[18th Anniversary] Asus Black Pearl - P5k-Premium Testing Report

[krille]

I'd like to see some tests myself. I'm wondering, could the power consumption differences be a result of the same vcore settings across the boards tested, but ASUS's voltage damper not letting the vcore droop as much resulting in more power draw in comparison to a droopier board?

That said, I wish ASUS came out with this instead of the Deluxe...I like the mosfet placement much better than the Deluxe I have, and cant return and exchange for the same priced Premium as it is too old, doooh!

Yup, that's what I suspect myself. I wonder what happens to the power consumption of a vdroop modded IP35 Pro?

[sobol]

Guys is there any proof that Premium is better of Delux in terms of OC.

Did anyone changed his mb from deluxe to premium and noticed 20 mhz higher stable oc on CPU or mem or something ?

Also vdrop is that giving you any stability problem with deluxe ? Coz i can't see any advantage in fixing that anyway.

[WSX]

awaiting XtremeTiramisu's test results

[Supertim0r]

I confirm, the Premium is better with the quad core. The pwm was really hot with the Deluxe. It's better with the new components on the premium

[TWY]

Seems like there are a lot of minute differences on the P5K Premiums depending on batch and factory.

The one on Newegg site has PCB made in Taiwan and MEC inductor beside the DIMM slots.

The one on the first page has all round RIO inductors.

I have two Premiums, one has RIO inductors all round but CPU area is 'brandless R68', and the second premium has a MEC inductor for the DIMMs but 'brandless R68' for the CPU area. Even the DIMM slot manufacturers are different for both boards! I'm getting a board with all 4 slots having the same kind of clips, while the other has differing pairs (like the one on the front page)!


I haven't come across any other brand that has so many differing components for the same revision number.

But I like the Premium, clocking my previously stubborn Crucial 10th Anniversary much better than my old board.

[nicepun]

Got mine today, I will play with it over the weekend. My P5W DH was not playing nice with my Q6600 G0 so what better excuse?

[Heidfirst]

I'm wondering, could the power consumption differences be a result of the same vcore settings across the boards tested, but ASUS's voltage damper not letting the vcore droop as much resulting in more power draw in comparison to a droopier board?

you're talking about a max of probably 0.1V & on average more like 0.05V - whilst it may be a partial reason I can't see it being the whole reason for a 20-40W difference.

[noobzed]

I have an issue with the premium

when I set 4 4 4 12 2T in bios, load into XP and finally I have 4 5 5 15 ...

any suggestion ?

edit: found the problem, was memset

[WSX]

Still waiting to see some test results on the Premium from anyone that's got one ...

[TinTin]

For those who gets occansionally si~si~ sound with the on board sound, use the P5B Premium Vista sound driver will fix, now it is fine

[billdavis]

ordered 1 will be here wendesday with a q6600 go

[nicepun]

Still waiting to see some test results on the Premium from anyone that's got one ...

I'm still learning and tweaking, I will try to have some results later on tonight.

[miochza]

I'm still learning and tweaking, I will try to have some results later on tonight.

nicepun, I am torn between getting a P5K Premium and assemble now or waiting until around December (college break) and getting an X38 board. I'm very interested in your results.

[nicepun]

nicepun, I am torn between getting a P5K Premium and assemble now or waiting until around December (college break) and getting an X38 board. I'm very interested in your results.

Anything in particular you would like to see? 450x8 is w/ 1.43vcore is no sweat thus far. I've been able to bench @ 4Ghz (3DMark06). I'm still trying to find the sweet spot.

[miochza]

Anything in particular you would like to see? 450x8 is w/ 1.43vcore is no sweat thus far. I've been able to bench @ 4Ghz (3DMark06). I'm still trying to find the sweet spot.

Not really anything in particular, I'll wait for you to find you 24/7. It's just having water cooling and a Q6600 G0 at 3 ghz seems like wasted potential

[nicepun]

Well, so far when you enable the Intel RAID Controller, the OC because VERY UNSTABLE. Anyone else expriencing the same?

[BigRigDriver]

Well, so far when you enable the Intel RAID Controller, the OC because VERY UNSTABLE. Anyone else expriencing the same?

I had this board for 2 days & couldnt get anything stable when raid is enabled. Needles to say I was the first to post on NE for a review.

[bro20000]

Have had the board 2weeks now and using raid0 isnt giving me any problems its has stable has a rock!

[nicepun]

I had this board for 2 days & couldnt get anything stable when raid is enabled. Needles to say I was the first to post on NE for a review.

What processor? Q6600?

Have had the board 2weeks now and using raid0 isnt giving me any problems its has stable has a rock!

I have 5 HDs, I will try with just one and see what happens.


Also, are you using 8 or 4 pin for the cpu?

Additional Comments:

Just to give you an example of what I mean I set the OC to 480x7 and set the SATA to RAID, as soon as you see the windows logo it crashes and reboots, but if I set the SATA to IDE everything is fine and dandy.

[y2jdmbfan]

Check your PCIE frequency...Mine likes to bump up to 150 for some reason after tweaking settings in the BIOS occasionally and my drives set for AHCI but not RAID are not detected when that happens....

Y2J

[timber715]

so far, what defining aspects does the p5k-premium have over the p5k-deluxe?

[lessonz]

So who's been able to successfully run RAID0 with Vista? Who has tried and failed?

[lowdog]

Im running raid0 on one set of WD Raptors with Vista 64bit and raid0 on another set of WD Raptors with XP for a dual boot config.....no problems my end with Q6600 @ 3.6GHz - 9 x 400 fsb.

[nicepun]

Im running raid0 on one set of WD Raptors with Vista 64bit and raid0 on another set of WD Raptors with XP for a dual boot config.....no problems my end with Q6600 @ 3.6GHz - 9 x 400 fsb.

Can you try 450x8 and report back. Thanks.

[bro20000]

Am running raid 0 with vista 32bit fine! At 500x8