ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[Lurker246]

I was going to attach a 40MM fan to the NB heatsink but no screws I found would do the job.

I picked up an Antec Spot Cool fan at CompUSA for 20% off. It would hover over the heatsink so I guess it'll work, but now I'm wondering which one (NB or SB) it should be used on for the most benefit? I'm running out of room to put stuff so I'm not sure I'd go back for another one even if it does a great job...

Stick it over the Northbridge, The south bridge barley gets warm on this mobo.

Tested on my own system, sticking a 40mm fan on the NB stopped my system from randomly rebooting every 7-8 hours . Although that was with 1.85 volts, I've since put it back to Auto and it's running fine.

[P5WDHdeluxe]

[1] While doing an average o/c i.e E6600 from 2.4 to 3.0 GHZ with this board is a good idea to disable Hyperpath & Dram Throttle?
I don't get why we should disable these 2 options but in several forums it is written that they should be off? Being Enabled these 2, is there any chance of damaging smthg?

[2] I updated my Bios from 2206 to 2406... I am pretty sure that old days when my E6600 was at peak load the max Vcore i had noticed from Bios and SpeedFan was 1.280 BUT now, with the new bios update, it tis 1.288... Is there a problem with that or a known issue about this change?

Thanx alot guys! ~ ~

and a small update:

[3] When i updated my bios... i load the default values from the menu of Bios... When i restarted my pc on start up the value of my cpu was 2.13.... o.o
I have E6600 and in every past bios this value was 2.4...
It seems that from the defaults in this bios is 8*fsb... I had to go into bios again and change manually the multiplier (that it was with dark grey "9") to 9 so in the next startup the 2.4 would be shown... any on that?

[P5WDHdeluxe]

[1] While doing an average o/c i.e E6600 from 2.4 to 3.0 GHZ with this board is a good idea to disable Hyperpath & Dram Throttle?
I don't get why we should disable these 2 options but in several forums it is written that they should be off? Being Enabled these 2, is there any chance of damaging smthg?

This is an old question of mine still without answer..
anythin' on that?

[MacClipper]

This is an old question of mine still without answer..
anythin' on that?

You can try leaving them enabled but do test for rig stability cos they are probably intended to make the system faster (iirc Hyperpath tightens timings) if your components are up to scratch.

HTH.

[Random Murderer]

This is an old question of mine still without answer..
anythin' on that?

not a chance on damaging something, but throttling should be disabled for performance's sake.
Hyperpath doesn't really matter unless you hit an fsb wall.

(iirc Hyperpath tightens timings)

sort of... it changes the boot strap of the north bridge and limits the fsb by doing so.

[mister_no]

Here an new bios with Yorkfield-Support; made by me!

http://rapidshare.com/files/86220167...field.rom.html

[Lurker246]

This is an old question of mine still without answer..
anythin' on that?

Alot of the hints & tips for overclocking this board date back to when it was released when there were alot of problems o/c'ing the board due to bad bios'.

I've played around with both settings from BIOS 2004+ as I've only been using this board since September 07 and they never effected my performance.