Asus P5KC first look

Just received this baby, and replaced my P5K Vanilla :)

Asus P5KC
E6700 B2
2*1GB Team Xtreem 6400c4

vdroop is not so huge, around 0.02v measured
w/ 1.40v nb do 500fsb 1M, 4M error
first result on air (cpu's fsb wall here)

http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/2413/520fsb1mzw4.jpg

photos

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/9024/31372515yl0.jpg

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/5286/77379520sn2.jpg

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/5638/41316211qb3.jpg

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/6545/92022656cz4.jpg

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/5184/41836845nt4.jpg

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/1376/29335817uq9.jpg

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/6526/35915843gj0.jpg

more tests later :)

ouchie.. on carpet. thats scary.

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Originally Posted by eklipze

ouchie.. on carpet. thats scary.

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okay.. sorry that dont waste my time to photoshop or I havent a photo studio :mad:

he means. Carpet = Static electricity. meaning. Suicide for electronics

What a way to handle computer components lol, anyway good results maybe you should test your p5k vanilla.

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Originally Posted by michaLcoughliN

he means. Carpet = Static electricity. meaning. Suicide for electronics

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I allways put things on it, I report you guys if my woolen carpet kills them :ROTF:
OMG, everybody is going to crazy, its too hot? :D:hitself:

mmhm.. crazy hahah!. i want to see some comparison on the 2 boards. hopefully. thanks. like to know

i would like to see 3dmark scores, if thats not too much trouble :D

btw does anyone know what does the C stand for in the product name.

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Originally Posted by Achill3uS

I allways put things on it, I report you guys if my woolen carpet kills them :ROTF:
OMG, everybody is going to crazy, its too hot? :D:hitself:

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here is really hot, but never mind being crazy till you don't insert your CPU upside-down :rofl:

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Originally Posted by Solarfall

btw does anyone know what does the C stand for in the product name.

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"Combo" as in MSI P35 Neo Combo or Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R which all come with both DDR2 and DDR3 slots. I'm gonna pick either the Gigabyte or ASUS one myself, just dunno which but if this ASUS one really does max out at similiar FSBs as P35C-DS3R (usually just above 500 FSB) then I'd rather pick ASUS due to the extra features I'd get, firewire and eSATA support and more USB ports and also ASUS lets you manually specify frequency for memory vs Gigabyte still uses dividers (if I understood that right). So 520 FSB was max you were able to reach with this chip?

@RPGWiZaRD ah of course.. :doh: how could i not remember that.. well thanks for the info. :up:

Sorry , I have very bad news:(

My teammate mobo's maybe randomly died.:shrug: He is very sad,because mobo one day old, and he waited for mobo 2 weeks.:( If mobo will works, he will post new results, or he will send back RMA.

the carpet maybe?

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Originally Posted by LogAn'sRun

the carpet maybe?

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LOL..NO. We never bench on carpet, only he made photos...

Not surely mobo died yet. maybe vga.

Looks like good DDR2+DDR3 mobo ... but show us DDR2 and DDR3 scores, on some boards with DDR2+3 slots ive tested (MSI, Giga) was mem performance very low ...

I'm assuming this board doesn't have vCore damper built into the BIOS?

Seems a nice board for the price :)

Achill3uS, I have a P5K in the mail, since you have both boards.. Should I return it for the P5KC? I was planning to do the vdroop mod on the P5K but you say that the P5KC doesn't really have a vdroop problem, which is my main interest.. Other than that, does this board perform better in any way?

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Originally Posted by OBR

Looks like good DDR2+DDR3 mobo ... but show us DDR2 and DDR3 scores, on some boards with DDR2+3 slots ive tested (MSI, Giga) was mem performance very low ...

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I've been wondering whether memory performance on the combo boards would suffer vs. boards designed for one type of memory (ddr2 or ddr3). Some comparison tests on that issue would be most excellent! :D

I'm back :) my vga card died in this crazy hot (in my city 41°C outside :eek: )
So testing continue.. tomorrow I will do a compare test with my friend's Corsair 1333 DDR3 :D
The P5K I used to 2 month, as I tested this board is no way slower!
And about vdroop, at higher voltages, is not so little as I write, around ~0.05v, with damper enabled or disabled.

some bad news :( the mobo (with latest bios) dont working with Corsair DDR3 1333DHX memo's, I could go to bios, but 1333 even as 1066 CL9 dont give signal.. (the max vddr was 1.7v what I tryd) :shakes:

but I think this would be useful :up:

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/9108/vdroopnc9.jpg

My question is, does the p5kc in fact not have the memory speed boost feature that asus boasts for the p5k on their website? (it doesnt mention it for the p5kc which is why i ask... i was considereing these 2 boards but when i compared every stat on asus's website it seemed like the p5k was edging out the p5kc in a lot of things except ddr3 support.

Can you test this mobo with DDR2?

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Originally Posted by over@locker886

LOL..NO. We never bench on carpet, only he made photos...

Not surely mobo died yet. maybe vga.

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dude.

it has nothing to do with benching on the carpet, or photos on the carpet. what were getting at is putting a MB on the carpet MAY CAUSE DAMAGE due to static electricity. comprende?:confused:

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i want to know if the voltage damper works on this model.