"ASUS P5Q Deluxe discussion".

[MonsterDK]

Hi,

I'm looking for some advice on a 3.0Ghz OC on my Q6600.
I'm very much new and learning all of this. So I appologise if I missed something out.

I have the following specs:
Asus P5Q deluxe (latest bios)
Q6600 (G0)
4gb Crucial Ballistix 1066

Current Bios setting:
Ai Overclock tuner: Manual
CPU Ratio:9
FSB: 333
PCIE: 100
FSB strap: 333
DRAM: 1066
DRAM Timings: Manual
5
5
5
15
For the clocks.
CPU Voltage: 1.26875
Load Line Calibration: Enabled
Spectrum: Disabled
PCIE Spectrum: Disabled

EVERYTHING ELSE = AUTO

CIE Support: Disabled
Max CPUID: Disabled
Intel Virtualization: Disabled
CPU TM Function: Disabled
Execute Disable Bit: Disabled

I was looking to find out other voltages for Dram etc etc. I have all them to AUTO at min.

[-n7-]

Hi,

I'm looking for some advice on a 3.0Ghz OC on my Q6600.
I'm very much new and learning all of this. So I appologise if I missed something out.

I have the following specs:
Asus P5Q deluxe (latest bios)
Q6600 (G0)
4gb Crucial Ballistix 1066

Current Bios setting:
Ai Overclock tuner: Manual
CPU Ratio:9
FSB: 333
PCIE: 100
FSB strap: 333
DRAM: 1066
DRAM Timings: Manual
5
5
5
15
For the clocks.
CPU Voltage: 1.26875
Load Line Calibration: Enabled
Spectrum: Disabled
PCIE Spectrum: Disabled

EVERYTHING ELSE = AUTO

CIE Support: Disabled
Max CPUID: Disabled
Intel Virtualization: Disabled
CPU TM Function: Disabled
Execute Disable Bit: Disabled

I was looking to find out other voltages for Dram etc etc. I have all them to AUTO at min.

Take a look at my post just above yours.

It seems this board really doesn't need much voltage.
Other than CPU, vdimm, & vNB, i have everything set one notch above minimum, mainly since intially i was hearing that minimum actually overvolted a bunch of them.

For DRAM voltage, whatever yours is rated for, i'd do that or a bit lower.

[Leeghoofd]

Beware that the board tends to overvolt the RAM so for eg for 2.1 set 2.02 or such...Also AUTO voltages are way ganderous as some are really overvolting...
I would just see what PL is set with that FSB, download MemSet 3.5 and read out the Performance Level... Mostly the bios sets aroudn 2-3 settings to high... Lower is better there.. I think you can maybe reach 6 or so... also play some with the Clock Twister... Moderate should work fine...

Plz adjust one setting at a time ! if it doesn't post you can find a solution way easier...

Try for the voltages these plz :

CPU Voltage: 1.26875
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (0/2): AUTO
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (1/3): AUTO
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.54
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.3
DRAM Voltage: 2.0
NB Voltage: 1.26
NB GTL Reference: AUTO
SBridge Voltage: AUTO
PCIE SATA Voltage: AUTO

[truehighroller]

I got the hacked Nvidia drivers working on my 8800Gts 512 . Check out my new vantage scoree in my sig it went up 800 points. I am going to try to bench 06 now and see if that sky rockets to.

[iboomalot]

i've noticed CPU PLL makes a difference might try 1.58 on it


Did some testing and my older TwinX 6400-C4 seems to work fine in memtest past DDR 940 and my Wolfe 8400 has a wall at 4ghz

I became very unstable at 3970@1.32v and upped voltage to 1.4 which got me to 4040mhz

still not bad being at 3.9-4.0 just wish I had a CPU that could have gone to 4.3-4.4

So it seems Pq5 dlx doesn't like some Corsair Ram the DDR1066 was a headache but does good on my older set of C4.


SInce this E8400 craps out at 4ghz think I should upgrade to a Quad since those seem to hit 4ghz??

[jonderrow]

Hi people
im new to overclock Please advice on my new rig
Im worried about the temperature

http://i27.tinypic.com/2d7yav8.jpg

http://i25.tinypic.com/2hp4yew.jpg


AI Overclock tuner: manual
CPU Ratio Setting: 8
FSB Strap to North Bridge: 333
FSB Frequency: 500
PCI-E Frequency: 100
DRAM Frequency: 1002
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A1: AUTO
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A2: AUTO
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B1: AUTO
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B2: AUTO
DRAM Timing Control: Manual
5-5-5-15

DRAM Static Read Control: Disabled
DRAM Read Training: Disabled
MEM. OC Charger: Enable
AI Clock Twister: Light
AI Transaction Booster: Manual
PL 10

CPU Voltage: 1.35 changed to 1.375
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (0/2): 0.63
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (1/3): 0.67
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.52
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.28
DRAM Voltage: 2.16
NB Voltage: 1.26
NB GTL Reference: 0.63
SBridge Voltage: 1.1
PCIE SATA Voltage: 1.5

Load Line Calibration: Enable
CPU Spread Spectrum: Disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum: Disabled
CPU Clock Skew : auto
NB Clock Skew : auto


Advance CPU Settings
CPU Ratio Setting: 8
All Disabled.

Occt stable 2 hour

http://i27.tinypic.com/2a6mb95.jpg

Intel E8400 @ 4ghz Q808A179
Asus P5Q Deluxe bios 0803
Crucial Ballistix (4 x 1GB)DDR2 800(PC2 6400)
ASUS EAH3870 TOP
WD5000AAKS
COOLMAX CUG-700B
ZALMAN CNPS9700 LED
Vista Home Prem x86 SP1

[jVIDIA]

My 24/7 stable setup:

[Dalten]

How important is the FSB Termination voltage?

[jVIDIA]

Hummmm .... lets just say that @450FSB with less than 1,28vFSB my system won't boot

[sunken123]

Well guys 1 week ago i was looking at motherbord and after ready all 50 pages of this tread i decided to go whit this baby im sure it got alot of potential but does it run hot?? and should i flash my bios before installing everything?

Thanks

[aussie-revhead]

Guys , are there any rams these mobos dont like ? Can I use my 6400 ballistix or 6400 Team's ? Or should I be looking for others ?

[Leeghoofd]

Well guys 1 week ago i was looking at motherbord and after ready all 50 pages of this tread i decided to go whit this baby im sure it got alot of potential but does it run hot?? and should i flash my bios before installing everything?

0803 bios is rockstable...0901 is beta bios and has some issues with some HD's but gives to many users better memory performance... Board doesn't run hot at all but it's always nice to have soem good airflow in the case

Thanks

Guys , are there any rams these mobos dont like ? Can I use my 6400 ballistix or 6400 Team's ? Or should I be looking for others ?

I only ran my GSkills and Mushkin on this mobo... PC8000PQ, PC8000HZ and Mushkin PC8000 Redline all run fine... test your sticks, if no go , you know which one will work..

Good luck mate !!

[Leeghoofd]

Also, when an overclock fails on the P5Q-Deluxe, you loose all the overclock settings that you keyed in, and all the changes that you made in CMOS. I realize that there is an ASUS overclock utility, but I didn't want to use it.

I start off with most values besides FSB/RAM speed, Vcore and Ram voltage manually set.. from there one i slowly start to set each setting manually... if you set all from the start and it doesn't post hard to know where you went wrong... the board is well designed and the bios is great as it will post mostly with AUTO , but these values are mostly over the top regarding volts so it's better to set a lower value manually...

also if it posts and get's into windows, I reboot and save the settings to my OC profile... from there on more tweak time...

[Iannis]

My 24/7 stable setup:





Bios 0803 :

On CPU-Z appears memory type DDR3 ????


The best ram for this mobo is????

GSkill PI 8000 or

A-DATA 1200 MHz

http://oc.adata.com.tw/1_product_det...?pid=AD21200EU

Target = 500 550 FSB RAM 1:1

[gurusan]

My 24/7 stable setup:

*snip*

nice, my setup is very similar...finally some decent memory performance out of this board as well.




Bios 0901 :

AI Overclock tuner: Manual
CPU Ratio Setting: 8
FSB Strap to North Bridge: 266
FSB Frequency: 462
PCI-E Frequency: 101
DRAM Frequency: 1158
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A1: AUTO
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel A2: AUTO
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B1: AUTO
DRAM CLK Skew on Channel B2: AUTO
DRAM Timing Control: Manual

1st Information:
CAS# Latency: 5
DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay: 5
DRAM RAS# Precharge: 5
DRAM RAS# Activate to Precharge: 15
RAS# to RAS# Delay : AUTO
Row Refresh Cycle Time: 55
Write Recovery Time: AUTO
Read to Precharge Time: AUTO

2nd Information :
READ to WRITE Delay (S/D): AUTO
Write to Read Delay (S): AUTO
WRITE to READ Delay (D): AUTO
READ to READ Delay (S): AUTO
READ to READ Delay (D): AUTO
WRITE to WRITE Delay (S): AUTO
WRITE to WRITE Delay (D): AUTO

3rd Information :
WRITE to PRE Delay: AUTO
READ to PRE Delay: AUTO
PRE to PRE Delay: AUTO
ALL PRE to ACT Delay: AUTO
ALL PRE to REF Delay: AUTO

DRAM Static Read Control: Disabled
DRAM Read Training: Disabled
MEM. OC Charger: Enabled
AI Clock Twister: Lighter
AI Transaction Booster: Manual
Common Performance Level: 08
All Pull-Ins: Disabled

CPU Voltage: 1.4625
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (0/2): 0.63
CPU GTL Voltage Reference (1/3): 0.67
CPU PLL Voltage: 1.54
FSB Termination Voltage: 1.28
DRAM Voltage: 2.06
NB Voltage: 1.24
NB GTL Reference: 0.63
SBridge Voltage: 1.1
PCIE SATA Voltage: 1.5

Load Line Calibration: Enabled
CPU Spread Spectrum: Disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum: Disabled
CPU Clock Skew : Normal
NB Clock Skew : Normal

[Leeghoofd]

On CPU-Z appears memory type DDR3 ????

The best ram for this mobo is????

GSkill PI 8000 or

A-DATA 1200 MHz

Target = 500 550 FSB RAM 1:1

CPU-Z bug mate

Do you intend to use 500FSB daily ? with a Wolfdale I hope not with a quad... My Gskill PC8000HZ do 1200mhz to but require 2.35volts for stable operation and I'm pretty sure they will give with for extended use (rig is on 24/7)

[Iannis]

CPU-Z bug mate

Do you intend to use 500FSB daily ? with a Wolfdale I hope not with a quad... My Gskill PC8000HZ do 1200mhz to but require 2.35volts for stable operation and I'm pretty sure they will give with for extended use (rig is on 24/7)

This will be folding PC
So I need stability for 24/7 use as hight it's posible

I don't wanna O/C DDR2 any more

3 sets dead in the last 7 months (teamgrup 1200 and 1000 and one SellChock 1000)

So for the future only defaults Volts or even undervolt with asus mobo's

Compairing to simple DDR, DDR2 is an industry s_ _ _ t

[gurusan]

i got tired of RMAing my Ballistix so I bought 4x1gb modules of OCZ SLI 8500. These are amazing, they do 1066mhz on 2.02v (actual), and are currently running 1155mhz with only 2.16v (actual). I've had them for 6 months now, no problems so far.

[jVIDIA]

Iannis, for 2x1gb o recomend the Transcend AxeRam 1200+. For 2x2GB I recomend the GSkill 8500 PK or the 8800 PI.

gurusan, very nice too men

I won't OC my CPU furder because the voltage needed doesn't seems to compensate. I remember that this is my 24/7 daily config

[kamikaze24]

Hello all

Yesterday with ma P5Q Deluxe and my E8300 on H2O .

E8300 Q812
2go crucial Ballistix pc8500 16FD3 and 16FD5 (D9gmh on each kit)
P5Q deluxe Bios 901 beta Made in china
Corsair Hx520
Kandalf LCS modded laing, nexxos xp, cape aerocool 10
Pny 8800GT 512 with S1 accelero
1.2To (samsung, seagate sata 2 16mo)

Vcore 1.4725v
Vddr 2.3v
vNB 1.28v
Cpu Pll 1.56v
Strap 333
Coef 8 (8.5 => BSOD over 4ghz)

Next time i'll try with 1.5v and 1.6v on Vcore for max bench

[Morph]

Hi
It might sound stupid but why does everyone use CPU Ratio Setting: 8.
When default is 9 is it beter to have a higher fsb as myn will do 3.6@9 so thats what i thought was best

ps sorry for Noob question

cheers nick

[gurusan]

a higher fsb will net a small overall performance increase, also around that fsb i have better ram divider options

[kamikaze24]

Hi
It might sound stupid but why does everyone use CPU Ratio Setting: 8.
When default is 9 is it beter to have a higher fsb as myn will do 3.6@9 so thats what i thought was best

ps sorry for Noob question

cheers nick

it need better ram to use it like pc8500 and better (d9gkx, d9gmh) .

[Morph]

ok thanks just wonderd why

[-n7-]

a higher fsb will net a small overall performance increase, also around that fsb i have better ram divider options

Exactly.

I could be running 10x with a tighter tRD...but i discovered performance is actually better @ 8x with higher FSB.