Asus P5K Bearlake P35 chipset motherboard >> TESTING LATEST INTEL CHIPSET

Re: Intel chipset driver 8.3.0.1011.
There's an "intel_inf_8.4.0.1010 beta" available.
Intel Matrix Raid: "intel_msm_7.5.0.1017 Final WHQL"
And JMicron driver "Jmicro_jmb36xx.1.17.17whql" .
All at: www.station-drivers.com.
Could you post a screenshot of your Windows Device Manager, with these categories expanded:
IDE/ATAPI Controllers
SCSI and Raid Controllers
System Devices
And, did you attempt to enable SATA "AHCI mode", either on JMicron or Intel port?
Note: if updating Intel Inf drivers, running the .EXE installer won't update to the newer drivers.
Must be manually updated for each device.

I looked over this post real quick as im on lunch break, any reason to upgrade to one of these from Bad Axe 2? I was comparing my 32m scores with Dinos's comparison of 3-3-3-9 and my scores were still a bit faster than this board.

So any real advantage? Besides DDR3 and Penryn? I will probably wait till penryns release and some new boards hit the market and go from there, but any input on this would be appreciated :)

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Originally Posted by ChaosMinionX

I looked over this post real quick as im on lunch break, any reason to upgrade to one of these from Bad Axe 2? I was comparing my 32m scores with Dinos's comparison of 3-3-3-9 and my scores were still a bit faster than this board.

So any real advantage? Besides DDR3 and Penryn? I will probably wait till penryns release and some new boards hit the market and go from there, but any input on this would be appreciated :)

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Only if you want to be a beta tester on a non bug free bios.

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Originally Posted by Glow9

Which ddr 2 sticks was this with? Did you try the 5300 out yet?

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i have no PC5300 sticks but i will change SPD on the sticks and see if that helps..........maybe someone can tell me how do change SPD

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Originally Posted by vailr

Re: Intel chipset driver 8.3.0.1011.
There's an "intel_inf_8.4.0.1010 beta" available.
Intel Matrix Raid: "intel_msm_7.5.0.1017 Final WHQL"
And JMicron driver "Jmicro_jmb36xx.1.17.17whql" .
All at: www.station-drivers.com.
Could you post a screenshot of your Windows Device Manager, with these categories expanded:
IDE/ATAPI Controllers
SCSI and Raid Controllers
System Devices
And, did you attempt to enable SATA "AHCI mode", either on JMicron or Intel port?
Note: if updating Intel Inf drivers, running the .EXE installer won't update to the newer drivers.
Must be manually updated for each device.

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sorry mate have to check into this

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Originally Posted by ChaosMinionX

I looked over this post real quick as im on lunch break, any reason to upgrade to one of these from Bad Axe 2? I was comparing my 32m scores with Dinos's comparison of 3-3-3-9 and my scores were still a bit faster than this board.

So any real advantage? Besides DDR3 and Penryn? I will probably wait till penryns release and some new boards hit the market and go from there, but any input on this would be appreciated :)

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don't comapre results yet as subtimings are always really loose during initial testing.............once i get memset it will be a different story and should be on par with your mobo (not faster i don't think)

your dominators 8500 and 10000 wich chip have?
i have 2x1gb OCZ VX2 DDR2 PC2-8000 / 1000 MHz 4\4\4\15 / Titanium Alpha / Voltage eXtreme 2.. do you think that i have problems with the p5k?

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Originally Posted by dinos22

The idea behind the test is to quickly test max clocks on above settings for all RAM Ratios available in bios to see if any of them have a problem..........

i was able to use SetFSB up to 407MHz FSB after which i was forced to boot to windows direct from bios on some of the lower ratios so i also ran 4M and 8M SuperPI to give you an idea that it clearly had more MHz in the runs to max out at 1M ;)

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Please check Ultra box when you need more FSB.

or

Customize PLL N and PLL M
You can adjust the frequency range with PLL N and PLL M.

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Originally Posted by dinos22

don't comapre results yet as subtimings are always really loose during initial testing.............once i get memset it will be a different story and should be on par with your mobo (not faster i don't think)

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Good stuff, will be looking forward to your results :toast:

Could someone test "under" ratios or unlinked mode or what ever they call it on this mobo? ...it might be very useful to be able to set memory for example to 5:4 ...so fsb would be then 500MHz and memory 400MHz. If this works you could pretty much max out E6320 7x multi cpu, with not so good clockin´ cheap memory ...really wouldn´t wanna buy a 650i SLI mobo for this reason. Cheapest possible quality components and the highest possible OC ...isn´t that what this is all about.... atleast for poor students :)

I would like to see the board max fsb with some extreme cooling on the cpu, any chache testing that dinos?

I like your tests so far, nice work :toast:

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Originally Posted by luseruser

Could someone test "under" ratios or unlinked mode or what ever they call it on this mobo? ...it might be very useful to be able to set memory for example to 5:4 ...so fsb would be then 500MHz and memory 400MHz. If this works you could pretty much max out E6320 7x multi cpu, with not so good clockin´ cheap memory ...really wouldn´t wanna buy a 650i SLI mobo for this reason. Cheapest possible quality components and the highest possible OC ...isn´t that what this is all about.... atleast for poor students :)

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that's not going to happen on P965 nor P35 >>> these chipsets don't support ratios under 1:1

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Originally Posted by Extera

I would like to see the board max fsb with some extreme cooling on the cpu, any chache testing that dinos?

I like your tests so far, nice work :toast:

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max FSB is more of a CPU thing that motherboard i reckon >>> this E6600 seems max benchable around 520MHz FSB on air.................judging by my E6300 which went under dry ice and jumped another 30-35MHz i'd say it would probably be a similar case with this one

i don't understand cache testing question though

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Originally Posted by dinos22

that's not going to happen on P965 nor P35 >>> these chipsets don't support ratios under 1:1



max FSB is more of a CPU thing that motherboard i reckon >>> this E6600 seems max benchable around 520MHz FSB on air.................judging by my E6300 which went under dry ice and jumped another 30-35MHz i'd say it would probably be a similar case with this one

i don't understand cache testing question though

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Oh i'm sorry, I ment chance :rolleyes:
I would really like to see the power of the board's max FSB, I think i'll buy one to test @ the end of this month.

dinos22 is this mobo????

ASUS P5K, P35 (dual PC2-6400U DDR2) € 143.90 ?

sorry if this question was asked before but it long 6 pages to read, any way what i wanted to ask
is it really that the CPU is 200C+ or there is a problem with the sensor??

dinos: please run everest and printscreen which senzors are active...

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Originally Posted by tormentor22

sorry if this question was asked before but it long 6 pages to read, any way what i wanted to ask
is it really that the CPU is 200C+ or there is a problem with the sensor??

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sensor error

hehe, I will get the board tomorrow, and will test w/ Kentsfield Q6600 :toast:

Does this board have 3-phase power? The p5k deluxe has 8-phase power, and the Gigabyte p35 dq6 has 12-phase power. Phases will obviously make the CPU voltage more smooth in delivery which is what quad cores need.

Ive not seen any specs concerning the p5k vanilla, but in the pictures Ive seen I can only see 3 PWM in the place where the higher end boards have their heatpipes.

Dinos check out SPDTOOL for changing the SPD on your ram. There's a thread on the forums for the tool somewhere on here.

Just one thing, does this board have droop, or do you just think it has droop? Drop != droop...I can attest to the droop mod being not only unnecessary but also unhealthy in the case of the Commando.

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Originally Posted by Gautam

Just one thing, does this board have droop, or do you just think it has droop? Drop != droop...I can attest to the droop mod being not only unnecessary but also unhealthy in the case of the Commando.

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do i just think??

i have supplied info that it has both drop and droop

drop >>> 1.35v bios set >>> 1.304-1.312 idle so there is considerable drop there

when i put it under load with SmallFFTs vcore droops to 1.28v (this is even after doing 2 strokes with 2B pencil which improved things as it used to droop to 1.24v

NOW these are all AISuite and CPUz figures so i have not yet double checked with DMM

so while i know there is droop i would still like to double check with DMM as soon as someone provides with read points

great stuff dinos. Keep up the good work ;)

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Originally Posted by megatron

Does this board have 3-phase power? The p5k deluxe has 8-phase power, and the Gigabyte p35 dq6 has 12-phase power. Phases will obviously make the CPU voltage more smooth in delivery which is what quad cores need.

Ive not seen any specs concerning the p5k vanilla, but in the pictures Ive seen I can only see 3 PWM in the place where the higher end boards have their heatpipes. Edit: or is it just half of the PWN which are cooled (for a total of 6 phases?)

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Please answer my question.

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Originally Posted by megatron

Please answer my question.

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i've already answered that i think it's 3-phase :)

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Originally Posted by tormentor22

sorry if this question was asked before but it long 6 pages to read, any way what i wanted to ask
is it really that the CPU is 200C+ or there is a problem with the sensor??

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sensor problem yeap :)

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Originally Posted by TEDY

dinos: please run everest and printscreen which senzors are active...

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i've never used that spftware as i don't like it...........if you are trying to determine the temps i've posted Coretemp......:)

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Originally Posted by Achill3uS

hehe, I will get the board tomorrow, and will test w/ Kentsfield Q6600 :toast:

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nice looking forward to a quad test on one of these :)

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Originally Posted by dinos22

do i just think??

i have supplied info that it has both drop and droop

drop >>> 1.35v bios set >>> 1.304-1.312 idle so there is considerable drop there

when i put it under load with SmallFFTs vcore droops to 1.28v (this is even after doing 2 strokes with 2B pencil which improved things as it used to droop to 1.24v

NOW these are all AISuite and CPUz figures so i have not yet double checked with DMM

so while i know there is droop i would still like to double check with DMM as soon as someone provides with read points

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Heh, if you didn't check with a DMM, you didn't actually check anything at all. :p:

But it does sound a bit less stable than the Commando.