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

[Speederlander]

mine idles at 46C on each core and load is at 60C on each core with the stock cooler, but I'm only running it at 3.2Ghz at 1.30 vcore.




it works just fine for me.

Since I installed new nVidia driver for 8800 several programs have become problematic. Sometimes Super Pi will run, sometimes it closes with an error message.

[burningrave101]

Did you ever find out what CPU voltage reference does Eva? I see that you have it set to x0.63. Also, at what point did you find the need to up the south bridge voltage to 1.20v?

[Leeghoofd]

so revert back still on 97.42 here,... my Quake 4 crashed all the time with the latest driver so I reverted back... weird that a graphical driver can cause these issues you are having...

[Severance]

Did some testing on my max fsb using an x6800 cpu. On stock NB volts 500fsb max. 1.5v to north bridge gave me 320fsb. 1.7V gave me 330fsb. Than i put an mcw20-k water block on it with 10c chilled cooled....1.7v gave me 340 max fsb. Guess it needs more volts to scale any higher.

[ziddey]

i take it you mean 520, 530, 540??

how about vfsb?

[GAR]

anyone have any luck on raising the pci-e frequency without the sata drives disapearing???

[Severance]

i take it you mean 520, 530, 540??

how about vfsb?

Yes sorry 500,520,530,540. vfsb set to 1.4v. Pic of my rig. Sorry but my cam sucks.

[safan80]

Since I installed new nVidia driver for 8800 several programs have become problematic. Sometimes Super Pi will run, sometimes it closes with an error message.

which driver did you use? I've used 158.42, 158.24, 160.03 all without problems with superpi, but winamp 5.34 and 5.35 crash like crazy though.

[GAR]

Was having all kinds of issues with this board, returned to my trusty old eVGA 680i, i love this board (680i) anyway i was getting BSOD's left and right, fresh install of windows, vista and XP both issues, prime95 would crash not even faile, even on stock settings, a buddy of mine working for intel's tech department told me to stay away from the P35, they said it is having so many issues, the chip is wrong in many ways, not in terms of OCing, anyway i didnt listen took a shot and it was a mistake so i returned the board, good luck to everyone else.

[dekruyter]

I'm sure you've had enough problems, but my research and experience on the p35, and p5k specifically, begs to differ. Sorry the system didn't work out for you. I'm now rocking away on Vista 64-bit OS too, and it's pretty nice w/ this board.

[xgman]

anyone have any luck on raising the pci-e frequency without the sata drives disapearing???

ok here with 4 sata drives at 108.

[GAR]

I'm sure you've had enough problems, but my research and experience on the p35, and p5k specifically, begs to differ. Sorry the system didn't work out for you. I'm now rocking away on Vista 64-bit OS too, and it's pretty nice w/ this board.

I dont know why had such bad luck with this board, i think its got to do something with my ram, not sure tho.

[Ace-a-Rue]

i love this board (680i) anyway i was getting BSOD's left and right, fresh install of windows, vista and XP both issues, prime95 would crash not even faile, even on stock settings, a buddy of mine working for intel's tech department told me to stay away from the P35, they said it is having so many issues, the chip is wrong in many ways, not in terms of OCing, anyway i didnt listen took a shot and it was a mistake so i returned the board, good luck to everyone else.

NOW..that is HARD to believe!

[Speederlander]

a buddy of mine working for intel's tech department told me to stay away from the P35, they said it is having so many issues, the chip is wrong in many ways, not in terms of OCing, anyway i didnt listen took a shot and it was a mistake so i returned the board, good luck to everyone else.

Intel's "tech department"?

[mrcape]

Was having all kinds of issues with this board, returned to my trusty old eVGA 680i, i love this board (680i) anyway i was getting BSOD's left and right, fresh install of windows, vista and XP both issues, prime95 would crash not even faile, even on stock settings, a buddy of mine working for intel's tech department told me to stay away from the P35, they said it is having so many issues, the chip is wrong in many ways, not in terms of OCing, anyway i didnt listen took a shot and it was a mistake so i returned the board, good luck to everyone else.

Bummer man, that's like the opposite of what I get though. My chip stays crazy cool since I don't need much volts to get pretty good oc. I have been pretty cowboy with the bios settings and this thing has rebounded from everything I threw at it. Never one BSOD yet either. Bad checksum error twice because I was too light on the vcore, but reset jumper for like 1 minute, reflash and it's golden.

In my experience so far this thing is the bomb and no squealing coils like the wack ass p965-s I sent back.

[eva2000]

Did you ever find out what CPU voltage reference does Eva? I see that you have it set to x0.63. Also, at what point did you find the need to up the south bridge voltage to 1.20v?

well it helped me boot into windows at borderline max FSB for quad core... if it was at AUTO on loading windows = blank screen heh

as to SB volts i haven't found the point just raise it whenever i do crazy mem clocks above 600mhz heh.

[eva2000]

Thanks to Asus P5K Deluxe, my Q6600 B3 ES is in the running for this 32M low clock challenge...







I can't wait to pluck in my X6800 B2, knowing that core 2 duo B2 stepping cpus are clock for clock faster than B3 quad core cpus in Super Pi

Pushing Gautam down the ranks was very close @3311Mhz only needed 0.423s faster time hehe

[XtremeTiramisu]

My first post for the P5K-Deluxe here
I just bought this mobo yesturday but still waiting for the Ballistix 8500 arrival tomorrow hopefully.

I've read through the 24 pages in this thread thoroughly and I've a few questions for EVA2000 and a couple others:


1. I noticed that you didn't set the DRAM Static Read Control to Dissable like in your previous reviews but to AUTO instead, any benefit of setting it to AUTO over dissable?



2. As another guy who has mentioned, we noticed that you DIDN'T set the Transaction Booster to Enable and +1 but instead just leave it at AUTO. Is it becouse when you set it to Enable and +1 at such speed, the system will not BOOT or becomes unstable? Could this be a corresponding setting when you set the Dram Static Read Control to AUTO?

3. Regarding Asus Update Utility - Despite a # of people who has failed flashing the BIOS successfully for previous ASUS mobo, ie. P5B-Dlx, P5N-E, etc. using the Asus Update Utility, I personally DID NOT have any failure flashing history with Asus Update Utility with ALL Asus mobo I had. Take P5B-Dlx for example, when I got the board it was 0306 BIOS, an early bios, I used the NEWEST version of Asus Update Utility on my VISTA ULTIMATE 32BIT to flash the bios ONE BY ONE from 0306 to 1102 so that's a total # of 9 success BIOS flash. Of course I had to do the CMOS clear procedure everytime and make sure absolutely NO ANY OTHER PROGRAMS running in the background. So now I'd like to confirm if flashing the BIOS using Asus Update Utility on the P5K-Dlx is ok. About 10 pages back, a couple P5K-Dlx owners reported that they had no prob using Asus Update Utility. If you've personally tried the utility with success, please report back to me.

Lastly, Thanks EVA2000 for another AWSOME work on the FSB Strap topic. I thought the new P5K-D already resolved this issue as it's quite a major complain in the P965 generation. Apparently you get lower memory bandwidth at over 500fsb...I wonder how high you'd have to reach over 500fsb to be able to acheive the same or more MB than at 499.??!

[eva2000]

Static read auto = better bandwidth when transaction booster auto as well

I only used bios ez flash 2 on this board no probs from 0123 to 0304 beta to 0307 beta to 0311 official

I love this P5K Deluxe http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=147599

[fritzman]

well it helped me boot into windows at borderline max FSB for quad core... if it was at AUTO on loading windows = blank screen heh

as to SB volts i haven't found the point just raise it whenever i do crazy mem clocks above 600mhz heh.

Wicked thread... all credit to you guys, esp eva ... can't wait to get my P5K-D!

eva... I just started having this blank screen problem when booting into windows also, but on my P5B-D. What did you increase to fix it? I think I was running something like 470ishx7 at the time (just having a play) and couldn't work out what to do to fix it, so ended up backing off.

Great to see some guys running these Q6600's on air with good success... that's my goal.

[Speederlander]

Asus probe mobo temps must be whacked. I turned on orthos blend and left for an hour. When I came back the alarm was going off and mobo temp read 191 C !!!! I did a restart and was in BIOS in less than 20 seconds. BIOS read 35 C. I was back in Windows in about 45 sconds and it now read 35 C. Something is whacked with that reading. Or was it actually 191 C ? I highly doubt it. I have a 110 CFM fan pointed right at the board.

[eva2000]

Wicked thread... all credit to you guys, esp eva ... can't wait to get my P5K-D!

eva... I just started having this blank screen problem when booting into windows also, but on my P5B-D. What did you increase to fix it? I think I was running something like 470ishx7 at the time (just having a play) and couldn't work out what to do to fix it, so ended up backing off.

Great to see some guys running these Q6600's on air with good success... that's my goal.

Well my Q6600 is on water cooling not air

With P5B Deluxe and Q6600 too high fsb results in reboots when i run quad systool 16M pi instead of blank screens... P5B couldn't get my Q6600 past 425FSB.

Asus probe mobo temps must be whacked. I turned on orthos blend and left for an hour. When I came back the alarm was going off and mobo temp read 191 C !!!! I did a restart and was in BIOS in less than 20 seconds. BIOS read 35 C. I was back in Windows in about 45 sconds and it now read 35 C. Something is whacked with that reading. Or was it actually 191 C ? I highly doubt it. I have a 110 CFM fan pointed right at the board.

what cpu ? what bios and version of asus pc probe2 ??

[XtremeTiramisu]

what cpu ? what bios and version of asus pc probe2 ??

Perhaps, I should add, what OS are you running??
It's very well software version / P5K-Dlx related or software version / OS related.

Take Intel TAT for example, I had the same version of that running on all other mobos except DFI Infinity P965-S becouse Intel TAT doesn't have an update or at least a working version to address to that mobo.

For anyone who has Asus Probe installed: Do you get the Asus At Service bug at startup and running in the background??
I personally had experienced this along with many others with Asus mobos, and it's directly related to Asus Probe if you had it installed. It doesn't matter if close the program or dissable it, the aacentre/ACPI service is still running. I finally gave up and uninstall it for good. However, I also need it to read temp, esp on the NB. For rest other readings, I can use a combination of Coretemp0.95/Speedfan newest version/perhaps the Asus AI suite as well for mem vol reading.

[vincey2kr1]

Could asus probe throttle your cpu ? Having throttling problems and want to know every available option to make sure its turned off in BIos and windows any help? Heres whats been happening, been running quadprime stable for 2hours at 3.65ghz 1.55v at around 80C (hot i know) then jumping into 3dmark and having terrible 20fps. If i do quadprime stock and jump into 3dmark 64fps, soo obviously i'm being throttled but cpuz shows the correct speed.. Could my 8800gts be doing the throttling, it has mild overclock from the factory (Foxconn).?

[orion23]

Yes sorry 500,520,530,540. vfsb set to 1.4v. Pic of my rig. Sorry but my cam sucks.

That is the reason why I don't buy used mobo's on ebay or anywhere else!

Damn "labs" you people run sometimes