Asus P5Q-E (P45) Motherboard Review

Cob said:
Nope the P5Q-E has the standard Express Gate. OcUK's description is wrong.
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Ah ok, I thought it may be due to Waynes post.
I don't even use it :p

Just out of interest, would the SSD version be any quicker compared to Express Gate being installed on the hard drive?
 
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I've it disabled too. Tried it out the first time I booted the board, and haven't been near it since.

But I do think it's a neat inclusion.

And yeah the flash memory version would be a good bit faster at loading than the hard drive version.
 
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If they would only patch express gate to work at 19200x1200, it would be wonderful. Personally, whilst its good, i prefer to wait the few extra seconds to boot into windows for nice hi res browsing!
 
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Couldnt be more impressed with my P5Q-E overclocking wise.

I tapped in 500mhz fsb, left everything else at auto, and i had me a 4ghz Q9450 on reboot.
Was getting 80 on load though so i think im not going to be pushing it much more.

Dissapointed that it doesnt do on the fly overclocking with the AI Booster app like my 3 year old Abit mobos do.
 
Cob said:
Take the voltages off Auto. Both Auto and the lowest manual settings set the voltages far too high for a 45nm chip.
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Ignoring the CPU where we know the voltage has to be set manually - do you also suggest the other voltages such as NB voltage are manually set to their lowest values ? (for FSB < 400)
 
I would avoid the lowest manual setting with all chips. Tests have shown that it is the same as Auto for some reason, and whilst it probably won't damage a 65nm chip, it'll still be a lot higher than is needed.

It took us a fair while to work out why boards were stable on the lowest manual setting, but failed to boot when chipset voltages were increased by 0.02v.
 
Cob said:
Take the voltages off Auto. Both Auto and the lowest manual settings set the voltages far too high for a 45nm chip.
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Yeah... im just amazed it posted first time.

It was giving the cpu 1.35v ... thats grand for a 45nm on a short stint, but no doubt more then it needs. Didn't leave it at 4ghz for long, i love this baby too much to torture her like that on air.
 
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Hmm.. so with NB on auto I'm possibly getting 1.42v - although that screenshot doesn't say what FSB was being run. What you actually get on auto presumably depends on what FSB is set at and how many memory slots are populated ?
With 8GB of RAM it is likely that 1.42v is in fact necessary ? You reckon if I set it back to say 1.16, giving actual 1.21, my board won't boot ?

To be honest I would have thought auto is perfectly fine for everything except vcore and vdimm
 
Cob - reading the posts in XS, are you running linux virtual machines for folding on your machine? Did you have any problems getting linux to install? I have not tried using a virtual machine, but i have not been able to get Ubuntu to install. Booting from the cd, it gives me the option to install, but then reports PCI: Bios Bug #0[some long numbers...]. Dont suppose you get this problem at all or can suggest a fix?

EDIT: Post today in ASUS forum has solved problem
 
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