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You might have to clear the cmos. The thing where it powers up then powers down then powers up again means it's having trouble booting, usually from a bad overclock.
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Well after some tweaking over the past few days I am running 7 hours prime stable at 4004.9 ghz with my e8400 on a p5q pro. The ridiculous part of this is that I am doing it with the stock HSF from my old e4300 that is a year and a half old. I idle at 31 and stress at 65 with it maxing to 75 very breifly all with that old stock HSF. I have an arctic freezer 7 pro on the way and can't wait to see my new max temp because 75 is too high. I love this board and processor and I cannot wait to see what I can get out of it with proper cooling. I am probably going to stop stressing it or drop the speed down to 3.75ghz until I get that new HSF.
E8400@ 445x9, 4.0ghz, 1.376v
vnb 1.26 in bios
Most of my other bios settings are auto with a few other suggested changes from this thread and others.
Does anyone have a good overclocking recipe for a p5q with a q6600 g0 that is watercooled? I'm also running an pny 8800 ultra that is watercooled along with 4x 2 (8gig) G.Skill PI DDR2-800 ram if that helps. I've also updated to Ket's m1611 bios as well.
I've been able to go all the way up to 499MHz FSB on my Q6700. This board can handle really high FSB's and I have memory that is capable of slightly over 1000MHz. I have found no "holes" in anything on this board. It scales and clocks really well. The sweet spot on my system has been 450x8. I'm higher than that now, but at those settings with my TRUE temps were great, performance was great, and stability was absolutely perfect. Running Vista 64 bit, of course, the only Vista that exists in my opinion.
The TRUE does outperform some "cheap" watercooling setups, but if yours is a good one I would suggest 450x8 as a good starting point for 3.6GHz. Climb up to 475x8 for 3.8. My system's still pretty stable at that speed, but temps get too high for 24/7 operation. You might have better luck with your watercooling. My Q6700 went all the way up to 3.8GHz without needing much more than 1.55v, with 1.4 or so on the northbridge. I'm running all 8GB of ram at just over 1000MHz (1021 I think ...) with stock 5-5-5-15 timings on 1.94v. Give that a try and let us know how it works.
I'm running the Swiftech Apogee self-powered waterblock along with a pa120.3 and it has been very good for me. I'm going to migrate this system over to Mountain Mod U2-UFO CYO case pretty soon and put in dual PA120.3 in it, but I system with the pressure drop that will cause I'll have to go to a bigger pump and self contained waterblock; possibly EK, D-Tek or the swiftech GTZ. Now sure yet.
However, this is the first time i've had a cpu that was clock unlocked and from the looks of it, going to 450 x 8 is pretty standard fare with this unit. What about the other bios options on this board in regards to memory timing and voltages?
Nope, your CPU will not ever reach temperatures high enough to damage it. It will shut itself off before getting to that point, so you don't have to worry. 75C is also well within the safe range for Core 2 CPUs.I hope my testing with the old stock HSF at 75c did not do any significant damage to my processor because this thing seems like a champ.
Vdroop. Perfectly normal.It is strange to see 1.36vcore in CPU-Z when 1.3875 is selected in the bios, does anyone know what is going on there?
Probably not.Also will I be able to lower voltage and stay stable now that my temps are a lot lower?
Well I went into my bios and the vcore was actually set to 1.36. I did a load of saved bios settings and it went to 1.36.
My G.Skill ram said that it ran at 1000MHz at 2.0v. So that's what I set it to when I was throwing some errors while prime testing. Errors still showed up, however, and not when I was stressing primarily the CPU, but the memory. So I knocked the voltage down to 1.96, then 1.94 and even at 1021MHz the stuff now runs really well, no errors in Prime or memtest. Seems like too much voltage just throws the memory off, as was the case with my 780i board. I never seem to accomplish much when giving my RAM more than 2.0v. I might try pushing this ram more another time, but it's running so well now that I'm not extremely motivated to push it much further ...
Advanced timings I leave on automatic.
1.375-1.4V I'd think. My G0 won't go over 3.4Ghz without at least that much.
Depends a lot on the vid but all the G0's I've had hit 3.6 stable, some take around 1.5v tho.
How do I check VID?
Ok this is my first build so if I might ask dumb questions. Here was my original stuff
P5Q Pro
Q6600
Sapphire 4870
PC Power 610w
2 x 2GB G. Skill DDR2 1066
Arctic Freezer 7 Pro
In a Cooler Master CM690 c
When I set it up and hit power the fans would spin for about 1 sec then everything shut down. After trying to figure it out in another forum I decided it was the mobo and returned it. While waiting for my replacement I was thinking of getting the Deluxe. Would 610w be enough for it?
Run coretemp, it should tell you.
Okay. I've been running coretemp for a while now and I hadn't realized that the VID display was there. I feel like such a n00b sometimes . Anyway, I have a VID of 1.2875. Is that good or bad?
Okay. I've been running coretemp for a while now and I hadn't realized that the VID display was there. I feel like such a n00b sometimes . Anyway, I have a VID of 1.2875. Is that good or bad?
Have any had any problems with their P5Q creating EXTREMELY annoying static noises from the front headphone jack? I have the p5q-e. Whenever I use headphones there is a constant static noise coming through. What is strange though is that the noise changes as I do different things with my computer, such as moving my mouse around or opening a new window and moving windows around. Some windows may produce a high-pitched squealing noise and others just a constant crackle. I did a search of the forum for similar situations, but nothing turned up.
Obviously there are other signals interfering with this particular audio-out jack. It's beyond me what it might be. Has anyone encountered this? Is my mobo faulty? I have updated the bios to the latest and the problem persists. Any insight would be great!
The audio jack in the back of the mobo is fine and sounds great btw. I do plan on calling tech support to their take on the problem.
Thanks!
You know, I get static with my P5Q Pro as well. I got static on the front inputs with my Abit IN9-32x Max on the front ports. I got static with the EVGA 680i and 780i when using front inputs. That was with THREE different computer cases' front I/Os and I got similar results using onboard or a dedicated soundcard. Never got any noise using ports out of the back. Didn't seem to matter what board, what case, what soundcard, what speakers/headphones, or W/E ... I've ALWAYS heard static while using front headphone jacks, but no static coming out the back.
In fact, I'd say the P5Q has less static than any of the other boards I've used when connected to the front jacks. Weird, huh?
I've got the P5Q Pro and had poor network performance until I updated to the 1.0.0.38 drivers from Asus' website. They're marked as beta, but I noticed a huge increase in performance just in Firefox. I need to try out some torrents to see if they've improved.
Interesting, I'll call ASUS and see what they have to say. I would really like to have nice static free audio from the front headphone jack for my Sennheiser's. It can be a pain to plug my headphones into the back of my comp, then to get the best sound I would have to change the audio settings to headphones from speakers every time I switch.
Well I wouldn't mind trading a P45 board for an X38. I wouldn't want to go through the hassle but since he's your friend...
Also since you got the Quad GT working you shouldn't have a problem with it and it should OC fairly well. My experiences with that board weren't so good but I've been told they were fixed in later BIOS updates. I say go for the trade and if he can't get the P5Q Pro to work then slash his tires.
Okay, here is my problem right now. Do I set the multiplier to 8*400 or leave it at 9*400 for the q6600 starting @ 1.375 - 1.400? And I have the g.skill ddr2-800 PI memory and it's supposed to be at 4-4-4-15, i think, and it's saying that it's 5-5-5-16.
Leave the multiplier as high as it will go, and focus on overclocking your CPU. RAM speed has very little effect on the performance of Core 2 systems, so don't worry too much about it. You should leave your RAM as low as possible with pretty loose timings to start with, and then start to tighten things up once you're done overclocking your CPU.