Asus P5K Bearlake P35 (vanilla) chipset motherboard >> TESTING LATEST INTEL CHIPSET
Hey boys
Yeap this is the chipset that replaces P965 and will bring DDR2 and DDR3 RAM to desktops alongside ICH9
heeeeeere we go :D
TEST Gear:
Asus P5K (vanilla) Motherboard P35 CHIPSET >> Bios 0202
2GB Corsair PC8500 Dominator Kit
2GB Corsair PC10000 Dominator Kit
Intel E6300ES L617A Step5 B1 CPU
Intel E6600 B2 L629F122 CPU
Stock Intel Cooler
Corsair Nautilus 500 Water :)
6GB+60GB IDE Drives
80GB SATA1 Drive
Matrox Millenium PCI GFX
Silverstone 560W SLI PSU
Corsair 620W HX620 PSU
just installed windows....will do some tests soon
RIG SETUP
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Used these settings for windows install
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Notes:
- Board wouldn't start straight away .... errrrrr doesn't like bends much :) but all sorted heh
- Bios is good.......most settings necessary for tweaking are in one place now
- Asus is getting serious about overclocking even with Vanilla >>> some of the bios options are great >>>>
- VDIMM MAX: 2.55v >>>> VCORE MAX: 1.7v >>>>> VMCH: 1.7v >>>>> Some new adjustments :S have to figure out what they are :):):)
- NEED PENCIL MODS FOR VCORE >>>>>> DROOP IS TERRIBLE >>>>> BIOS SET 1.6V >> Windows Idle 1.55V >> Windows Load 1.48V :eek:
- It overclocks great >>> Reached the FSB limit on my CPU i have with two other Asus P5B Deluxe motherbards >>> E6600 520MHz FSB benchable 32M SuperPI >>> NICE!
- Board feels stable.............ran some quick orthos but will do some longer runs when i get time of course
- Have to test SuperPI performance properly as my first install was kind of funky and Pi times were bad as per next lot of screenshots >>> reinstalled windows on a different drive and it feels much better.......
- RAM tests are next to see what maxes I can reach >>> PC10000 Dominators are up next :D
- I put my E6300 CPU in there as memtest can detect bandwidth properly >>> I will try to find strap changes with it to see whether we are in 1066 or 1333 and when the changes are occuring
- I plan on testing all the RAM ratios as well to see what maxes i get from RAM and how they impact on performance >>> it seems from first glance that Asus has finally resolved the 4:5 ratio as i've never been able to run 500MHz 4-4-4-4....anyways this is something i have to test
- Seems that the temp controller is borked lol but the value seems to coincide with Coretemp once you take off 200 off the temp reported :) >>> looks like it needs an adjustment there >>>> if you look at the above screenshot you'll see 242C from Asus and 42C from Coretemp >>> it tends to change with it and not just coincidence hence ~256C >> showing as 56C in coretemp
- Hopefully someone can point me to vcore, vdimm, vMCH measurement points too
- Would be nice to have SetFSB or clockgen working with this mobo >>> CPUz 1.4 works like a charm :)