Well, the EFI Bios update seems to get things much better under control,
even though I still have some niggling issues. Hopefully, they will get
ironed out with some new updates or more information posted on the
[H]ard|Forum where the Asus techs seem to be hanging out.
There was this strange "double boot" problem that always happened from a
cold boot and wanted to blame your memory for some failure to
overclock. Didn't seem to make any sense at all since DDR3 1600 ram was
installed and set for 1600. Not overclocked at all. Finally had to
reset the CMOS to get that to go away. Some people report this didn't
work for them, but it did for me and others.
Before I installed the p8p67 I used the link Greg provided to turn on
AHCI in Windows 7. Also, turned it on in the BIOS of my old mobo and was
able to run Windows. Forgot to benchmark. ONce I got the p8p67 running
on my windows installation, with all of the boards hardware drivers
installed, I ran WEI only the find that my Intel SSD was getting a 5.9.
I never did figure out exactly what was going on with that, but after I
got the new BIOS and drivers installed at the link below, my WEI score
jumped up to 7.7. Under Win7-64 with AHCI off on the other board, I got
7.2. So that's a nice jump.
Some remaining issues. I can't seem to disable the Marvell SATA
controller without consequences. The last time I turned it off, WEI
refused to complete. It seems I can't get it to complete at all now.
Also, when I had my SSD and HD on the 3GB/2 Intel SATA ports, the system
wouldn't see them as bootable drives. It only saw the USB drives and the
optical drives. I moved them to the 6GB/s Intel SATA ports and the
system lets me boot from them (well, it sees them both and lets me boot
from the SSD). I haven't tried moving them back since installing the new
BIOS, though.
The system runs incredibly cool compared to my Q9550. I'm using a
smallish Cooler Master Hyper212+ and at full load the cores don't get
over 50C. They idle in the high 20s and low 30s. Previous at load that
was around 74C on the Q9550 with a really, really big HSF. And that's
with no overclocking.
Right now, the system seems very stable. I've been running various
stress tests. I still think there is some remaining issue with SSD
support, though. I'm not convinced things are totally right there.
I do like the Asus board. It's been 3 years since I bought a
performance mobo and it seems the industry has moved ahead. I'm getting
ready to play with auto OC'ing now. Didn't want to bother with that
until I got passed the double boot / cold boot problem. This board
offer built in bluetooth...so that means I can pair it with my phone and
play music from my phone through the PC speakers. That works for
audiobooks too. And navigation too. Also, there is an app on the
Android market that lets you shutdown, reboot, monitor, and overclock
your PC from your phone. I haven't tried file transfers yet...that
might be better than using dropbox.
On 1/22/2011 12:40 AM, Stan Zaske wrote:
I'm really becoming quite the fan of ASUS.
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:49:56 -0600, Anthony Q. Martin
<[email protected]> wrote:
I know some of you are getting this board....there are problems, so
you may want to grab this stuff (not on the Asus FTP servers yet):
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1578865
