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MMc2K3

MMc2K3

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Good afternoon fellas,

Just thought I make a quick post to introduce myself and talk a little about the P5K Premium which I received last week to replace my somewhat dissapointing P5W-DH.

I originally built back in February this year on a rather tight budget missing out on the P35 chipset by a matter of weeks :(

With a stiff upper lip I proceeded with my first OC project but no matter what I tried* (Blood, Sweat, Tears and an eventual an RMA) the P5W-DH would not pass 2.8Ghz.

I am very pleased to say that this is not the case with the P5K-Premium which I am currently running at 3.2Ghz on stock voltages:)

This is going to be a very interesting week as I make the subtle changes nessesary to further increase the bus speed, where will it stop? Nobody knows, hopefully not with another RMA :D

The last thing I will say regarding this board is that I have never seen such a feature rich BIOS, voltages for everthing including the all important North Bridge.

Couple of pictures for "mattyfez" below,

CPU.jpg

CPU2.jpg

Post Lapping CPU
DIMM's
DDR2.jpg

GPU nice and cool
CIMG0571.jpg

CPU nice and cool
Zalman.jpg





Thanks for reading..
 
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I had a lot of problems with mines, so it got relegated to the HTPC. Every so often it would refuse to boot, then do so for ages then suddenly start to work again. This was with 3 Q6600s I had at hand, 3 types of RAM and various GPUs/HDs. Strangely I put a E2180 in it and it is fine!
 
rafster said:
I had a lot of problems with mines, so it got relegated to the HTPC. Every so often it would refuse to boot, then do so for ages then suddenly start to work again. This was with 3 Q6600s I had at hand, 3 types of RAM and various GPUs/HDs. Strangely I put a E2180 in it and it is fine!
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Funny you should say that...

It wasn't exactly plain sailing out of the box for me either i.e. several reset CMOS and BIOS flashes, I was starting to wonder if I had RMA's the wrong component.

I set the "FSB strap" thingy back to auto and things have been sweet since.
 
Can I ask you guys about what I plan to do please?

I am looking to upgrade my PC.
I was going to buy the Quad Pro 6600 CPU and I shall want a Mobo, RAM and Graphics Card to run with it.

I have always liked ASUS Motherboards and so was thinking of the P5K Premium or the P5K Deluxe.

I don't need SLI but I do need RAID.

Are the intel X38 ASUS Mobos any better or would one of the above boards be a good choice?

I have read that there may be an issue with the SATA sockets being covered by the graphics card on the P5K Mobos. Do you know if an 8800GTS fits OK and still leaves access to all 6 sockets?

I want to get Corsair RAM (TwinX dual channel).
Would it be better to get PC2-8500 (1066MHz) CAS 5 or PC2-6400 (800MHz) CAS 4?

If I get the faster RAM is it easy to configure the Mobo to accept it (I believe there is some manual config. required)?

Many thanks for any help.
 
vwgolfman said:
If I get the faster RAM is it easy to configure the Mobo to accept it (I believe there is some manual config. required)?

Many thanks for any help.
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I had to set timings and voltages manually, that's something I would do anyway with a new board.

There are 2 schools of thought regarding 6400/8500 DDR2, i.e. tighter timings versus higher clock frequencies, far too much info to go into here (wrong thread). I would say tight timings any day, but I'm bias :). (DDR ram never needed massive clock frequencies to out perform earlier DDR2 dimms)

Which ever ram you decide on though, if you're wanting to OC I would recommend that you make sure the chips used are of the Micron D9xxx variety.

http://ramlist.ath.cx/ddr2/
 
vwgolfman said:
Are the intel X38 ASUS Mobos any better or would one of the above boards be a good choice?
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The only real advantage of x38 (if it eventually becomes an advantage) in your situation would be that it supports PCIE 2.0...for PCIE 2 graphics cards) , its backwards compatible anyway, and its to soon to see what if any advantages there is.

Im thinking that by the time it becomes an issue, the platform will have moved on and all decent mobos will be pcie 2.0 anyway.
 
afaik they've never fixed the issue entirely, but not all boards have the problem either from what i can gather - kind of like 680i when it launched.

mattyfez - the biggest advantage of X38 is dual 16x lanes for crossfire...you're right pcie 2.0 is somewhat of a non starter right now.

and x38 boards seem a bit more equipped for high Quad overclocks in general, beefier PWM.
 
I've had no SATA problems here - 5 SATA HDDs plugged in, 3 of which are SATA2.

As for graphics card covering the ports, it might be a tight squeeze - I've got an 8800GT and with the stock cooler, I couldn't use the top left SATA port, with my S1 fitted, it's the middle left one I can't use - might be ok with L-shaped connectors though.
 
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