**- Official Asus P5K Thread -**

krooton said:
Woot! I got them to cancel so I can reorder with the Neo2, after reading some reviews of it, certainly is the way to go! :D Thanks all
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Yup tis a cracking board, Ive seen peeps on the XS forum run as high as 470fsb on Q6600s and 500+ with dual cores. Will be a good board to have if you decide you need a bit more power than an E2160.

The fact it took me a good while to decide between the Neo2 and the P5K Premium says a lot! that’s £70 vs a £140!! only reason why I went for the asus was because I was feeling moderately rich and I was convinced it would get a wee bit more out of my quad, which I think it did.

I don’t understand why people here seems to over look it and would sooner go for a p35 ds3. Actually I know ManCuBuS runs one on here with a q6600 at 3.8ghz and he loves it.
 
P5KC Bios 1001 has wrong ident

Not sure if anyone has already mentioned but just tried to install the latest bios 1001 for the P5KC from the ASUS website and it objects saying it is not for this board. The ident at the top of the flash utility shows P5K only and so it objects. Anyone had this?
 
melbourne720 said:
The only difference between the vanilla board and the more expensive versions are bells and wistles like RAID and firewire, and heatpipe cooling that will only come into its own at 450FSB+
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There is something else you missed out and thats the P5K vanilla features a 4-phase power design compared to an 8-phase power design on the black PCB P5K's. Certainly not just a Bells & Whistle feature but having said that the P5K vanilla is meant to be a fine board still :)
 
I am going back to air cooling and just ordered this Xigmatek cooler. Seems to get amazing reviews and on frostytech even outperforms the Thermalright Ultra 120!
http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2233&page=5

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Just curious as to why you feel the need to ditch the AC Freezer 7 m8
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In order to acheive higher clocks on my chip, i need a better cooler , as the freezer 7 struggles when i pump a lot of gigawatts through my wolfdale. Dont wanna go watercooling, so i`d like to try somethink new. Freezer 7 is decent for the dosh, but by no means the best according to reports.
 
Budfrog said:
This is not a major issue but as the M/C is a new build I would like to sort it out.

I am currently running dual boot OSs with Vista Premium and XP Pro. Probably once every 7 or 8 boots the system hangs on the Windows boot screen (which appears very faint) for about 45secs before continuing to boot normally. This occurs on Vista or XP Pro and from when the M/C is cold or has been running. Once into the respective OS the M/C runs like a dream.

The system is:
Mobo: Asus P5KC (BIOS Updated 28th Jan 08)
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (Running at 9 x 333, CPU Voltage 1.3125)
Temperatures on full load typically below 52 degrees Celcius
HDD: Samsung 500Gb (Sata)
DVD Drive: Samsung
Memory: 4 x 1Gb Corsair XMS2 DDR2 PC6400 (800Mhz) 5-5-5-12 1.9v
(All memory specs manually input into BIOS)
Power Supply: Corsair HX 520w
Graphics Card: Sapphire HD3850 PCIE ATI 256Mb
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Just a quick update as I received the followinG from Asus technical support:

Dear Valued Customer,

Sir, the problem could be caused by the memory you are using. As Windows 32bit systems can support up to 4GB memory at most, but might be unstable when running full 4GB memory. I recommend you remove one or two memory sticks for a try.


Sincerely and best regards

As you may imagine I was not impressed with this reply, so I've shelled out for a Mobo which will not support 4Gb of good quality memory :mad:

I proceeded to run memtest and sure enough my memory failed. Decided to up the memory voltage in the BIOS to a meagre 2.0v (range is 1.8v-2.2v) and sure enough the memory passed memtest :cool:

Not sure yet if it has cured my Boot issue but am keeping my fingers crossed ;)
 
Big.Wayne said:
There is something else you missed out and thats the P5K vanilla features a 4-phase power design compared to an 8-phase power design on the black PCB P5K's. Certainly not just a Bells & Whistle feature but having said that the P5K vanilla is meant to be a fine board still :)
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And thats what make the top end P5K's sooooo good :cool: black pcb is also a bonus like you say :)
 
Budfrog said:
Just a quick update as I received the followinG from Asus technical support:

Dear Valued Customer,

Sir, the problem could be caused by the memory you are using. As Windows 32bit systems can support up to 4GB memory at most, but might be unstable when running full 4GB memory. I recommend you remove one or two memory sticks for a try.


Sincerely and best regards

As you may imagine I was not impressed with this reply, so I've shelled out for a Mobo which will not support 4Gb of good quality memory :mad:

I proceeded to run memtest and sure enough my memory failed. Decided to up the memory voltage in the BIOS to a meagre 2.0v (range is 1.8v-2.2v) and sure enough the memory passed memtest :cool:

Not sure yet if it has cured my Boot issue but am keeping my fingers crossed ;)
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It's not the mobo that doesn't support 4gb RAM it's the operating system. 32-bit xp and vista only addresses, I think, 3.2gb. You might want to ask in the windows forum but I think that there's a hotfix for 32-bit systems with 4gb of RAM.

Also most people have found that they need to up the NB voltage a little to run 4 sticks of RAM. Search this thread for more info on P5K settings, or read this one, http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17825087.

Hope this helps.
 
Top job!!

Im on XP still so no real need for 4GB yet.
I have another pair of Crucial 10th Anniversary 1GB PC2-5300 waiting to go in to match the set Im already running, ready for vista.

currently run two sticks at just over 900Mhz 4-4-4-10, if I can add my other 2 stick and keep that setting I would be well chuffed!!

Did you have to tweak anything else to get all 4 sticks to run stable at that high frequency???
 
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