Asus P5E

[WJA96]

I've had very good results with the Black Dragons on this board. It clocks Q6600 G0 Quads very well, but it doesn't like my E8400 at all.

In the J&W IP35-Pro I can get 4.5GHz (500FSB) out of that CPU no problem, but the P5E doesn't want to know anything over 430FSB. I've also got a Gigabyte X38-DS4 and that is quite happy at 500FSB, so I don't think it's the chipset either unfortuantely.

 

[WJA96]

I have the v-droop aswell, but its not really a major issue to me as I can see my true volt in CPU-Z

The only real issue with the Vdroop is that the CPU idles hot as you need to run a higher basic CPU voltage than you'd like to keep it stable under load. As my PCs always run 100% flat out 24/7 running folding@home it doesn't bother me.

 

[pastymuncher]

I've had very good results with the Black Dragons on this board. It clocks Q6600 G0 Quads very well, but it doesn't like my E8400 at all.

In the J&W IP35-Pro I can get 4.5GHz (500FSB) out of that CPU no problem, but the P5E doesn't want to know anything over 430FSB. I've also got a Gigabyte X38-DS4 and that is quite happy at 500FSB, so I don't think it's the chipset either unfortuantely.

Can i ask what bios you used with the E8400? It needs 502 or above to support Wolfdales. With 602 on mine i had 520fsb with a E8500.