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

[Brahmzy]

Wow - I just got this board hooked up and OC'd tonight. Amazing freaking board! This thing demolishes my P5W DH in terms of memory and overall stability. Running my E6600 @ 9*378 (3.4GHz) with my RAM at 3:4. Good golly this thing is snappy. And I just added a 3rd Raptor to my RAID0 array.

I'm so happy with this board and memory. Now I just need my E8500 and I'll be set!

Thanks all for the valuable info in this thread.

[~Woomack~]

At 1st hello to all because it's my 1st post here

I have P5E for maybe 5 days and board is really nice except bios.
I'm not sure if it's issue with quads but I can't pass stable 458MHz FSB and can't boot over ~480MHz while the same cpu ( Xeon X3210) can be stable on about 490MHz FSB on other boards ( much cheaper boards like Foxconn P35A ) and benchable up to 505MHz.
I see that some people are making 550MHz+ FSB but on duo cores.
Other thingies:
- vmem is bumping by 0,3V and overall my D9GKX are error free on about 20MHz less than on other boards ( so its about 600MHz 2,4V now )
- pencil vdrop is working good but still 0,02V ( better than 0,08V without mod )
- most stable bios for me is 0402 ( only on this one strap to 333 and 400 is working on other biosses only one of them )
- I couldn't downgrade bios - I had ID errors , checksum errors, too old bios and other bugs ... finally I restarted pc while flashing latest bios and I made bios recovery what is working perfect
- on over 460MHz FSB I can pass about 1,5h in Prime95 then I have only black screen without errors or something else
- after all night of prime95 I had weird temps in bios and asus soft, 100*C on cpu ( while all cores had max 70*C ) and -114*C in case ... i wish

Finally all looks stable after night of prime on 3,66GHz X3210 1,56V, 458MHz FSB , 550MHz 2,1V mem ... and I'm waiting for new bios ...