Where's the official Asus P5B Deluxe thread?
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)Not really liking my board so far. Really unforgiving with overclocking.
With my DFI Expert if I pushed it too hard and tried booting at frequency too high it would just lock up trying to get into windows, or crash inside windows. I could then reset and go into bios and sort it out fine.
With this board, I change something, it doesn't like it and the board won't even post. Atleast I have now found out that I can just unplug the power for a short time and the bios resets so it posts again.
Just now I rebooted, set it all to stock in bios, saved and exited, and the board would post then......
God knows what its playing at, think I may look at getting another board as this one doesn't seem to like me, not to mention the fact I really don't like the layout of the bios. Think I'll look for something using Phoenix bios.....
With my DFI Expert if I pushed it too hard and tried booting at frequency too high it would just lock up trying to get into windows, or crash inside windows. I could then reset and go into bios and sort it out fine.
With this board, I change something, it doesn't like it and the board won't even post. Atleast I have now found out that I can just unplug the power for a short time and the bios resets so it posts again.
Just now I rebooted, set it all to stock in bios, saved and exited, and the board would post then......
God knows what its playing at, think I may look at getting another board as this one doesn't seem to like me, not to mention the fact I really don't like the layout of the bios. Think I'll look for something using Phoenix bios.....
Will be a pity to see you go, I'm only just getting going with mine, seems great so far although I'm not sure what I'm doing (lots of new options?).PinkFloyd said:
I just started overclocking mine last night, got myself into a few no boot situations but as u mentioned it was just a case of powering-off the system. flicking the power switch off at the back, waiting a few secs and then switching on, everything sorted.
I'be been up to about 440MHz-FSB, just trying to get it stable at 400MHz-FSB (e6300/2.8GHz), don't think my load temps of 70°C are helping much lol!
Do u feel you've given the mobo your best shot? do u know what u are doing in the BIOS etc?
I dunno, maybe I'm just too used to clocking AMD64s.....
2 DFI boards and 3 socket 939 cpus in 18 months. Suddenly changing to this may have thrown me off a bit, for the meantime I'm just going to leave it at stock.
I did have it at 3GHz at one point, but it doesn't seem to like me changing anything since then.
Still haven't got around to trying out half of the features on this board yet!
(ie wifi, fancy mike .....
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2 DFI boards and 3 socket 939 cpus in 18 months. Suddenly changing to this may have thrown me off a bit, for the meantime I'm just going to leave it at stock.
I did have it at 3GHz at one point, but it doesn't seem to like me changing anything since then.
Still haven't got around to trying out half of the features on this board yet!
(ie wifi, fancy mike .....
)Being a bit more patient today with overclocking, only had to reset the bios once
Currrently at 333x9, with 1.312v in cpuz. Which is displaying as 2995MHz in cpuz. Idle temp at 40 degrees with all my fans on the lowest on my fan controller.
Under load (running SuperPi 4M on each core) it gets up to 50degrees on each core, thats with the fans still on low, putting the fans right up to full it settles at around 45 degrees.
So I'm happy to say I needn't worry about upping the voltage getting it way too hot for a while!
Going to work on the memory,have just left the latencys to the spd values, current sat at 416MHz (on the 4:5 divider) with 5-5-5-15. Think I've seen that the ocuk value ram might do 4-4-4-12 at these sort of speeds.
On another note, I've fixed the sound, the drivers on the webfixed the distortion I have been getting.
Only 2 things are bugging me now, networking seems to be the last thing windows loads after logging in, which is a pain when it is set to auto connect to xfire and msn. The really slow resets are irritiating too, think I saw a fix mentioned somewhere with a new bios?
Currrently at 333x9, with 1.312v in cpuz. Which is displaying as 2995MHz in cpuz. Idle temp at 40 degrees with all my fans on the lowest on my fan controller.
Under load (running SuperPi 4M on each core) it gets up to 50degrees on each core, thats with the fans still on low, putting the fans right up to full it settles at around 45 degrees.
So I'm happy to say I needn't worry about upping the voltage getting it way too hot for a while!
Going to work on the memory,have just left the latencys to the spd values, current sat at 416MHz (on the 4:5 divider) with 5-5-5-15. Think I've seen that the ocuk value ram might do 4-4-4-12 at these sort of speeds.
On another note, I've fixed the sound, the drivers on the webfixed the distortion I have been getting.
Only 2 things are bugging me now, networking seems to be the last thing windows loads after logging in, which is a pain when it is set to auto connect to xfire and msn. The really slow resets are irritiating too, think I saw a fix mentioned somewhere with a new bios?
Got My Xifi now.
So using that instead of the onboard sound, the difference in quality is immense, plus there's much more bass. Sadly I'm missing some of the software so I can't really configure the sound much at the moment!
So using that instead of the onboard sound, the difference in quality is immense, plus there's much more bass. Sadly I'm missing some of the software so I can't really configure the sound much at the moment!
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I can't get mine to 500FSB which is major poo-poo, I wanted 3.5Ghz. 
Mine appears to be rock solid at 3GHz, 333x9. With just 1.3625v going through the cpu.
Temps under load reach about 60 with all my fans on low (basicly silent)
Temps stay under 55 with fans turned up (still not that loud....)
Just gotta keep working my way up. Are people changing the voltages for the NB and SB?
Temps under load reach about 60 with all my fans on low (basicly silent)
Temps stay under 55 with fans turned up (still not that loud....)
Just gotta keep working my way up. Are people changing the voltages for the NB and SB?
Well so much for rock solid. Orphos seems to think otherwise, I can leave it under load rendering in 3dsmax for extended periods of time without even a hiccup, running 3dmark and superPi is both fine, but come to Orphos Blend it fails after 15 seconds some times :/
Looks like I need to up my voltage quite a bit, but not doing that until I;ve sorted out better cooling, which looks like it is going to involve lappy the heatspreader. I'll make sure I do before and after pics if I do end up doing that.
Anyone else using this board, or is it pretty much just me
Looks like I need to up my voltage quite a bit, but not doing that until I;ve sorted out better cooling, which looks like it is going to involve lappy the heatspreader. I'll make sure I do before and after pics if I do end up doing that.
Anyone else using this board, or is it pretty much just me
LolPinkFloyd said:Well so much for rock solid. Orphos seems to think otherwise.
Anyone else using this board, or is it pretty much just me
Hi PinkFloyd, I reckon there is quite a few people using this mobo, its easily the best chipset I used so far, ASUS are slowly growing on me, used the P4C-800-E deluxe, A8N-SLI Premium and now this P5B Deluxe.
I've only had the system up and running about 3 weeks now but so far there is a lot to like. I've been slowly working out the max overclocks of the various parts (FSB, MEM, CPU etc) and to top it off I've gone and swapped out my e6300 for a e4300 so I am a bit scattered right now!
While I was using the e6300 I switched it multi down to 6 (from 7) and cranked the FSB, got it running at 487MHz-FSB with a few tweaks but getting it to run using a 500MHz-FSB is gonna take some skill/luck.
I've had most of the motherboards voltages switched to manual and minimum, I noticed everything was running a bit warm with the board on [auto] which has since cooled on now that I'm on manual-overide. I found the system runs fine with everything on minimum, I have to bump up the NB volts from 1.25v to 1.45 volts once I start overclocking the FSB combined with very tight memory timings (3-3-3 lol thats tight for DDR2!) but If I leave the memory at 4-4-4 the board is fine up to 400MHz-FSB. To get the P5B-Deluxe to even boot at 500MHz-FSB I have to whack up SBvCore to the max (1.8v).
Tell us what CPU and memory you are using and we may be able to help you better to zero in on any issues you may be having and yes its easy to think an overclock is stable until you run dual-prime/Orthos, that quickly seperates the men from the boyz!
aah ! yes, thats what I like, someone starting a P5B Deluxe thread let me introduce my system and a noob to overclocking. On my first few days of having this board i got these results :
this wasen't stable on orthos so i down clock it to 3.4 running orthos for 10hrs :
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this wasen't stable on orthos so i down clock it to 3.4 running orthos for 10hrs :
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Everyone with this board should be using BIOS 0910 It's boosted my OC potential an absolute tonne!
regarding bios 0910
Monkeypants,
I tried this bios last night - loaded it ok, but i have a weird problem - the bios freezes when loaded so i am not able to make changes.I take it that you have not had this problem.
Have you or anybody else got any suggestions on this problem? I would like to try this bios out.
Mark
Monkeypants,
I tried this bios last night - loaded it ok, but i have a weird problem - the bios freezes when loaded so i am not able to make changes.I take it that you have not had this problem.
Have you or anybody else got any suggestions on this problem? I would like to try this bios out.
Mark
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Try resetting CMOS, or removing and replacing the battery, or both. You could also try re-flashing the BIOS.tipes said: