ASUS P8P67 Pro/Evo/Deluxe OC discussion thread

[newls1]

I just read 100% of this thread, and still can come to a conclusion for which bios to flash to for my (Soon to be arriving) Sabertooth B3 revision board. I wont know what bios is currently flasshed to it as its not in my hands yet, but what bios is recommended at this point? thanks

[LeetMiniWheat]

another small annoyance about this board is that the CPU fan header will only scale fan speed back with a 4-pin plug supporting PWM. It can't scale back by "voltage" like gigabyte has an option for. but the chassis fans do. although the minimum they can run at is 60%, whereas gigabyte can go as low as 30%. (but it only supported CPU fan speeds, no other fan ports) so I need to go rewire my case now >.< also, I'm still really impressed with the software but the auto-overclocking tool had my CPU up to 1.5v and 1.6v!!! OUCH!!! there should be a way to set an upper limit to voltages or temps, as it had my CPU up to 96c at one point. are they trying to fry peoples chips?

I wont know what bios is currently flasshed to it as its not in my hands yet

my B3 Deluxe came with the latest 1305 (dated 2/11/2011), I'd assume the sabertooth would too.

[danielkza]

another small annoyance about this board is that the CPU fan header will only scale fan speed back with a 4-pin plug supporting PWM. It can't scale back by "voltage" like gigabyte has an option for. but the chassis fans do. although the minimum they can run at is 60%, whereas gigabyte can go as low as 30%. (but it only supported CPU fan speeds, no other fan ports) so I need to go rewire my case now >.< also, I'm still really impressed with the software but the auto-overclocking tool had my CPU up to 1.5v and 1.6v!!! OUCH!!! there should be a way to set an upper limit to voltages or temps, as it had my CPU up to 96c at one point. are they trying to fry peoples chips?




my B3 Deluxe came with the latest 1305 (dated 2/11/2011), I'd assume the sabertooth would too.

You can get full control of the fans by using SpeedFan, you can even stop the ones connected to the two chassis headers.

[LeetMiniWheat]

You can get full control of the fans by using SpeedFan, you can even stop the ones connected to the two chassis headers.

changing Speed01, Speed02, Speed03 in SpeedFan doesn't seem to change fan speeds at all. tried with/without AI Suite II running.

have you actually tested SpeedFan with this mobo and it works?

Edit: trying latest beta, maybe this will work

Edit2: latest beta detects Nuvoton sensor, but fan speed still seems locked to whatever the BIOS or AI Suite has configured. (whether it'd disabled 100% or temp controlled).

maybe I'm still doing something wrong. in any case, without further going off topic... thanks! I may eventually figure it out. but It seems like Asus has fan controls locked to BIOS/AI software only.

[danielkza]

changing Speed01, Speed02, Speed03 in SpeedFan doesn't seem to change fan speeds at all. tried with/without AI Suite II running.

have you actually tested SpeedFan with this mobo and it works?

Edit: trying latest beta, maybe this will work

Edit2: latest beta detects Nuvoton sensor, but fan speed still seems locked to whatever the BIOS or AI Suite has configured. (whether it'd disabled 100% or temp controlled).

maybe I'm still doing something wrong. in any case, without further going off topic... thanks! I may eventually figure it out. but It seems like Asus has fan controls locked to BIOS/AI software only.

You need to go in Configure->Advanced->Nuvoton chip and set all PWM Modes to manual.

[LeetMiniWheat]

You need to go in Configure->Advanced->Nuvoton chip and set all PWM Modes to manual.

Sweet! Thanks! I'll try it out when I'm done stressing. If this lifts the 60% limit on fans, I'll be very happy. I wonder why Asus set lower limits like that? the bios says the number is out of range when you try to set anything lower, and AI Suite II doesn't let you set below 60% either. odd.

either way, good looking out. appreciate it

[danielkza]

Sweet! Thanks! I'll try it out when I'm done stressing. If this lifts the 60% limit on fans, I'll be very happy. I wonder why Asus set lower limits like that? the bios says the number is out of range when you try to set anything lower, and AI Suite II doesn't let you set below 60% either. odd.

either way, good looking out. appreciate it

This Nuvoton chip seems to be able to scale the voltage for the fans all the way from 0 (or something very low, all the fans I tried stopped at 0%) to 12V. I believe ASUS deliberately set the minimum to 60% = 7V to make sure no fans will go below their start voltage and stop spinning. Less tech-savvy people (me too if I were one of them) would not be satisfied if they tried to get some silence and ended up cooking up their system because their case fans had shut down.

[LeetMiniWheat]

You need to go in Configure->Advanced->Nuvoton chip and set all PWM Modes to manual.

Update on the nuvoton fan controller. manual (and of course automatic) control on CPU_FAN seems not to work at all without a 4-pin fan. speed becomes stuck at 100%. the rest of the CHA_FAN plugs work fine with automatic and manual though. gigabyte's boards have an option to change between "voltage" or "pwm" to avoid this issue, so maybe it's a limitation of the nuvoton chip.

[LeetMiniWheat]

Update on the nuvoton fan controller. manual (and of course automatic) control on CPU_FAN seems not to work at all without a 4-pin fan. speed becomes stuck at 100%. the rest of the CHA_FAN plugs work fine with automatic and manual though. gigabyte's boards have an option to change between "voltage" or "pwm" to avoid this issue, so maybe it's a limitation of the nuvoton chip.

and after an hour of re-routing fan wires, I discover that the CPU_FAN plug won't even read RPM readings from a single wire. apparently it only reads RPM if ALL the wires are there? What kind of BS is that? so now AI Suite's monitor program can't be used since it complains about CPU Fan 0RPM all the time. very disappointed in Asus. how do you screw up such a simple thing? /end rant

[kidsafe]

You can get full control of the fans by using SpeedFan, you can even stop the ones connected to the two chassis headers.

Seems that I can control the CPU and CHA headers but not the ones labeled PWR on the Deluxe board. Set all three PWM modes to manual.

[LeetMiniWheat]

Seems that I can control the CPU and CHA headers but not the ones labeled PWR on the Deluxe board. Set all three PWM modes to manual.

PWR Fan1 isn't connected to the nuvoton chip I believe. it even says in the manual that only CPU fan and Chassis fan are controllable. (1 CPU header, 3 Chassis fan headers)

[dansus]

Lets put this another way..

Looking for new board, want 4.8 -24/7 for encoding, can i get away with the P8P67 Pro or will the Evo/Deluxe be needed?

Thanks.

[LeetMiniWheat]

Lets put this another way..

Looking for new board, want 4.8 -24/7 for encoding, can i get away with the P8P67 Pro or will the Evo/Deluxe be needed?

Thanks.

K series overclocking benefits on different ASUS P67 motherboards

Quick Note Regarding Motherboard Stack – What does going higher in the board stack provide overclocking wise?
ASUS’ entire line of P67 motherboards features a class leading and high performance Digi+ VRM implementation that allows for superior overclocking performance; there will be differences between boards.
While our entire board lineup has been internally tested to fully support K series processors, when overclocking in multiplier ranges of 50 to 54x the higher end boards will benefit in two key categories.
1. Better Vdroop efficiency.
2. The ability to help drive and sustain a 50+ high load Overclock under maximum loads. Examples of boards that focus on this level are our Deluxe, WS, SABERTOOTH, and Maximus IV Extreme

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In short, I think pro is fine. 12 phases is still overkill IMO. I only bought the Deluxe because no pro's were in stock. so if you don't need the front panel USB3, get the pro if you can find it.

[getyasome]

I'm almost for sure all the new P8P67 Deluxe / Pro / EVO / Sabertooth / P8H67-M EVO / Standard B3 boards will come with 1305 bios and you can not flash back to any other bios as for the B3 Microcode in the new Chipset.

The 1305 is OK for now , Sure it still needs help but it works fine and all we can do as with any new Tech that hits the market is wait.

Maximus IV Extreme

Official Release - UEFI 1204 It will be on our Asus support site in a few days. As per Asus rep @ hardforum..