**- Official Asus P5K Thread -**

Mansize_tissue said:
It depends what cooling performance you desire. I mean, a Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme would be ideal, but the Noctua NH-U12F is also very good. In fact, OcUK have the Ultra-120 on offer this week!

As for memory incompatibility, i haven't heard of any problems thus far. That SLI-Ready memory should be fine. Although, you can probably get some better performing memory for less; if you're willing to overclock it a little, that is. What frequency is this OCZ memory rated to run at?
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Thanks for the reply.

The Thermalright does look good, does it fit without problems on your board? I heard the pins underneath the board and cooling on top can cause problems?

The memory is rated at PC2-6400C4 800MHz.

Cheers.
 
masterk said:
Thanks for the reply.

The Thermalright does look good, does it fit without problems on your board? I heard the pins underneath the board and cooling on top can cause problems?

The memory is rated at PC2-6400C4 800MHz.

Cheers.
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No problem. ;)
Yeah, it fits flawlessly; at least it does on my P5K Deluxe.

That memory certainly does seem well priced, although i'm not sure what ICs it uses. If you did want to overclock your memory some, it might be worth considering getting some memory which is guaranteed to use better ICs. For example, my Crucial Ballistix use D9GMH ICs and, although rated to run at 333Mhz, can do 530Mhz with relative ease. Just a thought!

Although, seeing as you don't plan on overclocking an awful lot and, even if you do, your memory will give you plenty of headroom anyway, you're probably better off just sticking with this OCZ memory. As long as it's still on offer, that is.
 


This is fastest I can get with stock voltages which is Prime95 stable and I'll post a screenshot with Prime95 in after it has done its overnight run :p

The RAM is Prime95 blend stable at 561MHz however the CPU seems to be quite strange because if you push it further than 3200MHz such as at 3250MHz, it seems to require quite a bit more vcore to keep it stable however I'm happy with my results :) :p
 
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Is anyone using 2 or more SATA DVD drives on the P5K Deluxe? I couldn't get the bios to recognise a 2nd SATA DVD drive on my standard P5K. I reluctantly plugged an older IDE DVD-Writer in and when i tried to boot up the comp it just shut down after a second or two and since then it won't boot at all. Took the IDE cable back off, battery off, reset cmos. Board seems dead. No post beep or warning beeps from bios suggesting component failure. Just the fans whirring away. What's gone on here then?
I asked the first question because i'm considering getting the deluxe version if my board is borked.
 
hi

anyone know if you can fit any of these hsf on the asus p5k3 deluxe board?


Scythe Infinity Heatpipe CPU Cooler
Scythe Ninja Plus Rev.B Heatpipe CPU Cooler
Asus Silent Square
Asus Silent Square Pro
Tuniq Tower 120 CPU Cooler

it will be for e6850 or q6600

thanks
 
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Yup. I'd agree it's the best cooler, especially as it was on special offer the other week. Lapped the heatsink base though as it was convex shaped. Couldn't understand why it was giving the same load temps as the Ultra-120 i had before it, until i notice the poor finish on the base. Knocked approx 5c off my load temps when sorted. Got myself the P5K Deluxe now. Sending P5K back, it's borked. Answered my own question from earlier post as the Deluxe board happily accepts multiple SATA DVD Drives, which the P5K didn't. Voltage damper works great. Worth the extra outlay. Been pushing for 3.7Ghz but no joy yet.
 
Cybertronic said:
This is fastest I can get with stock voltages which is Prime95 stable and I'll post a screenshot with Prime95 in after it has done its overnight run :p
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Here's the Prime95 screenshot, I'll try MemTest86+ tonight :p

I think after flashing to the 501 Beta BIOS it caused some instability to my 24/7 overclocks (had to increase the vcore to the next available option) which is why I took so long getting a screenshot :o

Will try flashing back to the 404 BIOS after I have done a MemTest86+ run :)
 
yup for me 0404 is better for overclocking and benching the 05, 3.7 bench stable (cant do longer than 7 hours prime) and 3.2 was stable with 05 i was struggling to get 3.2 stable :(
 
Thanks for letting me know :)

The instability drove me a bit crazy because I redid the thermal paste which was worth it anyway since the temperatures dropped a little bit and cleaned the PC :o
 
ATI said:
thanks

do you reckon some of the HSF above would fitinside the p5k3 deluxe?

thanks
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The Thermalright Ultra-120 or Ultra-120 Extreme would. Mine clears the Northbridge heatsink by a good few mm. On the P5K3 Deluxe the rest of the heatsinks around the cpu socket look to be at the same height as the Northbridge (same heatsink as on P5K Deluxe) so either would fit.
 
Hi, Im looking at getting the plain old P5K to go with an X1950Pro and an E4500 and some cheap DDR2 6400 Corsair RAM. I was just wondering firstly if the board supports DDR2 as well as DDR3 (I assume it does). Also, do you guys recommend this board? I am not going to be overclocking hugely, and cant afford to make the step up to the deluxe.
 
The standard P5K is a great board; stable, clocks great and also easily moddable.

It only supports ddr2, however you might want to look at the gigabyte ds3 p35 if you can stretch.
 
So it only supports DDR2? Does it support Penryn though?

How much difference will not having DDR3 make in a few years.

Im looking at buying from a site which only has the Asus and MSI P35 mobos at the moment for some reason, so the Gigabytes are out of the question.
 
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