Official ASUS X38 Boards: P5E, P5E3 - Info/BIOS Thread

[Amurtigress]

Do you think airflow will ruin the mod? What about problems with tape on the other resistirs? THX

Erm, also replying to camouflage:

Most ASUS volt and droop mods are applied to CAPACITORS.

The graphite works as a resistor that increases the discharge current of the energy stored in the capacitor beneath.

[Sparx]

Do you think airflow will ruin the mod? What about problems with tape on the other resistirs? THX

Yes I think so reason for the tape. Also the board is sitting vertical and some of the graphite can drop off.

Tape can't effect the other resistors.

[sauria]

Thanks Sparx! I get it tomorrow

[Aivas47a]

I replaced my bum P5E3 Deluxe (would not post with memory speed above 1333) for the Maximus Extreme that just went on sale here in the US, and so far I am very pleased. Clock for clock, the throughput and latencies are a bit better even than my beloved P5K Deluxe (not by huge amounts, but an incremental improvement).

Here's 8x450, DDR 1800 C7 on the P5K3 Deluxe:

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...DDR31800C7.jpg

Exact same cpu, memory, and settings on the Maximus Extreme (notice higher memory read speed, lower latencies, faster Super Pi run):

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...0x8Maximus.jpg

And for fun, here's 500fsb (haven't tested stability beyond prime 1) (max stable fsb on the P5K3 as 480):

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...500Maximus.jpg

My Corsair DDR3 1800 wouldn't load Windows at DDR 2000 without drawing more voltage that I was prepared to give these sticks (representing as they do a substantial part of my retirement savings ), but they did scale nicely to 1960 with no extra voltage over spec at all (just much looser timings):

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...960Maximus.jpg

Final note on this board: after an hour or so of quick testing, I've also noticed the vdrop/vdroop is much better than on the P5E3 Deluxe. Specifically, unlike on the P5E, Load Line Callibration really reduces vdrop on the Maximus Extreme, almost as well as the cpu voltage damper on the P5K Deluxe.

Maximus takes more NB and VTT voltage to achieve the same overclocks as the P5K however.

[Ace-a-Rue]

Aivas47a: does the pencil Vdroop mod work on the Maximus Extreme board?

[camouflage]

Do you think airflow will ruin the mod? What about problems with tape on the other resistirs? THX

Not ruin - but time after time You will get some small Vdroop when fans blowing away the graphit....., no problems with the tape mate, don't use a 10 inch piece - only a small one sized equal to the size of the resistor or a little bit larger.

[sauria]

Great camouflage -- thanks! I'm waiting for FedEx and getting my tape cut!

[Sparx]

I made an attempt to remove the massive heat sinks from the board to remove the factory paste and replace it with AS5. (on my P5E)

It was simple to remove the screws and back plate from the NB HS but when I got to those pesky little plastic hold down pins I balked due to the massive amount of traces surrounding the holes of the back of the board.

Normally in past removals I used long nose pliers, but in this case there is NO margin of clearance to the traces.

I really hate to leave the factory TIM in place but sure would hate to ruin the board.

Any easier way to extract these push pin of plastic?
sparx

[eyes.only]

Looking at my p5e vanilla with my 2xtwinx1064c4 with a q600 g0 being cooled by a scythe mugen. Wow the cooler together with the fan is uge.
My other set of 2048 ram doesn't even fit with the cooler on.

The bios is still at 0107 and I will first start to do some overclock trials with it.
My previous board was a p5b-DLX. this new baby has a lot of extra settings on it. Don't like to see a lot of settings saying auto. Anyone here want to share their settings with me?

Thanks

NO ONE

[Sparx]

NO ONE

Go back in this thread there are postings of bios settings. Post 344 for example.
If I ever get time and get moving with my build I will post my settings, but I am only having 2 gigs of RAM for now.

sparx

[eyes.only]

Go back in this thread there are postings of bios settings. Post 344 for example.
If I ever get time and get moving with my build I will post my settings, but I am only having 2 gigs of RAM for now.

sparx

Yes, read it, but was hoping it could be more detailed and less "auto"

[Aivas47a]

Aivas47a: does the pencil Vdroop mod work on the Maximus Extreme board?

Haven't done the mod yet and now I'm visiting family for a couple of days. (I love them and all, but man I'm really itching to get back to my new mobo -- only had a couple of hours to tweak before I had to leave. What a dweeb I am! ). Anyway, I'll try the mod as soon as I get home and report back.

[camouflage]

Erm, also replying to camouflage:

Most ASUS volt and droop mods are applied to CAPACITORS.

The graphite works as a resistor that increases the discharge current of the energy stored in the capacitor beneath.

Sure mate, my mistake caused by the fact english is not my first language.......... - changed the words.

[Sparx]

I am having a small problem.
I have a Cooler Master 690 and it has no standard case speaker two pin connection that is typical and connects to the system panel connectors.

It has a AC 97 and HD Audio cables. Does one of these plug into the pins AAFP1 on the back of the motherboard sound card? This must somehow be the reason I have no case speaker cable- two pin cable.

I cannot find anything in the ASUS manual about this aafp1 connector on the P5E sound card.

sparx

[Ace-a-Rue]

Haven't done the mod yet and now I'm visiting family for a couple of days. (I love them and all, but man I'm really itching to get back to my new mobo -- only had a couple of hours to tweak before I had to leave. What a dweeb I am! ). Anyway, I'll try the mod as soon as I get home and report back.

ok...waiting to see how it goes...thanks!

EDIT:...realized that the maximus extreme is really designed for a water system..not for me!...thanks anyway...

[sauria]

I got it built with an E6850, G.Skill PC2-8000 2 x 2G (Thanks Stargazer!), EVGA 8800GT SC, Hitachi 1TB, Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro. Running Memtest 86+ v 1.70 though it doesn't recognize the chipset. Fastest RAM throughput I've seen. I guess I need to make a floppy from the ASUS CD to install AHCI driver? NO Vdroop mod yet -- no tape :|

[Aivas47a]

ok...waiting to see how it goes...thanks!

EDIT:...realized that the maximus extreme is really designed for a water system..not for me!...thanks anyway...

The Extreme does have the built in NB water block, but it seems to work fine as a regular air block too. I was seeing NB temps around 40-45C whilie pumping 1.6+ volts.

[darkgoro]

Looking at my p5e vanilla with my 2xtwinx1064c4 with a q600 g0 being cooled by a scythe mugen. Wow the cooler together with the fan is uge.
My other set of 2048 ram doesn't even fit with the cooler on.

The bios is still at 0107 and I will first start to do some overclock trials with it.
My previous board was a p5b-DLX. this new baby has a lot of extra settings on it. Don't like to see a lot of settings saying auto. Anyone here want to share their settings with me?

Thanks

Oh yes it does....i got my infinity mounted, and the memory fits just right...i'll be back with some picts...

[eyes.only]

Oh yes it does....i got my infinity mounted, and the memory fits just right...i'll be back with some picts...

edit:
got the hdx version, so with heatspreader

[eyes.only]

Oh yes it does....i got my infinity mounted, and the memory fits just right...i'll be back with some picts...

Thanks, and your bios settings would also be appreciated

[Ace-a-Rue]

The Extreme does have the built in NB water block, but it seems to work fine as a regular air block too. I was seeing NB temps around 40-45C whilie pumping 1.6+ volts.

i don't like paying for something that i do not intend to use.

[Infa]

How are the Voltage settings on the Extreme? Im getting one soon, to be replacing my as above said, BUM P5E3 Deluxe

[djdare]

Hi everybody... I have one wierd problem when upgrading bios for P5E to 0401 or 0402.
Bios flashing procedure does everything "by the book" without any errors and boots to system spec and stops on press F1 or F2
(like always after flashing with new bios), to setup default settings or manualy setup settings. I can enter bios, customize my settings and save them.
When i reboot monitor stays black with fans running and no post from board.
All older bioses causes no problems at all (from 0303 and below). All settings are default non-OC.
Any ideas? Thank you for your help.

Asus P5E
Q6600 G0
2x1GB TeamGroup Xtreem PC2-6400 800MHz

Oh one more question, what is default vcore for Q6600 G0 (1,300v or 1,325v)

P.S.: I'l try booting with only one memory stick. (when i come home from work)

[Krav]

would this ram http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...d=8&subcat=813

work well with maximus extreme? pairing it with q6600 to overclock to 3.4 hopefully

[Skyline GT-R]

NO it does not. Maximus Extreme is DDR3 and that is DDR2. Just like I stated in the other thread... The Maximus Extreme only works with DDR3 and the Maximus Formula only works with DDR2.

See: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...78#post2578978

Maximus Extreme
- Intel® Quad-core CPU Ready
- Intel® Core™2 Extreme / Core™2 Duo Ready
- Intel® X38/ICH9R
- Dual-channel DDR3 1800(O.C.)/1600(O.C.)/1333/1066
- Fusion Block System
- Crosslinx
- Extreme Tweaker
- SupremeFX II
- LCD Poster
- CPU Level Up

Maximus Formula
- Intel® Quad-core CPU Ready
- Supports Intel® next generation 45nm Multi-core CPU
- Intel® Core™2 Extreme / Core™2 Duo Ready
- Intel® X38/ICH9R
- Dual-channel DDR2 1200*/1066 MHz Support
- Extreme Tweaker
- SupremeFX II 8-CH Audio
- CPU Level Up
- Voltiminder LED
- LCD Poster
- ASUS EPU (Energy Processing Unit)
- 2-Phase DDR2
- COP EX