ASUS P5K Deluxe - Intel P35 Bearlake + E6600 B1 / Q6600 B3

[eva2000]

I'll be putting my system together this weekend. I was planning on giving Vista 64 a try, but I'd read that some of the testing apps out there don't work in Vista 64. Would it be recommended that I start out with a 32-bit OS for the hardware shakedown and then once I've got it stable where I want it, install the Vista 64? Or just not worry about the couple of apps that don't run in the Vista 64?

for oc'ing or starters use winxp pro sp2 .. vista might not be as ready as most folks want it for at least for overclocking

Eva2000 thanks sooo much for this thread, it has helped me oc my chip in record time.

You mentioned that you dont know what the reference settings are for but I noticed you've been playing around with CPU PLL. Did it make a difference with your overclocks? Has made none to mine so far.

made no diff 1.6v CPU PLL did help me push Q6600 max FSB from 470 to 485FSB with old 0307 bios but have yet to try 0311 bios max FSB for Q6600 i hear it helps a bit with 0311 in getting higher quad core FSB ?

have You any problems with 2gb sticks on p5kdlx? my friend bring me to test 4x2gb sticks ocz 6400 5-6-6-18 and even one in anyone slot no go :|. pc don't start. bios 0311. sticks on striker extreme works fine.

try loosening the sub timings to 10-42-11-11-11-11 and up NB to 1.55v and try

Hey I am having an issue with my Asus P5K Deluxe. I installed everything and it worked right at startup. I installed Vista Ultimate and a couple of other programs and played around for about 4 hours before I decided to flash the bios. I choose to use the asus updater that came on the provided disk and I choose the update from bios file on the pc option. Unfortunatly the program gave me an error stating that the epprom didn't complete flashing or something during the flashing process I was trying to install a firmware update to one of my optical drives and it gave me the blue screen of death. Now my computer will only power up for about 8 sec with all the indicator lights flashing before it shuts off again. I have tried clearing the cmos but that has had no effect that I could determine is there anything I can do?

ouch you have balls.. don't use asus windows update to update use afudos or bios ez flash 2 only.. for now probably only way is to rma your board

As to my testing on P5K Deluxe, I'm now testing 2x1GB OCZ PC2-9200 FlexXLC on P5K Deluxe with 0311 bios... so far very easy to handle tight sub timings on P5K Deluxe unlike on P5B Deluxe where this OCZ FlexXLC didn't like tight sub timings at all