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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Speedstep will keep your CPU throttled down (by lowering the multiplier) until such a time as an application demands more juice. Enable Speedstep (EIST) if you're concerned with energy conservation and/or the reduction of wear and tear on your CPU. Glad you got your earlier problem sorted...
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- Post #2,111
- Jan 9, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Nope. There are essentially no performance gains. Now, if you wish to enable SATA hot-plugging, you will need to have the drives running in AHCI or RAID. Otherwise, the only other feature you would get in AHCI is NCQ, which appears to offer nothing in the area of performance gains in a single...
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- Post #2,106
- Jan 8, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

I have an E6600, as well, and I stopped updating the BIOS at 1901. Later BIOSes appear to be geared more toward the quad-cores. In any case, you'll want to check the AI Overclock area to see what your FSB is set to. It should read 266 (stock Core 2 Duo FSB). You can access the AI Overclock...
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- Post #2,105
- Jan 8, 2008
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

I see no reason why the board would not be perfectly compatible with 1333 FSB CPUs. Overclocking a E6x00 to FSB 333 (1333) is essentially the exact same thing as a E6x50 running at FSB 333 stock. -phil
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- Post #2,039
- Jun 6, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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Asus P5K Deluxe Disaster - really need some help...

The easiest thing to conclude, here, is that the board is faulty. Ultimately, though, it's too early to jump to any conclusion. This could easily be a memory or PSU issue, or simply a compatibility issue that manifests itself with whatever settings you're using when configuring the BIOS. The...
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- Post #3
- Jun 1, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

You will only get full use of 4 or more gigs of RAM with a 64-bit operating system. 32-bit operating systems have a 4GB memory address limit, some of which will be allocated to hardware devices, like your videocard, PCI bus, etc. This is not BIOS related. -phil
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- Post #1,976
- May 2, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

It seems you have answered your own question. If SATA1 is obstructed, perhaps a right-angled SATA cable will help. http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Right-Angle-Serial-ATA-Cable/dp/B0001Y8UCU -phil
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- Post #1,975
- May 2, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Seems to me that is a fairly widespread issue, as many people with different brands of memory, are having the very same problems. Have you tried running with SPD timings, with both Hyperpath 3 and DRAM Throttling disabled? Also, make sure the memory remap option is also disabled, when using...
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- Post #1,972
- Apr 26, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Glad you finally figured out the problem. As for testing, memtest and Orthos is pretty-much all you need. -phil
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- Post #1,956
- Apr 16, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

I recall reading something a while ago that suggested one needs to loosen memory timings when running 4 DIMMS. If everything runs stable with DRAM Write Recovery Time set to 5, I would not necessarily see that as a bad thing. -phil
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- Post #1,946
- Apr 12, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Another user recently discovered how to properly convert the Ez-Raid ports into a single non-RAID port. IIRC, you need to completely remove the Ez-Raid jumper. Better you scan back until you find the post in question. -phil
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- Post #1,943
- Apr 11, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Option #1 is pretty-much how I have my machine configured. A raptor for OS and apps/games, and two 7200 rpm drives in non-RAID, for storage. RAID1 in a home, single-user environment seems like a waste of a drive, to me. Just periodically backup your data using an imaging application like Acronis...
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- Post #1,940
- Apr 10, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Yeah, I just read through your posts, and you seem to be having similar issues as myx. As with myx's situation, it's hard to know what's going on with your system. Unless you can consistently reproduce the problem, it's hard to diagnose with any certainty. Hopefully, both of you will have better...
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- Post #1,938
- Apr 10, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

You could get ASUS to overnight you a new BIOS chip, for a very small fee - often just the shipping. A much quicker solution than RMA replacement. -phil
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- Post #1,936
- Apr 10, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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*** Official ASUS P5W DH Thread ***

Are you running Vista x64, by any chance? I ask because CoreTemp did exactly that when I tried running it under Vista x64. I assume the problem is due to the fact that CoreTemp does not yet have a signed 64-bit driver for Vista, which is a requirement unique Vista x64. In the future, should you...
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- Post #1,933
- Apr 10, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards

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