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

[sesdave]

I am getting ready to flash my bios now on my P5K P. I have been
following this thread for a bit and I was wondering now should I flash
to 404 now or go right to 504. I am using raid cards for all my arrays
so the raid issues don't mean a whole lota to me at this time
I just need the bios that overclocks the best with the least troubles
and seems to have the best stability. I want to do some testing with a e6850 ES also if that matters.
Your opinions would be greatly appreciated

TIA

0404 very stable for me with my q6600.- some extra volt setting on PPL from 0202. I never had any SATA disk issues and still dont. Also ran it with an e6850 at 3.6 on stock volts - not ES. Would boot upto 495x8 with more volts but not prime stable although I didnt try very hard. Make sure u use ezflash and a usb drive - I would avoid Asus update as there are loads of MB that flashes have failed on using it. It did for my P5K deluxe but probably because I hadnt reset the overclocks to default. Always safest to flash outside of the operating system. Following this set of instructions may look like overkill but should keep you safe http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=314