Asus P5Q-E (P45) Motherboard Review

[gurusan]

Shocky I guarantee you that your board can do more than 425mhz.

The reason you may be havnig difficulty is either:

-you are doing something wrong in the bios, most likely memory settings
-your cpu has a crazy low 425fsb wall, unlikely but not unheard of

If you post up your bios settings with a template i can help you out....I've had the P5Q for awhile now and am familiar with how the entire series reacts to settings.

 

[Shocky-FM]

OK, I think I need to eat some humble pie, this thread has got me messing with the bios again and after installing a modified bios (1406) over at extremesystems and a few adjustments it seems to be passing the memory test at 450,

Need to test a bit more to figure out if it’s something I changed or it's the new bios.

Apologies to all, i've been a bit of a noob.

 

[leon101noel]

Anybody know if the Asus V-60 cooler will fit fine onto the P5Q-E? Just ordered both and didnt think to search around before hand whoops! Im hearing some good stuff about this board, cant wait!

 

[Tom|Nbk]

OK, I think I need to eat some humble pie, this thread has got me messing with the bios again and after installing a modified bios (1406) over at extremesystems and a few adjustments it seems to be passing the memory test at 450,

Need to test a bit more to figure out if it’s something I changed or it's the new bios.

Apologies to all, i've been a bit of a noob.

LOL!

Oh dear.... Red face indeed Shocky.

 

[setter]

LOL!

Oh dear.... Red face indeed Shocky.

How are you finding the p5qe tom, i have the deluxe and its a really nice board to work with, when a noob overclocker like me can clock a q6600 on this board to 3.8ghz theirs hope for anyone. im considering building a second rig based on the p5qe and my current cpu and ram, and upgrade to a q9550 and some pc 8500 ram to stick into the deluxe.

 

[Tom|Nbk]

Hi Setter.

Lovely board, could overclock with your eyes closed. It is a real nice one to work with and plenty of options.

at 110 it's a bargain

 

[setter]

Hi Setter.

Lovely board, could overclock with your eyes closed. It is a real nice one to work with and plenty of options.

at 110 it's a bargain

Yep i came from an evga 680i a1 (supposed quad friendly board) had'nt a clue about clocking on an intel based board, got the deluxe for £125.00 shortly after it came out. Clocked my 1.2750 vid q6600 easily to 3.6ghz, 1.400 vcore (the 680i was never stable at this speed regardless of voltage) Got bored with 3.6ghz so decided for 3.8ghz. the board wasnt the stumbling block (more my lack of knowledge) bit of reading up on various guides and forums and some good advice from pneumonic here on oc and a lapped cpu and TRUE i got to 3.8ghz easily. next step is hopefully a q9550 @4ghz+ on air.

 

[crooked i]

my Maximus II Formula wont go over 460, to see a P5Q-E hitting 500FSB saddens me

(And this is under water)

 

[setter]

On mine im only running 422 fsb. im not the greatest at overclocking. but it helps that the board is so easy to work with. I might have a go at dropping the multi to 8x and pushing the fsb a bit more just to see what my combo can do.

 

[crooked i]

try replaceing the TIM on the NB and VRMs with OCZ freeze

 

[lukeharvest]

Is it worth getting the P5Q-E over the Biostar I45?

I don't have either yet and am in a bit of a dilemma.

 

[Shocky-FM]

LOL!

Oh dear.... Red face indeed Shocky.

Well i'm happy to admit when i'm wrong, or rather i'm just happy to get the thing working at the speeds I wanted so I dont care about much else.

Oddly enough, the problem was the CPU voltage, it seems being able to pass the CPU test means very little, it effects memory/chipset stablity as well, so failing memory tests allone isnt always a memory/chipset issue which makes things a little more complicated...

 

[Jakus]

Well i'm happy to admit when i'm wrong, or rather i'm just happy to get the thing working at the speeds I wanted so I dont care about much else.

Oddly enough, the problem was the CPU voltage, it seems being able to pass the CPU test means very little, it effects memory/chipset stablity as well, so failing memory tests allone isnt always a memory/chipset issue which makes things a little more complicated...

, always test well above what You want as final stable settings and You will get less "red herrings"
You only made 1 mistake in all of this which was to bad mouth the equipment !

 

[Darkman]

Just about to finally get around to building a new rig with a Deluxe and Q9450 I've had sitting around for ages.

I'd appreciate your recommendations for bios to update to. I notice on the ASUS forum the latest 'official' bios has 'caused' some problems. Are there better alternatives?

 

[Jakus]

What have You Guys got up to on Your NB voltage ?
I would be interested to know, thanks

 

[setter]

On my deluxe with my q6600 @3.8ghz, (9x422 fsb) my NB is set to 1.3v, CPU-PLL, 1.6V, and FSB-TERM, 1.34.

 

[Tom|Nbk]

What have You Guys got up to on Your NB voltage ?
I would be interested to know, thanks

450FSB here

NB volts at 1.16

Still tweaking for optimum values and stability though but I'm almost there

 

[Big.Wayne]

Let's be having some screenies Tom, I'm almost ready to put together an E8400/P5Q-E/OCZ-PC28500 Plat combo so basically the same kit as you!

 

[setter]

Let's be having some screenies Tom, I'm almost ready to put together an E8400/P5Q-E/OCZ-PC28500 Plat combo so basically the same kit as you!

Should be a nice combo, have managed to source some ocz pc28500 to go into mine. Look forward to seeing how you get on with the new setup.

 

[Tom|Nbk]

The OCZ stuff will just drop in and overclock no problems. Got a small overclock on mine of about 20mhz at the moment but it's all I need!

Wayne do you want some BIOS shots?

My CPU is stable but im still tweaking up from stock voltage and settings for the ram as that is only managing 9 loops of intel burn. Just gave it a smidge more volts there it is knife edge stable at the moment just needing little tweaks here and there.

I want to put as little voltage through everything as possible.

1.84v from 1.8 in the bios for the memory at the moment let's see how this does if it passes I'll drop back to 1.82