The ASUS P45 Owner's Club

[alexp999]

I really dont know what Im doing with this OCing, lol.

There are too many options, and so many are on auto, It doesnt tell you what its setting stuff at, so I'm now worried that it might be frying something without telling me.

I have backed down to 400 FSB and 3.6GHz, maybe someone could help with all the extra voltages? It was stable at 3.8 GHz for about 10mins, then I cancelled it after thinking the above, lol.

 

[Ketxxx]

Voltage steps I would think are within the SLAB portion, but that doesn't mean thats where Asus put them. So you may or may not have extra voltage steps, I've just never noticed them.

 

[Ketxxx]

I really dont know what Im doing with this OCing, lol.

There are too many options, and so many are on auto, It doesnt tell you what its setting stuff at, so I'm now worried that it might be frying something without telling me.

I have backed down to 400 FSB and 3.6GHz, maybe someone could help with all the extra voltages? It was stable at 3.8 GHz for about 10mins, then I cancelled it after thinking the above, lol.

NB Strap: 333
DRAM Static Read Control: Disable
Dram Read Training: Disable
Mem OC Charger: Enable
Clock Twister: Moderate or Strong
Transaction Booster: Manual
Performance Level: 8
Voltage Reference: .65 works well for me with a 45nm
CPU PLL: Anywhere between 1.54-1.6v
FSB Term: 1.3-1.4v
NB Voltage: 1.3-1.4v
SB Voltage: 1.2-1.3v
LLC: Enable
CPU/PCI-E Spread Spectrum: Disable

Everything else you can leave as-is for now.

 

[pabloc74]

p5q deluxe, 570 fsb air

 

[kyle2020]

Rather than dropping the CPU voltage I have decided to try for a better OC.

It booted at 4 GHz, but I couldnt get it passed the Windows logon screen.

Just stress testing 3.8 GHz now.

you'll need around 1.6V for 4Ghz

 

[alexp999]

you'll need around 1.6V for 4Ghz

I did 1.6v

I think its all the others that are the problem.

 

[kyle2020]

I did 1.6v

I think its all the others that are the problem.

when I did my 4Ghz run on my premium all I had set was LLC, my ram voltage and speed, my FSB and multi and my core voltage.

 

[alexp999]

I have given up trying to break 3.6 GHz for now. I want to see if I can tighten the RAM timings, reduce the vcore, and get the voltages off Auto.

So Far I have:

FSB: 400
Multi: 9
RAM: 1003 MHz
Timings: 5-5-5-15, TRFC 45, All Pre to Act 4, Perf Level 7
DRAM: 2.10v
VCore: 1.4625v

Everything else is on defaults.

 

[Ketxxx]

400FSB the P5Qs do without so much as a sneeze. 450-500FSB+ is where the boards really start to show their muscle.

 

[kyle2020]

Why such high voltage for 3.6? Heres mine as it is:

Surely you can get your voltage down to around 1.4?

And my ram is running at 1066Mhz.

 

[alexp999]

CPU fails stress tests at 1.45v

Thats why I want to see if adjusting the other voltages will bring it down.

but then I also heard that these Asus P5Q's work well on Auto upto 400FSB, so...

 

[pabloc74]

CPU fails stress tests at 1.45v

Thats why I want to see if adjusting the other voltages will bring it down.

but then I also heard that these Asus P5Q's work well on Auto upto 400FSB, so...

so i think your cpu isn't good

 

[alexp999]

so i think your cpu isn't good

Its one of the first G0 Q6600s, I think its just cus it has a comparitively high VID.

Oh and would you like to join?

 

[Ketxxx]

You may as well lap the IHS on your Quad, I bet temps will come down a good 4-5c under load. A concave IHS can also easily cripple OC attempts. On a seperate note, am I the only one to have random Firefox crashes even though stress tests show everything to be fine.

 

[alexp999]

According to Mussels lapping his Q6600 didnt make much difference. I'm crap at that anyway, lol.

 

[Ketxxx]

^^See my edit

 

[alexp999]

Dont use FF, did during the Win 7 7000 build, but its too buggy and incompatible for my liking so I'm back to IE8, love it.

 

[Ketxxx]

Bah, IE8 is gay, FF2 seemed to work great for me. I suspect the reason for FF randomly crashing has something to do with the memory leak in it that STILL cant be isolated and fixed.

 

[alexp999]

Just testing on 1.45625v which I swear wasnt there before your mBIOS.

 

[Ketxxx]

Hmm.. well I've never noticed any extra voltage steps, but I dial my voltages in manually anyway.

 

[alexp999]

Hmm.. well I've never noticed any extra voltage steps, but I dial my voltages in manually anyway.

It might just be me, lol. But OMG, IE8 is so slow while your stress testing.

Mobo temp is only 36*C during test

Hmm, there seems to be a 5*C difference in loads temps between the first and second set of cores. Tho its prob normal... right?

 

[Ketxxx]

Yep its normal, one core is just being used more than the other.

 

[alexp999]

Even tho they are all on 100%. I thought it was the cooler or something.

 

[Ketxxx]

Missed the load part, probably just some discrepency (sp?) with the temp monitoring. My TPower doesn't show any difference when loaded.

 

[kyle2020]

It might just be me, lol. But OMG, IE8 is so slow while your stress testing.

Mobo temp is only 36*C during test

Hmm, there seems to be a 5*C difference in loads temps between the first and second set of cores. Tho its prob normal... right?

yeah it is - my cores load at different temps, roughly a 4 degree difference at most.