X48 Roundup: ASUS, ECS & Intel

Rob Williams · 07-07-2008, 02:39 AM

With so much X48 selection on the market, choosing the right board can be tough. To help make the choice easier, we are taking a look at three such boards all at once, ASUS' DDR2 Rampage Formula and also the DDR3 ECS X48T-A and Intel's DX48BT2.

You can read the full roundup here and then discuss it here!

THUMPer · 07-07-2008, 12:59 PM

Ah yes the P45! Great performance price point!

07-13-2008, 03:16 PM

great review well done,keep 'em coming

I was looking at getting the Asus Rampage Formula (not sure Yet )
can all the Asus Rampage Formula on board fan speeds be controlled in bios ????
P45 loox pretty sweet .

E8400 @ 3750 MHz 1.230 v on Air
3 gig Crucial @ 1000 MHz @ 2.0 v
8800 GT 700Mhz core/1700MHz shader/2000Mhz Mem
abit IP35 Pro

Rob Williams · 07-13-2008, 05:45 PM

I might be a bit off, but I don't think you can control the fan speed from any BIOS, since they throttle up when the heat gets to be too much. You could use an application that could control fan speeds, although I'm unsure which one out there supports these boards.

ASUS includes applications with their boards, which do this to an extent with power profiles, but I'm not sure if you can control fans individually.

09-07-2008, 02:03 PM

I noticed you left the intel board at "IDE" mode...I would saw any test results relating to hard disk perfomance are null because you aren't even using native AHCI or RAID mode for the sata drives

Rob Williams · 09-07-2008, 02:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neptune

I noticed you left the intel board at "IDE" mode...I would saw any test results relating to hard disk perfomance are null because you aren't even using native AHCI or RAID mode for the sata drives

I use IDE mode on any motherboard I test... since that's the mode I used to originally install Vista. All of the results are still comparable.

07-07-2008, 02:39 AM	#1
Rob Williams Editor in Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 8,921	X48 Roundup: ASUS, ECS & Intel With so much X48 selection on the market, choosing the right board can be tough. To help make the choice easier, we are taking a look at three such boards all at once, ASUS' DDR2 Rampage Formula and also the DDR3 ECS X48T-A and Intel's DX48BT2. You can read the full roundup here and then discuss it here! __________________ Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ 3.20GHz, ASUS P5K Premium WiFi-AP, OCZ 8GB PC2-6400, EVGA GTX 285 1024MB Seagate 500GB, 750GB & 1TB, Pioneer 22x ODD, Corsair 1000HX, Thermalright Ultra-120, CM Storm Sniper Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Ultrasone PRO 750, Gentoo Linux (KDE 4.3.2, 2.6.31 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter Profiles: Last.fm \| Xbox Live \| Steam

07-07-2008, 12:59 PM	#2
THUMPer Coastermaker Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Indianpolis! Posts: 203	Ah yes the P45! Great performance price point! __________________ E8400 @ 3.6 2GB Kingston DDR3 ATI 4870 Asus P5Q3 Deluxe

07-13-2008, 03:16 PM	#3
MooNDawG Guest Poster Posts: n/a	Rampage Formula great review well done,keep 'em coming I was looking at getting the Asus Rampage Formula (not sure Yet ) can all the Asus Rampage Formula on board fan speeds be controlled in bios ???? P45 loox pretty sweet . E8400 @ 3750 MHz 1.230 v on Air 3 gig Crucial @ 1000 MHz @ 2.0 v 8800 GT 700Mhz core/1700MHz shader/2000Mhz Mem abit IP35 Pro

07-13-2008, 05:45 PM	#4
Rob Williams Editor in Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 8,921	I might be a bit off, but I don't think you can control the fan speed from any BIOS, since they throttle up when the heat gets to be too much. You could use an application that could control fan speeds, although I'm unsure which one out there supports these boards. ASUS includes applications with their boards, which do this to an extent with power profiles, but I'm not sure if you can control fans individually. __________________ Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 @ 3.20GHz, ASUS P5K Premium WiFi-AP, OCZ 8GB PC2-6400, EVGA GTX 285 1024MB Seagate 500GB, 750GB & 1TB, Pioneer 22x ODD, Corsair 1000HX, Thermalright Ultra-120, CM Storm Sniper Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Ultrasone PRO 750, Gentoo Linux (KDE 4.3.2, 2.6.31 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter Profiles: Last.fm \| Xbox Live \| Steam

09-07-2008, 02:03 PM	#5
Neptune Guest Poster Posts: n/a	HyBJRA I noticed you left the intel board at "IDE" mode...I would saw any test results relating to hard disk perfomance are null because you aren't even using native AHCI or RAID mode for the sata drives

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