ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe discussion

[Nordstern]

BIOS 1306 for P5Q3 Deluxe

ftp://dlsvr.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/soc...ELUXE-1306.zip

[modderwannabe]

did anyone tried this new 1306 bios ?
well, i guess i'll be the 1st to try out & this is what i've got .. good news is it's running stable thx to nordstern any comments or suggestions are welcomed .. most of my settings in bios are on auto.

[Slovnaft]

So OCZ RAM is running without a hitch on this board? cos I just ordered a 2gb kit of ddr3 1333mhz sticks and i might use them for this board freeing up my mushkin kit for my SLI build...

[Sav]

did anyone tried this new 1306 bios ?
well, i guess i'll be the 1st to try out & this is what i've got .. good news is it's running stable thx to nordstern any comments or suggestions are welcomed .. most of my settings in bios are on auto.

Do you run 400x10 or 9 with 1600 memory?
Spi 32 is better

[blossa]

Atleast SP32M works pretty well with this BIOS:

[Sav]

Atleast SP32M works pretty well with this BIOS

Not bad, what's your bios setting?

Do you set 1600 memory now with this bios?

[blossa]

Straight from boot:

[Sav]

New 1306 bios is better than 1303 but only for quick test.
Finally I can run my 4GB kit at 1600 MHz whit fsb 500
I tried 450 fsb @ 1800 Memory, i close spi (whit 1303 I can't go in windows)but the system is not stable.






Now I wait for a final bios

[Sav]

Straight from boot:

very nice
What's your bios setting?

[modderwannabe]

agreed with more stability ... not much of auto restarts or hung up during boot. can we all share some bios settings ? mine is all mainly on auto except for cpu voltage, ram voltage & timings. I would like to oc my ram & cpu to higher speeds but really need some help & guides. thx

[blossa]

I will post my settings sometime. About the RAMs, for me 2.00v and 2.20v works. Nothing in between works. The SP1M run above was with 2.00v.

[Slovnaft]

Hey guys,
Got my RAM back today so this board is officially up and running for me.
I'm not sure whether anyone's still having problems, but I started up and am running just fine on a 2x2gb mushkin kit at its stock speed of 1600mhz at 7-7-6-18, even on the 0605 BIOS that came with the board. That being said I also have a kit of OCZ Reapers 2x1gb 1333mhz 6-6-6-20 that I switched to before beginning overclocking just because they looked cool =]. Since last night was my first with this board I was just trying to push it to its OCing limits. I got it to post many many times at the magical 8x500 and could even get the windows logo to show up, but never got it into windows. I did get a 8x495 validate and SPi 1M, which I'll post when i get home, and decided to just run Prime Blend at 8x475 until i woke up for work (in 2 hrs). For some reason this board likes its auto settings better than what I give it (except vcore and vNB ofcourse).
What I was surprised with was that I never once experienced a memory related problem. Now granted I wasn't really stressing it that much, but I was pushing some hard OCs. Hopefully this means the memory problem is fixed? I'll try OCing with my 2x2 kit later, and maybe even try putting in all 6gb.
Hope this board works out for everyone!

OH, one last thing I noticed, my Q9450, which was being really good about running on LOLOLOW voltages on X48 seems to need higher voltages on this board for some reason. For example 8x475 stable only needed 1.24~7 (actual) on X48 whereas it requires 1.344 (actual) on this board. Maybe I should disable LLC as I've never used it before? Anywas, this scares me...i like my chip.

[Fitseries3]

anyone know how to get this board to boot with a 4870x2 and another 4k card? i can boot fine with the 4870x2 but not with another card in along with it.

[Fitseries3]

ok... i got it working.

damn guys.... everyone gave up on this board. the few of us that are left have to sit in the dark now i guess. no more bios updates? ram is still running shady in the 1306 bios.

has anyone run a qx9650 on this board other than me?

[THUMPer]

ok... i got it working.

damn guys.... everyone gave up on this board. the few of us that are left have to sit in the dark now i guess. no more bios updates? ram is still running shady in the 1306 bios.

has anyone run a qx9650 on this board other than me?

I'm still here. Just watching. I didn't read where there are no more bios updates. Im running a Kingston 2GB kit. I'm thinking of trying 4GB. The RAM is good at 1600. I only have my E8400 at 3.6

[modderwannabe]

thumper which kingston rams are you using ? i'm having alot of problems of stability with my ocz's. i'm running 8-7-7-7-27 @ 1.8 dram volts showing 1200mhz in bios but in everest and cpuz says it's running @ 666.7mhz which i assume it's x2 so it's at 1333mhz. 400x10 on my e8600 cpu volt @ 1.100 in bios. currently using 1306 bios. anyone mind to help out ? most of my settings are in auto except for o.c charger enabled, ai booster @ light, ram & cpu voltages. cpu in performance mode. fsb strap @ 400mhz. pci express @ 100mhz. thx in advance.

[Slovnaft]

Dude i think theres no activity becuase most of the problems are gone.

I just got off this board, but I was running a Q9450 at 3.9ghz with 4gb mushkin ram at 1400-1600. I can't comment on the CF issues you had, but my experience with this board was generally positive.

I will say though, it seems to like its auto voltage settings. try leaving those alone and adjusting where necessary (vcore, vnb)

[modderwannabe]

heres a pic ... thx slovnaft. will give it a try

[Slovnaft]

you using OCZ reaper 2x1gb 1333 6-6-6 kit?
I did a preliminary round of OCing with those because of the rumors of this board not playing well with 4gb kits. Oddly enough i had to use a 4gb kit ot install windows as it kept freezing up with the 2gb kit. anyways i didnt have any problems and got my first 3.9 validate with this Q9450 and got dangerously close to 4.
One thing i noticed, both 2gb and 4gb kits seemed to be fine with even the 0605 BIOS that came with it.

[Slovnaft]

Hey guys, I'm back and I've got a 4ghz validate on this board!
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=411543
I booted and got a validate, a 1m superpi run, and even tried to startup 3DM Vantage, but of course it hung.
Needless to say I'm very pleased with this board. Another thing I'll say that might help out you guys stil having trouble, this board is very finnickey with timings and ratios. If I try an lower CAS to 6 say, or tRAS to 18, it won't post. If I even lower the FSBRAM ratio it won't boot in a higher OC. That being said, once I got these timings and ratio nailed down they were good to get my 2x2 kit up to 1600 and even OC a little, and of course, the elusive 8X500 quad.

[Fitseries3]

I've got my qx9650 running 4.5ghz stable but i cant seem to get 4.6ghz from BSODing random error codes. temps are fine and im using more than enough Vcore.

my crucial ballistix 1600mhz kit (2x1gig) still wont run above ~1600mhz even with loose timings and high volts. like i've said before... they run fine well over 2000mhz on other ddr3 boards i have.

i did end up figuring out the 4870x2 crossfire problem.

[eporopat]

I've heard the P45 A3 stepping will fix a lot of these memory issues. Any rumors on when A3 might show up in retail?

[Amurtigress]

Hi people,

I am about to change from a Maximus Formula board based DDR2 system to the P5Q3 Del. board.

My first attempt last week was a fiasco. I was using OCZ DDR3 RAM and even at defaults it wouldn't get stable. I even set TRFC to 72, with no success. All attempts at installing a Windows 2003 server failed for 8 hours, with a system freeze somewhere in the setup process. An old Vista installation however did boot. Whatever I did, the system just hung after a few minutes.

So I returned the new hardware the next day and got my money back. My local K&M store advised to try a different kind of memory first and I more or less randomly decided for Mushkin HP3-12800 RAM. The RAM and a new P5Q3 are on the way to the store currently.

What are the chances with Mushkin RAM to have a stable system?

Any other recommendations on DDR3-1600 modules, or tricks for stabilisation?

The modules are still in transit to the store before I am getting them. I do still have the option to keep my money, get different RAM or a different board/chipset, I just don't feel like spending more than 200 Euros for a transitional mainboard before getting a Nehalem system.

Thanks for the help in advance!
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Planned rig:
Q9300 CPU
ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe Wifi-AP
2x2 Gigs of Mushkin HP3-12800 8-8-8-24 RAM
750W Coba Nitrox PSU
SB X-Fi Fatal1ty PCI
Intel PRO/1000 PT PCI Express NIC

[Slovnaft]

I had the same problem when I tried to install windows using my OCZ reaper 2x1 kit; it kept freezing up when installing. I used my mushkin 2x2 1600 kit to install windows and am still using them now, theyv e modestly overclocked, and have provided my system with the stabilikty i needed to get to 4ghz. However the OCZ kit was also fine once windows was installed and achieved the same overclocks; it seemed the problem was with installing windows.

[Amurtigress]

I had the same problem when I tried to install windows using my OCZ reaper 2x1 kit; it kept freezing up when installing. I used my mushkin 2x2 1600 kit to install windows and am still using them now, theyv e modestly overclocked, and have provided my system with the stabilikty i needed to get to 4ghz. However the OCZ kit was also fine once windows was installed and achieved the same overclocks; it seemed the problem was with installing windows.

That sounds promising despite being a bit different. Did you set Trfc to anything higher than 60 to get your Mushkins stable?

What are your experiences with the maximum achievable FSB clocks with a 45 nm quadcore? My Maximus/X38 chipset hits a FSB wall roughly at 440 MHz when it would lock up at the windows bootlogo. The few tests I ran with the P45 cipset were still trying to boot at 450 with the same CPU...

So currently I am stuck at 3.26 GHz here on the Q9300. It's a C1 stepping, BTW.

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Planned rig:
Q9300 C1 CPU
ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe Wifi-AP
2x2 Gigs of Mushkin HP3-12800 8-8-8-24 RAM
750W Coba Nitrox PSU
SB X-Fi Fatal1ty PCI
Intel PRO/1000 PT PCI Express NIC