jcmarfilph
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Any update on OC? Thanks
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Any update on OC? Thanks
Me too, though I am thinking if this was even a decent overclocker there would be alot more noise than there is right now.
I find it amazing that there are no reviews on the P5Q-EM yet, as this should be a popular choice for people who want a HTPC or SFF PC. Then again, there have been very few reviews on P45 boards of any form factor/manufacturer which really makes me scratch my head...
If hope this board can reach at least 450FSB stable
Any P45/G45 mobo should be able to handle 450 FSB....you would hope!
If this board performs anything like its little brother P5QL-EM, don't hold your breath. I have that board and it's a piece of shit overclocker.
Thanks for sharing that little tidbit of information, I was possibly going to pick one up and try it, but now I won't even bother.
Maybe after Asus has had time to release some bios updates it might be worthwhile, but right now it's garbage...I mean to the point where I don't know how it ever got out of the factory.
I can't even set the FSB:RAM ratio to 1:1, it's not an option! There's only 4:5, 2:3, 1:2, and "Auto." And when I set Auto, it just sets the memory at 2:3. So if I want to reduce the multiplier of my CPU and raise the FSB for a 8x415 or so (because my system just won't boot at 9x369), it's just not possible because the lowest RAM speed I can then choose is 1038 mhz. Once I get some 1066 memory I'm going to try again, but I shouldn't have to, this is stupid.
I hope I'm just being a retard and missing something here, but I've torn up the bios inside and out.
Doesn't sound promising.
On the other hand, finally a review of the big brother P5Q-EM and it looks like with bios updates the board can hit up to 485 FSB. Unfortunately they aren't going into any great depth with specifics.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3417
So we might have at least another decent alternative.
Try it. You have 30 days to return it if you don't like it or it doesn't work for you.
thanks for the linkDoesn't sound promising.
On the other hand, finally a review of the big brother P5Q-EM and it looks like with bios updates the board can hit up to 485 FSB. Unfortunately they aren't going into any great depth with specifics.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3417
So we might have at least another decent alternative.
Doesn't sound promising.
On the other hand, finally a review of the big brother P5Q-EM and it looks like with bios updates the board can hit up to 485 FSB. Unfortunately they aren't going into any great depth with specifics.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=3417
So we might have at least another decent alternative.
432 is the limit of this board. I've tried everything to get it past 433. I've lowered my multiplier to 6, tried all variations of memory dividers, and even tried higher FSB settings like 466, 500, etc to see if maybe there's a dead spot you have to hurdle past. Load Line calibration works great. I turned it off to see what voltages did and there is Vdroop with LLC disabled, but with it disabled, Vcore is fully stable. I'll probably leave LLC off as long as my OC at ~3.7 Ghz is stable.
I'll probably throw this Xeon into my P5E-VM board and see how far she'll go. I really hope Asus comes out with a new BIOS, as I'm sure this board could do more.
waiting to see their response now... lolWell, here's the response from Asus:
"Dear Sir/Madam,
I am very sorry to have to tell you this, but your processor is not compatable to this motherboard. Below is a list of all the CPU's that are compatable and fully recognized by your motherboard as well as their respected BIOS.
P5Q-EM The following table shows the support for CPU / Motherboard.........."
where they list the compatible CPU's I pretty much knew they would say this so I swapped my Q9450 with my Xeon and guess what, same problem.
The good news is that my Xeon is chugging along at 3.9 Ghz (she did 4.0 Ghz but wasn't stable and I didn't want to go past 1.35V) in my P5E-VM HDMI. I still gotta prime stress test it though.
My response to the last technical support ticket was a little nasty, but I hate being blown-off:
"So, I knew you would say my Xeon was incompatible with this motherboard, so I put in my Q9450 and guess what................still won't go over 432 FSB. Please quit reading off of your scripts and forward my problems to an engineer.
I also took the Xeon you said isn't compatible with this motherboard and stuck it in my P5E-VM HDMI, and guess what, it's happily chugging along at 3.9 Ghz because that OLDER board can go higher than 432 FSB.
So now that we've established that it's NOT my CPU, please get some engineers involved to program a BIOS that will exceed 432 FSB.
Thanks.
Oh yeah, if you think I'm lying I'll be more than happy to provide CPU screenshots and even BIOS screenshots showing the Q9450 in this board and the Xeon in my older P5E-VM HDMI"
This is a chipset limitation (HDMI/DVI is muxed with the PCIe x16 link). (Actually if you insert a PCIe x1 device in the PCIe x16 slot, VGA still works, but HDMI/DVI is disabled [that shouldn't]. See this post.)
C2SEA is no exception. See the picture below. BTW the second PCIe x16 slot comes from ICH10R and works at 1.1 x4. You can insert a graphics card to this slot and use the first PCIe x16 slot for the RAID controller card. But then P45 is a much better solution. If you are budget-minded, then AMD 780G or GeForec 8200 is the cheapest solution as these chipsets does not suffer from this limitation (the PCIe 2.0 x16 slot fully works even if you use the onboard graphics).