Asus P5K Bearlake P35 chipset motherboard >> TESTING LATEST INTEL CHIPSET

**timber715** · 09-17-2007, 06:01 PM

its probably a noob question, but here goes...

FSB Strap To North Bridge(Mhz) 333... is responsible for what?
and DRAM Frequency is this the setting for the strap that the board uses?
maybe others can help me get a grsp of things...

**ChaosMinionX** · 09-17-2007, 06:29 PM

Originally Posted by timber715

its probably a noob question, but here goes...

FSB Strap To North Bridge(Mhz) 333... is responsible for what?
and DRAM Frequency is this the setting for the strap that the board uses?
maybe others can help me get a grsp of things...

FSB Strap to NB = controls the timings the NB uses, lower Mhz = tighter timings 200 will be the fastest,then 266, 333 and so on....

And DRAM frequency is the speed at which your ram will be running given the current NB strap and divider (1:1, 2:3 etc)

**timber715** · 09-18-2007, 05:14 AM

Originally Posted by ChaosMinionX

FSB Strap to NB = controls the timings the NB uses, lower Mhz = tighter timings 200 will be the fastest,then 266, 333 and so on....

And DRAM frequency is the speed at which your ram will be running given the current NB strap and divider (1:1, 2:3 etc)

Thanks ChaosMinionX, that helps a lot...

**dinos22** · 09-18-2007, 05:27 AM

choose 266 strap as it is a fair bit faster than 333

and as i said already ONLY increase voltage if required for stability

now a 3.4GHz Quad is a monster rig so i would try and have all voltages to their minimum values or closest to that

PLL does affect FSB but only when you start reaching limits....and not always 100% but it also affects the stress on the CPU as you've seen with higher temps....but such temp change is more than i thought

heheh

try reducing vcore a little too...........you should be able to shave some more off

**timber715** · 09-18-2007, 08:46 AM

i tried other multis and was able to boot to 490 x 6 but far from stable but can do spi 1m at 480 x 8... still looking... thanks guys. needed that.

**s3rv3r** · 09-18-2007, 08:57 PM

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=244278

**sdumper** · 09-19-2007, 05:24 AM

Im not trying to be rude by what is the purpose of a post showing 500 fsb?

**dinos22** · 09-19-2007, 05:30 AM

Originally Posted by sdumper

Im not trying to be rude by what is the purpose of a post showing 500 fsb?

i guess cause no matter how many times it gets posted it's still a kick arse OC

**s3rv3r** · 09-19-2007, 10:09 AM

to show the power of overclock of this excellent motherboard And because I was having difficulties in obtaining the fsb of 500mhz.

**sdumper** · 09-19-2007, 10:18 AM

My point is that 500 fsb is the norm and these boards have gone above 600fsb.

No big deal I was just curious if I was missing something

**Devious** · 09-26-2007, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by eagle_

Hi,

just bought this mobo and Q6600 G0.

Everything works fine, but when I load Prime95 to test for stability (running at 3200 - 400x8 ou 355x9 1.425v bios 1.26v load cpu-z), cpu-z shows intermittent multi between 6x and the one I have set, as when cpu is idle and EIST (or whatever it's called) is on.

At cpu-z, voltage drops to 1.05v, at asus probe and speedfan, voltage raises to 1.29v.

Is cpu-z seeing the wrong speed? How can I see at what speed the cpu is in real time - any other good program?

Using latest bios, 2x1GB Teamgroup Elite 667, LC Power 550w green, Ninja rev b, Vista Ultimate 32.

Any thoughts?

At last someone with the same problem as me, I had just made a seperate thread about it here

Its definatly not a temp problem, its only in the late 40's before my chip switch back to x6 multi from x9 when priming. Its some problem with this 0603 bios and G0 quads.

Not sure what to do as I cant see another bios coming out any time soon

I would have thought more people would have this problem though.

**Leeghoofd** · 09-26-2007, 10:18 PM

That's a weird problem lads, I always leave EIST off as I overclock and fold always when my PC is on and I was told to always turn off EIST when overclocking

Also I wouldn't trust CPU-Z for a correct value of CPU voltage, better go Everest or even Asus Probe though best thing still is a digitam multi meter....

**Spawne32** · 09-26-2007, 10:28 PM

i gotta tell ya, those asus boards are just straight up hideous in color

**Devious** · 09-27-2007, 03:12 AM

Has anyone got a G0 stepping to work with a bios pre 0603 ?

**splmann** · 10-02-2007, 10:57 AM

Cut somebody tell me which bios shows allso minus degrees ? I have 0603 but it shows only 10 degree if i test it with my cascade ?! it must be around -80 to -90 degree !!

Regards

SPLMANN

**BLHealthy4life** · 10-05-2007, 08:18 PM

anyone have a problem getting this board to push 4GB of mem over 1000Mhz?

It becomes very unstable over 1000Mhz with 4 x 1GB PC2-9600 modules...i did not have this problem with my 965 Commando.

**antsh** · 10-05-2007, 08:23 PM

No problems here, running 4GB of Ballistix 6400 @ 1142 @ 5-5-5-15 with 2.2V.

**BLHealthy4life** · 10-05-2007, 09:32 PM

On my 965 Commando, I could run 4Gb at 5-4-4-12...

On this P35 P5k, i have to use 5-5-5-12....

**Bisteccone** · 10-08-2007, 03:20 PM

Anybody knows if there are compatibility problems with Corsair CM2X1024-8500C5D rams?
If i install these rams the system doesn't boot.
Thanks!

**BLHealthy4life** · 10-08-2007, 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by Bisteccone

Anybody knows if there are compatibility problems with Corsair CM2X1024-8500C5D rams?
If i install these rams the system doesn't boot.
Thanks!

I do not know about Corsair, but I cannot get these f*cking Patriot 9600 modules stable on this board over 1000Mhz! I am trying everything and I cannot get my board stable.

There has to be a compatibility problem with my RAM and this board.

This P5K DLX is the WORST board I have ever owned and I regret buying this POS.

Chances are, there probably is if you are having trouble.