Asus P5Q-E (P45) Motherboard Review

well atleast the sorted the back i/o plate out now

back cushioned and also no silly parts sticking out covering the lan ports or keyboard port

must admit, it was a basic package though
 
Yeah the IO plate is pretty cool.

The package wasn't too bad. Plenty of cables (8 SATA IIRC) with the usual USB/firewire backplate. Was only really missing crappy software that I'd never use.
 
Cob said:
Yeah the IO plate is pretty cool.

The package wasn't too bad. Plenty of cables (8 SATA IIRC) with the usual USB/firewire backplate. Was only really missing crappy software that I'd never use.
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well i suppose im spoilt by the asus blitz / maximus with the lcd, external soundcard, and other stuff :p
 
Just installed mine

The bad part - I've spent all night trying to get it to boot with 8GB but it just refuses, as did my P5N-E. 4GB or 6GB, yes not problem, 8GB = NO. Friggin annoying, I was fully expecting to be able to use 8GB with this board, but.... mustn't like the OCZ. Not happy..
 
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Upped the northbridge voltage? And which OCZ?
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Yes, upped the NB voltage to about 1.26 (just before the point at which the figure turned red) from the default 1.1 - that didn't help

The OCZ RAM is this stuff
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp... Vista Upgrade Gold Series DDR2 (OCZ2VU6674GK)

Also tried loosening up the RAM timings something horrible - 6-6-6-20 or something, and that didn't help either. Not that you'd want to run that, but it was worth a go to see if it booted

Also this is with 0704 BIOS

I'm actually not impressed with this board at all.
 
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Well, it took ASUS about a year to finally get rid of most of the P5N-E SLI's memory compatibility issues through numerous BIOS updates. I suspect subsequent BIOS updates may improve the situation here too. Remember it is a new board and chipset, as the 650i was at the time. But I'm definitely not happy that I'm not able to use 8GB - that was one of he main reasons for getting this board.
 
Yeah but having had mem probs before you'd think they would have made sure they wouldn't have them again with ddr2 it's not as if we have some blazing fast new memory type so i am lees then impressed with this news :(. Trouble is apart from the msi's (cold day in hell before i have another msi board) there arn't many other choices.
 
Very wierd behaviour here:

With my CPU at say 266 x 10, it's default, vcore on auto, C1E and speedstep work perfectly - when the CPU is idle, the multi drops to 6 AND the vcore drops as well, down to about 1.1 ish (VID 1.35)

If I set 333 x 8 (= same 2.66) still with vcore on auto, the board overvolts the CPU - vcore shows in windows as 1.4v+ - but worse although the multi drops, the vcore does not decrease as it should. Very odd behaviour. Maybe the "strap" needs to be set at 333 rather than auto. Actually setting 333 x 8 the board won't boot at all with DRAM FSB set to auto, you need to explicity select DDR2 667 for it to boot at all. In many respects, this board is worse than the P5N-E it has replaced. But nothing BIOS updates won't solve I suspect.
 
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You seem to be having a nightmare with this board m8 hope you get it sorted out. Maybe if your lucky it is a dodgy board as Cob and co don't seem to have had your problems with all the playing they have done.
 
I doubt it is a dodgy board, the board just doesn't cope well with things set to auto. You must explicitly set certain things. In terms of RAM, there are literally dozens of BIOS settings. It could be that there is some combination which allows 8GB of the OCZ to boot. Maybe someone else will discover them. I've explicitly set the speed at 667, the volts and the major timings - 5-5-5-15. Everything else on auto.
 
You shouldn't really be leaving things on auto if you're overclocking. Boards tend to over-volt if left to make the decision themselves. And ASUS boards can overvolt mor ethan others.

I'll give 8gb a go now.
 
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