***Official Asus P5WDG2 WS PRO & P5W64 WS PRO Thread***

If you mean leaving @ stock 266 with default x10 multi and changing ram to higher speeds, then yes that works fine, it's the higher FSB I can't get not higher ram speeds.

I'm still gonna RMA the RAM it was sold as 3-3-3-8 and yet SPD is 3-4-3-9 , I'm currently running 300fsb x 10 & 1000mhz memory CAS 4-4-4-12 , but why did I pay £300.00 for Team PC6400 when Cellshock PC8500 1000mhz 4-4-4-12 is cheaper and has D9HKX chips, Team are not living up to their expectation or price tag, with everything @ stock and manually setting CAS 3-3-3-8 i occasionally get failed overclock message when nothing is being overclocked , maybe the cellshock won't perform any better and I still won't get FSB 400, but at least they are cheaper and ruuning them 4-4-4-12 1000mhz is only stock!
 
Forget the spd timimgs. They are nearly always wrong on memory sticks these days. If they were sold as 3,3,3,8 and thats what the stickers say on the sticks then thats what they will do unless they are faulty. Does sound like yours are faulty or just dont like the asus board. Have you had a chance to try 0005 bios?
 
yup, I ripped out a floppy from my old server and am currently running 0005 , still can't get 400fsb though.

I'll see if it's the memory when I RMA them, still waiting for a response to my request though, oh well it is christmas, next week will have to do!
 
1DMF

For these boards to run the high FSB chipset cooling is required. Decent Active cooled copper heatsink is fine. that standard heat pipe junk is no good. and giving it more voltage also wont do you any good as it will heat up more and become unstable.

all my chipset voltages are set to Auto normal, the only one i increase is CPU core and ram. I use the yellow slots for my ram.

All the boards i ever used i always removed all heatsinks and replaced or reseated. even the south bridge gets hot! reseated that sink aswell.
the caps, the fets all get toasty when you push it. good case ventalation is also required. dificult to cool with hot air.

0005 bios i have found to be more stable for me. but thats not to say a diffrent bios would suit your ram better than 005.

set your ram to SPD and it should run 400. if not RMA it as it dosnt do what it says on the box.
 
vapor matt said:
For these boards to run the high FSB chipset cooling is required. Decent Active cooled copper heatsink is fine. that standard heat pipe junk is no good. and giving it more voltage also wont do you any good as it will heat up more and become unstable.
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I reseated all the chipset coolers and used artic silver 5. My case does have good airflow with being an eclipse 62 but both fans run constantly at 7v. Upping the volts though doesnt seem to make much difference to my chipset temps which is weird as a lot of people report problems. Going to try lowering the multi and see what my board tops out at. What cooler would you recomend on the chipset?
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hi ted

well a good copper based cooler. i use the microcool cooler. you can also get a kit which fits the loops on the asus boards. good cooler! swiftech also does a very good chipset cooler that fits the asus hoop system.
 
Matt any chance you could post some more picts of inside your case around the chipset and mofsets.
 
ok heres some more pics ted

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from my phone so best i can do!

matt
 
Still waiting for RMA confirmation, looks like it's goona be a week or two before I get this sorted, at least I can then rule out RAM.

I have very good case cooling though not direct on chipset , however, the asus system temp generally never goes over 33c , I'm asuming the AI-Booster system temp is showing board/chipset temp separate from CPU?

is that right?
 
well i dont use AI booster myself if it dosnt boot at the set overclock i dont consider it as a stable overclock. not sure what temps AI booster monitors but chipset cooling is regarded as must for serious overclocking.

also i dont have firewire or oboard sound enabled or the marvell sata bios. I have no use for them so why enable them. the fets do get hot, enough to not be able to hold your finger on them, same for some of the caps, they also get hot. the main reason for water cooling chipset blocks is to help an overclcok. good chipset cooling is a must on most baords that you want to overclock high.

the reason i place a fan on the fets is because standard air cooling would supply air from the overspill of the CPU cooling fan. when water cooling the fets heat would heat the sink without much airflow they would run hotter than normal air cooling. the caps round the CPU the black cube looking one's also get hot, again starved from the air cooling the CPU. so sinks are placed on those. the fans cooling my ram create enough overspill to cool the caps.


as for the southbridge sinks, they also get warm, both sinks reseated with ceramic paste. most of this is done before i even insatll the board. I might be lucky and have a very good board, but i also had 2 of the previous WS workstations and both were very good clockers.


my system as it is now

Asus P5WDG2 WS pro
Duo 6600 3.6g 24/7
2 X1 G ultratalent D9's DDR
Ati X1900 XT-X
seasonic 650w PSU
XF-i fatality with break out box
adaptech 39320A-R SCSI 320 PCI-X card
2 X 36G 15k SCSI drives in raid O
2 X 320g seagate 7200 10's SATA in raid O
1 X 250g seagate sata.
2 X 18X NEC dual layer DVDR optical's
akasa fan controler
2 X 120 mm fans
2 X 92mm fans
2 X 80mm fans
2 X 60mm chipset fans

and all stable on a 650w seasonic PSU. great PSU those seasonic's

as you can see its well loaded power wise yet iam sure if i were to post its unstable i would get PSU recomendations. but i still think keeping it all cool helps in the stabilty more than a 1000w PSU would.

matt
 
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the memory is called super talent dual channel 2gb kit. i bought it over a year ago for £98 including postage when DDR2 was newish and the wide body D9 chips were favorite for OC

had 1 gig of the corsair 8500 expensive stuff before this but the super talent beat it everytime.

now DDR2 is premium stuff but like DDR1 it will only get better. the fat body D9 chips are a bit like BH5 was to DDR1
 
Well I've swapped my memory for Cellshock PC8000 1000mhz and nothing has changed, cant get a stable 3.66 OC let alone 400FSB, infact the memory will only run @ same speed 1050mhz as the 800mhz Team memory.

I've even tried everything on max , FSB , ICH , MCH , RAM and 4.5vcore , I must have a duff board , or something. I give up :mad:
 
Thanks matt for the photos. I also have a fan (80mm) over my ram which also points towards chipset which helps keep it cool. Havent noticed the caps getting hot so will have a look at that. Im running low volts (1.45) for 3.5ghz. Any higher needs quite high volt increases to get small clock increases. Its annoying as was hoping for 3.6ghz and my temps are great now cpu has been lapped and did a mod to waterblock.1dmf: What bios are you using? What psu are you using? Is starting to sound like a duff board though or maybe duff cpu.
 
What bios are you using? What psu are you using? Is starting to sound like a duff board though or maybe duff cpu.
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I'm using bios 0005 but have tried 0506 & latest 0507 , my PSU is a corsair 620w SLi edition.

I like you am finding to go over 350FSB it requires stupid vcore increase for little mhz return.

I'm running 3.5ghz on auto volts so good temps idle 32/34 load 45/47, I wouldn't have minded if at least I could have pushed the memory a bit more but it seems these D9 chips max out @ 1067 , well for me anyhow.

the team OC'd better as they were PC6400 but were £40 more than the cellshock for the same overall speed, so I'm happy to stick with the cellshock, they are by far better made, the quality of the heatspreader is awesome compared to the flimsy piece of crap that comes with the Team and the Cellshock run @ 5/6c cooler because of it and take less volts.

oh well @ the end of the day technically it's only meant to be a 2.66mhz CPU and 1000mhz memory , so what's there to grumble about really i guess.

just gutted when you see people get FSB400 or 3.2ghz out a E6300 that's 1.8ghz stock :eek:
 
hi 1dmf you definitely have hit a wall with the cpu
i read in some places the 6700 hits a fsb wall @ 370,
problay better to get the 6600 chip if you want 400fsb
1.1 with memory

and 400 fsb with a e6700 would mean 4ghz
and not very many hit that mabaye 3.6 or 3.7 max
 
1dmf said:
Still waiting for RMA confirmation, looks like it's goona be a week or two before I get this sorted, at least I can then rule out RAM.
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Hope this doesnt sound daft but did you actually run Memtest86+ V1.65 to see if the ram is faulty at default speeds? run it for a good 24 hours to see if their is any errors.

james32 said:
hi 1dmf you definitely have hit a wall with the cpu
i read in some places the 6700 hits a fsb wall @ 370,
problay better to get the 6600 chip if you want 400fsb
1.1 with memory

and 400 fsb with a e6700 would mean 4ghz
and not very many hit that mabaye 3.6 or 3.7 max
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Agreed, especially when their is more users of the E6600, maybe better to change to that chip & get a good week like 28B, 29B, 30B or maybe the newer weeks, some companys will look in their stockrooms for you, not sure if OcUK would be this considerate but worth a try. . .
 
Hope this doesnt sound daft but did you actually run Memtest86+ V1.65
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no i didn't , I wanted to send the ram back anyhow , it wasn't worth the money, poor quality heatspreader, runs hot, i'd rather have PC8000, cheaper and run stock than pay extra for the Team and have no benefit , higher volts and run hot!

I'm gonna stick with what I got now, 3.5ghz 1050mhz ram, it's more than fast enough for me, currently playing 'Need For Speed - Most Wanted' it runs so smooth it's unreal :D

what ever i throw at this rig it keeps begging for more, and i'm not one for benching , it's just numbers at the end of the day, and i still paid less for this rig than when i built my P4 2.8ghz fsb800 rig, crickey I paid a small fortune for 1gb of Kingston hyperX DDR400 way back when , so really bang for bucks, i'm happy, just aint gonna get in the OC hall of fame, never mind eh ;)

edit : oh and i wasn't neccesarily after 4ghz , I would have been happy on a x9 multi :p

2nd Edit : also at least I finaly have my Adaptec U320 SCSI in a 133mhz 64bit PCI-X slot , about time too :eek:
 
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2nd Edit : also at least I finaly have my Adaptec U320 SCSI in a 133mhz 64bit PCI-X slot , about time too
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Tha main reason i bought this board was the use of my adaptech 39320A-R Host SCSI raid O X 2 atlas 15K drives..

A great board!
 
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