P5K Deluxe Wifi AP Thread.

[Agrippa]

8800GTX is working just fine with the SATA ports here 5aboy. I don't use all of them as I had originally planned to, but I could certainly squeeze them on if I need them later. As I understand things, all the boards regardless of brand are reference designs layout-wise, so the same should go for everyone. You will need a single angled SATA cable to fill all 6 slots, the rest can be the regular straight ones.

[Supershanks]

I'm using all my sata ports as well, though with a gts. I have been using 1m Akasa cables but find them very clunky(no offense) & particularly awkward & tight,. with each pair. I happened to get a couple of these last week 1m 3XS Serial ATA Cable SATA150/300 Certified they have a much smaller profile & don't intefere when 2 are mounted on the board in adjacent sockets. For the £ their very good & a nice finish & colour. I'll be getting 4 more next time i go to scan.

I must admit i plugged the sata cables in with the gfx card removed.

[Clunk]

What sort of monthly bandwidth do you use?
I can host some pics for you if you want, but not if its lots of gigabytes per month.

Ive exceeded 2 x photobucket accts at 25gb each, but thats because the pics were high rez, I've compressed them down so they are about 88k each now instead of close to 800k each , and I'm just in the process of getting some hosting sorted

Thanks for the kind offer though mate, much appreciated

[Supershanks]

NEW BIOS:
P5KD 0403 bios this has the extra option that lets you change the strap base.as discussed here for the p5k3
P5K3 Deluxe - BIOS 0504 - Strap Changes

[JimNastics]

Ah brilliant, the ol' strap base change function!!
What does that do?

[5aboy]

i have just seen it myself - have you tested it as working ok?

EDIT: Just installed it, yes you get the 'FSB strap' option, but i dont know what to do with it. some have reported lower temps, but not had time to test it - at least the bios post's after update, im happy!

[Supershanks]

well that didn't do anything 4 me. After flashing entered my std settings set FSB strap to 266 then dram to 1200 as my normal settings.
got overclocking failed. tried again with transaction booster on auto (was on 1) got the same.

played about a bit more basdically can't boot at 9x400 so flashed back. Hope official 1 is better .

[Clunk]

I think its also to fix that bug that I mentioned in he P5K add on guide, where the ram dividers are shown wrong under 300FSB.

I'm going to stick with 0302 for now, its been the dogs bollocks

[Supershanks]

Yep clunlk your right about that.
Well i lied i'm now running 0403. I had that itch so tried again. I think it may not have been agood flash 1st time as i judst say apink blob rather than the lifestyle loading screen. So this time i loaded bios defaults & reflashed from stock. Went straight into 9x400. have got FSB strap to NB on auto atm with 1200 dram frequency selected. have got sub timings & transaction booster on auto.

looking at everest benches read bandwidth seems to have lifted. 9426 to 9751 seems about the only real change. In fairness not sure if this is down to bios change or the difference in the sub timings 3,30,3,3,3 v Auto. I remenber eva saying auto were a bit tighter , i'll try manual settings later.

9x400 @2:3 0302 v 0403:-

• Sisoft
  CPU Arithmetic Benchmark
  Drystone 33291 33461
  Whetstone SSE2 22467 22471
  CPU Multimedia Benchmark
  Integer 198736 198620
  Floating 3DNow 108208 107096
  Memory Bandwidth
  Integer Buffered 7924 8002
  Floating Buffered 7925 8033
  Efficiency% 62% 63%
  Everest
  Memory Read MB/Sec 9426 9751
  Memory Write MB/Sec 7215 7206
  Memory Copy MB/Sec 8023 8011
  Memory Latency 53.3 50.3
  CPU Queen 7308 7309
  CPU PhotoWarxx 33565 33634
  CPU Zlib 48064 48063
  FPU Julia 13759 13756
  FPU Mandel 6646 6657
  FPU SinJulia 10028 10025
  

[JimNastics]

Right, I might be being incredibly stupid, but I can't find a 0403 bios at that link... the latest ones I see are 0404 and 0501... have they just updated them again?

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...%20Deluxe/

[Supershanks]

0433 14M 28.453S
Compared with rightmost pi32 here run on 0311 = 14M 19.828s

as i said transaction booster is on auto.
atm

Edit:
interesting note that the only difference in sub timings between auto (04033) & Manual 3,30,3,3,3 (0311) appears according to Memset is Write to precharge delay. 14 v 11 only issue i have is i can't see that valure in bios;lol:

No Jim they ok like new ones. Worse than buses your waiting forever then 3 come at once

[JimNastics]

Your multiplier's dropped down to 6 in the 0403 screenie, maybe left speedstep on? I know it ramps back up under load but it might have dented your Super PI score.

[Supershanks]

Well spotted didn't notice that, was pretty certain i'd disabled that in cpu settings maybe not
Either that or it's a damn fine time for Pi32 @2400

[JimNastics]

Right, I might be being incredibly stupid, but I can't find a 0403 bios at that link... the latest ones I see are 0404 and 0501... have they just updated them again?

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so.../P5K%20Deluxe/

Any thoughts on that chaps? I'm confuzzled.

[5aboy]

0501 looks new.

[JimNastics]

Ok... I think I'm gonna hold back on bios flashing until there's a definite, final new one