ASUS P5K Deluxe - Intel P35 Bearlake + E6600 B1 / Q6600 B3

[h1ms3lf]

809 is one of the worst bios releases have made for this motherboard.
i've went back to 311, and works super with E6600. tested with other CPUs, but the OC is unstable no mater how much voltage you pump in.
+the OC profiles will not work for diffrent bios versions.
on the assus forum i've found the fallowing topic related to manual OC / multiplier.
Cannot set overclock to manual
Can't change my cpu ratio!! using 0809
as usual asus does not show any interest in users problems and offers poor support for them.

[AndyM]

The actual bios setting for the multiplier stays at 9 after rebooting. I noticed this only when loading saved settings from profile 1 or profile 2. It seems like the multiplier field is stuck on 7 on my board for saved profiles. But all is ok otherwise. I'll unplug it to make sure the multiplier stays at 9 with total power-off just in case.

Other than this, I gotta say this board and the 0809 bios is great, easy no-brainer OC's.

[AndyM]

The actual bios setting for the multiplier stays at 9 after rebooting. I noticed this only when loading saved settings from profile 1 or profile 2. It seems like the multiplier field is stuck on 7 on my board for saved profiles. But all is ok otherwise. I'll unplug it to make sure the multiplier stays at 9 with total power-off just in case.

Other than this, I gotta say this board and the 0809 bios is great, easy no-brainer OC's.

Some more semi-irrelevant minutia...

Same issue, but I found today that after a 'failed overclock' where the board resets to stock volts/speeds, the saved OC profile load-up gives the correct multiplier. Seems my dropped multiplier issue only occurs when loading into an existing OC.

Get the torches and pitchforks out!!!!

[grenadier]

I just want to say that I've been following this thread for a while and after the 311 bios came out and I flashed to that there's just been no incentive to switch to any of the newer bios floating around. I really hope they fix the bugs in the 809 so I can flash before my e8400 shows up .

[jcniest5]

I just want to say that I've been following this thread for a while and after the 311 bios came out and I flashed to that there's just been no incentive to switch to any of the newer bios floating around. I really hope they fix the bugs in the 809 so I can flash before my e8400 shows up .

It's great if you have the right memory. From experience, BIOS 311 is picky about memory brand. Read about my discovery just a few posts back.