Which p45 mobo?

I've been running the ASUS P5Q-E for a month or so using full [Auto] for voltages except RAM and its quite a laugh, can't believe how much easier it makes overclocking and I highly recommend people to try! :)

For the Grizzled-Veteran overclockers who want full control then Manual over-ride is fine although this makes things waaay more complicated.

I'm in the middle of doing this [Auto] testing but I am honestly surprised at how much easier the clocks are. I have a teeny-weeny hunch that for the best results its either full [Auto] or full [Manual]. The boards have had there BIOS's optimised nicely now and the ASUS engineers know what they are doing (well they must be quite good geeks to be programming BIOS's for ASUS right?).

The particular thing I've noticed is that the three [GTL] settings work a lot better on [Auto] when all the other main voltage controls are also on [Auto]. It's taking me ages to confirm all this as stability testing takes long time! :p

If people wanna recommend a Gigabyte board then I think it would be better to highlight what makes the Gigabyte a great board rather than passing on 800th hand information about why not to buy an ASUS board he heard from some bloke down the pub! :o

Sorry if this comes across harsh, just one of my pet peaves when people tell other people stuff they don't know is true like its gospel! :D
 
Big.Wayne said:
I've been running the ASUS P5Q-E for a month or so using full [Auto] for voltages except RAM and its quite a laugh, can't believe how much easier it makes overclocking and I highly recommend people to try! :)
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Sounds interesting, are you also setting the cpu vcore on auto big wayne? I may give this a try and see how it goes.:)
 
Yeah full [auto] . . . . if you have a high VID chip your laughing, if you have a low VID chip get ready with the fire extinguisher when you run IBT! :p

P.S: I sold my E8400 low VID chip btw and bought a new LGA775 processor! :eek:
 
I'll have a look at both the Asus and Gigabyte boards in detail over the next few days.

I will be ordering this week, does both boards have LLC?
 
From what ive seen of q9550's on various forums, my 1.200 vid q9550 seems to be a middle of the road chip in vid terms, currently runs 3.824ghz at 1.21875 in bios, 1.200 idle and 1.216 at load, LLC enabled, temp wise it tops out at 56-53-47-47 in prime 95, last time i ran ibt the temps were about 4c higher than p95 iirc.
 
Go AMD and be happy ;)

Failing that i have heard much good things about those intel asus boards, The people over at xtremesystems rate them highly for overclocking! especially the older p5q deluxe...
 
I like my Maximus ii fomula (P45).........looks sexy and has a great bios. every customer has to remove and reapply the NB heatsink assembly though which is a pain
 
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