***OFFICIAL Asus P5K-E/WiFi Thread

[Fatal]

Seems like i'll have to jump straight to 1.6v + tommorow when testing for max clocks and spi. Does that EIST thingy really do any harm while OC'ing? Bios 1006 seems more appealing to me now

Not really

To the people above: EIST does NOT just lower voltage to save energy, it also lowers the clockspeed, which DOES NOT mean a high overclock will be unstable, it uses low voltage for the low EIST clock speeds, and it uses your normal higher voltage for when it clocks up (which is whenever the CPU is being used)

[Rocket]

Why does Asus update keep erroring out when I try to install????/


keeps giving me this message "No Asus motherboard Instilation will be aborted now"

I see other guys are using asus updater with this board...

What gives??

[trt740]

@ Baloo_MF


I cool the upper mosfets the the U model and the side mosfets with the S model.

Help me out bro with mosfit coolers fit the top again?

[barzi]

Not really

To the people above: EIST does NOT just lower voltage to save energy, it also lowers the clockspeed, which DOES NOT mean a high overclock will be unstable, it uses low voltage for the low EIST clock speeds, and it uses your normal higher voltage for when it clocks up (which is whenever the CPU is being used)

So, it actually just better(less heat/power)? So BIOS 1002 is the best BIOS on this moment(with support for wolfdale)?

With 0603, does the PC boot? Or just black screen?
Someone said that it will work, but you just get an error for wrong cpu code or somehting.
Also Hideo is using 0503 with a QX9650:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...168256&page=19

[Zeus]

Just flash 1002, it's fine except for that stupid eist, Wolfdale runs nice on it.

[AriciU]

Just updated to 1002 myself. Hope i don't get any hassles with the EIST on while testing. My E6750 will get sold in 1 hour or so and i'll have to wait for the guys at the shop to call me to pickup the 8500 Can't wait.

[[XC] 2long4u]

Help me out bro with mosfit coolers fit the top again?

Thermalright. It is under mosfet cooling.

[[XC] 2long4u]

Downloaded the 0602.rom, dropped it on a Flash Drive, rebooted, Hit Alt + F2, selected 0602.rom then let it do it's thing.

Very simple, and the Vdroop/vdrop is amazing, set to 1.45 in BIOS and reads 1.43 in CPU-Z and Everest.

I'm also having trouble with my RAM, when I first tried to install the Mobo I put my RAM in and the system would power up but nothing would happen, I took it back to Fry's and they got it to post so my buddy brought some RAM over and it booted fine, with both of ours in there, he then took his out and it booted up fine with my Ballistix.

I tried running 1T and got the same thing, turned on but nothing happened, no BIOS no POST. So we had to do the same thing all over. I'm afraid to even touch anything in the BIOS now cause I don't want this to happen again. What kind of RAM should I be running in this thing..?

The approved ram is in the book that came with the mobo.

[SpRoX]

About this EIST thing... I use EIST when I OC and I don't have any problems with it!

If you select vcore manually EIST won't change it when changing multi, afaik.

I'm using bios 602 atm, and I think EIST is automatically disabled if multi is selected manually.

[Zeus]

About this EIST thing... I use EIST when I OC and I don't have any problems with it!

If you select vcore manually EIST won't change it when changing multi, afaik.

I'm using bios 602 atm, and I think EIST is automatically disabled if multi is selected manually.

Only bios 1002 is affected by this eist bug.

[spider_d]

Help me out bro with mosfit coolers fit the top again?

http://www.thermalright.com/new_a_pa...50aHVzaWFzdA==

http://www.thermalright.com/new_a_pa...cl.htm#asusP35

HR-09 U Type 2 near the I/O panel

HR-09 S Type 2 near the top

[trt740]

http://www.thermalright.com/new_a_pa...50aHVzaWFzdA==

http://www.thermalright.com/new_a_pa...cl.htm#asusP35

HR-09 U Type 2 near the I/O panel

HR-09 S Type 2 near the top

thanks for the Info also did you guys notice, I'm using 906 bios and if I overclock prime stable to say 4.0ghz with my E8400. when I hit the rest button my motherboard hangs,but if I use the power button it's fine ? At default it doesn't do this and it starts doing it at say 3.7ghz?

[C0ncrete]

How can Asus keep putting this crap out?

Getting sick of this junk!

[C0ncrete]

Just went to download the new one and got a slow link.

I went back to change links and now it's gone?

Can anyone else see it?

[khanem]

i just received this board and it just wont post. i am using a 4-pin 12 volt power supply and elixir 667 ram. any one using this board with following ram and psu?

[trt740]

and does 603 have any flaws for use with a e8400 anyone have a link to 603 none work on this thread

[AriciU]

Guys, how high could you get this mobo stable FSB wise? I'm having major difficulties passing 508Mhz FSB.

[trt740]

Guys, how high could you get this mobo stable FSB wise? I'm having major difficulties passing 508Mhz FSB.

9x463 4.203ghz at 1.472v is the best my e8400 can do so far

[AriciU]

9x463 4.203ghz at 1.472v is the best my e8400 can do so far

Can you try it with a 6x multi man? That's how i tryed and it crashes at 510 everytime, even though the cpu speed is lower then stock. I've seen almost all Wolfies to go up to 550-570+ that's why i'm asking....

Let me know if you could get it higher if you have some time...

[g1raffe]

Guys, how high could you get this mobo stable FSB wise? I'm having major difficulties passing 508Mhz FSB.

Sure its not your RAM limiting you or something?

[trt740]

Sure its not your RAM limiting you or something?

mine will hit about 545

[trt740]

thanks for the Info also did you guys notice, I'm using 906 bios and if I overclock prime stable to say 4.0ghz with my E8400. when I hit the rest button my motherboard hangs,but if I use the power button it's fine ? At default it doesn't do this and it starts doing it at say 3.7ghz?

The reset problem was from the chip being bad. I replaced it with another E8400 and the problems gone. I also notice multitasking was jerky and my sound card was sounding funny at load up but thought thats was a bios issue. When infact it was the chip.

[AriciU]

Sure its not your RAM limiting you or something?

Nah. Tryed it with some Crucial Ballistix... it was running fine at 550FSB 4-4-4-4 with a divider and fsb left below 450 but wouldn't even complete a SPI1M @ 6x510Mhz :/

[Shrekogre]

I'm having strange problem with this board on 0906 bios. randomly it will not boot, when it boots , fsb fixed at stock and it never increase when i increase it in bios. sometimes it just work fine. anyone has any idea?

I've also couldn't even downgrade my bios using dos, ez flash, asus update. I've used afudos ver 2.07, 2.11 2.26. v2.07 gives me main bios checksum error. v2.11 hang on "advance check". 2.26 do not let me downgrade bios. I tried asus update ver 7.10.3 and 7.13.x. both give me same error. EEPROM incompatible. please help

[Blackoberst]

Ariciu, try rasing voltages for vFSB and vMCH.

My board could do 543x8 with my E6750 and vFSB 1.4v, vMCH 1.4v I haven't tried max FSB yet.