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

[sesdave]

I think this board and chip still have a bit more to offer and as I test I will glad to give my findings. I will check the cpu with a straight edge for flat but I just thought that the polished surface helped too. Also it don't cost much but a bit of time and every little bit helps. That was why I thought lap the block the cpu and use the liquid pro, If I get 2C for each thing I just get 6c cooler. Just my 2 cents

Dont disagree and the MB will be good for some time yet - I still have an E6850 but 4 cores better than 2 going forward - it wont just be for video rendering/editing - future games are going to be designed around multithreading. They give out a fair bit of heat when o/c but not any more than the E6600 from my experience. They need less volts for higher o/c and thats with 4 cores. The GO's are achieving 3.6 on air as the norm with around 1.4v or less with some going to 4.0GHz with later batches of GO SLACRs. Check out this thread for overclocking experiences if you are tempted cos they are cheap http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=152603
If you are going to lap heres a nice guide - http://www.thetechrepository.com/sho...hlight=lapping
but I am sure you must have done it on the opterons unless you were popping the IHS . Flat not shiny is the primary objective -its just looks prettier after all that elbow grease as I found out -lol! Worth reading the rest of www.thetechrepository.com as it has alot of useful info - like running MBM5 under vista x64. If you have nothing else to do this is fun for improving disk resilience/performance http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=467848 . A lot of people discovered they had a AHCI/RAID problem on the premium with the ICH9 controller - I was lucky as my board doesnt. If you are already running AHCI it should be fine to try this.

[Fearlessleader]

. A lot of people discovered they had a AHCI/RAID problem on the premium with the ICH9 controller - I was lucky as my board doesnt. If you are already running AHCI it should be fine to try this.

I don't have the raid problem. I just use my one lonley Raptor for my OS and 2 arrays wit PCI Cards. Hardware is getting to the point you can not depend on it and onboard raid is useless when the board goes down or you want to make a change most time your raid data will be a loss. The way I do it, no problem take the card the raid and put it where ever you go. I whould not for any reason ever be use onboard raid. I would like to see them do away with all that onboard junk they put on nowdays, its all low quality stuff anyway losy sound cards. If onboard video was never any good what make anyone think onboard raid is any better or onboard sound. All that onboard stuff does is work the southbridge and northbidge to death I never thought I would see a day I would think to add cooling to my south bridge *ROFL*

Hay Sesdave gotta Run man if I don't get my wifes PC back up today she will kick my backside Just got her RMA'ed MSI P35 Back the Fedex guy was just here.
I finish this when I get some time She"s cracking the whip

Later
Peace Out

[sesdave]

I don't have the raid problem.
Hay Sesdave gotta Run man if I don't get my wifes PC back up today she will kick my backside Just got her RMA'ed MSI P35 Back the Fedex guy was just here.
I finish this when I get some time She"s cracking the whip

Later
Peace Out

Forgot you had RAID cards - rock on! I also know who runs this house and it aint me-lol!