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

[TKC]

Brahmzy,

I'm not sure but isn't Asus P5E series mobo's HSF heat epoxied with X38's IHS (NB chip)? They should be glued together and hard like concrete when cool, are you sure they do not 100% contact with each other in your board?
While for the HSF of ICH9(SB chip), I believe it's worth a double check as there is only heatpad used.

BR

[Brahmzy]

Brahmzy,

I'm not sure but isn't Asus P5E series mobo's HSF heat epoxied with X38's IHS (NB chip)? They should be glued together and hard like concrete when cool, are you sure they do not 100% contact with each other in your board?
While for the HSF of ICH9(SB chip), I believe it's worth a double check as there is only heatpad used.

BR

I SO wish I would have taken a picture - I might be getting another P5E for my second box - I'll snap one then.

There is no epoxy. It's just a very sticky thermal pad on the bottom of the heatsink's copper plate. I disassembled mine before I ever hooked it up and it was very cold from sitting on the porch in freezing temperatures - it popped right off. Scraping the pad off was a real PITA though. But yeah, only the very outside edges and corners made any contact with the X38 IHS. It took a little lapping to flatten out both surfaces too. I'm certainly glad I did it. That's the first thing I always do with a new board is "fix" the cooling.

I am just wondering if THAT might have anything to do with the seemingly odd amount of incosistant results from this board people are having.

Also, again, I did the full VDroop mod.

My P5E is the most rock solid board I've ever used - and I've used a ton.

[WeldZilla]

Well I think I have found the sweet spot for my machine. I needed only bump the mem to 2.3V and it has been running here smooth and fast all day and into tonight. I can run smoothly at 428fsb with tight timings on the 4:5.
This gave me a cpu score of 6066!! on 3D06. I am pretty darned happy with that for now. As a matter of fact I am plum content.
I can run higher for short term benching.....Like this....

The mem was running 4-4-4-5 for this run on the 4:5
But, this isn't a true reflection of where I can run and be stable.
here is a shot of my 06 scores clocks and temps and stability.

I got to say I am lovin this board more and more.
I am curious to see how it is going to do with the 2X2gb G.Skill PC8000 I got coming in on Thursday.

Well I believe the good cooling is the key So get'em cooled down and see

WZ

[Brama]

P5E BIOS 501 is out! ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5E/

Who is so brave to test it?

[STaRGaZeR]

P5E BIOS 501 is out! ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5E/

Who is so brave to test it?

Not me, after the last one I´m done with BIOS updates with this board for now

[TKC]

Brahmzy, thanks for the advice, I will check my board later

[camouflage]

Bad news - had to RMA my board. After a lot of heavy testing BIOS corrupted or something like that. No CPU recognation at all........

Now happy with DDR3...........