ASUS P8P67 Pro/Evo/Deluxe OC discussion thread

[lithfkn]

Good first post?

i7 2600k
P8P67 Pro
4x4gb Corsair 1600mhz

[brammers]

Looks about right.

I get 7m 12.926s @ 4900Mhz - 2.2% faster for a 2% clock advantage.

Are those Corsair's the C8 or C9 kits? I'm running C8 1T @ 1600Mhz - so that might be the 0.2%

J

[ChanceCoats123]

I see an old bios, but aside from that pretty good...

I'm back though. I'm trying to use a USB cdrom drive that I've always used with this board... In every single one of the USB plugs on the backplate, I get a POST code error 64 every single time, but when I plug the USB cdrom drive out, the POST continues just fine. What gives? I literally used this drive for an OS install yesterday.

[lithfkn]

Looks about right.

I get 7m 12.926s @ 4900Mhz - 2.2% faster for a 2% clock advantage.

Are those Corsair's the C8 or C9 kits? I'm running C8 1T @ 1600Mhz - so that might be the 0.2%

J

Vengeance C9s blue heatsinks, looks sexy on the Pro

The vcore is set at ~1.42 in bios, not sure why it bumps another ~.01 on CPUZ

I get a 9.36 on Cinebench.. not sure how good that score is but its not far behind two x5570's

I see an old bios, but aside from that pretty good...

I'm back though. I'm trying to use a USB cdrom drive that I've always used with this board... In every single one of the USB plugs on the backplate, I get a POST code error 64 every single time, but when I plug the USB cdrom drive out, the POST continues just fine. What gives? I literally used this drive for an OS install yesterday.

Should I update bios?

[glen]

Is a 100% stable OC at 4.2 a cat in the bag for the P8P67 with speedstep, all c states on?, or are there still stability issues with some customers?

[Leeghoofd]

I think even the ASUS OC tool can do better, currently at 4.6Ghz 1.32Vcore rockstable with speedsteps enabled...(2600K on Pro board) Most boards OC the same ( for daily usage ) as the limiting factor is usually the CPU and it's cooling, not the board...

[ChanceCoats123]

Vengeance C9s blue heatsinks, looks sexy on the Pro

The vcore is set at ~1.42 in bios, not sure why it bumps another ~.01 on CPUZ

I get a 9.36 on Cinebench.. not sure how good that score is but its not far behind two x5570's



Should I update bios?

Well I don't know exactly what the differences from 1305 to the latest bios are, but typically, newer bios fix the bugs from the previous and can help with stability/overclocking.

[glen]

I think even the ASUS OC tool can do better, currently at 4.6Ghz 1.32Vcore rockstable with speedsteps enabled...(2600K on Pro board) Most boards OC the same ( for daily usage ) as the limiting factor is usually the CPU and it's cooling, not the board...

So these idle BSOD reports are cured or limited to higher overclocks?

[HousERaT]

Finally got my rig together. I like what I'm seeing so far.

[Brahmzy]

Is a 100% stable OC at 4.2 a cat in the bag for the P8P67 with speedstep, all c states on?, or are there still stability issues with some customers?

Slam dunk. I'd go so far as to say 4.4...
Absolutely no reason 4.4 would be unstable...

4.5/4.6 is where some start running into issues and the volts start getting a little higher/PLL etc.

[xcluded]

I stopped at 4.5Ghz which requires 1.32v (bios)
Under load it is about 1.272v from cpu-z

Anything higher makes me feel uncomfortable because of the voltage and heat.

2600k @ 4.5Ghz (1.32v)
p8p67 evo
vengeance 2 x 4gb 1600mhz CL9

[lowfat]

Why can I no longer find the option to increase PCIe MHZ in the bios anymore? I could have sworn it was an option in older bioses. Now I can't seem to find it anywhere.

[lithfkn]

Well I don't know exactly what the differences from 1305 to the latest bios are, but typically, newer bios fix the bugs from the previous and can help with stability/overclocking.

Well I updated bios and started having boot problems... wouldn't post, whereas the old bios would with the same settings plus now I keep getting pop ups from ASUS control that my vcore is running at like 1.56.. that definitely ain't the case.

Seems to not post when I have a usb stick in one of the usb ports :/

Plus my transer rates are slow on USB.. like 4-5mb/s

[danielkza]

Why can I no longer find the option to increase PCIe MHZ in the bios anymore? I could have sworn it was an option in older bioses. Now I can't seem to find it anywhere.

I think you imagined it, AFAIK PCI-e is tied to BCLK in Sandy.

[ChanceCoats123]

Well I updated bios and started having boot problems... wouldn't post, whereas the old bios would with the same settings plus now I keep getting pop ups from ASUS control that my vcore is running at like 1.56.. that definitely ain't the case.

Seems to not post when I have a usb stick in one of the usb ports :/

Plus my transer rates are slow on USB.. like 4-5mb/s

Weird. Which bios did you move to? I've run whatever the bios was when I got it, 13xx, 1503 and I'm on 1505 right now. Works very well. Infact, I've gotten bascially all of my best results on the 1505 bios.

Also, on a side note, Asus seems to be doing just fine for 01:

http://hwbot.org/community/submissio...0_109238_marks

[lowfat]

I think you imagined it, AFAIK PCI-e is tied to BCLK in Sandy.

Then WTF was I raising a few weeks back.

Either way I hope this isn't the case w/ LGA2011. Not being able to overclock my ioXtreme sucks.

[yenclas]

Hello

I'm Spanish sorry by my bad English.

Las week I buy an ASUS P8P67 Motheboard and a 2600K. I tried to OC my system and always in Prime95 (64 bits) system freeze at 3 hours. I clear cmos and load optimized defaults and have same problem. I put memory timmings at reference (9 9 9 28 2T), vdimm at 1,5 and vcore at 1,2v, 1,3v, 1,35v... and same problem.

I have G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3 1600 PC3-12800 8GB 2x4GB CL9 and I am thinking that the problem is memory.

Can you help me ?

[boogeyman]

Have you tested your RAM with memtest86+ ?

Are you Prime stable at stock / default settings with no overclock?

[Quad-Damage]

Hey anyone not going to RMA there board? Mine has been working so well for me.

[Darkstormz]

I had some trouble the last couple of weeks, getting "Display driver stopped responding" etc. I tried everything, new RAM, new motherboard, different gfx, new PSU... nothing worked. Today I decided to buy a new CPU and now it works! Turns out the IMC or something crapped out on me after my benchmark 16gb @ 2133MHz

[lithfkn]

Weird. Which bios did you move to? I've run whatever the bios was when I got it, 13xx, 1503 and I'm on 1505 right now. Works very well. Infact, I've gotten bascially all of my best results on the 1505 bios.

Also, on a side note, Asus seems to be doing just fine for 01:

http://hwbot.org/community/submissio...0_109238_marks

I'm running 1503 now which is what I got from ASUS.. can't seem to find 1505 anywhere though?

[brammers]

Take a peek in here:

http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/

NB: 1505 seems older than 1503 ... I personally wouldn't trust it.

J

[ChanceCoats123]

Weird on the dates, but I'm using it right now.

[lithfkn]

Take a peek in here:

http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/

NB: 1505 seems older than 1503 ... I personally wouldn't trust it.

J

Cheers

I won't update unless it comes from ASUS :/

Any way of rolling back to 13xx ?

That's when everything was fine.. I need more Vcore now than I do with the older BIOS.

[aznsniper911]

Anyone have weird things going on with the offset for the vcore? On idle the Asus software and CPu-Z tells me that the vcore is 1.46v but when I use the Intel Burn test both programs report that the vcore is 1.41v and is totally stable. Am I doing something here that i'm not suppose to?