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

[eva2000]

great results eva2000.

gives me hope that i can get more out of my OCZ Platinum chips which have turned out to be pretty disappointing. cant run DDR2-1000 4-4-4-15 with 2.35v or 5-5-5-15 at 1200mHz at same vDIMM. think its safe to run 2.4v w/o active cooling on the chips?

time to try the yellow slots

i wouldn't even try 2.1v vdimm without active cooling

Been playing with my P5K Deluxe + E6400 for a bit now. Currently has 0311 bios. For some reason, my system sorta hangs for no reason at random intervals. It's not a stability issue, it's something else, like the BIOS is just stopping for no reason or something. I'll be running Orthos for awhile, and the OS just sorta stops responding. Orthos continues to still run, passing tests, but AI Suite/Core temp just stops updating, Orthos timer stops, the "GO" flashing stops, Tests continue to pass, can't even push the Start menu, Mouse still moves, but everything sorta just hangs there. I can't even turn the system off using the power switch, I have to turn it off using the switch on the PSU. After letting it cool off a bit, I go back into the BIOS, and the clock is behind, as it seems the time stopped after the "hang" occurs.

Anyone experience anything similar? Really need to figure out what's causing this. This is happening on stock settings even, it's really strange. Got a 40gb IDE hooked up, a sata optical drive on the black slot, both controllers running IDE mode. PSU is Corsair HX520.

what keyboard/mouse you using PS/2 and adaptors for PS/2 to USB ?

Hi eva, or anyone else here. I am getting finally tomorrow my P5K deluxe.And I am pretty new to Intel ( currently got a AMD s939, didnt tweak anything for like 2 years:X) So I want to prepare myself for it. I see that u run memtest 86+ for testing ram first. I remember that it is not neccasary to run all tests but just some of those ( 8 test if I can remember ), so which of them u often run and how many loops( or hours) will give u a good indication of stability of RAM, and what are actually SPD timings and what values should i set them, got btw a Mushkin XP2 Pc8500 5-5-4-12 @2,1-2,35V rated (D9MGH). And I know the Vdamper works pretty well on this board, so none vdroops ( or lil bit), but how are the vcore in real time , compared with what u set in BIOS?, did any one measured it with a Multi-meter? Any help appreciated

memtest86+ v1.70 usage guide applies to DDR1/DDR2 still in most cases http://i4memory.com/showthread.php?t=6

haven't measured with DMM as my board is in corner of the room which is hard to position myself to do something as delicate as shoving a DMM probe around the board LOL

As to what subtimings you should set there's no hard or fast rule, test in memtest and then windows whatever works stably for your memory. Loose sub timings to start with would be 10-42-10-10-11 and tighten and test from there

ASUS should be releasing 0403 for the P5K-D shortly, it has improved 1T operation and FSB straps. Overclocking is looking a little better in the mid-range now with tighter memory timings.

oooooh sounds good... 1T is something i haven't looked into much after hitting a wall around 350mhz 1T with 0311 heh