ASUS P5B-Deluxe; Problems & Fixes

[chuckbam]

OK...i am unable to overclock on p5b like i was on p5w due to not being able to keep my memory near its rated speed, when ever i increase my fsb the speed options for my memory increase, so i push my fsb to 460 and the lowest i can run my memory is 900+....my memory is 800 on p5w i was able to push fsb 460 and lower my memory to 667.....so far this board isn't allowing me to oc very well....please someone tell me theres something im missing.

I don't have the highest rated performance memory. I did, but it it not perform any better than the Memory I have now (Many reviews seem to be repeated sell out information provided by the manufacture, in my opinion)

The most I could ever hit stable was, a 450 / 900 MHz. Others, have achieve greater results. They may jump in. I am just giving you may experience of my system stability.

One thing odd about my DDR2, at looser timings, it will have an overclock error. At 5-4-4-12 it is stable. And, I have 4 one MB sticks. There must be a reason for this. I wish someone would explain it to me. I am running at 9x 360. I tested lower multipliers, but every time I had decreased video performance. Even with the video set at 110. Thus, I hit a wall. I also only have air cooling and had unstable throttle down at greater GHz.

You may want to try it.