The best Conroe Work Station Motherboard ASUS P5W64 WS Pro

how hot does the 975x mch get? Any value to watercooling it (any better OC?)

I hear watercooling on a I975x can give Nice results for Overclocks.

Up to 15+ FSB improvement.

Thanks, camouflage, I will try the 0209.
But...
Do you know why I lost the 1.35v vcore setting switching from 0116 to 0215 and back to 0116?? As I said, I pulled the battery and jumpered the reset CMOS jumper, so I have no explanation as to why a setting option would disappear.

Anyone???

Andrew

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Originally Posted by camouflage

0209 is the faster BIOS - You can try it Yourself. Keep all defaults and run 32M with 0215 and then 0209.

0209 gave me ~5sec better, tried two times.

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Originally Posted by aamsel

I am confused. When I first used BIOS version 0215, it had vCore down to 1.35. Then I tried 0116, and went back to 0215.
NOW, version 0215 starts at 1.40 vCore.

I lost the 1.35v setting somehow.

Yes, I pulled the battery and jumpered the CMOS reset. No change.

What happened??

Andrew

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Originally Posted by aamsel

But...
Do you know why I lost the 1.35v vcore setting switching from 0116 to 0215 and back to 0116??

Anyone???

Andrew

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When I flash my bios I lose all Vcore below 1.4. If you reboot, they will reappear in the bios...at least it does on mine.

Thanks, didn't work last night for me, will try again.
I assume that you are running BETA 0209, as per your sig?

Andrew

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Originally Posted by Icer

When I flash my bios I lose all Vcore below 1.4. If you reboot, they will reappear in the bios...at least it does on mine.

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Originally Posted by aamsel

Thanks, didn't work last night for me, will try again.
I assume that you are running BETA 0209, as per your sig?

Andrew

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Yes, Beta 0209. After you flash and change all your settings, set Vcore to 1.4...save and exit. Then the next time you enter the bios, the lower Vcore's show up...again, it does on mine.

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Originally Posted by LarsK

I'm puzzled @ some of the latest results in this thread.. My initial results seem to indicate that the original topic poster was spot on.

I just put a new E6700 retail (L629Axxx) in a new P5W64 WS Pro mb with retail 0116 bios, and booting up @ default cpu speed/volts under singlestage phase I got a cpu temp (in the hw monitor section of the bios) of -50°C. Now my Mach II GT is not modded, so I find this temp rather "optimistic" to be honest. That's clearly lower than any reported temp I've seen from any of my other core 2 duo cpu's (I have 5 others, various steppings) in any other 975/965 I've tried (Bad Axe rev 0304, P5WDH, P5B Dlx).

So IF the P5WD64 temp readings are off, they are too low IMHO, at least on my board.

Board is unmodded, but I've put a ThermalTake Extreme Spirit II chipset cooler on it. Running a single 7950GX2 card, the system is actually 3d stable @ 440 Mhz fsb (cpu @ 4.4 Ghz 1.55V, mch @ 1.80V, FSB term @ [auto]). So it'll handle quite a bit of power IMHO.

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nice retail 6700 you got hold on lars ;)

I modded my P5W64. I will test this weekend.

http://www.iamxtreme.net/andre/P5W64-mod.jpg

i just realised your W64 'caps'..they certainly looks cool.
Awaiting for your result.. GJ Andre

nice and clean andre :eek:

wich one is the OVP mod ?

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Originally Posted by Supertim0r

nice and clean andre :eek:

wich one is the OVP mod ?

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http://www.iamxtreme.net/andre/P5W64-Vcore/1.JPG

http://www.iamxtreme.net/andre/P5W64-Vcore/2.JPG



It's clear?

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Originally Posted by vanovich

nice retail 6700 you got hold on lars ;)

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Yeah, it's quite nice :)

Hey AndreY,

i did a vmch and vdimm mod for this but i got overclocking failed sometimes if i set the voltage too high.

Anyone know how to prevent this instead of restarting the PC again for your overclocked setting? Do you face the similiar problem? ;)

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Originally Posted by rithina

Hey AndreY,

i did a vmch and vdimm mod for this but i got overclocking failed sometimes if i set the voltage too high.

Anyone know how to prevent this instead of restarting the PC again for your overclocked setting? Do you face the similiar problem? ;)

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If you meet high fsb fail, I think it's chip problem. Not of all 975x can oc to 450+, even though high voltage.

What does VID CMOS Setting in BIOS affect?
You can adjust it from 1-62 (default 62)
BIOS 0215

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Originally Posted by Dani

What does VID Setting in BIOS affect?
You can adjust it from 1-62 (default 62)
BIOS 0215

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Yeah can somebody tell us? What does that mean?

I edited my post, it's VID CMOS Setting :slap:
..but what is that?

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Originally Posted by rithina

i just realised your W64 'caps'..they certainly looks cool.
Awaiting for your result.. GJ Andre

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Hmmm, I wonder at what point the caps changed, they look different between the 2 pic's.

http://www.iamxtreme.net/andre/P5W64-Vcore/2.JPG


http://www.iamxtreme.net/andre/P5W64-mod.jpg

Pre-release/cherry-picked board - you can see from the fact it has 4 hooks for the NB (retail has 2)

it is a "Workstation Class DESKTOP Motherboard"

Is it just me.. or is this Mobo very buggy..

Apart from the issues that the mobo turns off on reboot if a FSB over 315MHz is set and it overvolts by about 0.05V (Vcore), I'm very satisfied with it. No problems here.

I'm very happy with it too. Not being funny but it's not a SLI-compatible motherboard. The fact hacked SLI drivers work is just good fortune, assuming that Quad SLI will "just work" is a bit silly.

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Originally Posted by Dani

What does VID CMOS Setting in BIOS affect?
You can adjust it from 1-62 (default 62)
BIOS 0215

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The CPU's VCore is generated through so-called VID Pins. There are usually five of them. By changing the values of these VID Pins, you can increase the default voltage. I believe the numbers in the BIOS correspond to values on an Intel data sheet.

any thirth part BIOS FLASHER?

i can't open the asus upadate that comes with drivers cd

thanks