ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[mashakos]

thanks for all the replies, I appreciate it.

Fair point - I am having a bad day!

feeling is mutual hehe. More like bad week!

Thanks for the tip on memory timings! Although I tried 340 1:1 at 3-3-3-9 and 340fsb 3:4 at 5-5-5-15 and the 3:4 setting had overall faster load times from start up to running some apps.
Something caught my eye in your article:

The ASUS P5W DH Deluxe mainboard has certain peculiarities as concerns support for memory at overclocking. That is, many memory frequency divisors do not work when the FSB is overclocked. Until recently we could use that mainboard at a 400MHz FSB only to test memory at either 600MHz or 800MHz (FSBRAM divisors of 4:3 and 1:1, respectively).

I was having problems getting the right ratio before my cpu burnt. I could only run the pc successfully at 1:1 or 3:4. Are there specific ratios that are best for the p5w dh?

would an e6700 go up to 3.8-3.9 with water cooling? If it can without hassles on this board I'll go for it - already wasted a lot of money anyway.

Where's the batch number? is it the 2 digits after the "L6"?

The HR-05 will fit fine on the SB, but will obstruct 1 of the usb ports if you don't have the SLi version of the HR-05.

you mean sata port? yes, it needs to be slightly rotated to allow for accessing that port.

I couldn't get the HR-05 to fit on the NB - the retaining mechanism isn't suitable. Also note that the HR-09 will not cover all the mosfets (although I don't see this as a big problem).

I set it up with the retainer from the stock cooler and it's seated ok, although moving the case around would not be a good idea... it can easily be "pushed out" with a slight nudge.

You really don't need much cooling for the SB, if any at all. I have a thermaltake extreme spirit II running fanless and it's barely warm to touch. I'm sure it's fine to run the ICH7R with no heatsink at all.

not for me, I'll explain why:

Whats your setup - could be your case that is causing the NB temperatures to creep although I run about 33-34 with MCH=1.65v and thats with a 40mm fan on the NB after applying AS5.

It's two things:
the case is a small desktop HTPC Silverstone.
It has an 8800GTX in it.
I did add a 120mm connected to the top of the case, but it blows only on the NB and CPU water block(which is water cooling anyway). So the back of the card is getting some air but the part where the heatsink and fan are has little airflow. I have an old pic before I put the 8800gtx in. The 8800gtx goes the whole length of the case, from the pci slots to the radiator:


So whenever the 8800gtx starts to heat up, it radiates it all on the SB. 54C and 65C are too much for a little SB I guess :p