P5B Deluxe with E8500 E0

P5B Deluxe
E8500 E0
EVGA GeForce GTX 260 Superclocked
G.Skill 2x1gb DDR2 800
Corsair 520HX power supply
Cooler Master RC-690 case
Thermalright Ultra120 Extreme
3 Scythe Ultra Kaze 120x38 2000 rpm fans
4 Scythe Slip Stream 120x25 1200 rpm fans
1 Hiper 80x15 2000 rpm fan

This is a shot of my 24x7 set up and my max o/c set up. The memory is trying to give up at 475. But still pretty good for a old P965 board. Volts in Bios is 1.2875 for 24x7 set up and 1.3875 for max o/c. I did the pencil mod.to keep voltage drop down. It actuall boosts the voltage under load .008 the 1.272 is 1.280 and the 1.368 is 1.376

That is an awesome overclock...especially considering you are using a P965 chipset. It's nice to see that this whole thing is being powered by 520W of Corsair power

Nice

They both look good to me. What is the VID on your new chip?

VID is 1.250
Pack Date was 08/02/08

Awesome man, where did you get the E8500 E0? Or is it an ES?

to the forum nice clocking great to see 965's still going strong
Rich

Thanks guys.

I got it at Fry's in Plano Tx. with a ECS GF7050VT-M 610i Micro ATX Intel Motherboard for 189.99. I put my E6600 in this board and gave it to my son. Its a cheap board with no voltage options but I still got the E6600 to 3.0 and its been very stable. The chip is a E0.

oh yes the family love's our hand me downs
Rich

Too bad there aren't any Fry's where I live.

Here is my new 24x7 set up with the 1237 bios and memory at 4-4-4-12-4 and chip at 450x9.5.
I am pleased with the new bios, helped memory run stronger.

Well here is the results with my new 4x1 gig sticks of Cell Shock DDR2 PC2-8000 CL4 1000mhz 4-4-4-12. All 4 sticks in P5B with only pencil mod for voltage drop. 530x9.0 FSB-1.30, NB-1.45, SB-1.60,ICH-1.057, memory at 2.1 4-4-4-12-4 at 1060mhz. This memory has made all the difference in the world on this board. Here is a few pictures of my beast. Its in a Cooler Master RC-690.

Dam that's outstanding! How's that speed under load?

It ran Orthos for 1 hour and 47 minutes before it crashed. I am running 24/7 at 475x9 for 4275 at 1.300 volts on chip and 2.0 volts on memory at 4-4-4-12-4. I have run Orthos for 24 hours at that speed and looped 3Dmark for 8 hours no problems. I might try to get it stable at 500x9. I had it Running Orthos at 475x9.5 with my G-Skill memory for 52 minutes before it crashed. The chip can do 4500 at about 1.375 volts.

Dam nice! Yeah the chip is starving a lil bit for voltage. I'm @ 4.2Ghz with 1.32v and 2.1 on the ram rock steady stable and crunchin SETI. Loaded temps around 37-38c

cchilb: Very nice results. My E8400 C0 runs nicely on the P5B but it doesn't have the balls that your E8400 E0 has. Good work.

A user over on XS had trouble with his E0 CPU on a P5B Deluxe but it was an early (ES) engineering sample. It didn't give him voltage options for his cpu and when he saved things in the bios, settings would get lost and he'd have to enter them in manually each time and problems like that. Have you had any problems with the latest Asus bios?

I used P965StrapTweaker to get a little more performance out of this chipset:



XS is down at the moment but it will be back up:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=180850

You can also try here:
http://www.bench-market.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=34932&d=1205500446
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=74313&d=1205761363

You might want to play around with this. Just max out the northbridge voltage to 1.65 and you'll be amazed what this board can do, especially with the way your memory and CPU is working for you.


Edit: I thought running on the fast strap when the FSB was over 500 MHz might cause some instability but after a few hours of Prime95 blend, it looks good enough for 24/7 use.

My P5B-D ate up the older C0 E8400. I was able to get 520 fsb and 4680 @1.5 on the chip as my max SPi before the memory gave out. I ran 24/7 at 4050 @ 1.35 and 450fsb This is all under water. The P965s love 45nm. I wish I still had mine so I could try out these new E0 revisions.