Need advice E6600 on P5B Deluxe

[Shintai]

New BIOS updates will fix it too over time.

[Thcm]

@Schitzo - Ram wasn't the problem in my case. My first E6600 posted only at 320 MHz max. My new one works out of the box with 333 MHz, voltage set to 1.325, because the P5B raises the voltage automatically. Still dual priming without probs...

[Schitzo]

@Schitzo - Ram wasn't the problem in my case. My first E6600 posted only at 320 MHz max. My new one works out of the box with 333 MHz, voltage set to 1.325, because the P5B raises the voltage automatically. Still dual priming without probs...

Heh, who would have thought we'd have the same symptoms for completely different problems?

Is anyone else finding that this board has funny behavior when selecting voltage in the bios? At "auto" it comes up in the asus software as 1.33-1.35v, but when manually setting 1.35, it comes up as more like 1.28v.

Is the software lousy, or is the bios actually off by that much?

[sparks]

I keep thinking that the p5b won't work so they can get people to buy
the p5w.
Its sad when you can take a processor off one and move the same setup to the
w and kick butt.

Maybe the 505 will help, some people have the 505 bios...when are they going to release it?


sparks

[Thcm]

Hi, I switched over to the Gigabyte 965P-DQ6 and now I'm testing how far my second E6600 goes with stock vcore. I dualprimed the cpu at 333 MHz (3.0GHz) trough the night on the P5B-Deluxe without any problems. Now I'm at 366 MHz with the Gigabyte dualpriming for about 30 mins also on stock vcore. Everything still on the workbench running on air!

[herderien]

366 stock vCore ?

[Thcm]

Yes, dualprimed for an hour. Now I switched to 380 MHz FSB, but I had to bump the vcore from the default 1.325v to 1.375v to be stable at dualprime for at least a few minutes. I'm going to test at least half an hour and then I'll try to reach 400 MHz (my final goal 24/7 on water). Temperatures are rising: 333 MHz 48 degrees, 366 MHz 52 degrees and at 380 MHz 58 degrees celsius. Tested with Coretemp. Perhaps I have to switch to my alphacool watercooling system soon....

[rpg711]

hmm thats weird... most people with conroes say the temps keep dropping... i mean, idle raises alittle
but load drops alittle

[herderien]

those temperatures make sense compared to my air cooling, since it should lower a little when ceramic is "cooked"

[Thcm]

Yesterday evening coretemp showed 52 degrees and this morning it dropped 48 degrees. Dualprime ran stable vor 1 hour with 380 MHz FSB x 9 and 1.400vcore, now going for 390 MHz....

[Catalyst2211]

So you can get higher clocks using the DQ6?

[Thcm]

Sorry, but I only tested the P5B Deluxe up to 333 MHz FSB. Currently I'm stuck between 380 and 400 MHz FSB. Screen get's black after a few minutes and restarts, perhaps I've hit a temperature wall.

[rpg711]

that is voltage.... raise the volts because its unstable at the current fsb

[Ferry82]

ftp://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/s...P/P5BD0507.zip

Now test it!!!!!!

[Ace-a-Rue]

doesn't work...try this: ftp://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/

[Thcm]

Maybe it's the voltage, but I don't want to go over 1.475v until I build the system into my watercooling-case. Atm I'm back to 9x366 at default vcore. I'll dualprime it through night and tomorrow I'll switch over to water.