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

[WeldZilla]

According top your sig your are running at 3.2ghz
So why don't you show us how incredibly high you can clock now with the Rampage bios and show us some P5E bios to rampage bios comparisons in the benches. You know, wow us with maybe a 3.4ghz oc now.
I run my wolfdale every day of the week at 4.5 ghz. and that is on the P5E bios 601 which I believe has been the best thus far. So put your numbersd up and let us see this great difference your bios change made......


WZ

[wyemarn]

According top your sig your are running at 3.2ghz
So why don't you show us how incredibly high you can clock now with the Rampage bios and show us some P5E bios to rampage bios comparisons in the benches. You know, wow us with maybe a 3.4ghz oc now.
I run my wolfdale every day of the week at 4.5 ghz. and that is on the P5E bios 601 which I believe has been the best thus far. So put your numbersd up and let us see this great difference your bios change made......


WZ

3.2 is the max I would want to go with my Q6600 because anything higher requires more than 1.35V and my temps are hitting 60s at 3.2Ghz because i prefer low noise. Overclocking wise, I think my Q6600 is limiting me because I got the L804 batch with 1.325V which are proven bad clockers. I don't think even with Rampage BIOS my overclocking will improve. The only thing worth mentioning is the amount of tweaking options and voltage reading ability which is locked by the P5E bios. After flashing to Rampage bios, you can fine tune a lot of tweaking options and have the ability to monitor NB, SB, PLL, VTT, DIMM voltages. It's still a X38 board but with a wonderful BIOS. Too bad ASUS paired a wonderful board with a crippled BIOS. P5E with Rampage BIOS would make it perfect.

[necron66]

3.2 is the max I would want to go with my Q6600 because anything higher requires more than 1.35V and my temps are hitting 60s at 3.2Ghz because i prefer low noise. Overclocking wise, I think my Q6600 is limiting me because I got the L804 batch with 1.325V which are proven bad clockers. I don't think even with Rampage BIOS my overclocking will improve. The only thing worth mentioning is the amount of tweaking options and voltage reading ability which is locked by the P5E bios. After flashing to Rampage bios, you can fine tune a lot of tweaking options and have the ability to monitor NB, SB, PLL, VTT, DIMM voltages. It's still a X38 board but with a wonderful BIOS. Too bad ASUS paired a wonderful board with a crippled BIOS. P5E with Rampage BIOS would make it perfect.

Na thats not correct mate. Those readings you are seeing for NB, SB ect are false. The P5E has those sensors removed (making it cheaper than the Maximums), so what you are seeing with the rampage bios is not correct, so don't make descions based off that.

[Millyons]

Na thats not correct mate. Those readings you are seeing for NB, SB ect are false. The P5E has those sensors removed (making it cheaper than the Maximums), so what you are seeing with the rampage bios is not correct, so don't make descions based off that.

Is that 100% tested and correct?

I see that the P5E are missing the external sensors, but actualy how can they remove sensors out of the winbound chips that do it


wyemarn> can you test that out by changing values in bios and see if the changes?

[wyemarn]

Na thats not correct mate. Those readings you are seeing for NB, SB ect are false. The P5E has those sensors removed (making it cheaper than the Maximums), so what you are seeing with the rampage bios is not correct, so don't make descions based off that.

Is that 100% tested and correct?

I see that the P5E are missing the external sensors, but actualy how can they remove sensors out of the winbound chips that do it


wyemarn> can you test that out by changing values in bios and see if the changes?

Temp readings for NB and SB is availabe but they are not correct because sensor is missing. I'm not sure about voltage readings though. I'll try changing those values and report back. Everest can display all the voltage readings too with Rampage bios. I'll try changing the voltages and report back.

[necron66]

Is that 100% tested and correct?

I see that the P5E are missing the external sensors, but actualy how can they remove sensors out of the winbound chips that do it


wyemarn> can you test that out by changing values in bios and see if the changes?

The only 1 had tested with DMM is vDIMM, and what it said in the Rampage bios for vDIMM was way under what I had set in the bios and what in reality the overvolt gave me.

I guess they can't remove the sensors out of the winbond chip, but they can excluse to put the other end of the sensor on, if thats how it works.

I'm happy to load up a Rampage bios and measure things like NB, SB, VTT ect and make a comparision if you want to provide a nice detailed picture of the read points.

[PaRn ssR]

I like bios 0702

[aiya_au]

0702 bios made my computer not boot. i got no video signal. i unpluged the power from the wall, took out the bios battery, triggered the switch, left its for 10mins, booted up, no video signal.

took my pc8500 ram out, put in my bro's pc6400 ram, it booted up fine, lowered the ram speed. put my crucials ballistix back in, its all working fine again.

asus, how about fix the ram problem already!! it was running at 500 5-5-5-15 when it wasn't booting. its meant to run at 533 5-5-5-15. its now running at 445mhz until u fix the dam problem thats been around for so long...