Asus P5KC first look

[Eldonko]

Well so much for the P5KC, mine blew up like many others.





Have to find that lil chip now to replace.

[Achill3uS]

@Achill3us
Just registered to thank you!
Did the pencil-mod and Vdroop of 0,06 V (idle to load voltage) is reduced to 0,00 V. Even the difference between bios-setting to load voltage is reduced from 0,09 V to 0,01 V. Now I am able to stable OC my E6750 on teh P5KC to more than 3820 instead of 36XX. Great

on XS mate

Well so much for the P5KC, mine blew up like many others.

Have to find that lil chip now to replace.

PM me mate, i could help you, mine was repaired too. but, my advice is to replace the mobo, its weak for quadcore

[Eldonko]

Yeah this is true, even with vdroop mod it could not hold load and after about an hour of priming poof. What makes me mad about all of these P5K is the vreg is so crap you either get 0.25v less that you set in bios for load or you droop mod and it blows up because the ic cant handle it.

Cant someone make a board that can hold load without droop or fire?

And thanks, ugpm

[35712]

Omg

After seeing the last two pictures from Donko, I hope that my watercooling block can handle the heat from the vdroop and a 1,45V Quad Core...

Do I need to worry about anything? What settings did you run?

[Eldonko]

That was pretty low volts, I just had vdroop mod done so instead of drooping like hell to save the transistor, it blew. I wouldnt worry about it, just put a fan over that area if you can.

[35712]

I have it on water. 22°C - 27°C. Should be enough to survive the 1,5VCore I am currently running for the next 4 1/2 hours. And if not

[bl1zZ]

So watercooling is needed for this board+quad+phase? ^^

[Prompt]

Hi!

This is not an overclocking issue, but I have read about ethernet problems with this mobo here so that's why i am posting here. Maybe you can help..
I have a new asus p5kc and it has a weird ethernet problem. If I try xdcc-ing on irc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDCC), the whole connection dies. I mean not only the internet connection (which is through a router), even the LAN is unreachable until I reboot. After that everything is ok again.
I have tried using a PCI card, and it has no troubles with xdcc (and of course i never had problems with it before the new system). I had an older driver for the integrated one, so i've updated it to the latest to see if that solves the problem but it didn't. I use torrent and ftp and a lot of other protocols but none of them seems to kill the connection like xdcc does. Xdcc uses ports from 1024-5000 so i have tried modifing them to see if the problem has anything to do anything with ports, but the result were the same (after like 15 seconds disconnected). A friend of mine has p5kc as well and has no problems with xdcc-ing so not all of the p5kc-s has this problem.

I can return it, but what if I get the new one and it has the same problem? So I wanna try everything to solve it before i go for a new one.

Any idea?

[ZorK]

Is the P5K Pro the same with P5K C when it comes to oc-ing quads?Cause I would like to buy one p5k pro and a 8200 and I was thinking that maybe in the feature i would go for a quad

Is there any board with the same price or lower with P5k PRO that is doing well with oc-ing quads?

Or should I try a cheaper mobo and good oc for now with 8200 and when it's time for the quad,get a new and good budget board for the quad(hopping that in the future would born new mobos that would do oc easy quds)

thank you!

[Eldonko]

Hi!

This is not an overclocking issue, but I have read about ethernet problems with this mobo here so that's why i am posting here. Maybe you can help..
I have a new asus p5kc and it has a weird ethernet problem. If I try xdcc-ing on irc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDCC), the whole connection dies. I mean not only the internet connection (which is through a router), even the LAN is unreachable until I reboot. After that everything is ok again.
I have tried using a PCI card, and it has no troubles with xdcc (and of course i never had problems with it before the new system). I had an older driver for the integrated one, so i've updated it to the latest to see if that solves the problem but it didn't. I use torrent and ftp and a lot of other protocols but none of them seems to kill the connection like xdcc does. Xdcc uses ports from 1024-5000 so i have tried modifing them to see if the problem has anything to do anything with ports, but the result were the same (after like 15 seconds disconnected). A friend of mine has p5kc as well and has no problems with xdcc-ing so not all of the p5kc-s has this problem.

I can return it, but what if I get the new one and it has the same problem? So I wanna try everything to solve it before i go for a new one.

Any idea?

Sorry for the late reply. In my experience you lose ethernet when you oc pcie bus. Put it at 100 or 101.

zork go for a premium or deluxe, something with voltage damper available.

[Des1gnR]

Did you go towards 540 FSB?

[chester]

I got 571 fsb on this board.bought the msi now gotta wait for ddr3.this board was a real pos.i do have pictures at that
dont know how to post them here anymore
swore off intel with there socket 423 then went back lol
asus has good stuff if u got the cash or get it free

but im swearing off asus for this board
may last 3 or 4 years lol
first board was doa i see the ddr3 1800 down to 330 at ewise
$100 off ill buy em
till then just keep abusing this pos no wonder they dont bother with a good bios lol

[Mykou]

Hi!

This is not an overclocking issue, but I have read about ethernet problems with this mobo here so that's why i am posting here. Maybe you can help..
I have a new asus p5kc and it has a weird ethernet problem. If I try xdcc-ing on irc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDCC), the whole connection dies. I mean not only the internet connection (which is through a router), even the LAN is unreachable until I reboot. After that everything is ok again.
I have tried using a PCI card, and it has no troubles with xdcc (and of course i never had problems with it before the new system). I had an older driver for the integrated one, so i've updated it to the latest to see if that solves the problem but it didn't. I use torrent and ftp and a lot of other protocols but none of them seems to kill the connection like xdcc does. Xdcc uses ports from 1024-5000 so i have tried modifing them to see if the problem has anything to do anything with ports, but the result were the same (after like 15 seconds disconnected). A friend of mine has p5kc as well and has no problems with xdcc-ing so not all of the p5kc-s has this problem.

I can return it, but what if I get the new one and it has the same problem? So I wanna try everything to solve it before i go for a new one.

Any idea?

I don't think too it is an o/c pb .

After reading some posts on forums related to this mobo , I definitively point at attansis drivers which looks very buggy .

My ethernet port is recognized under windows but once worked after I plug , then no more .installed drivers several time without success then let it down !

Actually using a PCI card and very happy with ( realtek like )

forgot about my attansis gigalan ........

[AkR]

Hi all!

Did anyone figure out, where is the Vdimm measurement point, in this mobo ?

[johnysb]

asus should try making a new stable bios, cause 1001 and 1105 are totally failure.
dont try those two

[SonDa5]

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)

but I think this would be useful

Back to the future....

Has somebody tried the new fast low voltage DDR3 on this MB?

Some of the new Gskill "P67" DDR3 is super fast and has low voltage.