How well does the P5PE-VM overclock Conroes?
Me too. Here are some more detailed questions.
Does anyone have experience in overclocking Conroes on the P5PE-VM?
The
Asus info page for the P5PE advertises "CPU Lock-Free" with the
ability to unlock up to 14x. It occurs to me that this may have been written with the prior socket 775 processors (Netburst) in mind. Details are near non-existent in the
users manual. Haven't found any answers with a thorough Google scouring of the web.
1) Can we confirm that this board will unlock Conroes/Allendales up and down?
2) Also, what kind of FSB headroom does this board have? I understand that the 266 MHz (1066) FSB for the Conroe is an overclock already. Will it hit 300?
3) Are there CAS limitations to the memory used and is an AGP card required for the OC?
A similar board based on the same 865G chipset (
ASRock 775i65G) says that: FSB1066-CPU is supported only when you install AGP VGA card into AGP slot. Besides, if you use a FSB1066-CPU on this motherboard, please adopt a DDR400 CL2.5 memory module. My Ram is DDR400 CL3. I wonder if this is an issue on the Asus P5PE.
4) What are the voltage and FSB frequency controls like?
I'd hope to be able to do something like 266 x 11 = 2.93 GHz with an E6300.
Or if there is the headroom in the FSB, 300 x 10 = 3.0 GHz with an E6300 and ddr400 at the stock 200 (400). This
Conroe overclocking database (HardForum) suggests these speeds are likely comfortably reasonable for the CPU.
5) Any other comments? (I'm staying in a micro ATX case, no gaming, lot of video editing, don't want to replace my pricey AGP AIW card) If I can get that kind of performance from a (currently - USD) $55 board and a $185 processor, and not have to buy new ram to boot, even if the setup is not ideal (fast ram and fastest FSB, etc) - I'll be happy.
Thanks,
Ed