Asus P5E3 Premium Wi-fi-AP

[Infa]

Ok, i think you got it right, keep on testing you will find it soon enough. i find this board a bit hard to play with though at tight and quite high 24/7 settings, im thinking of migrating to Rampage Extreme in a while, to see whats the diffrence, not much but much more monitoring and much more bios settings... ah well

[Pisklink]

i find this board a bit hard to play with though at tight and quite high 24/7 settings

I agree, and last night was such a typical example. After a unsuccesfull CPU OC I had reset my bios to previous stable settings and tried to run blend test again. After 8 min. the first core already gave an error while I used the exact same settings that passed blend test a few days earlier for 8 - 9 hours.

[deachus]

The new 0605 bios has now allowed me to run Prime95 and OCCT stable at much lower volts all around at 450FSB. Here is a screenshot from OCCT 2hours mix. I am also attaching a 450FSB bios profile for anyone that wants to try it out if they are having problems getting there Q9450 450FSB stable. The temps in the OCCT screenie are reading 10c higher than in Realtemp.

You must be using the 0605 bios to use this profile.

Here's the setup for this profile:

Q9450 @ 3.6Ghz 1.28v bios (1.20v CPUz)
2x1GB G.Skill 1600Mhz HZ "D9GTS" @ 1800Mhz 7-7-7-18-2T

I was not able to get 450FSB stable prior to 0605 bios unless I used the 2:3 mem divider running the ram at 1600Mhz 6-5-5-15-2T and had to give the CPU 1.34v Bios to get 3.6Ghz stable.

[Brave758]

Hey, I've just ordered this board to replace my dead deluxe version. Which was very picky and had poor bios's. I hope ive made the right choice but i could find much in the way of x48 boards that flicked my switch

[Infa]

I have Random Crashes, not stable board completely, and Im thinking its actually the board itself, seems it cant take what i want it do.

Prime fails, not Linx or any other program, it has been the same tricky since the beginning, The bios merely only change stability on the straps, nothing else has changed for me to make a more stable board, and im allways using 1:2 divider giving highest memspeed.

naah im tired of this been trying to get rid of my game crashes and random reboots, have been trying sooo long and now im out!
Rampage board seems like its a more fine tuned edition of the X48, Like E0 from C0 Chips, and i also like seeing the seperate GTL settings in RE. AND ALL the monitoring, for the premium board to cost almost as much as the RE, it sucks in settings and monitoring... bad move from asus, is it so hard to implant some monitoring chips? all other Makers can do it for less money?

just my thoughts.

[elite.ire]

i have this board, i love it, although i havnt pushed it atall really as im a noob and have only built one pc ever , but my wifi stops sometimes for no reason, and i have to upplug my pc for a few minutes, and reboot it to get it to work again... anyone else get this ??

[Brave758]

Just changed the boards over so had a good look at the side by side and i have to say the premium looks like a better build quality,it has one less pci ex x1 slot the deluxe has one just below the wifi card i also didn't get the remote with it?? oh well never used it anyway. I used to have the same issue with the wifi on the deluxe i just got the manufacture's drive and it sorted that.

Oh well i'll give it a gentle brake in tonight and see how it goes.

Wish me luck

[deachus]

Brave758, you might want to try out my profile with your QUAD if your G.SKill's have the D9GTS ic's.

I love this Board. Once you find the right settings this Board is extremely fast!

[Brave758]

Thanks Deachus, so far i'm very impressed it was a little fussy till i got the bios updated no it seems fine. i take it your profiles are bios read items.

Again thanks

[deachus]

Thanks Deachus, so far i'm very impressed it was a little fussy till i got the bios updated no it seems fine. i take it your profiles are bios read items.

Again thanks

Your very welcome.

I'm not sure I understand your questions??

"I take it your profiles are bios read items??"


The bios profile is all my bios settings exported to a bios profile file which is a feature built into the P5E3 Premium. Its called "Overclock Profile" You can put my profile on your USB thumb drive, go into bios, run the overclock profile and it will read your thumb drive and allow you to load mine or anyones profile. Once the profile is loaded it loads all mine or anyone's bios settings.

This is a great tool because I have created all sorts of profiles for benching, 4GB DDR3 stable, 2GB DDR3 stable, 3D benching, 1M and 32M benching.

Try it out. I wish all motherboards had this feature

[Pisklink]

I finally got me some stable settings (I think). I have to admit that the board is fast when you find some settings. I tried to get my memory stable at 1857Mhz 7-7-7-20-1T settings and supprisingly it was stable for at least 1 hour in Prime. I had to stop because I needed my comp. I will test again tonight or tomorrow. But I did a Everest benchmark instead and passed the 12Gb/s read and got some nice latency, I think. What do you think of the benchmark?

[Brave758]

@ deachus. Yes mate you answered my question, i tired to view them in windows but it wouldn't reconise them, i was just checking if they were bios files. Sounds good it's not something i've used before but i'll give it a go and let ya know how she fair's lol

[nunor]

I would like to overclock my Q9450 a little bit more but unfortunately i can't pass the 400fsb barrier dunno why

[funkflix]

Just try the oc-profile in deachus signature, it helped me a lot.

Big thanks for that!

[fly_ebos]

hi, can somebody give me a link on where to download the new beta 0605 bios? thx!

[deachus]

hi, can somebody give me a link on where to download the new beta 0605 bios? thx!

You can download it from this thread under "X48"

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=201035

[Kazi]

So much troubles with this second P5E3 board.

After my board had run for 2 month with a bootable vista64partition i wantted to do a new install of vista64 on a single raptor. The reason for this is that on drive kept dropping out of the arry.

When i now try to instal vista64 on the one raptor, I am experiencing verry slow windows intall- setupscreens, which take almost a hour to load
And when i get to the screen where the harddrives are shown, my damn vilociraptors dont show.
I am realy at a total loss here.

Has anyone here experienced the same problem?
All advice appreciated.


Kazi

[jeanjean15]

I would like to overclock my Q9450 a little bit more but unfortunately i can't pass the 400fsb barrier dunno why

I have got a QX9650 and found that a very important setting for high FSB with quad core is the FSB voltage .

In fact , I need 1.4 volt to be stable at 445 mhz .

But be careful and do not go over 1.45 volt .

See the article from anandtech for further information :

http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=428

[ToyTen]

I got this today, setting 2,28 VDDR 1,81 VNB twister on moderate PL6 at boot:

[deachus]

The official 0605 Bios is now available on Asus website for download.

The 0605 bios has now allowed me to run 450FSB 1:1 4x1GB 1800Mhz 7-7-7-18-2T P95 blend stable. I was not able to achieve this with any previous bios. I could run 450FSB 4x1GB p95 stable but with 2:3 divider on the previous 0505 bios. I am also running with alot less voltage across the board with this new bios. It seems things are getting better and better with each new bios.

[nunor]

Is the bios in asus site the same as the beta?

Btw i was trying to get my Q9450 stable at 3.4GHz but i was getting an error in 1 core after 1h14mins. With a 0.02vNB increase it would only run for 3 minutes so i decreased 0.02vNB and increased 0.01vCore and i was able to run prime for 3h12min when it stopped because of the same core error :s

I tried to run prime again but only for the specified test that gave me the error after 3hours and i don't have the error anymore... seems like random errors? Where should the problem be?

[deachus]

Is the bios in asus site the same as the beta?

Btw i was trying to get my Q9450 stable at 3.4GHz but i was getting an error in 1 core after 1h14mins. With a 0.02vNB increase it would only run for 3 minutes so i decreased 0.02vNB and increased 0.01vCore and i was able to run prime for 3h12min when it stopped because of the same core error :s

I tried to run prime again but only for the specified test that gave me the error after 3hours and i don't have the error anymore... seems like random errors? Where should the problem be?

I do not know if the 0605 Bios on Asus site is different than the Beta that was posted on XS. I found it at work this morning and haven't tested or looked into the bios yet. I will look into when I get home in a few hours.

Please post your BIOS settings for me so I can take a look and see if I can give you any advice on why you are getting an error. If you can take a digital picture of bios and post that would be helpful. Are you using the Clock Twister? What PL are you using?

[deachus]

My QX9650 with 4 Ghz and 445 mhz FSB , stable prime95 5 hours :



BIOS 505 SETTINGS ( bios 605 not tested yet ) :

Those are some pretty sloppy ram settings and PL10? It would be much much faster if you ran your ram 1:1, tightened the timings and lowered the PL.

[jeanjean15]

My QX9650 with 4 Ghz and 445 mhz FSB , stable prime95 5 hours :



BIOS 505 SETTINGS ( bios 605 not tested yet ) :

[jeanjean15]

Those are some pretty sloppy ram settings and PL10? It would be much much faster if you ran your ram 1:1, tightened the timings and lowered the PL.

Hello , thank you for the advice .

I am going to try your settings but i don't think that my ram will appreciate because it is only Corsair PC 10666 cas 9 .