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

[Bitgod]

Interesting info on that temp. sensor placement. Well at least I know now that as long as the mobo temp is under 60, I'm not going to worry about it. And hopefully these lower temps with the new bios are accurate.

[Machinus]

Preliminary conclusions May 13th, 2007:
Asus P5K Deluxe is meant to be replacing the 965P chipset motherboards such as Asus P5B Deluxe/P5B-E etc with the flagship 975X chipset being replaced by Intel X38 chipset due out later.

I have a quick question for you eva2000 -

Given the stellar performance of this motherboard on P35, do you think it's possible that an X38 motherboard could offer better performance with the same components (DDR2, C2D)?

Disregarding SLI and price, is there any reason to hold out for the X38? This board has amazing reviews all over and I am wondering if the PCIE2.0, upgraded memory controller, etc., are really going to be better than Asus's work on this piece of hardware.

[ziddey]

I'm waiting to see what x38 brings to the table. I'm not interested in sli/xfire either. But, if x38 can deliver 9000+ mbps and <50ns at 500 1:1, I'm all over it

[eva2000]

Has anyone been able to test this board with a 6850?

I heard the new steppings are going to improve the OC even more.

new steppings some are good and some are duds so don't be fooled by the early hype yet.. no E6850 but got something close.. it's little brother



new thread for those cpu adventures with P5K Deluxe

Interesting info on that temp. sensor placement. Well at least I know now that as long as the mobo temp is under 60, I'm not going to worry about it. And hopefully these lower temps with the new bios are accurate.

fan over that area dropped my board temps by 2-5C

I have a quick question for you eva2000 -

Given the stellar performance of this motherboard on P35, do you think it's possible that an X38 motherboard could offer better performance with the same components (DDR2, C2D)?

Disregarding SLI and price, is there any reason to hold out for the X38? This board has amazing reviews all over and I am wondering if the PCIE2.0, upgraded memory controller, etc., are really going to be better than Asus's work on this piece of hardware.

yeah from what i read X38 is going to offer better performance...

I might be getting an Asus P5K Premium P35 board meant to be higher model of the P5K Deluxe but not sure of the differences yet so beats me heh

[Ace-a-Rue]

You are the man, EVA!...like your style!

[mrcape]

I noticed on Asus' site that they listed the 404 (haha ironic name) bios.

Aside from the bios there are a couple chipset driver updates -

- Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager Driver V7.5.0.1017
- Intel ICH9 RAID Driver Disk Version 7.5.0.1017

The drivers have been out there for a while but I haven't updated. Do you folks get your chipset drivers here, at Intel site or elsewhere?

[msgclb]

I noticed on Asus' site that they listed the 404 (haha ironic name) bios.

I'm surprise you didn't point out that 0404 is a beta BIOS.

[xgman]

Has anyone been able to test this board with a 6850?

I heard the new steppings are going to improve the OC even more.

QX6850 (g0 stepping) @ 4.4ghz here (phase 1.59v) at various ram/divider combinations. Warmer than my old x6800, but not nearly as warm as the current Q's run.

[xgman]

I'm surprise you didn't point out that 0404 is a beta BIOS.

The fine folks at asus still haven't corrected the wrongfully posted 501 bios in the ftp P5K dlx category.

[fritzman]

QX6850 (g0 stepping) @ 4.4ghz here (phase 1.59v) at various ram/divider combinations. Warmer than my old x6800, but not nearly as warm as the current Q's run.

You got any info/screenies on that QX6850 chip xgman, or are you having to keep it under wraps at this stage... ? It sure sounds nice, and like something we should be aspiring to.

[xgman]

You got any info/screenies on that QX6850 chip xgman, or are you having to keep it under wraps at this stage... ? It sure sounds nice, and like something we should be aspiring to.

I'm not under any NDA, as long as I don't disclose my source. I've lapped the top flat anyway. I haven't made any screenies or anything. So far I'm pretty happy with it since I've wanted a Q, but they were running too hot and didn't overclock as high as I would have liked comming from an X6800. That seems to have changed with these new g0 ones. Combined with the P5K=dlx I have been able to run memory as much as the high 600's. I've scalled that back for now at 487/560ish? if my memory is correct.

[Severance]

This is my stable overclock using a pair of Ocz alpha 1000vx2 dimms. With 2.25vdimm set in bios. My question is for eva2000. Do u think i could join the 700 club with these sticks and how much volts do u think i would need? Oh and also... would they survive? lol

[CedricFP]

650 at 2.25? Those are some impressive sticks!

[eva2000]

This is my stable overclock using a pair of Ocz alpha 1000vx2 dimms. With 2.25vdimm set in bios. My question is for eva2000. Do u think i could join the 700 club with these sticks and how much volts do u think i would need? Oh and also... would they survive? lol

woah that's bloody nice 650mhz at 2.25v probably top up around 660-685mhz there ??

[fritzman]

I'm not under any NDA, as long as I don't disclose my source. I've lapped the top flat anyway. I haven't made any screenies or anything. So far I'm pretty happy with it since I've wanted a Q, but they were running too hot and didn't overclock as high as I would have liked comming from an X6800. That seems to have changed with these new g0 ones. Combined with the P5K=dlx I have been able to run memory as much as the high 600's. I've scalled that back for now at 487/560ish? if my memory is correct.

Thanks ... sounds absolutely fabulous.

I've been holding off buying a P5K and waiting for these new Intel chips, so I can run a Quad nicely on air... it's sounding like that is not too far away.

[CERO]

Hey guys , I got my 8800GTS connected @ the Blue pci-e slot, I want actually to move it up to the black slot. Not sure but I heared something that the black onces doesnt run pci-e 16x? And how can i see if it is pci-e 16x? Any help appreciated

[Ace-a-Rue]

use CPUz program to show you what the PCIe peg link speed is set...you will find that on the "mainboard" tab at the bottom.

[CERO]

aight thnx, but do u know if the black slots will give u the same speed as the blue?

*edit Any one would be so kind to give me the newest Marvel Yukon Lan drivers and the newest Intel chipset drivers?

[Severance]

Had to boot at lower fsb and change ratio cus of my x6800 fsb wall at 530 but got this at 2.25vdimm
set in bios. Booted at 400fsb and used setfsb. I wonder what these sticks can do at there rated 2.3v? I would like to try it but my first 2 setts died at 2.3

[Ace-a-Rue]

aight thnx, but do u know if the black slots will give u the same speed as the blue?

the blue slot closest to the NB is a 16X speed slot..the black slot only works at 4X speed...most VC's will work in the black slot but you will suffer about 10% lost in performance going from a 16X speed down to 4X.

[zsamz_]

I'm waiting to see what x38 brings to the table. I'm not interested in sli/xfire either. But, if x38 can deliver 9000+ mbps and <50ns at 500 1:1, I'm all over it

i hit 9660 49ns in everest with the help of felixs memset easy can do more just gotta figure out exact vdim volts
set in bios @ 2.2 n i gettin 2.37 in windows lol


i'm waiting for x38 too but gotta be much better

[eva2000]

not hard getting 9000+ MB/s in everest

@8x493FSB at 1.6375v bios set

[Supershanks]

Unlucky eva you nearly got the 10k memory read MB/s in everest.
Nice going though

[hornet]

Someone could put SS with 400FSB@DDR1200 orthos blend.

Thanks

hornet

[Ace-a-Rue]

envy, envy!