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

[theonlybabyface]

Thnx both for confirming & leeghoofd i dont have the samsungs but thnx for mentioning

Question: Where do u actually need to connect SATA DVD Drives, to the Black or red ports. I read something like the Red ports need to be used for HDD with OS or sumtin. I need some info on this.

I have mine connected in ports 5 & 6.

[btdvox]

Hi everyone first post here.
I built a new system in June and Bought the P5K I overclocked it quite a bit and had a lot of great expereinces, its a very forgiving MoBo which is great.

Anyways I recently heard about these Sata problems and thought id chip in,

I had my Board ship with BIOS 0102. I still have 0102 on it, because I dont want to flash the bios if i dont have to.

Anyways My system consists of E6850 OC'd to 3.92- crucial ballisitx ram clocked to DDR2-1046 @4-4-4-10. 1 WD 320AAKS SATA2 and 1 WD Raptor X, 8800 ultra and other stuff thats not relevant to the SATA problem lol.

Anyways I ran HDTUNE tests using for both my drives 5 times each and got great results which ill post pics below.

One interesting test showed that once i restarted my comptuer i ran the test RIGHT AWAY, and because of this the Disk was used by my PC to load and cache certain items as it does every start up. Which made my test spiek down to 1.98 mbs!!! I got really worried that this is the problem, turns out its not. Its just because that my computer uses the DISK while its being tested which makes the results that way.

I tested this by doing the same thing again (running the test right after i restarted and windows runs. And against restarting and waiting a couple mins for my disk to not be in use and then run the test. You can see the test results yourself- there great!

Anyways all my disks are run at IDE, I dont know what the main problems are some people cant boot into windows i get or even install it, while some just get poor performance, so i dont know waht there basing it on, but these are my results with a China Made v 1.00 board.

sata2 3200aaks


wd raptor x "good"


wd raptor x "in use"

(sorry my "good" raptor test is hard to see- but its there il post a better version if people want)

Cheers