P5K Deluxe: 500FSB / 4GHz on a QX6700 Air Cooled!

[Pedro Rocha]

A friend of my bought a Asus PK5 Deluxe, after I read some post about this mobo (specially the great and detailed EVA2000 tests ) I was kind curious to see how far can this new board / chipset go with my retail QX6700, so I ask him to let me try the mobo.

In the past the maximum FSB I achieved with this QX6700 was around 460 on a P5B Dlx and 440 on 680i SLI revision D00 (A1).

As usual I mounted the QX6700 with a TuniqTower and the Corsairs 8500C5.

Here is a photo:



After some very basic Bios config, here is what I got:



To my suprise, it runs 4 simultaneous SuperPI's (Core0, 1, 2, 3) with the FSB set at 500Mhz, 4.000Mhz 4 Cores speed and the memory at respectable DDR 1200 4-4-4 ...realy nice

And..


The usual 4Core CineBench wtih a very respectable score for air: 10 secs.


The memory bandwith measured with Everest also not bad at all..



A quick 06 run, but the very hot weather here does not help to pass the CPU test at more decent speed ..anyway this is not to bad for a all Air Cooled system with around 28ºC ambient temperature (need to move to Finland for better air cooled results )




And finaly, although not a quad core optimized bench, here is a result of my favorite bench



I must say that I am quite positively impressed with the new P35 "Bearlake" chipset and with Asus P5K Deluxe, for high FSB / OCer lovers with QuadCores seems really the best motherboard currenlty available in the stores.!!

Two negative points :does not support SLI with 8800's / layout have a serious flaw: the SATA ports are just besides the PCIe1, so is almost impossible to use more than 2 SATA drives with a 8800 Ultra or other lengthly video card.

If I can keep this mobo for the rest of the weekend I may post more results ..

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[Speederlander]

layout have a serious flaw: the SATA ports are just besides the PCIe1, so is almost impossible to use more than 2 SATA drives with a 8800 Ultra or other lengthly video card.

I thought an 8800 blocked 2 of the 6, not 4 of the 6...

[Bootsy]

actually i have 4 Sata drives installed i just used cables with elbow connectors on the motherboard. But it is piss poor placment

I got My quad to 490fsb so far with this board

[Pedro Rocha]

I thought an 8800 blocked 2 of the 6, not 4 of the 6...

No it blocks 4 of the 6 as you can see in this photos.



If you use righ anlge cables you may use more 2 SATA's (Asus only suply 2 of these) this is really incompressible design flaw ..to bad because the motherboard is really great and fast ..

[erwinz]

very nice..

and very nice quad core btw..

[Pedro Rocha]

very nice..

and very nice quad core btw..

Thanks

This retail QX6700 is in fact a very goof OCer, not hand picked, just pure luck..

To bad it seems does not mix very well with my mini-cascade because of the extreme heat, hope this weekend I have time to go to Ricky's house to calibrate it with for the QuadCore ..

[dinos22]

are you saying you ran the 1M SPI windows at the same time and got that result

that's extremely fast and i would have thought a single would land a result like 12.55-12.56

what were your subtimings like

[ZilverPhish]

Holy mother of god...........with a Tuniq/

btw what are your coretemp temps}?

NICE CHIP

[orion23]

No it blocks 4 of the 6 as you can see in this photos.



If you use righ anlge cables you may use more 2 SATA's (Asus only suply 2 of these) this is really incompressible design flaw ..to bad because the motherboard is really great and fast ..

It depends on which 8800GTX card is used. A regular reference design such as my XFX 8800GTX will only block 1 SATA port which could be used with an angle SATA cable.

[airs]

It doesn't really block the SATA ports btw..you can still use a normal SATA cable and then put the card on top of it/them.

[eva2000]

very nice Pedro.. glad I could inspire you

here's a bios template you can use to copy and paste and edit in your own bios settings of which you can share with others on the forums

JumperFree Configuration Settings
AI Overclocking: Manual
CPU Ratio Control: Manual
- Ratio CMOS Setting: 9
FSB Frequency: 266
PCI-E Frequency: 100
DRAM Frequency: AUTO (at 266FSB defaults to 2:3 for AUTO)
DRAM Timing Control: Manual
CAS# Latency: 4
RAS# to CAS# Delay: 4
RAS# Precharge: 4
RAS# Activate to Precharge: 12
TWR: AUTO
TRFC: AUTO
TWTR: AUTO
TRRD: AUTO
TRTP: AUTO
DRAM Static Read Control: Disabled

Transaction Booster: AUTO
Boost Level: (only displayes when Transaction Booster is set to Disable or Enabled)
Clock Over-Charging Mode: AUTO

CPU Spread Spectrum: Disabled
PCIE Spread Spectrum: Disabled

CPU Voltage: AUTO
CPU Voltage Reference: AUTO
CPU Voltage Damper: AUTO
CPU PLL Voltage: AUTO
DRAM Voltage: 2.10
FSB Termination Voltage: AUTO
North Bridge Voltage: AUTO
North Bridge Voltage Reference: AUTO
South Bridge Voltage: AUTO

Advance CPU Settings
CPU Ratio Control: Manual
- Ratio CMOS Setting: 9
C1E Suppport: Disabaled
Max CPUID Value Limit: Disabaled
Vanderpool Technology: Disabaled
CPU TM Function: Disabaled
Execute Disable Bit: Disabaled
PECI: Enabled

USB Configuration
USB Functions: Enabled
Legacy USB Support: Disabled (need to enable it to detect USB flash drives)

Enjoy





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[bmg]

It doesn't really block the SATA ports btw..you can still use a normal SATA cable and then put the card on top of it/them.

Not with an 8800 Ultra or ACS3 card..you need the right angle connectors with those.