Asus P5K Bearlake P35 chipset motherboard >> TESTING LATEST INTEL CHIPSET

[Solarfall]

when you get the time, could you play around with your memory a bit more...wanna know is this board as good for the memory as i've been hearing.. please sir


btw have to say that PCB is one ugly joe. personally i whould have wanted something sexier.. black PCB would have been so much nicer..... why asus why!!!!!

[SharkerSk]

when you get the time, could you play around with your memory a bit more...wanna know is this board as good for the memory as i've been hearing.. please sir


btw have to say that PCB is one ugly joe. personally i whould have wanted something sexier.. black PCB would have been so much nicer..... why asus why!!!!!

Ehm .....

[Solarfall]

SharkerSk isn't that the deluxe model... this is the regular asus p5k..

[BulldogPO]

Waiting for those P5K Deluxe tests.

[SeLecT]

BulldogPO:

here some tests of the P5K Dlx

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=142819

[HexiumVII]

Damn the board looks friggin sweat. I was about to get a P5N32-E SLI PLUS, but then decided to wait for DFI 680i or MSI P6N Diamond. But now i might put this on the top of the list. I really want eSATA, but the lack of PS2 mouse is killing me

[vailr]

I really want eSATA, but the lack of PS2 mouse is killing me

There exist PS2 "Y" splitter cords which SHOULD be able to allow using both PS2 mouse and keyboard. However, a USB mouse works better, from my experience.

[OBR]

There exist PS2 "Y" splitter cords which SHOULD be able to allow using both PS2 mouse and keyboard. However, a USB mouse works better, from my experience.

This Y splitter is not working ... properly ...

here is scheme of bearlake chipset ...

Still CrossFire at x16+ x4 ...

[xs64]

not on this board unfortunately.....nothing helps the enormous vdroop

hmm , so that option just help Vdroop in P5K Deluxe.

[XS Janus]

On the deluxe model the Ram slots are a bit closer to the Gfx card "virtual" line than they used to be on P5B D...
It looks to me that we are gonna have some trouble with clearance between gfx with long pcb's and clasps on the ram slots when opened...

[dinos22]

Did some

RAM TESTING


i've discovered that FSB <292MHz only gives basic RAM ratios that you get on P965 and FSB 292MHz> gives you the full RAM Ratio range

I haven't really tested for speed against P965 yet as i don't have memset to see what all timings are doing and i also need to know all the voltage measurement points >>>> but from initial tests it looks like it's on par with P965

no major tweaks 'cept for LargeSys and no RAM tweaking yet but for CAS 3 vs 4 vs 5 i did have all the timings set in bios




4:5 RATIO WORKS PROPERLY NOW >> haven't tested for max clocks yet (time is a bit whacky because i used a much slower hard drive here....so don't compare to other results below)




TESTING CAS3 vs CAS4 vs CAS5















PC10000 Dominators at CAS4 (4-4-4-x ~2.45v)

it seems it's about the same as P965 as i have one board topping out at 590MHz 4-4-4-x and another 600MHz 4-4-4-x >>> This P35 chipset mobo can do ~597MHz roughly but would not complete 8M 600MHz so i moved on (some more RAM tweaking may change that)

[yobi]

WoW nice

[jabski]

yeah thanks for the results dinos

[erwinz]

very extensive dinos.. tnxs..

[Pillo-kun]

Dino, did ya say that the voltage damper did or did not lowered the v-core drops?

[dinos22]

Dino, did ya say that the voltage damper did or did not lowered the v-core drops?

voltage damper does not affect anything

i've tried ON, OFF, AUTO, even played with all the reference values and still the same drop...............

[Vito]

I presume this board isn't 8phase?

[lowfat]

voltage damper does not affect anything

i've tried ON, OFF, AUTO, even played with all the reference values and still the same drop...............

That was one my my upper reasons for waiting for the board.

[dinos22]

I presume this board isn't 8phase?

i think it's 3-phase which means it will run cooler but may struggle with 65nm quads a bit >>>> 45nm should be easier on the system which this board supports

[dinos22]

That was one my my upper reasons for waiting for the board.

nothing a volt mod cannot fix

[Solarfall]

excellent.. thanks for the ram tests.
i still would have wanted that you would have tested your ram with other programs too such as sandra ... but take your time, i'm in no hurry. i do understand that doing these kinds of overviews/tests takes time

[[XC] 4X4N]

Nice dinos! :thumbsup:

Just posting something as a comparison to 965. The p35 looks a little slower. No tweaks were done when I ran this.

[dinos22]

it could be that the subtimings on P35 are looser but yeah very similar anyways

[EDIT]-actually those subtimings in memset are pretty tight hence why the difference

[dinos22]

excellent.. thanks for the ram tests.
i still would have wanted that you would have tested your ram with other programs too such as sandra ... but take your time, i'm in no hurry. i do understand that doing these kinds of overviews/tests takes time

i hate sisoft passionately you will not see me post a screenshot of that program that's for sure : hahha

yeah there is a lot to test which i will let other people do

my primary interest and concern on systems is motherboard and RAM tweaking and SuperPi testing..........this is just massive self indulgence for me and it's nice that there are others that i can share it with


just got a new biatch to test

[ziddey]

hmm guess the e6700's aren't selling too well eh