Marvell 902x chip. Besides various problems many experienced--including me--with this Marvell chip and its fiddly firmware integration, it's the original single-lane design that presents a bottleneck vis-a-vis newer boards' muti-lane design. EASY REMEDY: I purchased a low-cost SATA III add-on card and installed it in one of the P6x58D's other two PCIE x16 slots. Running my SSD from these multi-lane ports instead (and disabling the 2 Marvell ports in the board's excellent BIOS) unleashes the SSD's full potential. Other than that, my general gripe is with the unfriendly Intel 1366 slot design--a shortcoming certainly not specific to this board. The gazillions of pins that comprise the slot are very easily damaged (don't ask me how I know!) If a few of these are bent, bad stuff will start happening. Break a few, and the entire board is toast--the slot itself is not replaceable by mere mortals. Since the primary way to obtain one of these now discontinued circa 2010 motherboards is either used or otherwise refurbished, buyers are strongly advised to closely examine the CPU slot's condition, and ethical sellers should willingly include clear close-up images of the slot's pins. Should anything look less than perfect here, I'd move-on by... Build a system in 2016 based on the extremely well-designed "old" Asus P6x58D-Premium motherboard (or on its nearly equivalent P6x58D-E cousin) and you will still hold your own against the competition--and you'll save yourself more than enough by so doing to trick out the board with newer add-ons that counter its minor limitations.Read full review
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
Although it was a used product, it looked and was boxed with the original equipment and manuals.. Runs as if it were new.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
This motherboard replaced an Asus P6T which suddenly failed (no boot, no post no nothing). A pleasant upgrade over the P6T included a couple of USB 3 ports and 6Gb STAT. The Asus express gate is something I have yet to explore, as is the overclocking potential. Paul
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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