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

[sesdave]

0501 is still a beta BIOS correct?

Not sure what my board came with but I upgraded it to 0404 so that it could recognize by E6850. From reading this thread it appears 0311 is a better BIOS? Would that recognize the E6850? I guess I can try it. I was just wondering if some one here is running the E6850/P5K combo.

Thanks

I just got the lot yesterday as replacement for my E6600 and P5W DH. My initial views after some quick settings are that it will go 3.8 fairly easily on air with low volts but I think I need a better cooler to get higher . Temps went up quite rapidly when I tried higher FSB and volts. Still I am impressed with both the board ,CPU and especiaally the memory. These Ballistix are now so cheap and will clock like nothing else I have had before. They are good for 3,3,3,9 @DDR800 and will go upto 1200Mhz. For those running Vista x64 this is a link to a great guide which will let you tune it http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=24912. These tools are also useful TweakUAC and EASYBCD v1.6. TweakUAC lets you switch off or supress UAC - EAsy BCD has numerous tools and allow configuration of multi boot with other operating systems. I found that just installing Vista x64 in a seperate partition to Winxp caused HD data corruption - seemingly this is a know problem and EASY BCD is the solution. Here is a link to a complete multiboot install guide. http://apcmag.com/5023/dual_booting_xp_with_vista Acronis disk manager is another tool that will also shrink the Winxp partition to allow creation of another on the boot drive.

Can anyone tell me exactly what the CPU PLL voltage setting in BIOS is for - I think it is linked to the SB and I have found that I could only boot at my current o/c settings with it set to 1.7.