Layout of ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution is great and we liked the colour choices that ASUS made. As expected for an high-class product, ASUS used 16 phase CPU power unit. ASUS declares that this is “16+2” power unit where those “2” are two phases for Vdram/QPI controller. RAM filtering is done in three phases. There are six DDR3 RAM slots on this motherboard that ASUS declares at 1600MHz. Of course these values are achievable thanks to overclocking possibilities of this motherboard because Intel defined 1333MHz as maximum value for DDR3 standard. Cooling system is consisted of heat pipes and passive coolers that cover north and south bridge along side with mosFETs (cooler for upper row is not connected with heat pipe).  All coolers are coloured blue with copper heat pipes that are nickelled for purely esthetic reasons. Because of same (esthetic) reasons ASUS logo between fifth and sixth PCIe slot is lighted with 4 “pulsating” LEDs.

At bottom edge of motherboard is located connector for GP Diagnosis Card. This is small printed circuit board with power and reset button, and two character display. Two character display will show you what component on motherboard isn’t working properly, and this type of diagnostics can be very useful for all passionate overclockers. Back panel is well organized and beside two LAN connectors there are two eSATA connectors, coaxial and optical S/PDIF output, 6 USB and sound card connector. Interesting detail is presence of one PS/2 connector with one half coloured in purple and the other in green. As you can assume this PS/2 port can be used for keyboard or mouse (not at the same time of course). ASUS used ADI2000 codec on this motherboard but we think that an Realtek solution would be more adequate for this class of product but it is obvious that ASUS, ADI and Creative has some agreement because there is also support for Creative EAX 4.0.