Asus P5Q-E (P45) Motherboard Review

There's another thing on my p5q-pro that appears at the top left hand of the screen when I first boot.

Only comes up for a couple a seconds, but it says about loading a Matrox driver or something.
 
Ah ha - actually it is called Marvell.
And does look like something to do with HD's.

I have 2 x Seagate SATA drives (not in raid) connected to 2 of the 6 normal orange sockets on the mobo by a SATA cable.

Is this the right way to connect them?
 
That'll be the IDE controller. If not running an IDE drive then it can be disabled in the BIOS (can't remember where it is, but the should be two seperate options for the drive controllers. The Intel one can only be changed from SATA to ACHI and RAID, but the other can be set to Disable).
 
Doesn't really matter. Just choose the lowest one that provides you with a workable RAM speed.
 
agreed. I leave it on auto and it lets me select the whole range of memory frequencies that are available from all the straps combined :)
 
Is the P5Q-E worth £8 more than the PRO version? (for an e8400 to 3.8ghz or e8500 to 4ghz on air)

Also whats this i hear with the crossfire? im looking to crossfire in the future (x2 4850s) but i keep seeing people say the X38 is much better for this and to avoid the P45 chipset, is this substantiated or babble?
 
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The P5Q-E appears to offer the following over the P5Q-Pro

  • ADI® AD2000B 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC
  • Extra Gigabit LAN controller
  • PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse combo port (instead of both ports on the back)
  • External SATA 3Gb/s port (SATA On-the-Go)
  • Optical Out
  • Extra Sata Cables
  • One extra PCI Express x16 slot
  • Extra Mosfet Cooling
I'd say it's worth an extra £8.00 for the heatsink on the VRM alone! :D
 
Not a lot! I was looking at this when overclocking on my p5q-dlx, since i had no idea what it was, and the thread starter on xtremesystems mentioned that around 1.5 is fine for day to day use, but much over 1.6 is likely to cause some damage in the long run. Its only really necessary to use it for really high fsb overclocks, and im sure that there are people around who run at high pll all the time, but i was under the impression that it is this and vtt/fsb termination voltages that kill chips pretty quickly, so i keep mine pretty low.

Not sure if you have read the whole thread, but its best not to leave it on auto, but go one or two steps higher in the bios than the minimum, since the auto settings can set pll etc very high, and i believe that when manually setting the minimum in the bios, it still behaves as if it were on auto.
 
Thanks Chrissy/Cob....

I have read about 40 pages on the P5Q Deluxe thread in xtremesystems forum, and vaguely remember a setting for CPU PLL Voltage, but couldn't remember what it was, so that has set me straight.
 
jbloggs said:
In the BIOS of the Asus P5Q Deluxe, what is the Max (safe) setting for:

"CPU PLL Voltage"
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Cob said:
~1.6v for 45nm chips, ~1.7v for 65nm chips.
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I have heard a lot of reference to this PLL voltage but it's not something I have had any experience of, I am wondering can anyone shed a bit more light on this PLL pls?

Any good linkies or a quick explanation would be appreciated. I am wondering at what point PLL is something you would adjust i.e after a large vCore boost has still failed to produce a stbale overclock etc?

also

I am wondering why the clips on the memory slots of the board I have are different sizes?

The yellow slots have thin clips but the black slots have quite wide versions? Not really a problem but was just curious?

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Big.Wayne said:
I have heard a lot of reference to this PLL voltage but it's not something I have had any experience of, I am wondering can anyone shed a bit more light on this PLL pls?

Any good linkies or a quick explanation would be appreciated. I am wondering at what point PLL is something you would adjust i.e after a large vCore boost has still failed to produce a stbale overclock etc?...
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Found This and This
 
one thing you should keep in mind regarding the PLL voltage and the P5Q series...setting it to 1.5 will actually result in 1.8v!

So set it below that or to 1.52v (which will overvolt around .4v if i recall correctly)
 
gurusan said:
one thing you should keep in mind regarding the PLL voltage and the P5Q series...setting it to 1.5 will actually result in 1.8v!

So set it below that or to 1.52v (which will overvolt around .4v if i recall correctly)
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Had to set mine on the 2nd lowest non auto setting along with nb and fsb termination (PLL - 1.52v, FSB Term - 1.12v, and NB - 1.12v) after hearing about the board overvolting to much on auto, or lowest manual setting.
 
Big.Wayne said:
  • ADI® AD2000B 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC
  • Extra Gigabit LAN controller
  • PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse combo port (instead of both ports on the back)
  • External SATA 3Gb/s port (SATA On-the-Go)
  • Optical Out
  • Extra Sata Cables
  • One extra PCI Express x16 slot
  • Extra Mosfet Cooling
I'd say it's worth an extra £8.00 for the heatsink on the VRM alone! :D
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Thanks for that :)
 
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