Official ASUS X38 Boards: P5E, P5E3 - Info/BIOS Thread

[JoeBar]

0601 is not good at all. They fixed one thing but broke many.
I was getting Prime 95 error on one core, but different core everytime, within 40 minutes, while 0502 gave me very stable o/c with the exact same bios settings.

For me 601 and 502 have no diffs in stability...

[MMaster23]

I was looking at Team Xtreem particularly the PC2 9600 or PC2 10400. What memory would not work for you? What was the problem?

Thanks

I would avoid it if you could .. yesterday a mate of mine bought another Xtreem kit .. also didn't work on his Intel board (don't know models on top of my head)

I had the 1066 xtreem memory kit .. checked the codes .. had D9 on it .. it just wasn't stable. and by not stable i mean 10.000 memtest errors in 5 secs. 6 hours non-stop tweaking (ugh) later, I found a config that the modules did like. However after 5 mins memtest it still gave 8 errors or so. Bit more tweaking and the RAM worked (and by tweaking I mean setting every voltage to 0.02V precisely) perfectly however after 10 minutes of doing ANYTHING, the motherboard would just hang itself. Could get into windows .. even game .. but after a few mins .. hang...

Luckaly they are a snap to return in 100% original state so my webshop gave me 100% credit. Only lost some money shipping .. oh well.

Another lession in life: Don't buy budget overclocking memory. uhh wait .. Don't buy anything budget. It sucks. Balls.

Really happy with my Corsair Dominator 1066 memory .. runs 1200 great on CL5-T2 .. haven't tweaked it futher then that (was at my CPU limit i guess at 495mhz FSB). Oh well .. I'm not a real die hard overclocking these days .. This thing runs 3,6 ~ 4ghz great .. don't really need that extra 500mhz


ps... btw the RAM worked great in BIOS 0107 .. however I had to use 502+ for my Penryn 45nm as 0107 doesn't support 45nm properly. 502 and up were giving me RAM problems.
So perhaps it could work for you if you like older BIOSes .. however that's a big compromise .. I wouldn't like it. Get a brand new x45 (or x95 or something) motherboard .. oh wait my crappy memory doesn't work on it .. wish I hard paid 20 bucks more

[mngdew]

For me 601 and 502 have no diffs in stability...

I think they did something to the bios that made it less compatible with the Ballistics. They need more voltage to run stable on 601 at the same setting than on 502.

[JoeBar]

I think they did something to the bios that made it less compatible with the Ballistics. They need more voltage to run stable on 601 at the same setting than on 502.

I haven't experienced this and i'm running a pair of tracers on my P5E.

[necron66]

My p5e wont boot with my g.skill pc8500 at all now. Memtest the ram in another PC for 6 hours, no probs there. All it will post with is a dingy stick of generic ddr800.

I've almost had it with this board.

[brunormt]

Hi guys, i have upgrade my bios to 601, and i felt the same, when i upgrade it to the 502.
What i mean is, they have ajust the vdimm, because with the 107 i set it to 1.94 and i could get 1100 with cl5, and now i have 2,1, so i thing this is the real. But of corse the AIsuite is a joke - 2,55v.
So, for what i´ve read in your posts, my real vdimm is 2,157, isn´t it?

[VinnyG]

Right now the 0502 & 0601 BIOS doesnt allow me to use a 4:5 ratio on my ram, let alone do it while selecting the 266Mhz FSB Strap.

So right now my ram is set @ 504 or 1008 "effective" // 4-4-4-12 2T 2.06vDIMM (2.1 real), this using the 333Mhz FSB setup and 5:6 ratio.

[BulldogPO]

Wich one is better one for OC´ign, P5E3 or P5E3 Deluxe?
What are differences?

[screwtech02]

Has anybody had any raid issues with Vista Ultimate??? I can see all the drives, but cannot for the life of me get it to format/assaign drive path/letter.. I have done all the updates/drivers/ect, it keeps finding a new "device" and trys to install a driver for it.. There are no hardware conflict issues in device manager either.. This is killin me.....

[EagleRock]

Has anybody had any raid issues with Vista Ultimate???

I had the same problem with installing vista on my raid 0, i just used all stock setting in bios and it worked

[mngdew]

Has anybody had any raid issues with Vista Ultimate??? I can see all the drives, but cannot for the life of me get it to format/assaign drive path/letter.. I have done all the updates/drivers/ect, it keeps finding a new "device" and trys to install a driver for it.. There are no hardware conflict issues in device manager either.. This is killin me.....

I had a problem the Vista not recognizing a partition, and it kept trying to install a driver everytime reboot. In the end, I ended up reinstall the whole thing and it took care of the problem.

[MMaster23]

i'm running vista ultimate and windows server 2k8 (great OC-performance) both on a RAID0 on the Intel ICH9 ... no problems what so ever.

[screwtech02]

Thanx guys, ill reformat and try it again tonight.... Ugh....

[WeldZilla]

Look I have told people till I am blue in the face..... G.Skill 6400HZ !!!

My P5W, My P5N-e, My P5Ke-Wifi, My P5E!!!

I have been running this P5E since November. These boards adore 6400HZ
Go back through this thread and look!! at my posts. Now I just put a E8400
in this evening and here are a couple preliminaries for you to look at.

And there is a major difference in this new Superior bios 601!!! It is by far the best bios to date..

Just because some of you can't see that or make use of it does not make it bad!!!

Here is a couple reasons I like this bios!!


And here is another for you.



I have seen some already saying this is their last Asus board and what junk it is. Well that is pure Crap. I assure the problem is not the BOARD!!

So if some of you want to bail on this board then go for it and then you can fail and about the next one!

WZ

[screwtech02]

I agree with WZ, this is by far the best Intel board i have owned, great memory clocking potnential... Runnin my 8gb at 1108, with the quad at 3.7 per... I am completly happy with it.....

Just wish that there was a "layman's" explination of the bios settings, and what they do/affect... Like the GTL reference voltage settings, that eludes me, so it's just trial/error at this point.....

[Brama]

WZ. I bet your cpu is not arriving to Easter if you go on working 24/7 with 1.6 V

Anyway, very good overclock!

[bigslappy]

I agree with WZ, this is by far the best Intel board i have owned, great memory clocking potnential... Runnin my 8gb at 1108, with the quad at 3.7 per... I am completly happy with it.....

Just wish that there was a "layman's" explination of the bios settings, and what they do/affect... Like the GTL reference voltage settings, that eludes me, so it's just trial/error at this point.....

same here, Great MoBO & yes it's the settings BUT by reading the this & the Asus site P5E forums that ,I feel it's the G.Skill i'm running , the ddr2-1000 pc2-8000 , Seems everyone who is running these stix & the simular G.Skill's as above .. report no problems

mine run at 5-5-5-15

[necron66]

I have so manny problems with my G.Skill PC8500 not even posting.

[necron66]

Ok, so according to most of the results here, I should be looking at a ~0.05v overvolt on vDIMM compared to what's set in BIOS, except that isn't actually what I get. In BIOS, vDIMM is set to 1.9v, but if taking a reading off the pin that Cranox said, I get a vDIMM of 1.9v. I decided, just to satisfy my curiosity (and 'cause I have a new DMM that I wanted to play with ), to try and see what the potential difference of some of the other pins on those chips are, and I noticed that two pins gave much more expected results, ie about 1.94v.

Can anyone who's bored and got a DMM have a poke at these two pins (marked in the attached image) and see what their voltages are relative to BIOS and what Cranox's pin says? Could just be a coincidence.

Also, does anybody know where I can measure vCore from on the P5E?

Eller

I got 2.35v on all 3 pins with 2.3v set in bios.

[WeldZilla]

I myself do not care too much for any other G.Skill I have 2 sticks of the 2 x 2gb PC2 8000 PQ. I feel this memory is only good for mild o midrange clocks with a lot of rendering work to do.
Other than that.... No Way!

My other E8400 is running on my P5Ke and has been for several weeks only it is air cooled. and that processor has lived on nothing less than 1.482V and most of the time 1.610V. It 5 weeks and counting. My Q6600 on a P5E running daily at 1.608 V since last October and doing fine TY. Oh yes I have a 2.4C Northwood that has been on 1.675V for going on 4 years and gee still no SNIDS. My sky isn't falling, sorry to see yours is. Brama you have found the wrong forum. This is XtremeSystems.org not the, Voltagescaresme.com/forums

Hey screwtech02 read this and then read some more. When you have absorbed that read some more and so on and so on.
http://www.thetechrepository.com/showthread.php?t=87


WZ

[screwtech02]

Cool. thank's WZ!

[lowtcell]

I got 2.35v on all 3 pins with 2.3v set in bios.

That sounds about on par with what others have found (+.05v over settings)

My 2x2GB G-Skill DDR2-1000 PC2-6400 (F2-8000CL5-PQ) will not run stable over 1066 but that's good enough for now. I guess I can go 1:1 and run CL4 instead.

[karl_eller]

Hmm fair enough. I dunno if the readings would change much from board to board, and from RAM to RAM, but I'll be getting a 2x2Gb G.Skill 1000Mhz kit in the next week or so, so I'll have a bit more of a play around with voltages then...

Eller

[WeldZilla]

screwtech02..... Glad to see you are willing to get to know your board better!! They really are spectacular boards. I will tell you that my P5KE-wifi is also a great board!! On the 8.5 multi it will take my other e8400 to 549 fsb and it is only 1/10 of a second slower than my P5E on super pi. It is in the 3D benches that the X38 chipset begings to flex it's muscle over the P35. the difference isn't big but it's negligible. So read on...........


WZ

[Cranox]

602 bios is out dunno what the changes are , anyone brave enough to test it
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...-ASUS-0602.zip