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

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1M 14.110s http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m.../SuperPI1M.jpg

32M 13m.57s.781 http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...SuperPI32M.jpg

I haven't done a mega amount of testing & it may have been due to a lack of playing with settings but I found 0501 slightly slower at 32m than 0311.

I also run my PI tests independently of each other because I found my 1m time went up a little with a second Super PI box open waiting to run 32m.

Craig.

the superpis I ran are independant as well I just wait for the 1M to finish before I start the 32M one. if you notice the 8x451 run is on the 0311 bios the 9x401 is on the 0501 bios. I had trouble getting 9x401 with 0311 so that's why I used 0501.

Well I thought I would flash the BIOS to 0501 to see if that resolved the strange CPU temp readings I was getting with speedfan and everest and I now have a pretty colourful motherboard to hang on my wall!. I stupidly used Asus update as I was in a hurry and it failed on BIOS verification stating try reflashing again.

I flash update the p5k deluxe in the bios its self or I hit alt+F2 at bios to go into the util. never flash your motherboard bios under windows. you could always get the ASUS P5K PREMIUM it's the same price as the deluxe at newegg.com. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...k=&srchInDesc=

The ASUS CPU SUPPORT list for the P5k DELUXE
http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...Language=en-us
shows that the Q6600 Stepping B3 is supported in BIOS 202,
and that the Q6600 Stepping G0 is supported in BIOS 0404.

Has anyone with an BIOS older than 0404 gotten a
G0 stepping Q6600 and been able to boot / use the BIOS /
flash the BIOS to a newer version that claims to support
the CPU stepping?

What errors / problems did you encounter in using a
G0 Q6600 with BIOS before 0404? What version did you
try?

here's a good OC with a G0 and bios 0404
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...7&postcount=63