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.??!