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

[ReverendMaynard]

easy man, alt + printscreen and that should just take a shot of the apps gui. Then in paint, past both on the same page, save it and host it on something like imageshack or putfile. Easy peezy.


EDIT: here is my SG 500g 7200.11. Insane really for such a large, single drive.

[turtletrax]

Is 0504 going to be the last BIOS for this board? I know Asus is pretty famous for stopping BIOS maturation, but 0504 has the RAM issues. Nothing major, at least on my machine, but would like to have everything tip top.

[w2richwood]

ive been watching everyday not using 0504 but would like one more bios that works good with 45nm chips for when i upgrade one of this days
Rich

couldnt get alt + printscreen to work i'll keep trying

[Shaotai]

Is 0504 going to be the last BIOS for this board? I know Asus is pretty famous for stopping BIOS maturation, but 0504 has the RAM issues. Nothing major, at least on my machine, but would like to have everything tip top.

Sorry, I must of missed it. What is the RAM issue?

I just updated my mobo to 0504 and it's been running great so far...

[bito]

I bought Acronis 11 and am now awaiting a response from the tech support re a bootcd that works with raid on this MB. Will post when I get the response

Hi ya m8.....Acronis have sent me through an bootcd iso today and it sees the raid 0 array on my Premium fine......so they will respond

[NIZ]

Sorry, I must of missed it. What is the RAM issue?

I just updated my mobo to 0504 and it's been running great so far...

I want to know too?? Is the 0504 the only bios that supports the new 45nm cpu's?

[ReverendMaynard]

ive been watching everyday not using 0504 but would like one more bios that works good with 45nm chips for when i upgrade one of this days
Rich

couldnt get alt + printscreen to work i'll keep trying

alt+printscreen then go to paint/edit/paste.

[w2richwood]

ok got it to save now i'll have to resize it getting there lol
Rich

[w2richwood]

see if this works first one is the rapters second one is 2 80g in matrix

[ReverendMaynard]

lol yeah that's Intel Matrix.. insane burst.

[w2richwood]

yea thinking about putting the 80g.s on the p5k seems to load faster on my p5w dh system i likie lol

[ReverendMaynard]

man, 4 500g SG 7200.11's put out over 4000mb burst....I can't wait.

[w2richwood]

yea maybe i'll just wait for some seagates maybe this summer
Rich

[aster]

Hi guys!

Do you think high mosfet temp could lead to mobo shutdown?
My rig just stops after 15 minutes OCCT :/
CPU temp is 35/55° and fully stable on others boards

Q6600@3.6@1.30 + Ultra120Extreme + P5KP + OCZ 9200 Flex

Thanks

[ReverendMaynard]

It could be allot of things. How about some more specs? PSU, amount of devices installed (hdds, cards...). how efficient is your case flow? Stuff like that. Having this info in your sig is key.

[Dude87]

Hey guys, i have got a E6750 with my P5k-P, however i am having trouble getting it stable at even 450 FSB, I Pushed Vcore upto around 1.46 1.47, which in theroy should be ok for such FSB rite?

My rams are Axeram from transend, D9 chip, capable to do at least 1000mhz with less than 2.15v.

Help anyone? if you can, please post your bios settings so i can try it out on my end.

[sofarfrome]

the 0504 bios supports the 45nm cpus but if you have a quad with the C1 stepping you have to press F1 at boot because it says "unknown cpu detected, flash to latest bios to unleash its full potential". So I hope this isn't the end of the new bios' for this board because that is annoying. Otherwise it works very well.

[ReverendMaynard]

Hey guys, i have got a E6750 with my P5k-P, however i am having trouble getting it stable at even 450 FSB, I Pushed Vcore upto around 1.46 1.47, which in theroy should be ok for such FSB rite?

My rams are Axeram from transend, D9 chip, capable to do at least 1000mhz with less than 2.15v.

Help anyone? if you can, please post your bios settings so i can try it out on my end.

What other voltage adjustments have you made? There are quite a few posts earlier showing some of our settings, have you checked those out?

[w2richwood]

the 0504 bios supports the 45nm cpus but if you have a quad with the C1 stepping you have to press F1 at boot because it says "unknown cpu detected, flash to latest bios to unleash its full potential". So I hope this isn't the end of the new bios' for this board because that is annoying. Otherwise it works very well.

have you gotten ahold of asus tech yet to see if there going to release another bios yet or are you waiting tell monday let use know what happens
Rich

[FrenchPcdiga]

Did anyone test a Q9450 in this board?

[Tarowah]

I just got my P5K Premium back from Asus and they sent me a China PCB with all red caps, says it is rev 2.00G.


The part that sucks is I needed a working system and I couldnt wait though 2 RMA's so I picked up a DFi X38 =/.

[sesdave]

Hey guys, i have got a E6750 with my P5k-P, however i am having trouble getting it stable at even 450 FSB, I Pushed Vcore upto around 1.46 1.47, which in theroy should be ok for such FSB rite?

My rams are Axeram from transend, D9 chip, capable to do at least 1000mhz with less than 2.15v.

Help anyone? if you can, please post your bios settings so i can try it out on my end.

Have you tested to establish the CPU FSB limit? You may be trying the impossible - its an E6750 and there is no guarantee that will be able to do 450x8. If its not an ES that would be deemed a very good overclock on that chip.

[sofarfrome]

have you gotten ahold of asus tech yet to see if there going to release another bios yet or are you waiting tell monday let use know what happens
Rich

I haven't had a chance to call them and filling out the "ledger" of info they need just to send them an email is ludicrous.

[sofarfrome]

Did anyone test a Q9450 in this board?

I don't have the Q9450 but I do have the Xeon-X3350 (same thing) and you will find that you need the 0504 bios and even then it will give you the "unknown cpu detected, you need to update the bios to unleash its full potential". Annoying but otherwise the system boots up and you can start OCing.

However, let me say right up front that you should disable load line calibration with the 45nm cpus as it seems to cause voltage instabilities that prevent you from going too far with the OC and also using more vcore than is necessary. Mine is running at 3.6GHz with 1.248vcore. It will run P95 small ffts for hours with all settings at stock other than the vdimm is 2.1, vcore as above, and mem timings at 5-5-5-15. But if I try to run "blend" it halts almost immediately. No amount of tweaking of voltges or timings will allow me to remain stable. The Xeon X3210 that I took out would run 3.8GHz with 1.475vcore and run P95 blend and any other configuration 24/7. I am beginning to think the P35 chipset is not too good for the quad 45nm cpus. I say this because I also have a DFI LP LT P35 T2R that also had a hell of a time running this thing above 3.6GHz. But it is running my Xeon 3110 right now at 4.3GHz with 1.456vcore (not a great chip) and a minor adjustment to the NB vcore.

[Dude87]

What other voltage adjustments have you made? There are quite a few posts earlier showing some of our settings, have you checked those out?

I went through most of the posts here, but it is a 38 pages thread, it appears to be most of you have Q6600. i could have overlooked something. , could you kindly send me a direct link or somthing

Have you tested to establish the CPU FSB limit? You may be trying the impossible - its an E6750 and there is no guarantee that will be able to do 450x8. If its not an ES that would be deemed a very good overclock on that chip.

Do u mean lower the multiple and see whats teh max fsb that this cpu can take up to? i have done that, at 7x, it boots up to 500, on 8, 450 wouldnt even get me to windows loading.

Anyhow, i know there are lots of tweaking here and there you can do. But since my OC knowledge is sort of limited, i was hopeing some of u more experienced guys can give me some BIOS setting tips to get it going.