ASUS First 965C2 Motherboard P5B-E FSB 500

[AndreYang]

ASUS P5B-E will use New 965C2 and the price will be between DS3 and S3.


Specification




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Test FSB 500







The first BIOS Memory Voltage is only 2.1V and cannot add any MCH voltage. I will ask ASUS to get new BIOS before the mobo is available on the market.

So I only test FSB 500 DDR2 100 5-5-5-15 2.1V

[3NZ0]

Nice results

Will be cheap too!

[|SiLA|]

looks like just the plain p5b

[metro.cl]

that vdimm is to low

fsb is really good

[shawn1998]

What kind of changes are we going to see with the C2 stepping of the 965? I've heard of "issues" with the C1 stepping, but in plain terms, what is really wrong with it?

Just curious, no big deal.

Shawn

[AndreYang]

looks like just the plain p5b

Many difference are between P5B and P5B-E , such as VIA® VT6307 1394a， ICH8-R，Attansic® L1 PCI-E Gigabit LAN controller and Audio.

[caater]

so it's a vanilla P5B with different LAN chipset plus VIA firewire?
wonder if it still dislikes overclocked 4M cpus P5B vanilla does.
nice preview though.

[|SiLA|]

Many difference are between P5N and P5B-E , such as VIA® VT6307 1394a， ICH8-R，Attansic® L1 PCI-E Gigabit LAN controller and Audio.

oops i didnt read the details

just checked the pics..bios setups and the easy way to reach 500fsb 32mb stable

[AndreYang]

What kind of changes are we going to see with the C2 stepping of the 965? I've heard of "issues" with the C1 stepping, but in plain terms, what is really wrong with it?

Just curious, no big deal.

Shawn

[shawn1998]

Thanks. The second one seems pretty significant to me, although I must say that I really don't have any issues with the P965 chipset that's on my current DS3 motherboard. If it's broke, though, fixing it is good!

[bing]

Andre thanks for the update, what kind of clock gen chip does it use ? Mind take a macro snapshot on it ?

[IluvIntel]

Thanks. The second one seems pretty significant to me, although I must say that I really don't have any issues with the P965 chipset that's on my current DS3 motherboard. If it's broke, though, fixing it is good!

What sort of O/C you getting from the DS3 ? The cpu is the one in your signature ?

Cheers,

[IluvIntel]

@AndreYang,

Can you get this 500mhz FSB or close to with 4mb cache C2D chips on 965P C2 ?

[mckennaiii]

when will this board be available?

[ent]

Nice preview Andre

Does it have the same performance drop as P5B Deluxe over 400 FSB?

[AndreYang]

@AndreYang,

Can you get this 500mhz FSB or close to with 4mb cache C2D chips on 965P C2 ?

E6600 Retail Box

FSB 400




FSB 500

[AndreYang]

Andre thanks for the update, what kind of clock gen chip does it use ? Mind take a macro snapshot on it ?

Clockgen didn't support P5B-E yet. Clock gen chip is ICS X98HH837.

[cliffy]

Any ideas on European release date???

[caater]

nice E6600..
can you elaborate on voltages.. and also week maybe?

[AndreYang]

nice E6600..
can you elaborate on voltages.. and also week maybe?

E6600 batch L624A764

[Dubz]

looks like things are standing to look good for the Allendale/Conroe boards. Great job.

[Gautam]

Is 965 really faster than 975 clock-for-clock, or is it just me? Most peoples' 965 times seem very slow, how are you getting yours so fast?

[Lestat]

Is 965 really faster than 975 clock-for-clock, or is it just me? Most peoples' 965 times seem very slow, how are you getting yours so fast?

holy crap 13m @ 3.6ghz ? jesus thats 2minutes faster than me and i have the exact same settings and speeds and ram speeds on my DS3 and 6600

no way not on a 965 that cant be. thats insane.

[Gautam]

Normally I beat most people on 965 easy, but look above at Andre, he's got me by 4 seconds somehow.

Andre, can you tell us what tRD you're running? I'm thinking the additional control over the secondary timings that the P5B allows might be the key...

[boostedevo]

High 13m I can understand because I did it (9x400 2:3 5-5-5) on a P5B Dlx, but I don't get these ~13m 10s...even at 9x400 2:3 4-4-4 it's still not even close, so 1:1 4-4-4 is a mile slower. If it could hold the 333 strap and clock up to 400 from there, it probably would, but it starts crapping out around 360-370FSB so it's either gotta be 2:3 or boot at 400FSB, which is definitely looser on the NB.

Andre, how come all your Graphics come up as 1x AGP in CPU-Z? I've been seeing that on your screenies for a week or so now and I was wondering what was up? Thanks for showing the C2...I'll be real curious how high it clocks