P5K Deluxe Wifi AP Thread.

[Mekerz]

Whats raid like on the board? I keep hearing different reports of it being a bit buggy and having to use certain ports like the black ones.

Not too much of a biggy, I'm thinking of buying a raid card after a while any hows.

[5aboy]

Its got good speed but tough to setup in m opinion.

I had to disable USB entirely in order to get windows XP Pro (SP1A) setup to see the disks and install to it.

Aside from this, once i got windows up and running and the computer booting off the disk, I re-enabled the USB (but not Port60/64 emulation) and it worked fine - installed the ICH9 latest drivers and have been laughing ever since.

[Supershanks]

i moved the matrix raid0 4x80gb drives from my commando board to this. initially array wasn't recognised, once i booted into xp(i have a small emergency install on a data drive) & updated matrix drivers to the p35 ones everything came together. Array recognised booted into main install & updated that.

Only issue i do have is i've used all sata ports so got Promise SATA300 TX2+ wanted to use a sata dvd.

The drives attached to the promise are seen in the bios Drive priority so i can set the order as i wan't trouble is it don't boot all i get is missing ntldr so it's not following the bios order. so currently i'm using [f8] till i can sort it.

[Mekerz]

Hmm that confirms what I have read about the raid. With the updates to the bios so far, would you think Asus will be quick to fix the few niggles with raid, going by what they have fixed/done in releases so far?

[Supershanks]

P35 versiom now out mermset See main thread for more info.

also

SetFSB a clockgen like program as the post says select ICS9LPRS918BKL (ASUS P5K/3 Deluxe) in the clock generator selector.

[Clunk]

Boot at 500 and setfsb from there upwards?

[Supershanks]

Boot at 500 and setfsb from there upwards?

Hehe whatever turns u on

[Agrippa]

Jesus in a jumpsuit Clunk, this really is a nice board!

Finished my new build last night without any great hitches (and those that occured were down to me and my being out of practise) and I'm in the process of sorting out the infrastructure properly (data transfer to RAID and disk configuration). I reconsidered at the last minute and decided on using the separate controller for my RAID 5 and **** me it's fast! Overclocked the 6420 to 2.8HGz for now -it'd go much higher, but for the GTX spewing out molten lava from those internal vents. With an open case I had temps well below 30 idle, whereas closed it's idling at 40-41C. Strangely enough the properties page says it's running at 3.2GHz, but I guess XP x64 perhaps doesn't quite get the latest CPUs yet. I've yet to do any stress testing, I'll leave that until everything's set up.

The WiFi is amazingly easy to set up and works flawlessly, although the antenna cable could have been another yard or so in my opinion. Oh, and 4x2GB worked without a hitch with no BIOS fiddling required.

I have to thank you once again Clunk - if it wasn't for this thread I'd have surely gone with a P5B, which would have been a shame. Not that I would have been disappointed, I'm sure, but this one's just so sweet.

[Clunk]

Jesus in a jumpsuit

Christ on a bike!

Interestingly, you have used the wifi and the raid, both of which I havent tried yet

So the raid set up ok? no problems like others have had?

And you have 4x2gb in there? What speed is that, and more importantly, how high will the P5K let you go with that all that ram in there?

Keep us posted

[Agrippa]

Sorry, I've yet to try the built-in controller, as I decided I had to at least test the LSI controller I bought in RAID mode and having done so I'm not changing over again. I'm getting well over 200MB/sec in linear reads and 586MB/sec during buffered reads. Not too shabby. Haven't tested write speeds yet, since I'm still moving stuff over, but I can say that it's damn fast for RAID 5 which usually sucks badly at writing.

The RAm is Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5DHX, like here and 4x2GB is correct. Slow timings (5-5-5-18), but I'm not after max overclock anyway - just a reasonable no-cost performance increase that's stable and maintenance-free. The 6420 will certainly go much higher, but the heat generated by the GTX limits what I can achieve anyway. I might have a go at 3.2GHz when I'm done with the housekeeping, but 2.8GHz is fine really. As of now I'm running with a 7x multiplier and the RAM at standard speed and timings.

I've been considering whether I should cover up the GTS's internal vents and see what that does to the temps, since I don't really understand why they're there in the first place. Why isn't all the hot air sent out at the rear of the case? The fan surely doesn't move enough air to make a bottleneck. Any thoughts on whether a bit of tape in strategic places might be a good idea?

[Clunk]

Arent there any aftermarket coolers for the GTX yet that do that?

The NV silencers used to be excellent for getting rid of the air.

About the ram, I cant see the timings making much of an impact with that much, and I think that tight timings, with fast ram would just cripple the NB, however, I would like to be wrong about this

[Agrippa]

I really can't be arsed to modify the card I think, whether or not there are coolers available. If a bit of duct tape will do the trick then I'm happy, but if not I'll just live with a ****ty 667MHz overclock. :-) Or a bit more, if it'll work. In any case, remember I came from a P4 Northwood - the improvement is, shall we say, considerable already.

[Clunk]

Rather than block it off, why dont you stick an 80mm fan in there to blow the hot air away?

[Agrippa]

No room man, not with a card in the second PCI-E slot as well. I could certainly find a solution if I was willing to add fans and **** around with this, that and the other, but I'm thinking strictly quick and simple fixes here. After all, I'm not only old, I'm lazy as hell too.

[Clunk]

Make a duct out of something.

[Agrippa]

I'll see what I can come up with. Or not, as the case may be. :-)