THE Asus P5E X38 Thread

[mothow]

Anyone know of a list of compatible Heastsinks for this board.I had a Thermalright Ultima 90 on my P5k-E but i cant fit it on my P5E becuse the heatpipe cooling blocks every mounting postion.I could mod the fins on the heatpipe but id rather not.Does anyone know if the Ultra 120 Extremes mounting device works on the Ultima 90. I think the Ultra 120 fits this board .I just bought a XIGMATEK HDT-S1283.I hope this fits and works as good as my Ultima 90.If so i guess ill be selling Ultima.But not here i dont have enough Rep..lol

[tjharlow]

I use the Tuniq Tower 120 and it works great, fits perfectly, barely, but perfectly.

[mothow]

Originally Posted by tjharlow

I use the Tuniq Tower 120 and it works great, fits perfectly, barely, but perfectly.

Yeah i was looking at that to.If this XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 doesnt work out that will be my next choice even though i dont like the looks of the Tuniq

[ericeod]

With the new ram, I decide to check the votages:

Special thanks to Karl eller for the post on vdimm points. I used my Fluke 177 digital meter and read the yellow and one of the blue marked readout point from his post.


When I set the vdimm in bios to 2.16v, I get a reading of 2.21v from the multi meter. Then, when I set the vdimm to 2.18v in bios, I get a reading of 2.238v on the meter. And finally, when I set vdimm to 2.2v in bios, I get a reading of 2.25v on the meter. This makes it very hard for those without a multimeter to know the true vdimm.

I did find that my 1.40v vcore set in bios, which loads into windows at 1.38v as shown in CPU-Z, actually is 1.376v when metered while running Orthos.

[Dostoyevsky77]

Originally Posted by mothow

Yeah i was looking at that to.If this XIGMATEK HDT-S1283 doesnt work out that will be my next choice even though i dont like the looks of the Tuniq

The Tuniq works for me, although I had to bend the capacitors ever so slightly to fit the base. I know someone who uses a Tr120U with no issues. Also, the Zalman 9700 is a go... but I loves me my Tuniq!

[ericeod]

here is the latest P5E bios:

605

[mothow]

Originally Posted by ericeod

here is the latest P5E bios:

605

any word on what it improves

[ericeod]

Originally Posted by mothow

any word on what it improves

I dont see any difference between it and the 602. But I updated it to check for any improvements to my ram OCing. So far it isnt any better/worse then 602.

[mothow]

Hmm im using 601 i didnt i lost a good bit overclocking with 602.I dont know why

[aleiro]

I have the P5E and my NB typically runs 31 idle and surfing the net and it has been as high as 36 during prime. Can a few people post there NB temps? The reason i ask is i was going to remount the NB cooler but i dont want to go through the trouble if it is only going to drop one C.
Thanks