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

Running a rig using a WS64Pro. Great board with the right BIOS. Found the 0303 BIOS best so far.

Great stability, overclock in line with what you'd expect at the high end (3.6Ghz @ 1.52v on air with E6600). Found RAM to be best @ 800Mhz with 3,3,3,8 timings 1:1, consistently faster than 1000Mhz @ 4,4,4,12 5/4. Not much in it though in benches and sod all difference in real world.

Fastest Superpi 1M time is 14.175 which compares favorably with all other boards with C2D at this speed. Features and stability are second to none.
 
Found RAM to be best @ 800Mhz with 3,3,3,8 timings 1:1, consistently faster than 1000Mhz @ 4,4,4,12 5/4. Not much in it though in benches and sod all difference in real world.
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glad someone has been able to clear this up for me, so although 1:1 is faster it's not enough to make it be worth losing money by selling my E6700 for a E6600, and i'd only get .1ghz faster cpu than i'm on also.

if anything i guess i'll wait till the Intel price cuts i've heard about and upgrade rather than downgrade.

I take it when the new 1333mhz FSB chips and QX chips come out they will still be socket 775 and work on the x975 chipset / asus P5WDG2-WS Pro Mobo ?

I certainly hope so!
 
1dmf said:
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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Also agreed. I was hoping for 3.6ghz but my chip seems to be topping out at 3.5ghz which isnt bad. Run my memory which is gskill hz6400 at 4,4,4,12 and at 5:4 and that is faster than at 1:1 in superpi. Couldnt get it to run at 3,3,3,8 at 1:1. I use to have an fx60 at 3.1ghz with ram 1:1 at 239mhz 2,3,2,5 (???world record maybe for cas2 2gb kit???) and it doesnt even come close on performance to my 6600. Think a lot of it is the intel chipsets are a lot better than nf4.

Do the scsi cards and drives make much difference. Guessing your using 15k drives. Whats noise like?
 
Do the scsi cards and drives make much difference. Guessing your using 15k drives. Whats noise like?
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well the 15k drives are not quiet! about the same noise as raptor's but they are very fast in raid O the other main thing that puts people off SCSI is price. but for performance and reliability SCSI is very hard to beat. and of course the best thing is with PCI-X you can get full speed ultra 320 which if your going SCSI is the only way to go or you would be better off sticking to twin raptors or 2 of the seagate 7200 10's as these babays do fly in raid O aswell.
 
my SCSI don't make a noise, apart from the SCSI accessing sound all SCSI drives make, but no spinning noise what so ever.

i've also noticed that there is a new 0604 BIOS available, has anyone tried this, Asus have a note
P5WDG2 WS Professional BIOS 0604
Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website at: http://support.asus.com.tw/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx
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yet i've tried the cpu support link and the latest BIOS they mention is 0408 , so i'm a bit confused, can anyone shed some light on this new BIOS?

thanks 1DMF
 
There is a new BIOS released for the P5WDG2 WS Pro, BIOS 0803, has anybody used this yet, and is there any improvement in performance over last few previous (0506, 0604, 0701 (b)) ones?

Thanks. :)
 
how does the P5W64 board handle quads in terms of FSB - will it do 400?

looking to grab this board to run an Areca 1220/1231ML Raid card over PCI-E @ 8x
 
Anyone still running one of these? Just wanted to know peoples opinions on the later bioses over the unofficial 0005?

Anyone tried running 4x1gb sticks?
 
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