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

[sesdave]

The only BIOS difference I can see from the deluxe is that CPU PLL offers voltage increments upto 2.2v. Presume that is for people with chilled cooling to make use of it. Overall seems a little bit more stable than deluxe.

[bichi]

From conversation at P5WDH thead about P5K DLX soldered BIOS chip

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...postcount=5463

[sesdave]

[QUOTE=bichi;2345031]From conversation at P5WDH thead about P5K DLX soldered BIOS chip

[url]http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php? QUOTE]

I notice that this is also refered to on the first post of this thread. It also mentions the following re Crash Free 3: -

'But it has Crash Free 3 bios feature see page 4-7 of manual. Shove the included driver dvd disk the system and boot it up and it should attempt to do a recovery bios flash.'

Please note that Crash Free 3 will not work if the BIOS flash has erased the EEPROM - your board will not post - end of story!

[synergy]

Forgive the somewhat trivial question, but it's not
covered in the manual and I can't play with the
BIOS since I'm waiting for my Q6600.

At a given CPU multiplier, is there a way to make
the ram frequency SLOWER than 1:1 over the base
system clock?

I.e. at 1:1 you'd have 266 MHz for both base CPU clock
and also actual clock frequency input to the RAM.
The CPU would run (say) at 9x multi 9x266 = 2400,
and the RAM being DDR2 would run
266x2 rate internally = DDR2-533.

However if my CPU multiplier is locked at x9 maximum,
I'd like to be able to clock the CPU around 430x9,
but if the RAM can't do 430x2=DDR2-860, I'd want
the RAM to run at say DDR2-667 or DDR2-533 so
I'd need to use a RAM:FSB divider of something less than
1:1 which may not be documented as supported
according to the manual (which isn't very clear anyway).

I've heard about "hidden multipliers" in some of these
chipsets to give more flexibility thay the 4 or 5
"typical" choices they talk about in the manual.
What can I do with those on the P5K Deluxe / P35?

Can I actually get a good CPU overclock and still re-use
old slow DDR2-533 RAM by use of such multipliers?

If I change the timing from say 5-5-5-7 to something
slower like 8-8-8-10 or whatever would that usually
permit me to operate the RAM at MUCH higher
frequencies than it's designed for even with slower
access times? e.g DDR2-533 RAM at 450 MHz input?

[426hemi]

^^I was looking for that option when I had slower PC2 6400 but I think 1:1 is lowest you can go.

[synergy]

^^I was looking for that option when I had slower PC2 6400 but I think 1:1 is lowest you can go.

Thanks for the information.
Ouch, I bought the wrong RAM. Since I knew
they had asynchronous dividers, it didn't even
occur to me that you wouldn't be able to use slow
RAM with a fast CPU clock.

Guess I'll have to find a good deal on PC-6400+.

[426hemi]

These are awesome http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820148070

for the price these are great http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231065

I have them both.