ASUS P5B-Deluxe; Problems & Fixes

[[XC] Hicks121]

look @ my post above

got one of the first Q9550 E0 retail

you will get fine benchmarks out of the box .....

but sadly enough after struggling for two days (1236 and 1237 beta)
with my trusted P5BDLX (first gen.-first rev.) I think its time to jump to a new generation of boards

The E 0 is recognised fine but board and the buggy Asus beta bios gave me a lot of headaches :

a. Vcore every time defaults to Auto when entering Bios...same happens with the multi -- changes from 6 to 8 and 8 to 6 and 8.5 nicely

b. 8,5 multi is only working @ default 333 Fsb (+ - 5 ) , no OC possible

c. 8 multi has a FSB wall @ 400 (you need a very insane and high Vcore for a 45 nm CPU)

d. CPU runs quite stable for 6 h with Prime 95 in all instances with only 1, 1 V @ 3 GHz (8x 374) with 2 x 2 GB Apogee 1150 RAM (1.45 V NB )

but fails immediately with IBT and OCCT (CPU /RAM) in seconds


best

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It should be here next week, thanks for the heads up. Ill post up what happens after its in.

@ unclewebb: I have an e8400 @ 4.2 w/1.38v DMM. Your pushing the NB up to 1.65? Have you taken off the HS assembly & redid the TIM? Also it is a very good idea to get some little washers to mount under the springs to give more pressure. I use caramiq on the mosfetts also, washers there too.