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

[nicepun]

This was posted on Asus forums which may be worth a try
http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us
Resolved his problems downloading latest matrix manager v 7.8 and chipset .

I don't even see the hdds during POST.

[sesdave]

I don't even see the hdds during POST.

dumb question but Is that after setting RAID up in Matrix manager and Winxp install F6 or VISTA load of RAID drivers during install of operating system.

[Furious]

been awhile since I droped in here (i dont post much lol), but ive come away from this thread with some ideas about how to push some more outa my P5K prem.

All in all, its been a awesome board. I had the P5B D, then P5K D in different computers and even tho its only small steps, this board is diffinately the best.

Running just over 4Ghz quite easily. 35c idle / 50c load. My other setups both ran 3.4ghz 24/7, but this ones looking like 4GHZ+ 24/7.

I have seen alot of asus bashing resently, vista and intel have really put some pressure on the MB makers. good job asus, this is a quality board

[nicepun]

dumb question but Is that after setting RAID up in Matrix manager and Winxp install F6 or VISTA load of RAID drivers during install of operating system.

No dumb question at all. But your raid bios (you know know when you're able to see the HDDs on the intel RAID where you can set up different types of RAID like 1, 0, 5, 10, etc) the HDDs appear and then disappear and YES I tried it with different SATA cables.

[dikki]

Just got a p5k premium with my e6850.. However i cannot overclock.

During startup it starts with:

CPU fan error (cause i'm using water)
Then it says: New cpu bla bla bla. Please setup bios.


Every single time it says new cpu, i'm using bios 0404 (came with the board).

Standard clock reported 3.00 ghz, whenever i clock(no matter what speed, voltage, timings, ram etc. etc.) it display 3.01 ghz.

I've tried to reset bios using the cmos jumper, hard for me to get to the battery, it did say cmos cleared however.



HELP

[SXS]

I gotta be honest, I've been lucky enough to get my hands on a sorted one of these boards.

I had 2 dodgy maximus's and no good.

Wait for it, wait for it...

just to rub it in, I run PRIME stable at 4.1ghz on my Q6600! and run my memory at 1388 at 4-4-4-8 timings.

Memory is a new batch of the OCZ flex 9200 memory...

watercooled the whole rig from mosfets to chipsets to gpu to memory.

loving it!

now this pc stays closed period. no upgrading this mother, will sell her on when its time to upgrade next xmas.

[Devious]

just to rub it in, I run PRIME stable at 4.1ghz on my Q6600! and run my memory at 1388 at 4-4-4-8 timings.
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Any screenshots of this ?

[sesdave]

Any screenshots of this ?

be generous - its nearly christmas-lol!

[nicepun]

Any screenshots of this ?

+2 694Mhz CL4 on the Mem I'm dying to see.