wooohooo this means I can wait for x38 and get a q6600 g0 now ty!
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wooohooo this means I can wait for x38 and get a q6600 g0 now ty!
anyone using this board with a quad? hows it overclock with a quad.. ive got my xeon 3060 up to 3.7ghz stable using 4gbs of crucial tracers but dont want to mess that all up putting a quad in and not being able to clock it...
thanks!
:D Hi there,Quote:
Originally Posted by Le Titi
just found a modded release of the new 0903:
http://www.box.net/shared/e5cqgrtomc
Did not try it by myself yet - use on Your own risk !!!
Users please report here any experiences. Thanks !!!
hi,Quote:
Originally Posted by camouflage
where you find this beta bios???
What's SLIC????
Quote:
Originally Posted by BarboneNet
:D L@@K here:
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/sho...eluxe&page=737
Post #7365 from Victor.
:welcome:
thank you;)Quote:
Originally Posted by camouflage
What does the modded BIOS do? Seems a little pointless to install it when there's no clue what it even improves?
Does it do anything about the cold-boot problem?
I assume, that since it adds the ASUS SLIC table data, you should be able to install an ASUS OEM version of Vista Ultimate and it will activate without any problems by recognizing the SLIC in the BIOS.Quote:
Originally Posted by Durzel
Sounds pretty good to me :)
Anyone in the UK that wants to buy this board.. or needs a spare for whatever reason, please take a look at my eBay item list because I have decided to sell my E6700 CPU, 2 GIG OCZ DDR2-900 RAM and P5W64-WS Pro Mobo off.
http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZlichedres
Devilhood
Sorry mate but as you've posted an advert here I had to say this, your price on Ebay is way over the top.
Doing a quick search the last two sold on EBay for £66 and £69 respectively so asking for £110 and then plugging the listing here is pretty naughty, also are you aware that the price of a new one is only £118+VAT?
Why not just put the listing up as a see what it sells for auction and see what it sells for.
Odd how you say that seeing as most of the used P5W64-WS Pro's I've seen being sold on eBay went for just over £100 anyways, so sure, maybe there were a few that went for cheaper, but how is it naughty to sell something at a price that matches many other sales?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hello_Boys
All you need to do is type in P5W64-WS into eBay and you will immediately find 4-5 Buy-It-Now's set at over £140.
I don't do 'see what it sells' auctions on eBay I'm afraid. I have sold a fair bit and they were all Buy-It-Nows; never had a problem in the past.
I always judge a price based on other Buy-It-Nows that are currently listed, then I usually knock off around 40-50 quid, so technically I am relying on eBay's market value for that given product.
I have had a few watchers on the board, so there are people interested, but if you did really see that board go for that considerably lower price, I will obviously reduce the price, because the main point is to actually sell it to make some dosh at least :up:
These were the last two to sell on Ebay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ASUS-P5W64-Int...mZ140170671163
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ASUS-P5W64-WS-...mZ250177493772
They sold for £66 and £69 as you can see from the auctions, what's interesting is that they were bought by the same person.
You've made your position clear, good luck with your sale.
Fair enough!
Bid auctions aren't usually always the best to go by in-terms of real monetary value of an item though, because bidding is mostly down to good luck and timing; especially when we're talking about the motherboard market which is so convoluted with different types of models.
Buy-It-Nows always tend to be slightly more expensive.
I have now reduced my price to £84.95, which I believe to be totally reasonable.
I remember a year or so ago I managed to sell a problematic Gigabyte 8KNXP Rev 1.x Socket 478 board for around £60-70. The memory controller on it was giving way and would crash after a few hours of prolonged usage... but sure enough someone was still interested even though I clearly stated the problem.
Gotta love eBay :)
Strange question for here I know but I want to undervolt the cpu voltage and the lowest it will go is 1.20 real.
I'm running a 2180 MO and I need it to run passive and I know this chip will run fine below 1.0
Anyone know of any program/bios that will allow me to have a low vcore on the P5W64?
Saw this over at Hot Hardware : www.hothardware.com/News/Intel_45nm_Yorkfield_Runs_On_975X_Motherboard/
I have an X6800 running on an Asus P5W64 Pro, with 1GB x 2 of Team Xtreem DDR2-800 with D9s, a Palit 8800GTS/640MB, and an Audigy X-Fi Xtreme Music, all in a Casetek Ares case and powered by an OCZ GameXStream 700-watt PSU.Quote:
Intel 45nm Yorkfield Runs On 975X Motherboard
Dave Altavilla // Nov 30, 1:20 PM
We've gotten more than a few inquiries from readers, since we launched our Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 (aka Yorkfield) article, about whether or not the new 45nm quad-core chip from Intel will play nice in legacy motherboards. The party line from Intel is that while technically, Yorkfield quad-core processors are not supported by chipsets like the 975X and P965, some motherboard manufacturers may choose to validate and support the product.
We've recently been able to prove out that on at least one 975X board, the Asus P5W64WS Pro, using one of Intel's new 45nm Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processors and more than likely any 45nm quad-core Intel processor is a go for this motherboard.
As you can see in the POST screen above, the motherboard is in fact requesting a BIOS update for the proper CPU microcode, but after a simple strike of the F1 key the board boots flawlessly and we've been running benchmarks on a Vista installation for a week or so successfully and without incident. In the bottom right hand screen shot, we're showing a CPU-Z identification of the motherboard chipset that was taken alongside the large CPU identification shot above. As you'll note, we're running the standard 1,333MHz FSB for the chip, based on a quad-pumped 333MHz base frequency. We should note, however, that the board does not have the necessary memory dividers to run memory at standard frequencies, so there will be some memory overclocking (or underclocking) going on.
So, the moral of the story? Check with your motherboard manufacturer for possible support of the new 45nm Yorkfield-based Core 2 quad-core processors from Intel, to see if you're going to get lucky. However, if your motherboard comes equipped to run a 1,333MHz front side bus, your chances are pretty good. We're hoping Asus will send us an official BIOS update for the board as well shortly. Stay tuned!
Coolness! I knew workstation boards from asus were good for something! :) Hmm. now to think about updating the Q6600 I have here....
As aways the cold boot bug isnt solved. I bought this mobo because of the 4 x PCI-E that can run in x8 each, so i can use raid controllers in it. Stupid bug kicks in even at 300FSB, and your hardware starts suffering from it. After a bit one of my HDD developed bad sector because of that, i have 5 raptors and i dont wont to trash them, so i simply reverted to stock clockand i havent had a single bad sector since then. I still wonder why Asus cant fix, they even dont answer threads about it in their own support forums.
Keep in mind that you should not be calling it a bug. It's a feature and was deliberately put there by Intel, just like vdroop was a design specification. However it's an UNWANTED feature as you can clearly see. Every 975x board did this when the bioses first came out.
It was never really 'fixed' in any board, just worked around by simply keeping the PSU lines active after a reboot. On the other boards, the system *still* resets (cold start) exactly the same way; it simply doesn't power off because the PSU power isn't cut.
There is no excuse for Asus not doing this for this board, though. Wasn't this supposed to be their flagship board for this chipset?
Given how often ASUS brings out new boards the P5W64-WS was doomed to obsolescence as soon as it was released.Quote:
Originally Posted by Falkentyne
P5W64 WS Professional BIOS Version 1005, 2008/02/28 update
1.Support new CPUs.
YorkField C-1 stepping
YorkField L-0 stepping
WolfDale C-0 stepping
Conroe G0 stepping
2.Update EZ-Flash to v3.06
Download:
http://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/...S-PRO-1005.zip
Wow I never saw another bios update coming. This is great as I wanted to install one of my E8400s in my server motherboard. Thanks for the heads up. I'll see how it does with the wolfdale.
P5W64 WS Professional BIOS Version 1101 - 2008/3/28
P5W64 WS Pro released BIOS v1101.
1. Support new Wolfdale B1 Stepping CPU.
http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/...S-PRO-1101.zip
I was able to get my quad up to 3.5ghz not to bad, does anyone have the stock motherboard heatsink they would be willing to sell, i have to ram the board and have no idea what i did with it. or maybe someone knows where to get one, also could i RMA it without the heatsink, i need the one that is a heatpipe from the mosfets to the northbridge then to the southbridge...
thanks!
You didn't just stick it in the box if you weren't using it??? I don't think you would stand a chance returning it with the heatsink assembly removed.
Does anyone know if these newer BIOS files fix the cold reboot problem? That's the only real issue I'm having with this board really.