***OFFICIAL Asus P5K-E/WiFi Thread

[masscrazy]

Im running 0401 bios, pretty old.

Everything works fine, overclocked to 3.33 Q6600 from 2.4.

Will i have to flash the bios when i get 4890, or will it work straight away?

[noroger]

Im running 0401 bios, pretty old.

Everything works fine, overclocked to 3.33 Q6600 from 2.4.

Will i have to flash the bios when i get 4890, or will it work straight away?

It will work fine.

I'm struggling to get a Q6600 stable. I'm on the current BIOS, with a mix of memory running at 667.

The box runs ok if I run an OS like NetBSD which can limit to one cpu core. If I run all 4 cores, the unit is very tempramental.

No OC settings (obviously. I'd rather underclock than overclock!)

I've read threads here which suggest the P5KE isn't crash hot at driving the older core2quad. Maybe finding a cheaper 2 core or a newer Q5 or Q7 series might be a way out, but meantime, is there a BIOS setting I am missing which can limit the number of apparent cores?

-G

As much as my knowledge goes you can only do it by disabling it in windows.
more info: http://en.kioskea.net/faq/sujet-616-...disable-a-core

[hughythomas]

Hey guys!

I just upgraded my E8400 (which I had running @ 4.40Ghz on water) to a Q9550 on the ASUS P5K-E Wifi/AP.

I am getting constant rebooting on this new CPU and can't seem to get it stable...as in I can't even boot into safe mode. I updated my BIOS to 1305 and still the same issues. It keeps hanging and then restarting itself. Has anyone got any bright ideas?

Many thanks!

Tom