ASUS P8P67 Pro/Evo/Deluxe OC discussion thread

[Falkentyne]

vdroop ....

[lithfkn]

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?

What is your vdroop set to?

Mine is Auto and it does this.

[ChanceCoats123]

I set mine to Ultra high.

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

I set mine to Ultra high.

and that is by far the best setting on the asus boards

[silis]

I did have too display driver stopped responding problem disabling power states c3,c6 solved that problem a lot of problems.............

[illuminati-hwt]

Disabling C-states would solve nothing for me. I never had the display driver not responding..
It might have solved a problem for you, but maybe the problem also lies else where. Disabling C-states might have cured it, but maybe there was another way to cure it.. Say something related to driver or gfx..

Do you by chance have an AMD gfx?

[ChanceCoats123]

I've run Nvidia and Amd graphics on my P8P67 Deluxe and had no issues at all with either.

[orion23]

I also get the "display driver stopped responding" error from time to time.
I have C3 and C6 disabled as well as speed step. My CPU runs @ 4.8ghz ALWAYS.

Haven't tried to fix it yet...just waiting for it to get worse...

[silis]

Thats sad to hear, yes, i have hd 6950. But i have Sabertooth p67, Asus said they disabled c3,c6 by default (auto=disabled) by bios update because a lot of people is having problems.

[ChanceCoats123]

I don't see how C-states could be the issue. They deal with the speed/performance levels of the processor. When I hear "Display driver followed by an error," it immediately says drivers, in my mind.

[r3sy4]

anyone how to capture ASUS bios like this


press what in bios menu?

[garyd9]

press what in bios menu?

f12

[r3sy4]

f12

thx mate, i'll try later

[r3sy4]

I've tried capture SS ASUS bios with F12, but it didn't works
ASUS P8P67pro bios 1204
somebody have an idea?

[illuminati-hwt]

I think Print Screen button loads image to memory, then when you boot windows you can paste it to paint or whatver. Not sure though.

[cantankerous]

You have to be on at least 1305 series of bios or higher and the images are saved as BMP to a flash drive if it is plugged in during the screen capture.

[garyd9]

On the p8p67 Pro (no NF200 chip), the manual talks about using the second PCIe x16_2 (5th ATX slot) for a video card. Specifically, it states that if you put a x16 card in that slot, both that slot and the first x16 slot (2nd ATX slot) will run at x8 for a x8/x8 SLI (or CF) configuration.

However, is it possible to use PCIex16_2 (5th slot) as PCIe x1 (single channel only) without crippling the first x16 slot?

I have two PCIe x1 cards, and I just found out that once I install a Silver Arrow cooler, that the first slot (PCIex1_1) might be blocked. The PCIe x1_2 (3rd slot) is blocked by my GTX580. That only leaves the 5th and 7th slots available for PCIe.

My slots are currently occupied as:

Slot1: Asus Essence STX (PCIe x1) (for music and games)
Slot2: GTX 580 (PCIe x16)
Slot3: blocked by GTX580
Slot4: open legacy PCI
Slot5: open PCIe x16 (or x8)
Slot6: EMU 1212m daughter board
Slot7: EMU 1212m PCIe sound (for extremely high bandwidth audio work)

....
Edit: Decided to just open it up and see for myself. I've confirmed that putting a x1 PCIe device (the xonar essence STX) into the 5th slot _will_ cause the board to go into x8/x8 mode.

It appears this leaves me only two good choices: Send the silver arrow back and try to find something less bulky that still performs well, or replace the motherboard with something that offers more PCIe options.

(Replacing the sound card with a PCI version isn't an option: I don't like moving backwards. Using onboard sound might be an option, but not one I'm happy with... I've become very spoiled with the xonar essense STX card.)

Take care
Gary

[maverik-sg1]

People need to be mindful that on these boards they will endeavour to apply voltages to allow for a stable OC that you have chosen, so if you are ambitious like me, you too may get voltage spikes way beyond what you would expect or ever think of applying, here's my situation:

Well I was reading around and decided to try this board- was easy enough to do. The EFI bios was a nice feature quite intuitive.

Watercooled 2500k with heatkiller 3 block connected to a Thermrchill triple rad I managed to get 5.2ghz, still using turboboost and EIST - all great I thought, but in windows I noticed that running linx, temps shot up to 74degrees and CPUZ and Asus Monitor both showed peak volts for a few seconds (literally 2 second bursts) of over 1.5 vcore, stabilising at around 1.44v, which was still too high for my liking.

This is clearly unhealthy and I restarted the unit at 5.1ghz and dropped the LLC from ultra high to high and my voltage offset from .2v to .15 - all was well at 5.1 temps dropped to a peak of 74 degs and voltage spikes were reduced to 1.438, with an avg of around 1.4v.

So I loaded up World of Warcraft and some monitoring, left it running in windowed mode and all seemed well - I decided to make a drink and grab a cig (at which point I was thinking about dropping it to around 4.9ghz and keeping volt peaks at 1.4vmax), came back to me PC to find it dead as a dodo.

Tried to fire it up and got a slight power twitch (fans turned about 1/4 turn) and nothing - so I read around, reset the cmos, did the battery trick tried again, still nothing, repeated all again swaping out my corsair HX850w PSU for a PCP&C 1kw unit still dead, left cmos reset on and removed battery and left it overnight - tried again this morning after a good 12 hrs discharge and its exactly the same.

I always found intel processors to be failry robust so I hope thats not fried - I am hoping it's the board (or just the board and not board and CPU).

Still I'd welcome any input on this phenonemon...... I think I will stick with Gigabyte UD4 when I RMA this, the featureset is nice but the 'boost' technology is too immature to cater for people who expect the voltage parameters they set to be the ones they get.

[Bullu$]

My 24/7 OC
Running everything on auto except multi 47, ram 2133 7-10-7-27-1T, IO=1.1V, LLC=medium

roomtemp=23degrees

[Khoral]

It appears this leaves me only two good choices: Send the silver arrow back and try to find something less bulky that still performs well, or replace the motherboard with something that offers more PCIe options.

AFAIK, there is no video card using more bandwith than what a x8 slot can give (32 Gbits/s with PCI-E 2.X)

So why would you be annoyed with your video card running on x8 ?

[st0ned]

My 24/7 OC
Running everything on auto except multi 47, ram 2133 7-10-7-27-1T, IO=1.1V, LLC=medium

roomtemp=23degrees

Isn't that too much volts for 4.7Ghz ?

[Bullu$]

Maybe yes, but LinX also using AVX and the proc is not so new anymore. LLC at normal/auto I get an error in LinX.
Shall test again without AVX/older LinX.

[garyd9]

AFAIK, there is no video card using more bandwith than what a x8 slot can give (32 Gbits/s with PCI-E 2.X)

So why would you be annoyed with your video card running on x8 ?

I benchmarked the difference. It wasn't a large difference, but somewhat noticeable. When I'm spending hours trying to get "just one more multiplier" out of my CPU, it's hard to justify any performance drop due to slot design on the board.

[Khoral]

I don't understand your point, speaking of CPU multiplier when we're talking about PCI-E bandwith :/ (and could you explain the benchmark process you went through to say that there was a difference ?)

[total90]

Hello ...

is there any problem if i set load-line calibration ultra high with cpu volt offset mode on 4.7ghz speed ?

mobo asus p8p67 Deluex
cpu 2600k