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

[newls1]

I'm going to ask this question again, could someone please respond: I'm currently using BIOS 311 with my Q6600 G0 processor, however according to asus's website, BIOS 311 isn't compatable with this stepping and I MUST use 404 or newer. I find 311 to be an xtremely good OCing BIOS and I really have no issues with this BIOS so I was trying to aviod flashing to any of those newer BIOSes. Everything seems great with this 311 BIOS, chip is recognized perfectly on POST, It OC's like a dream, etc..... So why does asus say I (we) need to run BIOS 404 or newer with the chip? Forgot to mention that I am using a P5K-DLX motherboard

[chessman]

I'm going to ask this question again, could someone please respond: I'm currently using BIOS 311 with my Q6600 G0 processor, however according to asus's website, BIOS 311 isn't compatable with this stepping and I MUST use 404 or newer. I find 311 to be an xtremely good OCing BIOS and I really have no issues with this BIOS so I was trying to aviod flashing to any of those newer BIOSes. Everything seems great with this 311 BIOS, chip is recognized perfectly on POST, It OC's like a dream, etc..... So why does asus say I (we) need to run BIOS 404 or newer with the chip? Forgot to mention that I am using a P5K-DLX motherboard

Very strange issue !
I read that eva2000 insist to 311 bios !

[newls1]

Very strange issue !
I read that eva2000 insist to 311 bios !

strange indeed Maybe Asus did include support for the G0 stepping in the 311 BIOS, but didn't realize it

[eva2000]

I'm going to ask this question again, could someone please respond: I'm currently using BIOS 311 with my Q6600 G0 processor, however according to asus's website, BIOS 311 isn't compatable with this stepping and I MUST use 404 or newer. I find 311 to be an xtremely good OCing BIOS and I really have no issues with this BIOS so I was trying to aviod flashing to any of those newer BIOSes. Everything seems great with this 311 BIOS, chip is recognized perfectly on POST, It OC's like a dream, etc..... So why does asus say I (we) need to run BIOS 404 or newer with the chip? Forgot to mention that I am using a P5K-DLX motherboard

no idea why they insist on it... maybe at auto subtimings it provides general end users better performance due to tighter timings http://i4memory.com/showthread.php?t=4161 or not all G0 steppings are supported only some.. ??

Just use what works for you

[chessman]

no idea why they insist on it... maybe at auto subtimings it provides general end users better performance due to tighter timings http://i4memory.com/showthread.php?t=4161 or not all G0 steppings are supported only some.. ??
Just use what works for you

Very useful info there.... Thanks eva2000 !

[newls1]

no idea why they insist on it... maybe at auto subtimings it provides general end users better performance due to tighter timings http://i4memory.com/showthread.php?t=4161 or not all G0 steppings are supported only some.. ??

Just use what works for you

Thanks Do you by chance use the 311 BIOS for your quads?

[xgman]

I'm going to ask this question again, could someone please respond: I'm currently using BIOS 311 with my Q6600 G0 processor, however according to asus's website, BIOS 311 isn't compatable with this stepping and I MUST use 404 or newer. I find 311 to be an xtremely good OCing BIOS and I really have no issues with this BIOS so I was trying to aviod flashing to any of those newer BIOSes. Everything seems great with this 311 BIOS, chip is recognized perfectly on POST, It OC's like a dream, etc..... So why does asus say I (we) need to run BIOS 404 or newer with the chip? Forgot to mention that I am using a P5K-DLX motherboard

It your happy with it leave well enough alone.

[synergy]

I'm going to ask this question again, could someone please respond: I'm currently using BIOS 311 with my Q6600 G0 processor, however according to asus's website, BIOS 311 isn't compatable with this stepping and I MUST use 404 or newer. I find 311 to be an xtremely good OCing BIOS and I really have no issues with this BIOS so I was trying to aviod flashing to any of those newer BIOSes. Everything seems great with this 311 BIOS, chip is recognized perfectly on POST, It OC's like a dream, etc..... So why does asus say I (we) need to run BIOS 404 or newer with the chip? Forgot to mention that I am using a P5K-DLX motherboard

I have no idea WHY Intel and ASUS say you must have a new BIOS for
Q6600 G0, but that is the official documentation from both sources.

In practice I know I was able to boot with P5K DELUXE BIOS 0202 with the
Q6600 G0 and go into BIOS setup and when it was booting use the reflash option
to upgrade the BIOS etc. So it can't be completely broken even with the old
BIOS versions.

However with BIOS 0202 I did get a message similar to
"Error loading ucode on Intel CPU" or somewhat similar phrasing. That error
message didn't seem to totally prevent the use of the PC, though.
The error message did go away when I flashed to the newer BIOS, though.

I don't know if there are (yet) any microcode updates for CPU stepping G0
that a newer BIOS could apply for better system stability. I know that
the older Q6600 steppings (B3 and previous) have ucode updates that
the BIOS or maybe also the OS could apply to help work-around
CPU bugs that could crash your system under certain circumstances.

Otherwise, "if it works for you, don't fix it".