ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe discussion

[Amurtigress]

Hi people,

until yesterday my system was getting stable only in a very narrow area of settings. basically the following:

Q9300 C1/M1, 3270 MHz
RAM latencies: 9-9-9-24-10-12-6, 4x1 GB Mushkin XMS3-1600, at roughly 1400 MHz
FSB Clock: 436 MHz
CPU GTL ref 0/2: 0.69x
CPU GTL ref 1/3: 0.67x
NB Voltage: 1.32V
CPU PLL volt: 1.60V
CPU Volt: 1.3250V

Any increase or decrease of the NB voltage caused Prime 95 errors after ten minutes. IntelBurnTest was running stable.
Any change of the GTL references made one of either core pairs unstable. Overall that made me extremely szuspicious, no system should ever be that much on the razor's edge, so I kept trying. IBT was showing me stable results at a far wider range of the above BIOS settings, but this was just too suspicious to not keep trying to improve my settings.

Now, all of a sudden....I tried setting PCI-E clock to 101 MHz since I had seen this to be recommened by Mushkin, OCZ and Corsair.
My system has been running 18 hours by now on PCI-E Clock 101 and NB voltage 1.28V. results?

7 hours 20 min. Prime stable! Using the 64 bit Version 24.14
Intelburntest stable, 20 cycles!

Could it really be that the PCI-E frequency is helping us getting stable?

[twin19mohan]

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anyone else was having this problem with this board. On the IDE channel I have two DVD drives the second drive will only work if I change it to PIO mode in windows, which pretty much makes it useless. I have yet to test it another system (will shortly), but I played around with the jumpers and such and didn't have any luck. I was wondering if someone had a similar problem and fixed it. Also I believe with both DVD drives connected Express gate was not working for me and then when I disconnected one of them it worked perfectly! Any ideas? Thanks.

[Tatty_One]

Hi all,

Firstly, I would like to say a big thank you to all the contributors to this thread, I have only had my board for 5 days but I was better equipped than most with the excellent info you have here. I had a very shakey start with the board, all due to memory issues of course, I had the OCZ Platinum 1333 2Gig kit and it would only let me run the board on auto settings and no higher than 1000mhz!

I was told by a friend on the TPU forums that his problems stopped with this board as soon as he got the GSkill HZ 1600 kit so I got one myself and now I am completely stable, I have not tried pushing the memory yet as the sticks only went in tonight but today is the first time I have been able to push my new Q9650, here is what I have acheived so far....I stress this was a "deathrun" purely to really push the board and chip and is definatly NOT orthos stable

Once again, thank you all, I have used a combination of all of your suggested settings to get to here, the chip is orthos stable at 4.3gig now.

[VRSpy]

Hi all,

Firstly, I would like to say a big thank you to all the contributors to this thread, I have only had my board for 5 days but I was better equipped than most with the excellent info you have here. I had a very shakey start with the board, all due to memory issues of course, I had the OCZ Platinum 1333 2Gig kit and it would only let me run the board on auto settings and no higher than 1000mhz!

I was told by a friend on the TPU forums that his problems stopped with this board as soon as he got the GSkill HZ 1600 kit so I got one myself and now I am completely stable, I have not tried pushing the memory yet as the sticks only went in tonight but today is the first time I have been able to push my new Q9650, here is what I have acheived so far....I stress this was a "deathrun" purely to really push the board and chip and is definatly NOT orthos stable

Once again, thank you all, I have used a combination of all of your suggested settings to get to here, the chip is orthos stable at 4.3gig now.

Very good run. Your ambient temp ? Is it on water ?

[Tatty_One]

Very good run. Your ambient temp ? Is it on water ?

Thank you....On air TRUE with dual 120's ambients on that run about 14 or 15C I would guess.

[trt740]

Thank you....On air TRUE with dual 120's ambients on that run about 14 or 15C I would guess.

Great run Major

[Tatty_One]

Great run Major

Why thank you detective

[trt740]

Why thank you detective

Officer you mean, wish I was a detective, was a investigator, same job different title.

[Fitseries3]

anyone have any suggestions for my e8600 to be stable at 5ghz? i cant seem to get it bench stable. temps arent a problem.

[IronAge]

I would try the settings posted here. Try high VNB.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...highlight=p5q3

[BNDMOD]

After same test and exauth all thing.. i can affirm that mine board don`t cross over 580 FSB.... at 6 at 7 or 7.5x... :S

[Fitseries3]

After same test and exauth all thing.. i can affirm that mine board don`t cross over 580 FSB.... at 6 at 7 or 7.5x... :S

same here. idk wtf the deal is. some ppl get 700, some get 650 and then theres us who get 580.

[Tatty_One]

same here. idk wtf the deal is. some ppl get 700, some get 650 and then theres us who get 580.

What amazes me, is I can get over 500 with the quad, now there aint many boards out there that can do that!

[BNDMOD]

same here. idk wtf the deal is. some ppl get 700, some get 650 and then theres us who get 580.

TOoo Bad :s

So i-m must start to thinking in change the mother

[Fitseries3]

they need to come out with an X8900 chip. i'd get one. it would have to be like $350 or less to be worth while i think. it would be nice to have an unlocked multi on a dualcore again.

[PÿRÓ]

Havent had any real problems with this board

http://img253.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image11al3.jpg

[d3885u]

Uhhmmm...Finally I feel so tired with this board...I'm totally lose my patient with this "junk"...I've already sold my board to my friend...And now I think maybe it's the right time to try the R.O.G series...and Maximus II Formula will be my next motherboard but I won't buy the Rampage Extreme coz I think The "price" will instantly cut my throat...I hope that didn't make me dissapointed anymore...
The reason of why I feel so dissapointed with P5Q3 Deluxe is because it's stability problem issued and the "limitation" (either Processor FSB and DRAM FSB) of this board is make me feel so sick...
Hopefully my next motherboard would give me more satisfaction...

[Sav]

I think that you must find the correct setting.
Sure this motherboard is not easy for memory clock, but it's very good for high fsb and ddr3 especially with qx.

[THUMPer]

This is what I got.
Bios 1303. A mild over clock but this Kingston is holding up great!
Kingston Part - KHX12800D3K2/2G
Bout to flash to 1402

[nut311]

Uhhmmm...Finally I feel so tired with this board...I'm totally lose my patient with this "junk"...I've already sold my board to my friend...And now I think maybe it's the right time to try the R.O.G series...and Maximus II Formula will be my next motherboard but I won't buy the Rampage Extreme coz I think The "price" will instantly cut my throat...I hope that didn't make me dissapointed anymore...
The reason of why I feel so dissapointed with P5Q3 Deluxe is because it's stability problem issued and the "limitation" (either Processor FSB and DRAM FSB) of this board is make me feel so sick...
Hopefully my next motherboard would give me more satisfaction...

DAMN My Q3 Dlx so RMA NOW!!!

[Tatty_One]

I must have been lucky, I had 3 days of problems, changed my ram and not a single issue since, big overclocks, 500+ FSB with a quad and as solid as a rock.....sorry others seem to be having ireversible issues.

[Lukee]

This is what I got.
Bios 1303. A mild over clock but this Kingston is holding up great!
Kingston Part - KHX12800D3K2/2G
Bout to flash to 1402

Thumper, what is your Vdimm at?

also, what is are your bios settings?

I am using the Kingston 2 GB sticks, but they are also rated 9-9-9-27.

Thanks in advance.

[Fitseries3]

anyone have any settings for an e8600 around 5ghz that are stable for benching?

also... would running 2x4870x2s on this board cause an instability? im using a 1200watt pc power and cooling PSU.

[Tatty_One]

anyone have any settings for an e8600 around 5ghz that are stable for benching?

also... would running 2x4870x2s on this board cause an instability? im using a 1200watt pc power and cooling PSU.

Dunno, I guess them 4870x2's wouldnt particularily be overjoyed at just x8 bandwidth, not with all that juice throbbin from them

[racergr]

Hello guys!

I recently got this mobo (thanks hipro) and next weekend I am going to try it with my phase and my Q6600 (and propably with an E8500). I would test the mobo the previous weekend, but my sillystupiduseless 8500GT wasn't working. I read about the problems with 1600 Micron chips (my kit is ADATA 1600 D9GTR), but I hope I won't have many problems

Sorry for my bad English :p