P8P67 Pro overclocking help

tommytinkle · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:05

Hey all,

Am fed up with this board having received it today. One of my drives doesn't work at all on a particular port, it simply clunks constantly so a great start!

Anyway - I've got it up and running, can't fathom the bios compared to my gigabyte old school bios but I'm trying!

I've looked around on the net and can't seem to find any reasonably easy to understand overclocking guides. Can anyone help at all? Do any of you have any favourite guides for this board?

I'm highly tempted to DSR it and get a gigabyte non uefi bios board instead.

Thanks

PS Bios ver is 0701 if that helps

Frank_Rizzo · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:22

I have the P8P67M-PRO. It is the easiest board I ever had for overclocking. Some of the settings were new to me but understandable after reading a few guides:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=265398

http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/overclocking/39184-p67-sandy-bridge-overclocking-guide-beginners.html

After going from dos type bios to gui bios it took me a while to work out how to enter 47 in the multiplier

Make sure you have the volts set correct. If it is auto it can vary all over the place - over 1.4, to 1.5 but this may not now be a problem.

The only other problem I had was trying to get XP installed. It would BSOD when trying to examine the partitions. Reason was that XP SP1/2 do not recognise the AHCI mode. Had to change this to ordinary SATA then all fine.

tommytinkle · 16 Feb 2011 at 20:28

Hey,

One of my multiplier options just says its locked at 34, but changing the turbo frequency to say 40 or more is possible. I didn't realise these boards had a what appears to me - wang eyed way of doing things? I'm used to typing a multi and a fsb and it working!

tommytinkle · 16 Feb 2011 at 21:07

Frank,

The guides look good

Will have a go tomorrow

Liquid · 16 Feb 2011 at 21:32

Make sure your hard drives are on the sata3 ports

tommytinkle · 16 Feb 2011 at 21:42

Hey mate,

Unfortunately I've got too many hard drives to be doing that, plus some are intel raid volumes created on a previous mobo - so I'm a bit stuck in that department!

Liquid · 17 Feb 2011 at 02:32

tommytinkle said:
Hey mate,

Unfortunately I've got too many hard drives to be doing that, plus some are intel raid volumes created on a previous mobo - so I'm a bit stuck in that department!

I would put the least important drives on sata2 if you can, you will be home free when the replacement motherboards arrive.