ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe discussion

[GAR]

Tony and OCZ have amazing support, CORSAIR stop trying to show him up, i have had nothing but good things to say about OCZ, one of the best in the memory support.

[Fitseries3]

hey.. someone pass me that 0804... my board wont even post unless setting are EXACT. these crucial sticks are great in my p5k3 but seem to be a serious problem in my p5q3.

[BenchZowner]

hey.. someone pass me that 0804... my board wont even post unless setting are EXACT. these crucial sticks are great in my p5k3 but seem to be a serious problem in my p5q3.

What do you mean that it won't post unless your settings are EXACT ?
By exact you mean manually set ? If yes, then the resolution is a modified SPD for your RAM.
I can't help you unless you define what you mean exactly.

I cannot pass this BIOS to the public yet, sorry.

[Fitseries3]

i tried TONY's setting for 8.5x500 and my board boots fine but if i bump the FSB up 4mhz it wont post at all. even a voltage bump wont fix it.

[bingo13]

I still have some tuning (skews and straps) and stability testing to finish tonight, 0804 is not perfect yet but we are getting there. The key so far is that less is more on this board, lower voltages, delayed skews, and a 400 strap setting is your best friend.

[K404]

Is Everest any good as a stability benchmark?

[bingo13]

Is Everest any good as a stability benchmark?

No, been looping PC Vantage 64 full test suite (all my testing is under Vista 64 SP1, not XP, that OS is too easy on memory... )for the past few hours on two boards at each setting above.

[K404]

Hate to say it but im about ready to throw in the towel on this board and send it back. It doesnt perform- either for the MHz it can do or for the MHz it should. It cant even do what it says on the box.

[Telo]

I was finally able to boot into Windows at 1333Mhz. Only difference now is that instead of 2 sticks, I installed all 4 sticks. It is using some very relaxed timings at 8-8-8-28, but it works at least.

[BenchZowner]

Mine's rev 1.02G ( yes, I'm back at my place now ) and smells like fresh PCB
I'm tired from moving all the stuff, but having all those new stuff next to me is really tempting and I don't think I can stand that
I'll try to get some sleep and after unpacking most of the stuff I'll try to slip away, and run some quick tests

[Karl]

Hi all,

I've been following this thread with interest as I bought my P5Q3 Deluxe two weeks ago. Had some problems at first to get Vista installed but after setting all the BIOS settings to it's defaults and only used one memory stick I eventually had a clean Vista 64 install

I think this board is great, been using DFI for the past four years but wanted to get a Asus because of the ease of use of setting up ( compared to DFI).

My PC details:

Asus P5Q3 Deluxe WiFi-AP @n
Intel E8400
Corsair TWIN3X 1333MHz
MSI nVidia 8800 GTX
WD VelociRaptor
Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB
Zalman ZM850-HP PSU
X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Professional
Noctua NH-U12P
Antec P-180
Dell 24" widescreen

My BIOS settings are on auto, except:
CPU: 400x9 @ auto voltage
NB: 1.20v
Mem. timings: 9-9-9-24 @ 1.8v 1600 mhz


This setup has been stable since I got it, have flashed to the 0801 bios but can't say that I notice any difference with it. I'm not after any world records, just want a good stable PC that allows me to do what I want it to do...

Kind regards,
Karl

[blossa]

JFYI:
I just flashed in the 0801-BIOS. With the 0704 I was able to bench with atleast 560MHz FSB, now BIOS got corrupted at ~535MHz FSB.

With 0704 ~1800MHz 7-7-7-18 seemed nearly stable. Sometimes I had to reboot 2-3 times for it to work though. I havn't had the chance to try max memspeed with 0801 yet.

[BenchZowner]

I'm flashing to 0804 now and going to check the max "POSTable" FSB with ExpressGate

p.s. Yeah, I'm using ExpressGate at the moment.

[blossa]

That will be interesting... I tried it with 0801 and then got:
"unknown BIOS error. Error Code=813F"
Now it is unbootable. Will try with IDE-disk soon though.

[Telo]

Had to remove the second pair of RAM and bring it back down to 1066Mhz 6-6-6-22 [I was running 5-5-5-15 before, but to be safe I just did the 6-6-6-22]. It was just not stable at all with the 1333Mhz dual pair setup. I hope 0804 brings me some good news man, this board is turning out worse than the P5E3, which I dropped without trying as much as I have with this one; I guess it is because it is not my setup, but my brother's.

[GAR]

This board was a nightmare......i dont know how anyone is still holding on to this board???

[Fitseries3]

the bios is still immature. it takes people like us and threads like this to get the bugs worked out. this board has HUGE potential, the bios just needs to get better. right now im having to sit and wait for them to fix whatever problem it has with my micron chipped ram. supposedly it's fixed in this 0804 bios that has been mentioned. im just waiting to get it.

[GAR]

the bios is still immature. it takes people like us and threads like this to get the bugs worked out. this board has HUGE potential, the bios just needs to get better. right now im having to sit and wait for them to fix whatever problem it has with my micron chipped ram. supposedly it's fixed in this 0804 bios that has been mentioned. im just waiting to get it.

Yes, but i think that is what quality control is for, i mean the OCZ 4gb platinum are one of the hottest sets of memory, how do you release a board without testing with various different setups.

[Fitseries3]

i understand what your saying. same goes with my crucial 1600's. crucial is one of the most popular along with OCZ and Corsair so why are we having all these incompatibility problems? it's not just one model of ram either. weirdness.

still... i think we just have to be patient.

[mevorach]

What about 0804 ?
is it improving somthing?
where can I get it?
0801 do not change anything still nogo 1600 1500 1400 !!!

[Fitseries3]

i've heard from a number of PPL that it's allowing clocks above 1333mhz for micron based ram.

[mevorach]

Thats all ?

what about ocz ? and can we see the 1600 no.

I have to now what to do ? To change the memory or the asus p5q3 ?
It will be the first time that i will use non asus board

[Fitseries3]

i'd just be patient. i havent heard a whole lot about it yet but i've seen 1900mhz with OCZ's with the beta 0804 bios so it looks promising.

[Telo]

i'd just be patient. i havent heard a whole lot about it yet but i've seen 1900mhz with OCZ's with the beta 0804 bios so it looks promising.

2GB sticks or 1GB sticks? I'm concerned about the 1GB sticks, seems a lot of attention is being given to 2GB stick customers, but the 1GB guys like me get no love at the moment.

[mevorach]

Thanks , I ' ll wait to this bios