**- Official Asus P5K Thread -**

I am finding the P5K-E a real joy to overclock, I know 3GHz is the norm for E2xxx chips but it was so easy to overclock with this board. I literally just increased the FSB, switched vcore from auto to 1.325 and that was it. My E2160 is a L2 and not a MO which surprised me as I figured most of the L2's would have been sold by now.

It does seem to be a promising chip though and has just completed 8hours of prime at 3GHz, thats with stock volts and on the stock cooler. Temps were raising up a bit so I think this is my limit until I get a new cooler, I did have a quick look at 3.4GHz but it needed extra volts which pushed the temps too high.

 
Having to send back my P5k Deluxe because it will not post on booting. Had the problem a while ago when I went to change something in my pc case. Just powers up all fans, the lot but nothing to screen. I managed to fix last time but removing the battery and setting to clear cmos after hours of trying. Sadly it did the same this weekend and hasn't returned from the dead as yet. I've ordered a P5k Premium as no deluxe around to replace it with.

Anyone else encountered this fault? Reading the interweb seems a few peeps have suffered and seems no real cure.
 
I'm looking in to buying a new computer soon, a self-assembly jobby.
While speccing up a motherboard I saw quite a few recommendations for the Asus P5K; however, after looking, I'm somewhat dizzy.

I looked at the vanilla P5k first, but noticed the P5K Pro was only a few quid more; is the P5K Pro any better? Should I opt for that one?

Lastly, does anyone know how well a Tuniq Tower would fit on a P5K? Vanilla, or otherwise.

Thanks very much. :)
 
Agr3sive said:
I am finding the P5K-E a real joy to overclock, I know 3GHz is the norm for E2xxx chips but it was so easy to overclock with this board. I literally just increased the FSB, switched vcore from auto to 1.325 and that was it. My E2160 is a L2 and not a MO which surprised me as I figured most of the L2's would have been sold by now.

It does seem to be a promising chip though and has just completed 8hours of prime at 3GHz, thats with stock volts and on the stock cooler. Temps were raising up a bit so I think this is my limit until I get a new cooler, I did have a quick look at 3.4GHz but it needed extra volts which pushed the temps too high.

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You've done well there Agr3sive. My L2 E2160 needed 1.37v to hit 3ghz. I've got a P5K-E too.

I'm now up to 3.2ghz but it's taken 1.45v and the temps are on the limit now so I haven't tried any higher..........yet. ;)
 
wolvers69 said:
You've done well there Agr3sive. My L2 E2160 needed 1.37v to hit 3ghz. I've got a P5K-E too.

I'm now up to 3.2ghz but it's taken 1.45v and the temps are on the limit now so I haven't tried any higher..........yet. ;)
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Thanks wolvers69, What are your idle/load temps and is that with the water cooling in your sig? I am going to go for more when I pick up my new cooler tomorrow.

Also did you just leave most of your settings on auto? I did at first but have now manually selected some of them.

PCI-Express - 100
Both Spread Spectrums - Disabled
Memory Timings/Volts and CPU Volts - Manual
I am also trying the NB at 1.2v first.

All others like FSB Termination, PLL, Reference voltages and SB voltage I am keeping on auto.
 
Agr3sive said:
Thanks wolvers69, What are your idle/load temps and is that with the water cooling in your sig? I am going to go for more when I pick up my new cooler tomorrow.

Also did you just leave most of your settings on auto? I did at first but have now manually selected some of them.

PCI-Express - 100
Both Spread Spectrums - Disabled
Memory Timings/Volts and CPU Volts - Manual
I am also trying the NB at 1.2v first.

All others like FSB Termination, PLL, Reference voltages and SB voltage I am keeping on auto.
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I've set;
PCI-Express - 100
Both Spread Spectrums - Disabled
Memory Timings/Volts and CPU Volts - Manual
NB, FSB Termination, PLL, Reference voltages and SB voltage - auto.
Memory is set to correct voltage and timings for my Geil RAM.
Speedstep was disabled but I've now re-enabled it.

I'm having a bit of a drama with temps at the moment. Idle is 40c and load is 70c which is high and I'm not sure if there's something wrong with my cooling set up. Lapped the IHS last night anad it made no difference! Gutted.

It went up a lot though when I went from 3ghz to 3.2ghz because of the vcore.
 
Those temps do seem very high, what sort of cooling is it? I notice you have a HTPC case... maybe its to do with the cramped conditions that the temps are quite high?

I was just going to get a Arctic Cooler Freezer 7 to go on mine but I thinking that it may not be enough by the time I have introduced the chip to higher volts. I have always used quite high volts in the past if the rewards are there for the taking so I think I may go with the trusty Big Typhoon VX.

Its a downward facing cooler that blows over the NB and the Voltage Regulators as well. One of those cooled my previous E6600 at 3.73GHz with highish volts to 60 load. The more I think about it I think the Freezer 7 is not going to be enough.
 
Hi guys,

I'm currently looking at the P5K-E for use with the 45mn quads when they come out.... if anyone gets any experience of the 45mn duals with this board could you post here and let us know how it went - whether it was a new motherboard with the BIOS on there, or whether you upgraded the bios yourself.

The BIOS update needed for the 45mn processors is 0906 by the way :)
 
I bought a P5K-E board brand new last week and it had the 0503 bios on it. I am keeping this bios for now as the newer ones introduce quite bad vdrop and vdroop. There are a few more options in 0906 like a 400 memory divider but not much else.

Obviously if you want to use a 45nm processor then you will have to update to the latest bios yourself. I have read that the board will still boot a 45nm on an older bios but that you will get a processor error every time you boot up.
 
Case cooling is pretty good. At the same time as I buy the cooler I am going to buy 2 120mm 60CFM fans for the front and back. It also has reasonable ventilation with vents on the side panels and a mesh front.

I did use a AC7 before but that was in the P4 days. I wasn't too impressed but then the P4's were notorious for being hot. Are you using extra volts on your Q6600? My E2160 seems to be quite cool by just increasing clock speed but upping voltage really raises the temps.
 
Mine came with the 503 bios too. I believe that the new cpus work ok on these other bios's but give an error at boot up that is unimportant. I'm keen to keep with the 503 due to the vdroop issues.

See; http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=168256

Agr3sive, I'm running a custom water set up that's based around the swiftech compact kit.

This basically because I was struggling with air temps because of the case but I think that there may be an issue with the block seating unevenly on the cpu. :rolleyes:
 
wolvers69 said:
Agr3sive, I'm running a custom water set up that's based around the swiftech compact kit.

This basically because I was struggling with air temps because of the case but I think that there may be an issue with the block seating unevenly on the cpu. :rolleyes:
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Its definitely possible, those temps do seem very high for water cooling especially seeing as you have lapped the CPU as well. Just out of interest is your NB or GPU in the loop or is it just the CPU?
 
Loop is;

120.1 Rad > apogee drive > 92.2 Rad > gpu block >

Just been looking around and it seems that it might be about right for that kit.

It is possible though that the fan that I've put on the 120.1 Rad isn't doing the business or it may be because I've mounted the rad on it's side and it's supposed to be upright because it has an integrated res.

I can try rectifying both of these issues tonight to see what happens. If there's still no improvement then I'll look again at the block but I'm sure that it's mounted right. Otherwise I'll just have to live with it..........or get a bigger rad!
 
Deanje said:
I'm looking in to buying a new computer soon, a self-assembly jobby.
While speccing up a motherboard I saw quite a few recommendations for the Asus P5K; however, after looking, I'm somewhat dizzy.

I looked at the vanilla P5k first, but noticed the P5K Pro was only a few quid more; is the P5K Pro any better? Should I opt for that one?

Lastly, does anyone know how well a Tuniq Tower would fit on a P5K? Vanilla, or otherwise.

Thanks very much. :)
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I'm using a P5K with an e2180 on a build I'm doing, and and it's really good. If you don't need RAID then get this motherboard.

I think a TT would fit this board, certainly the CPU socket isn't particularly crowded. quick google shows me to be right :)
 
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