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

[ashmelev75]

Crucial doesn't show it as one of there 40 compatible memory upgrades for either of these ASUS P5K motherboards:
ASUS P5K Deluxe/WiFi-AP Motherboard
http://www.crucial.com/store/listpar...e%2FWiFi%2DAP#
If there 2GB DDR2-1067 kit does then why wouldn't there 2GB DDR2-800 kit work?

I've noticed that about a month ago they've stopped recommending PC2-6400 modules by default. You need to select this speed manually.

Open that URL, then in the left-hand side column called "Refine my choices"
select [v] SpeedDR2 PC2-6400/DDRII-800

Viola! BL2KIT12864AA804 DDR2 PC2-6400 • 4-4-4-12 • UNBUFFERED • NON-ECC • DDR2-800 • 2.2V • SLI-Ready • 128Meg x 64
Is there and available.

[unit365]

@@ nelly , mat8861

Well, i can tell you ram is still working
So, i have only 2 sticks, and set to 2.25 in bios and memory setting to auto
now i will try 0311 bios
And pb with X6800 don't do more than 3800 approximatly stable and don't like high fsb too
maybe will be better with 6850.....

[The Runner]

how does this board work with ballistix, 6400 and 8500 variants? 2x1gb of it.

Also what are this boards main advantages over the 965 dark etc.? From what I've read it seems to be better for clocking quad cores and penryn support?

[BailA]

Hi,which slot advised for the Creative X-fi?

[dinos22]

0311.................added Command Rate 1T/2T

[dekruyter]

How does one know if a certain ram can handle 1T; does it have to be in the published specifications?

[erwinz]

0311.................added Command Rate 1T/2T

wow

hey anybody tested this yet... tsk tsk P35 is getting to be a good chipset..

[dinos22]

How does one know if a certain ram can handle 1T; does it have to be in the published specifications?

not until you test it but any D9Gxx with 2.2/2.3 should be able to do at least 400MHz 4-4-4-x on 680i

it will be interesting to see how far my Dominators can clock with 1T if P5K vanilla has the option



almost done with cubecase mod so benching will resume soon





BIOS 0414 is up on Asus site for P5K
i wonder if 1T is added to this bios

[erwinz]

not until you test it but any D9Gxx with 2.2/2.3 should be able to do at least 400MHz 4-4-4-x on 680i

it will be interesting to see how far my Dominators can clock with 1T if P5K vanilla has the option



almost done with cubecase mod so benching will resume soon





BIOS 0414 is up on Asus site for P5K
i wonder if 1T is added to this bios

waiting for your test results..

hey post some pics of your cubecase..

[dinos22]

waiting for your test results..

hey post some pics of your cubecase..

basically one of these cases

Yeong Yang YY-0221

http://www.modthebox.com/review241_1.shtml
http://www.virtual-hideout.net/revie...se/index.shtml


with dual 120mm cut out for the rad at the back
i'll have to make a hole up the top for the tubing as there's not enough room

but i've already done the paintjob with silver hammered finish (front as well) but dull lol

just have to work out how to place watercooling in there and stick my 4xHDDs and DVDRW LOL

i don't have decent tools and this case is made out of thick metal.....would be nice if i could conver side panels to some sort of mash for better ambients but that'll have to wait another time i think



hmmm i like the sound dampening stuff they've installed here

http://www.burnoutpc.com/modules/sma...php?itemid=189

[OneyedK]

BIOS 0414 is up on Asus site for P5K
i wonder if 1T is added to this bios

Nope, no 1T

[dinos22]

Nope, no 1T

damn

[paulzig]

Tried the new 0311 BIOS on my P5K deluxe... 1T doesn't wanna play with my G.Skill 8500CL5D-GBHK.... might try to relax subtimings some more, but I'm on
5-5-5-15 2.4vdimm...400mhz

[OneyedK]

Tried the new 0311 BIOS on my P5K deluxe... 1T doesn't wanna play with my G.Skill 8500CL5D-GBHK.... might try to relax subtimings some more, but I'm on
5-5-5-15 2.4vdimm...400mhz

In this fine topic you find the poor people with P5K Vanilla boards

There is an excellent topic for P5K Deluxe:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=144199
You might find a quicker answer to your questions and finding there...

@dinos22: maybe a little change in the title of this thread could stop the confusion

[paulzig]

Maybe I was just showing some pity for the poor folks with the vanilla boards

[Scouty]

congrats dinos22 , seems to be a amazing board !!!

one question, what can u tell about South bridge temps ? ( seems to be an small heatsink)

ps: I ask because my p5ld2-se get alot of heat on south bridge ( old i945P hehe).

thanks in advice , i am planning to buy this board in the following month

[junioor]

all of the p5k's can get about 500fsb?

sry for bad english

[Mastericy]

So... from my point of view this motherboard is highly overclockable and modable which makes it an amazing board. However, I just happen to have D9GMH Team PC5300 and I saw a mention of the same RAM (or similar ) earlier in the thread so how is that working out... or do I need to order new RAM aswell?

[dinos22]

congrats dinos22 , seems to be a amazing board !!!

one question, what can u tell about South bridge temps ? ( seems to be an small heatsink)

ps: I ask because my p5ld2-se get alot of heat on south bridge ( old i945P hehe).

thanks in advice , i am planning to buy this board in the following month

hi mate the temps seem about the same as P5B Deluxe to me

all of the p5k's can get about 500fsb?

sry for bad english

that depends on the CPU

IF your CPU can do 500Mhz + than this board should be able to drive it without problems

[v a d e R`]

Dinos, I'm really noob to overclocking. My last board that could OC was an ECS w/a PD 930 and BT. There are many more features in this P5K Vanilla than in my ECS which had VDimm, VCore, FSB, mem timings, Mem speed. I never even messed around with mem speed....


Can someone please give me some good advice that'll let me get a great OC with the specs in my sig? Maybe there is a guide somewhere? Thank you very much!

[dinos22]

Dinos, I'm really noob to overclocking. My last board that could OC was an ECS w/a PD 930 and BT. There are many more features in this P5K Vanilla than in my ECS which had VDimm, VCore, FSB, mem timings, Mem speed. I never even messed around with mem speed....


Can someone please give me some good advice that'll let me get a great OC with the specs in my sig? Maybe there is a guide somewhere? Thank you very much!

eva2000 has the most detailed threads on motherboards......he has tested the deluxe version which is very similar to P5K bios wise anyways

i would start there with his thread and copy his work.....

the basic idea behind OCing it to quickly find out the limits of your components and to decide which ones you want to have overclocked and by how much


so the components i am talking about are

CPU
Motherboard
GFX card
Memory

you need to test them each one by one and keep the other settings at stock so that there is no confusion or other components affecting your OCs

NOW you should probably start with RAM first with stock vdimm and timings and push the frequency with high RAM divider....hence when you boot to bios at stock you would select the 266MHz RAM divider which would run the RAM at same speed of the FSB (if your RAM is capable of such speeds that is). I would drop the CPU multiplier to 6x and set the CPU vcore to 1.35v.

Make sure you set the RAM timings too.......here is a screenshot with RAM timings (i would start with first 4xvalues as 5-5-5-15 and rest should be OK)

this screenshot also reviews the other important set of values relating to voltage of components and other things. As you can see there i tend to keep most of them Auto at first and set the vcore, vdimm and vMCH (northbridge)

I would disable Transaction Booster though just in case it puts too much pressure on the MCH or RAM



Once you start clocking the RAM past say 400MHz FSB you should probably go back to stock settings (266MHz FSB and choose a higher RAM divider). Ram divider is an option in bios called DRAM Frequency as per my bios screenshots on the first page. and select value higher than 266MHz

at some point the RAM will start playing up (Memtest Test#5 will start to error) and at that points it would be a good idea to start to increase Vdimm (RAM voltage) from stock to 1.9 and then more and more....don't push it past 2.3v as it seems your are looking for a 24/7 system now. Some RAM doesn't like voltage so your max could be 2.1v as well...


this is clearly too basic an explanation but it gives you an idea

after you figure out RAM.......start with CPU.........leave the RAM 1:1 ratio and start with 1.35v set in bios boot at 300MHz FSB to get to the looser strap (don't ask )

and download software called SetFSB, start with orthos priming (SmallFFTs) and druing orthos runs overclock the CPU in 5GHz FSB increments every 5 minutes or so until Orthos fails...........that will be a quick and dirty way to reach CPU max at stock volts.........obviously the overclock increases as you bump the vcore as long as there is sufficient cooling

(MAKE SURE YOU RUN YOUR RAM SETTINGS AT STABLE VOLTAGE AND FREQUENCIES)

you would have gained a fair bit knowledge on the board by now so start the board next for FSB test and drop CPU multi to 6x. You should know that NB voltage will have some influence on FSB once you start reaching the top clocks

[v a d e R`]

eva2000 has the most detailed threads on motherboards......he has tested the deluxe version which is very similar to P5K bios wise anyways

i would start there with his thread and copy his work.....

the basic idea behind OCing it to quickly find out the limits of your components and to decide which ones you want to have overclocked and by how much


so the components i am talking about are

CPU
Motherboard
GFX card
Memory

you need to test them each one by one and keep the other settings at stock so that there is no confusion or other components affecting your OCs

NOW you should probably start with RAM first with stock vdimm and timings and push the frequency with high RAM divider....hence when you boot to bios at stock you would select the 266MHz RAM divider which would run the RAM at same speed of the FSB (if your RAM is capable of such speeds that is). I would drop the CPU multiplier to 6x and set the CPU vcore to 1.35v.

Make sure you set the RAM timings too.......here is a screenshot with RAM timings (i would start with first 4xvalues as 5-5-5-15 and rest should be OK)

this screenshot also reviews the other important set of values relating to voltage of components and other things. As you can see there i tend to keep most of them Auto at first and set the vcore, vdimm and vMCH (northbridge)

I would disable Transaction Booster though just in case it puts too much pressure on the MCH or RAM



Once you start clocking the RAM past say 400MHz FSB you should probably go back to stock settings (266MHz FSB and choose a higher RAM divider). Ram divider is an option in bios called DRAM Frequency as per my bios screenshots on the first page. and select value higher than 266MHz

at some point the RAM will start playing up (Memtest Test#5 will start to error) and at that points it would be a good idea to start to increase Vdimm (RAM voltage) from stock to 1.9 and then more and more....don't push it past 2.3v as it seems your are looking for a 24/7 system now. Some RAM doesn't like voltage so your max could be 2.1v as well...


this is clearly too basic an explanation but it gives you an idea

after you figure out RAM.......start with CPU.........leave the RAM 1:1 ratio and start with 1.35v set in bios boot at 300MHz FSB to get to the looser strap (don't ask )

and download software called SetFSB, start with orthos priming (SmallFFTs) and druing orthos runs overclock the CPU in 5GHz FSB increments every 5 minutes or so until Orthos fails...........that will be a quick and dirty way to reach CPU max at stock volts.........obviously the overclock increases as you bump the vcore as long as there is sufficient cooling

(MAKE SURE YOU RUN YOUR RAM SETTINGS AT STABLE VOLTAGE AND FREQUENCIES)

you would have gained a fair bit knowledge on the board by now so start the board next for FSB test and drop CPU multi to 6x. You should know that NB voltage will have some influence on FSB once you start reaching the top clocks

THank you for all that! I have another question...what's a divider?


xD

[dinos22]

THank you for all that! I have another question...what's a divider?


xD

DRAM Frequency option in the screenshot above


what does it do >>> simple
it makes your RAM run at the same frequency as FSB or higher. IF you have great clocking RAM and want to max it out you just bump the divider so that you can reach higher clocks on the RAM without increasing the FSB too high

hence my 24/7 settings are

E6700 @1.31v
360*10=3600MHz
RAM is running at 540MHz 4-4-4-x 2.25v with 2:3 ratio/divider/RAM frequency

[v a d e R`]

DRAM Frequency option in the screenshot above


what does it do >>> simple
it makes your RAM run at the same frequency as FSB or higher. IF you have great clocking RAM and want to max it out you just bump the divider so that you can reach higher clocks on the RAM without increasing the FSB too high

hence my 24/7 settings are

E6700 @1.31v
360*10=3600MHz
RAM is running at 540MHz 4-4-4-x 2.25v with 2:3 ratio/divider/RAM frequency

SO for crappy ram, it's be best to run @ 1:1 right?

[dinos22]

SO for crappy ram, it's be best to run @ 1:1 right?

correct