ASUS P5W DH - Problems + Fixes Thread

[Falkentyne]

When you get the Gigabyte board, good luck on joining the 4 ghz club as your cpu should fly in that board. Some people are reaching 4.5 ghz on air with these quads now. With 4.5 ghz on a quad, there's absolutely zero reason to move to core i7 unless you want Tri/Quad SLI--for a good long while. I'm just hoping my QX9650 will not degrade to the point where 4 ghz won't work below 1.4v anymore (if i can just stop repeatedly doing 50 loop Linpacks at 1.375 (usually passes all 50 but ocassionally misses 1 test out of 50 if ambient's too high) or 1.3875v (always pass) each few days...); Prime runs forever at 1.3625v....

Keep in mind that I believe Gigabyte's BIOS settings for voltage are different than 'standard'; similar to DFI's; I could be wrong, as I mainly just read the P5Q and Rampage 2 extreme threads. Just make sure you read all the posts in that thread so you are prepared to get right to tweaking.

And as always, make sure you have a Floppy/CD bootdisk for Memtest86+ so you can make sure your overclocked system will at least boot to windows without memory or chipset (or severe cpu stability) errors hosing your OS.