***OFFICIAL Asus P5K-E/WiFi Thread

[SpRoX]

Does the 1002 P5K-E bios also work on P5K-E/WiFi?

[Zeus]

Does the 1002 P5K-E bios also work on P5K-E/WiFi?

Yes.

[AriciU]

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.

Yup. I've tryed all PLL values (up to 1.8), all NB (up to 1.7), all vFSB (up to 1.5) and all SB voltages. No luck. It may me be cooling. Something is really getting hot i think. With 1.8v PLL and 1.55-1.70NB i got some very weird screen flickering and windows programs were throwing errors left and right, even if i was at only ~4600Mhz which can be stable for windoze stuff without touching PLL and max 1.4NB.

[AriciU]

A friend of mine just got his E8500 and an Asus P5K-e. He was worried about the board not booting up with the default bios but it works fine apparently. Bios 0703.



I may try to go back to 0602/0603 but i'm a bit worried i'll keep staring at a black screen afterwards

[AriciU]

Ok. I had him do some Prime to see what multi he gets and it's 9x only. So you still need latest bios to see the multi correctly.

[trt740]

put two different E8400 ,different batch number, in the same motherboard with the same cpu cooler and got 15 degree idle temps difference and one core on the second chip was reading ten degrees higher than the first core. I have been reading about this problem I think that core temps errors when readig certain batches of wolfdales. The first chip matches or very closely matched probe at idle and the second chip was 25 degrees higher on one core with core temps, than with Asus probe. Anyone else seeing these problems with core temps. I do have the newest version aswell.

[AriciU]

Same here. Not much core difference once stresed (maybe 5-7C) but it always shows it idling at 40C. No matter what volts, speeds, etc. In bios it shows it at 21C at the current settings in my sig and around 50C when i really get some voltage into it (1.65v, 1.7PLL...) which proves that the bios shows the correct IDLE IMO.

[Super strokey]

is there any concensus on if this board will work well with a quad 6600? I was considering this cause i can get it locally for the same price as teh dfi which i would need to mail out for.

[Aerou]

is there any concensus on if this board will work well with a quad 6600? I was considering this cause i can get it locally for the same price as teh dfi which i would need to mail out for.

which DFI? blood iron? p35 lp dk?

[vocch]

I may try to go back to 0602/0603 but i'm a bit worried i'll keep staring at a black screen afterwards

I know what you mean....looking @ one right know .....EZ Flash + Asus bios are a POS! ...flashed bios more times than i can remeber with numerous other makes ....done one on this board worked ok....then tried to update to 1002 looked like it went fine....checked file, erased bios, writing bios, then boot block Done!...your computer will restart in 5 seconds....WHAT A JOKE!..tried everything to get it going....now RMA time.

So be WARNED!

[AriciU]

I know what you mean....looking @ one right know .....EZ Flash + Asus bios are a POS! ...flashed bios more times than i can remeber with numerous other makes ....done one on this board worked ok....then tried to update to 1002 looked like it went fine....checked file, erased bios, writing bios, then boot block Done!...your computer will restart in 5 seconds....WHAT A JOKE!..tried everything to get it going....now RMA time.

So be WARNED!

Ouch I though about it yesterday and there's no point in doing it really. 1002 seems like a good bios. I hope they'll fix the EIST problem in the next release... i hate EIST.

BTW: i recommend using Asus Update from windoze next time man. I used it countless time and has never failed me once. EZ Flash didn't even work for me when i tryed it so i guess i may call that lucky seeing your troubles.

[Cwelle]

Let's clear some things about Intel SpeedStep.

Under Microsoft Windows XP, SpeedStep support is built into the power management console under the control panel. In Windows XP a user can regulate the processor's speed indirectly by changing power schemes. The "Home/Office Desk" disables SpeedStep, the "Portable/Laptop" power scheme enables SpeedStep, and the "Max Battery" uses SpeedStep to slow the processor to minimal power levels as the battery weakens.

So, there is no reason why anyone should not use bios 1002.

BTW, hi everyone.

[Cwelle]

Damn. C1E setting is bugged, not Intel SpeedStep.

Well, after flashing 1002 vdrop is only 15.5mV and vdroop is 8mV. I'm happy.

[AriciU]

Mine just died out of the blue after we finished installing vapo on it. Damn thing won' t post anymore. Damn POS

[WeldZilla]

Well I just got mine up and running. My P5K-e wifi has been lying around here since early last November. It got here second, my P5E beat it by a couple days. I like my P5E so much that My P5K-e couldn't get in the game. Well I got it up anf running with my old 540 processor. What a sweet board!!!
My 540 on very good liquid cooling could run steady at 4300mhz daily
Now just running with air and at only 1.336 volts that 540 is running at 4082mhz @ 36C !!! with a Scythe cooling it on top of my table. I ordered a 8400 processor today from the Egg. I have it running with 4gigs of G.Skill right now and it sure is a nice board so far! I had my 540 running ay 4600mhz earlier today on air!!! Had this board and this cpu cooler been around a few years ago these socket 775 prescotts would have been thought of as cool chips
Well hey I ran my prescott just to udate the bios. It has been fun to drag it out and bring it to life It is on my little fix it bench and won't be in the vase til I get the new processor going. I'll post a shot of my current clock and temps check out the rails on this $36 logysis psu. It is just a little spare I have around here.


If it will run my Prescott this cool...Who knows?

WZ

[trt740]

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

Does cooling them help at all, anyone notice any over clocking improvements

[barzi]

How do you guys check your Wolfdale temps? I got my e8400 today, and i see that my idle temp is always 35 for core 0 en 40 for core 1. Not even a little bit different. Rock stable... How does this come? And more important, how to solve?
Stress temps are good, they get higher and not that rock stable.

[NINaudio]

Hey all, I have this board and have a few questions and some odd problems. First of all, how do you read the NB temp? Is it the mobo temp shown in asus probe?

Also, I have some random problems with o/c'ing. I've always heard that this and the other new Asus boards recover from failed oc attempts "gracefully" by rebooting to stock settings. Well, whatever settings it deems as stock just hang the pc. I'm guessing that it undervolts by ram too much and makes it not happy. All I get is a black screen, no post beeps or anything. This has even happened to me once or twice on a windows restart without changing any settings. To get around this I end up having to put an old stick of value ram I have laying around in and that lets me get into the bios and adjust memory voltages to 2.3 or so. Then I can turn it off, put the team ram back and get into the bios again. Sometimes it requires a cmos reset and sometimes it doesn't.

Do you think that switching to Bios 1002 will help this? Or should I look for a different set of ram that will run with less volts?

[g1raffe]

Hey all, I have this board and have a few questions and some odd problems. First of all, how do you read the NB temp? Is it the mobo temp shown in asus probe?

The NB is the System temp on BIOS and the MB/System(whatever its called in Asus probe..), usually Temp1 in SpeedFan, etc..

[mortadelo]

Has anyone put thermalrights HR-09 on the mosfets?
I was going to buy HR09S for the top and HR09U for the IO side but after a quick mockup with sketchup I'm afraid they only just fit with a TR 120 Extreme, so in real life that could mean they don't fit at all.
Any ideas?

[Gen]

hi first post on XS

I recently bought a p5k-e wifi and wondered really how hot the upper mosfets get so i decided to do a little testing myslef.

Test Bed:

Case: Thermal Take Armor (server size, removed front vents and side of case)
Mobo: P5K-E Wifi (mobo laying horizontally)
CPU: Q6600 G0 (can't remember exact batch, either L726 A/B or L723 A/B)
GPU: Evga 8800gtx
Ram: Ballistix 8500
Cooling: Mosfet: 1x90mm on left mosfet, none on upper. max rpm
Ram: 2x90mm, max rpm
NB: 1x20~mm, max rpm
Cpu: 2x120mm Silverstone, lowest rpm on 2x silverstone fan switches
Temp Sens.: Lian-LI Model T-3
Ambient: 20c

As you can possibly see from the phone cam pic of my setup that the upper mosfets get a little bit of airflow (measured with my hand i could feel slight air movement) from the left PMW and Ram fans. additionally i didn't have DMM on hand to test.

The temp sensor i used is a model T-3 Lian-LI lcd thermometer, measured in celsius, which has 2 diodes and 2 lcd outputs. Looking at the mobo with the CPU socket at the top, one diode was placed on the farthest left upper mosfet (lcd output 2) and one placed on the mosfet third from the right (lcd output 1). diodes were secured to mosfets with tape.

Methodology:

Prime95 was used using custom min and max in place fft lengths of 8k with no selected memory usage running 15minutes.

Temps were measured between 10-20minutes looking the highest possible temp to report on each diode.


Test 1 Bios 0603 Voltage Setup:

CPU: 400fsb x7 3200mhz
Clock Overcharge:--- 0.70v
CPU Voltage: ---------1.35v (1.31-1.32v load)
CPU Reference: ------Auto
Voltage Dampener: -Enabled
CPU PLL: --------------1.50v
DRAM Voltage: ------2.05v
FSB Termination: ---1.40v
NB Voltage:------------1.40v
NB Reference:---------0.61x
SB Voltage:------------Auto



Test 1 (1.35v) CPU Idle:

Diode 1 (middle): 32.5c
Diode 2 (left):------30.6c

Test 1 (1.35v) CPU Load:

Diode 1 (middle): 42.6c
Diode 2 (left):------40.3c

Test 2 Bios 0603 Voltage Setup:

CPU: 400fsb x7 3200mhz
Clock Overcharge:--- 0.70v
CPU Voltage: ---------1.42v (1.39-1.40v load)
CPU Reference: ------Auto
Voltage Dampener: -Enabled
CPU PLL: --------------1.50v
DRAM Voltage: ------2.05v
FSB Termination: ---1.40v
NB Voltage:------------1.40v
NB Reference:---------0.61x
SB Voltage:------------Auto

Only change is CPU Voltage no clocks were changed so all Auto voltages should be the same, correct me if i'm wrong.



Test 2 (1.42v) CPU Idle:

Diode 1 (middle): 32.7c
Diode 2 (left):------31.5.3c

Test 2 (1.42v) CPU Load:

Diode 1 (middle): 45.4c
Diode 2 (left):------44.2c

Conclusion:

There is a temp difference between the two diodes of about 2c which I think may be attributed to the PMW fan being close to Diode 2 (left) or possibly the diode was not making as good of contact as Diode 1.

For an increase of 0.08v the max temp difference was 2.8c which is not alot.

I didnt test higher than 1.42v but looking at the resulting temps i would be fine running 1.5v load thru the mosfets with a fan over or near them.

Setup Pics:

[CrazyNutz]

NINaudio

Im not sure on the NB temp question, but I do think its the mobo temp.

As for the OC Fail recovery/Mem problem, you are correct the board is way
undervolting your mem in this situation. I had the same problem with my OCZ 6400 Reaper, I called OCZ for some help but they just told me to live with it and do the mem swap trick. Well that was not good enuff for me and with my
OCD in full effect at this time.... Well long story short I fixed it.

Here's the steps:

1: Download SPDTool, just google SPDTool you'll find it.

2: Run It and read in the SDP from one of your mem modules. NOTE: Save this as you orig SPD, incase you want to restore it.

3. In the top pane you will see a ton of hex codes dont mess with them, go
to the bottom pane and scroll down until you find
"SDRAM Cycle time at Maximum Supported CAS Latency"
and change it from whatever it is now to 3.00ns (333Mhz)

4. Save the new modded SPD, and the write it to all of your mem modules.

And you should be fixed, All this does is make your mem appeare to be ddr2 667mhz. when the mobo fires up after a bad OC it will read the spd and set your mem to 667mhz @1.8 volt and no more black screen!!!! yay!!!

P.S. this will not affect your perfomance since you'll set the freq/timing manualy anyhow....

[barzi]

is it true that bios 1002 had no Voltage demper mode? I can't find it in my bios, but maybe i'm looking over it..

[Lil'ManComputer]

Hi guys!

I'd ask some question about BIOS settings. Some options are strange for me :

DRAM Static Read Control
Clock Overcharge
CPU/PCI spred spectrum
NB/CPU ref. voltages

Could anyone tell me something about these? How should I set them if I oc my q6600? What value should be set higher/lower for better stability?

[trt740]

Hey guys I was wondering what could cause this once my e8400 get over say , 4.1ghz prime stable it will hang if I hit the reset button and won't boot but If I use the power button it's fine any Idea why this would be. Also anyone else having this problem? It doesn't error even up to 4.3ghz and will prime but won't reset with the reset button?