Hi folks,
I jsut received my P5E last thursday and hope to add some experience to the bunch of posters here...and I am curious to see what's going to be discussed here.
Let me correct a few things that I found to be wrong in this thread so far:
Firstly, the voltage damper/loadline calibration feature really appears to be broken. the pencil mod tho is not applied to a RESISTOR, but to a CAPACITOR. Resistors always have a number on them telling the resistance value, capacitors are brownish and have no label.
Secondly, the BIOS 0303 is now officially listed in the P5E BIOS support on ASUS' website. The 0303 has not caused me any obvious problems.
I will most likely not apply the usual "solder vmods" because I'd rather avoid it and wait until the BIOS is being fixed. However I am experienced in SMD soldering and it wouldn't pose a problem to me.
I found a rather striking difference between the P965 chipset and the X38. My P965 left me guessing what's wrong running it at 1.45V MCH. It kept "stumbling" and freezing for up to a minute until it resumed working, but never showed any errors in logs nor caused crashes.
The X38 clearly caused errors in Orthos at the same voltage. I find that a lot better sice you at least get a clear hint that somethign is WRONG and WHAT it could be. I must say I am happy to now use this workstation chipset.
OK. Here I am, if I can help clear things up with my 17 years of PC building experiences, lemme know.
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ASUS P5E, BIOS 0303
E6600 @ 3.6 GHz/1.48V/450*8
X38 MCH volt: 1.61
2 GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800
1 GB MDT DDR2-800
Sparkle 8800GTS 320MB
Enermax Liberty 400W PSU
ST3500630AS SATA2/NCQ 500GB
WD2500KS SATA2 250GB
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