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

[gonx_me]

I've just bought this MB with an 6550 and Team Xtreem PC1066 5-5-5-12.

I've been having major issues with the X-FI Xtremeaudio. Ramdomly i have a loud squeal, that only goes away when i change the profile of the X-Fi. I'm running with the latest bios, and latests Asus Intel drivers and X-Fi drivers. I've tested in both PCI's slot's. My graphics is an EVGA 8800GTS 320 KO.

[VictorWang]

through these days benching.
p5k-p vs blitz vs p35-t2r
p5k is rock for higher cpu clk.
blitz is for crossfire + fsb
p35-t2r is for memory and extreme fsb

[nicepun]

Has anyone tried 1T for memory.

[Apoc@]

Has anybody some news about a new bios?

[gonx_me]

I would like a new one that fix my problem with the X-Fi

[djt]

I’m surprised no one has mentioned the poor placement of the SATA ports. I received my Asus P5K Premium last week. I think I used every profanity in the book when I went to install my Evga 8800 GTX KO. The video card resides right over most of the SATA ports.

Looks like either the Blitz Formula or the P5K WS are in my future plans.


Evga 680i SLI
Core 2 X6800
Corsair XMS2 Dominator 4GB DDR2 800 (PC2 6400/C-4)
Evga 8800 Ultra “Superclocked”
Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty
2x WD 10,000 RPM Raptors (74GB) (RAID 0)
SilverStone TJ-09 (Black)
Windows XP Pro/SP2

Asus P5K Premium
Core 2 E6850
Corsair XMS2 2GB DDR2 800 (PC2 6400/C-4)
Evga 8800 GTX KO
Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty
2x WD 10,000 RPM Raptors (74GB) (RAID 0)
SilverStone TJ-09 (Silver)
Windows XP Pro/SP2

[Apoc@]

The placement sucks, but i have no problem with it. The lack of bios support is worse.

[djt]

Anyone here know if there are any serious issues with the P5K WS?

[ocZZZ]

what bios is everyone running?

[Shaotai]

what bios is everyone running?

0204

[lowdog]

Bios support for this board suuuuuuuuuuux.

[CERO]

same with the P5K deluxe , for almost 2 months there are no bios updates for this board 2, I think Asus is 2 much busy with marketing and making to much boards, and dont got the "time" to optimize a bios for each board......

[sofarfrome]

what bios is everyone running?

204 here

[gonx_me]

Also 0204.

[nicepun]

I think 0204 is the latest one.

[gonx_me]

On asus foruns some people talk about bios 0302, still in beta. Asus is trying to fix the problems with RAID sata.

Here is the link: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us

[Apoc@]

Great news, but realy hope to see a quick public release.

[deadsquirrel]

I am having some problems with (overclocking) this board (apart from the SATA issue which means i cant use my AAKS with it!)

I cant seem to get past 360 FSB. It works fine at 360 whether with an 8 or 9 multiplier so i dont think its the Q6600 (G0). Its stable at 360 using 1.33V

Does anyone have any ideas? Also, silly question, but how do i run prim95 on all 4 cores? do i need to start 4 instances of it? if so, how on Vista 32?

Thanks,
DS

[Fosco]

Also, silly question, but how do i run prim95 on all 4 cores? do i need to start 4 instances of it? if so, how on Vista 32?

Thanks,
DS

This works for all 4 cores, with 1 instance ftp://mersenne.org/gimps/P95V254.ZIP

[deadsquirrel]

nice1 thanks!

Anyone have any ideas why i hit a wall at 360 FSB no matter what the multi is? even at 6? Could it be the cpu or some dogy setting in the BIOS?

[Budwise]

im on 104 until the next one comes. Have had no problems and 204 gives no reason to update yet.

[TinTin]

I am having some problems with (overclocking) this board (apart from the SATA issue which means i cant use my AAKS with it!)

I cant seem to get past 360 FSB. It works fine at 360 whether with an 8 or 9 multiplier so i dont think its the Q6600 (G0). Its stable at 360 using 1.33V

Does anyone have any ideas? Also, silly question, but how do i run prim95 on all 4 cores? do i need to start 4 instances of it? if so, how on Vista 32?

Thanks,
DS

did you disable the static read control in BIOS?

[Unexploded]

same with the P5K deluxe , for almost 2 months there are no bios updates for this board 2, I think Asus is 2 much busy with marketing and making to much boards, and dont got the "time" to optimize a bios for each board......

Well, if they want repeat business they better hurry up.

Anyone else notice certain settings (like upping the northbridge voltage to 1.55 @ 266 strap), makes your pci-e link speed drop from 16X down to 1X?

The only fix I found was d*cking around with pci bus speeds, until it snapped back.

I like the board (other than everything to do with it's sata placement and raid support), but it definitely needs a bios update.

I didn't sign on to beta test hardware I paid for.

[Tarowah]

Hmm I just ordered one of these boards to replace my broken IP35 Pro (yes I broke it) and you guys are making me second guess myself, I figured my Q6600 GO would rock on this board because there is little to no vdroop.


I could run at 3.6Ghz on my IP35 Pro with little trouble but I had to crank the vcore up to 1.5v which gave me 1.40-1.41v under load which sucked, I am just looking for 3.6Ghz out of this board, guess I'll find out in 3 days.

[ocZZZ]

its a great board, don't worry about it.

Hmm I just ordered one of these boards to replace my broken IP35 Pro (yes I broke it) and you guys are making me second guess myself, I figured my Q6600 GO would rock on this board because there is little to no vdroop.


I could run at 3.6Ghz on my IP35 Pro with little trouble but I had to crank the vcore up to 1.5v which gave me 1.40-1.41v under load which sucked, I am just looking for 3.6Ghz out of this board, guess I'll find out in 3 days.