1st look on asus P5K-VM: G33 matx board (56K warning!)

[zoob]

Just picked up this board with an E2140.
Hitting an FSB wall @ 333 max. One higher and no post.

This chip is doing quite well, I lowered the voltage to 1.25V in BIOS. Currently testing with a crappy WinXP live CD that doesn't know what to do with two cores, but one core is Orthos'ing just fine. CoreTemp buggers out and gives me a BSOD and Intel TAT won't install.

EDIT:



Onboard video limits this board quite a bit. I switched to onboard from a TNT2 m64 and I had to point a fan at the NB sink otherwise the display would corrupt.

EDIT 2:


Needed to bump voltage a bit for it to be (somewhat?) Orthos stable. 1.2750 set in BIOS. CPU-Z reports 1.200V drooping to 1.168V at load.

EDIT 3:

I dropped in my E6700 and can run 9x400 no sweat.. so I guess my NBCC is too high. If I enable spread spectrum CPU and PCI-E, I can post but get a scrambled display (using onboard video). Looks like I'll head to RadioShack for a CircuitWriter. I want to see 3 ghz on this!!