The best Conroe Work Station Motherboard ASUS P5W64 WS Pro

**RacerX** · 10-24-2006, 02:56 PM

Just received a 69MOAG145569-GOUAY for Newegg today. Just hooked up my waterblock, mouse, keyboard, rest of the board stock to just see how high I could get this board to post. My results aren't what I expected even putting a fan over both north and southbridge I could only post at 430. Tried both my Patroit PC2 8000+XBL and TeamX 667 with a e6400 which I know will all will do over 450mhz easy.

Very tempted just to ship it back to Newegg as I doubt atleast this particular board is not worth keeping over my MSI 975X Plat.PE, especially at $300.

Ah, I have a new WD Raptor coming tomorrow so I will do a fresh install and see what I can actually do within windows. My primary findings are not positive.

**aamsel** · 10-24-2006, 03:41 PM

What would you tell newegg, since the board works "fine"??

FWIW:
I have had two 69MOAG's so far, one from Newegg, one from eWiz.
The Newegg one would do about 430 maximum, like yours.
The eWiz one will do 450, + or -.

The markings were identical on the box. The Northbridge versions were both newer (I did Arctic Silver so I saw them) but the eEwiz one had
3618A884 on it, the Newegg one (lower fsb) had a 3628Axxx.

Andrew

Originally Posted by RacerX

Just received a 69MOAG145569-GOUAY for Newegg today. Just hooked up my waterblock, mouse, keyboard, rest of the board stock to just see how high I could get this board to post. My results aren't what I expected even putting a fan over both north and southbridge I could only post at 430. Tried both my Patroit PC2 8000+XBL and TeamX 667 with a e6400 which I know will all will do over 450mhz easy.

Very tempted just to ship it back to Newegg as I doubt atleast this particular board is not worth keeping over my MSI 975X Plat.PE, especially at $300.

Ah, I have a new WD Raptor coming tomorrow so I will do a fresh install and see what I can actually do within windows. My primary findings are not positive.

**rob725** · 10-24-2006, 04:54 PM

For those with 7950:

I just got my wspro up and going and noticed that cpuz reported only 8x for pcie. Is this normal due to each gpu getting 8x, or does it show 16x for you? I don't really see a dropoff in benchmarks or gaming, but was just wondering if I was missing something.

running bios 301, e6600es 423x9=3.8ghz 1:1

**camouflage** · 10-24-2006, 10:08 PM

Originally Posted by Ibinco

New bios out! 0302

Hope for the reboot fix and more juice!

http://taskforce.no-ip.info/pics/ASU...P5W64_0302.rar

Flashed - working fine but still reboots after BIOS access...., wouldn't call it a bug cause got used to it by the time...........

**Ibinco** · 10-24-2006, 11:42 PM

Originally Posted by rob725

For those with 7950:

I just got my wspro up and going and noticed that cpuz reported only 8x for pcie. Is this normal due to each gpu getting 8x, or does it show 16x for you? I don't really see a dropoff in benchmarks or gaming, but was just wondering if I was missing something.

running bios 301, e6600es 423x9=3.8ghz 1:1

Ive got a 7950GX2 aswell, its no big deal. All results seem right @ x8

**rob725** · 10-25-2006, 06:43 AM

I think it's running at 16x (8+8) and that it's just cpuz, but I just wanted to be sure everyone else was seeing the same thing.

Thanks

**Dani** · 10-26-2006, 05:01 PM

Any news with BIOS 0302?

**Ibinco** · 10-26-2006, 10:34 PM

Originally Posted by Dani

Any news with BIOS 0302?

I ve been running 0302 ofr the past 24 hours. No major changes...strap/reboot is still there and i didnt gain any OC performance.

**camouflage** · 10-26-2006, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by Ibinco

I ve been running 0302 ofr the past 24 hours. No major changes...strap/reboot is still there and i didnt gain any OC performance.

Here the same............

**Dani** · 10-27-2006, 02:41 AM

Ok, thanks guys

**oldmaxx** · 10-30-2006, 07:12 AM

in case of the gx2 on this board what does it shoes in the driver info panel????

where it says de forceware version, above it says de speed link of the pci-e... it should show 16x

**Pjoeloe** · 10-30-2006, 11:53 AM

new review of the p5w-64 ws prof board :

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mai...-p5w64-ws.html

**NapalmV5** · 10-30-2006, 12:50 PM

my p5w64 is dying

for the last few days the system has been unstable, last night when i checked the NB it was burning hot, by laser @ 90°C

v.=1.8
no mods

the only mod i did was i penciled the ovp, could this be the cause of the NB overheating?

**SlackerXL** · 10-30-2006, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by NapalmV5

my p5w64 is dying

for the last few days the system has been unstable, last night when i checked the NB it was burning hot, by laser @ 90°C

v.=1.8
no mods

the only mod i did was i penciled the ovp, could this be the cause of the NB overheating?

any fans on that heatsink?
90°C during orthos or @idle?
for how long have you been running 1.8 Vmch?

**Torphoto** · 10-30-2006, 02:57 PM

Originally Posted by NapalmV5

my p5w64 is dying

for the last few days the system has been unstable, last night when i checked the NB it was burning hot, by laser @ 90°C

v.=1.8
no mods

the only mod i did was i penciled the ovp, could this be the cause of the NB overheating?

If you missed or penciled too much that could do it!

was it overheating before the pencil mod?

**NapalmV5** · 10-30-2006, 06:05 PM

SlackerXL: no fan, 90°C @ light load like running powerdvd or win media player. @ 1.8 vmch temps were in the 50s & 60s C before..

Torphoto: i penciled when 0301 bios was on, then i updated to 0302 and this bios increased vcore a little and i guess that was to much pencil for this bios.. no overheating before the pencil

i cleaned off the pencil but it still wasnt stable, its like it got worse.. so, i took everything apart, put it all back, now NB temps are back to normal, 'seems' to be stable just like before.

i knew i shouldnt trust my pencil

thanx guys!

**Torphoto** · 10-30-2006, 07:57 PM

Also try thre bios 303, I noticed with 302 without mods my system was acting funny

**RacerX** · 10-31-2006, 04:10 AM

Seems my board died yesterday. Running 413x9 with 1.6MCH no mods. Went to restart go into bios and nothing happens. Board seems to get power but won't even respond to the restart button. Left battery out and cleared cmos overnite with no positive results. All my hardware works perfect on my MSI. So I guess its going back to Newegg after all.

**Dani** · 10-31-2006, 06:29 AM

It's just "hard lock"..
Pull all PSU plugs out from mobos connectors, put clear cmos jumper on CLEAR, pull battery out, go eat for 30min.
Put every thing back, press play on tape and pray

**RacerX** · 10-31-2006, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by Dani

It's just "hard lock"..
Pull all PSU plugs out from mobos connectors, put clear cmos jumper on CLEAR, pull battery out, go eat for 30min.
Put every thing back, press play on tape and pray

Well I let the board sit for 3hrs in clear cmos position, no battery with everything unplugged and still no post. Back to Newegg it goes.

**vudoodoodoo** · 10-31-2006, 02:04 PM

I left my computer on and came home today to find a blank screen. Tried to reboot and no POST. Hmm..

**Ace-a-Rue** · 10-31-2006, 06:04 PM

turn off the PSU with the kill switch...leave it off for about 15-30 seconds...turn it on and now try to post by the push power switch...it should post.

**camouflage** · 11-01-2006, 12:02 AM

Originally Posted by vudoodoodoo

I left my computer on and came home today to find a blank screen. Tried to reboot and no POST. Hmm..

Maybe influenza...........

**vudoodoodoo** · 11-01-2006, 03:26 AM

Bad memory stick I think. It would only post w/ one of the sticks on default BIOS settings. I gotta change to my OC settings and reboot. Then I turn it off and put in the other stick and it boots fine.

**Getttosmurf** · 11-02-2006, 04:08 PM

Got my p5w 64 ws pro today but no post at first try = (
tried removing all unecesary parts but no go , bios upgrade perhaps ? to low memvoltage ? 7900GTO doa ?
eatx + 8pin power connected to mobo 6pin to gfx

e6600
team xtreem pc6400 cl4 2x1GB
msi 7900GTO
sesonic s12 600w

checked all cables and all i can think of = (

green led lights up on mobo , fans spin up , hdd's seem to start.
No error beeps but i guess it might be the speaker not working , althow it did with my last setup.

tired now so gonna sleep and try again in the morning = ) Any ideas ?

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