THE Asus P5E X38 Thread

[fontman49]

OK I'll do some benchmarks as time permits and try to get them up here. I never got a chance to try to flash back to P5E bios 201 (if I can) so I need to try that and bench that out, too...

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by aleiro

what voltage are you running... at least for the P5E it overvolts the ram ALOT so i run my g skill at 1.96v in the bios which in AISuite yields 2.1 on the nose. That may be the reason you are cooking them. Even when i put 2.1 in the bios, i checked AISuite and it said 2.36v! my two cents

Lol, yea. that's 2.20V Fluke DMM verified (~2.08V bios). First boot at 2.1V I saw the ASUS probe reporting ~2.28V, and confirmed w/ my DMM.

[trueg50]

Thank you Ericeod and Dostoyevsky77.

I was on the line, couldn't decide, then I saw a Maximus Formula for $180 at newegg, so I quickly ordered it up.

Can't wait, I can finally overclock without massive headaches. Plus when I get a quad in a few months, I can finally try and strain my water cooling loop.

[fontman49]

Aleiro -

I'll post the actual Everest scores later (since I'm at work), but the Rampage bios actually underperformed the 201 P5E BIOS from the benchmarks that I did last night. The only interesting thing was that I had to bump up the voltage on my NB as well as CPU to achieve the same overclock that I had on the Rampage BIOS when using the P5E 201 BIOS. Once the voltages were upped and it was prime stable, the scores slightly edged the Rampage BIOS. Anyways, I'll post actual results soon.

[Dostoyevsky77]

That seems odd. What performance level are you running and do you have any pull-ins enabled?

[whe3ls]

Originally Posted by trueg50

Thank you Ericeod and Dostoyevsky77.

I was on the line, couldn't decide, then I saw a Maximus Formula for $180 at newegg, so I quickly ordered it up.

Can't wait, I can finally overclock without massive headaches. Plus when I get a quad in a few months, I can finally try and strain my water cooling loop.

180 thats nothing i got one for 29.99

[zlojack]

From everything I've read so far, the Rampage bios takes more tweaking but eventually ends up outperforming the Maximus. Not sure if the same would apply here.

[trueg50]

Originally Posted by whe3ls

180 thats nothing i got one for 29.99

How much did you pay for your RAM?

[ericeod]

Originally Posted by trueg50

How much did you pay for your RAM?

How very true. I got one of the Extremes for $29 as well, but I cant even afford ram!

[XxSilent22xX]

Bah my P5E doesn't like me, lol. how well does the P5E overclock Quads? Q9450 looks Tempting but the 8x multi will require a high fsb and the Q9650 wont be here untill Q3 which is too long to wait