Asus P5Q-E (P45) Motherboard Review

Kyo Daikun said:
Hi all im using the delux and ive got a 750w corsair psu, im really stumped on the case fans on my lian li b25, the pins on them have 4 connectors so I know you connect them to the powersupply, the power supply lead has 4 of the fan connectors then at the end has 2 black a red and yellow wire (im guessing these control the fans) where does this 4 lead wire plug into on the motherboard?

Any help is grand ;)
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sounds like you are describing a molex plug :confused: the power supply doesn’t control any external fans.
 
Do options like Clock Skew for Memory, CPU and MCH slow performance down?

I was getting errors on memtest but turning Clock Skew to Delay 200PS for the 2 memory slots my memory is in seemed to have done the trick.
 
Kyo Daikun said:
Hi all im using the delux and ive got a 750w corsair psu, im really stumped on the case fans on my lian li b25, the pins on them have 4 connectors so I know you connect them to the powersupply, the power supply lead has 4 of the fan connectors then at the end has 2 black a red and yellow wire (im guessing these control the fans) where does this 4 lead wire plug into on the motherboard?

Any help is grand ;)
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Sounds like your fans use a molex plug (same as what you would put in the those old EIDE DVDRW) and so instead of connecting directly to the motherboard (which expects a 3pin connector) you should connect them straight to the power supply which will run them at 100%.

Some PSUs do have 'fan molexes' where they can intelligently (I use the word loosely) control the fan RPM dependent on temperature (generally what the probe in the PSU is sensing).

A pic might help if you are still stuck ;)

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Just realised that with load line calibration enabled and the lower vDrop/vDroop I can actually set my CPU to run at 3.33 (417*8) with vCore still at 1.3 in the BIOS and get something for nothing, YAY!! :) Just testing that it's Prime stable, got greedy and tried 425*8 but that needed more volts which I don't really want to give it.
 
IAmATeaf said:
Just realised that with load line calibration enabled and the lower vDrop/vDroop I can actually set my CPU to run at 3.33 (417*8) with vCore still at 1.3 in the BIOS and get something for nothing, YAY!! :) Just testing that it's Prime stable, got greedy and tried 425*8 but that needed more volts which I don't really want to give it.
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Sorry for the nub question but whats the reason for lowering the multi to 8?
 
I posted on here with an issue a few pages back... with no response.
Luckily after a BIOS update all of those problems have been resolved.

however I now have another issue(final one hopefully)...

I have 4 x 750Gb HDD on the primary Intel controller which I wish to RAID 5 together. I have done this in the CTRL-I configuration. But when I go into Vista 64, there is no sign of the RAID Volume. The volume does not appear in the Disk Managment tool either. The volume size is 2.1TB.
If I reduce this to below 2TB the volume is visible.

How do I get around this?
I dont want to boot from the volume.
 
Dont worry... Ive sorted this too.
For some reason Vista would not recognise the volume created within the CTRL-I RAID config program if greater than 2TB.
So I deleted it.

Then went in to vista where it recognised the drives as non-allocated.
Then I used the "Intel Matrix storage manager", software instead to create the RAID.
low and behold vista now recognises it!
 
IAmATeaf said:
Lowered it as else it would be running the CPU at 417 * 9 which equals a lot and would probably result in a no boot :D
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But i mean why not run it at 370 * 9 as this would still give you the same clock. Bear in mind I'm a n00b at this lol.

Just started clocking my Q6600 and got it stable at 3ghz so far. 334 * 9 and the ram is slightly clocked at 424.
 
Ahh i didn't know that. I just thought the end clock speed was what increased performance.

I guess i should drop mine down to 8 tomorrow when i try for 3.2 then.
 
3.2GHz with an 8 multi will run very nicely 1:1 with 800ddr ram, thats assuming you run 800MHz ram as most do.
 
Just tried 400 * 8 with ram at DDR 800 and it froze in windows :(. Volts were at 1.26 would i need more than this for 3.2?
 
Mark A said:
Just tried 400 * 8 with ram at DDR 800 and it froze in windows :(. Volts were at 1.26 would i need more than this for 3.2?
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Up the vCore to around 1.3 and try again, my Q6600 will happily run at 3.0 on stock vCore which is 1.2625 but anything higher and I need to up the vCore.
 
I'm jealous

The vid on mine is 1.275 - I need 1.52 Volts for my 9x400 Overclock.

Its a good job Im running a lapped Tuniq and lapped Q6600 CPU with lots of fans!
 
Big.Wayne said:
Just to add some further comments on this *Bad Overclock* recover feature. . .

On the older ASUS/INTEL chipset boards I used the recovery feature was exactly as ChrissyT88 described, all you needed to do was cut all power to the board (switching PSU off or unlpugging it) and after say 10 seconds connecting the PSU back up (or switching it on) and booting the system where it would do a soft reboot and restore the previous safe BIOS settings.

However on the P5Q-Deluxe I have found this feature is slightly enhanced where all you need to do to restore the BIOS to the last good configuration is power the system down, leave it for a few seconds and then power it back up. I have done it like this many times and it is one of the pleasures of working with the ASUS P5Q-Deluxe that I don't have to get on my knees to reset the BIOS after failed overclock! :D
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Anyone had problems with this feature? 8 days ago (just as I was going on holiday) my PC did the the double boot from a soft power state but rather than starting up just black screened me with fans spinning, no video out and no mobo beep codes etc :eek:

Spent a week worrying about it (was thinking dead mobo or PSU) and resiging myself to getting home and testing all components blah blah

Luckily the first thing I tried was using the jumper bios reset and hey presto she fired up :D But I'm a bit worried as to why/how this happened as everything was still running at stock (only recently had the board so had no time to play yet :rolleyes:). This happened to anyone else? Currently on Bios version 1201.
 
Gaman said:
Anyone had problems with this feature? 8 days ago (just as I was going on holiday) my PC did the the double boot from a soft power state but rather than starting up just black screened me with fans spinning, no video out and no mobo beep codes etc :eek:

Spent a week worrying about it (was thinking dead mobo or PSU) and resiging myself to getting home and testing all components blah blah

Luckily the first thing I tried was using the jumper bios reset and hey presto she fired up :D But I'm a bit worried as to why/how this happened as everything was still running at stock (only recently had the board so had no time to play yet :rolleyes:). This happened to anyone else? Currently on Bios version 1201.
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It was probably a dodgy BIOS setting, my pc was doing it last night, although it eventually came back on without a CMOS reset.
 
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