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

[TI66ER]

I run my 6750 at 3.6ghz 24/7-1.41vcore on the latest bios.

Sweet reliable and very oc'able board this.No complaints in all the time i've had it.

[dingmel]

yeah, i'm gonna try a format soon, could be a faulty driver somewhere.

anyhow, on a side note, i have 2 320G seagates set up in RAID 0, with 128kb stripe and no partition, giving it a total of about 600G, but i was reading on your previous discussion regarding burst speed rates and i was wondering, since i'm going to format, might as well redo the whole RAID volume.

what size would be ideal in this case of 2 x 320G? i was thinking of setting the smaller one up for the OS and the remaining space also as RAID 0 for etc data. that would be possible right? to have 2 seperate RAID 0 volumes?

bump^

[ReverendMaynard]

bump^

Regarding the RAID0+0, it is not possible on just 2 drives. But there is not reason why you couldn't set it up as a single RAID0 config, then set the partition size when setting up your OS, then in drive management, formating the left over partition and use that for your storage. I wouldn't do that personally, because of the volatile nature of RAID0.

If you go RAID0/1 then I would set 60g for the OS, and use the rest as RAID1 (you loose half of the remaining drive space do to mirroring, but if you loose a drive, then you only loose your OS, not your stuff on the RAID1 portion.

[OnDborder]

Haven't had problems with my Premium till last week.
The bios resets back to "default" settings when I shut it down overnight.
I redo my settings and they hold after reboot.
Changed out the cmos battery and flashed to 404 bios. Still no affect.
Got a rma # from asus.

[w2richwood]

check your cmos jumper is a good tight fit on 1/2 save and exit dont use f10 to save
Rich

[impar]

Greetings!

Anyone knows if the P5K-Premium also suffers from the voltage bug?
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...74#post2963174

[OnDborder]

check your cmos jumper is a good tight fit on 1/2 save and exit dont use f10 to save
Rich

Thanks. Done both.
Off to the rma dept via usps.
It's just an annoyance more than anything.
I didn't like to have reset all my settings.
It ran fine otherwise.

[w2richwood]

good luck only took 12 days on my last rma from asus good turn around
Rich

[ReverendMaynard]

Greetings!

Anyone knows if the P5K-Premium also suffers from the voltage bug?
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...74#post2963174

Not even close.

[ggammage]

How can I tell what the version of my BIOS is, and how do I update it from within windows VISTA.

Thanks

[w2richwood]

dont use update with in windows very risky use ezflash using a flash drive. it shows bios version on boot if you watch or first page in bios main page
Rich
btw flashing in windows is very very risky

[VIctorj]

did they ever fixed the harddrive issue? Just wanted to know...not buying asus for a looooooong time.

[holwill]

Newer revisions are ok and some of the earlier ones do not seem affected.

[TI66ER]

Just noticed there is an 0707 bios on the asus site.Wonder whats changed.

[w2richwood]

i dont know but should be support for the new quads c1.s people been having temp problems readings
Rich

[stanman]

Hey, I was wondering if I could get some advice on getting my system up to par with some of the overclocking speeds that y'all have attained. My system is listed below in my signature, but for some reason I can't even get 400FSB to be really stable.

My temps at idle are usually around 45 and even at full load they never get past 60.

These are the settings that I used to boot at 400 FSB, but when I run OCCT it usually tends to fail the RAM test (the one designed to produce errors) in about 10 minutes.

FSB Strap:400MHZ
PCIE Frequency:100MHZ
VCORE:1.3V
DRAM Command Rate:2T
DRAM Timings:4-4-4-12 (Everything else on auto)
CPU and PCIE Spread Spectrum Disabled
CPU Voltage Reference:0.63X
NB Voltage Reference:0.67X
PLL Voltage:1.5V
DRAM Voltage:2.15V
FSB Termination:1.3V
NB:1.55V
SB:1.05V
Loadline Calibration:Enabled

I didn't want to go too much higher on any voltages that I didn't know how to really control, but I don't really understand why my stuff can't handle the clocks. I was thinking it might be because of the 8GB of ram, but I'm a lot lower than everyone else.

[w2richwood]

changing your fsb strap to 333 may help and maybe losen you ram timings
Rich

[pollythecat]

Just noticed there is an 0707 bios on the asus site.Wonder whats changed.

Hi Ti66er, I can't find any sign of the new BIOS; can you please provide a link?
Thanks.

[w2richwood]

been looking myself no where to be found
Rich

[Leeghoofd]

Just noticed there is an 0707 bios on the asus site.Wonder whats changed.

Think that's for the P5K3 Premium , latest I see is 0612, dated from 18 of april this year....

[w2richwood]

yea i dont see any thing ftp://ftp.asus.com./pub/ASUS/mb/socket775/P5K_Premium/
Rich

[Leeghoofd]

Anyway I get a good deal to trade my P5K Dlx for a P5K premium... is the 0612 Bios compatible with wolfdale CPU's ? I will use Seagate HD's on the Premium so I hope to be spared of that known issue...

[w2richwood]

0612 works with wofedales yes and has some extra memory timing in bois. and yes your harddrives should work fine i havent try anything but raptors on mine sn. 79 rev. 2
Rich

[haoster]

i think the 0602 bios fixed most of the hard drive issues. i now use 2 wd6400aaks in matrix raid, works without any problem.
but if i put my raptor in, no matter on the red or black sata connector, it will hang after detecting usb devices, like keyboard. it will only post if i set ich9r in ide mode....

[pmp]

Latest one BIOS is 0612.