The X58 chip set has been around for almost two years, and in that time, we've seen a succession of motherboards, all purporting to offer something extra over their predecessors, today we have a recent offering from Asus in the form of their P6X58D-E (P6X from here on in!). The P6X is a fully loaded mid range motherboard with all the usual trimmings, only this time we have two SATA III 6GB ports and two USB 3.0 ports to add a little future proofing. To make things a little more interesting, Asus have added some nice overclocking features, so we are going to go at this from a "budget" overclocking perspective.

The P6X is priced around £180, so while it's not the cheapest out there, it's by no means the most expensive and should be competing firmly against the likes of Gigabyte's GA-X58A-UD3R, so how will it perform? Read on to find out...