Asus P4C800-E: Updating the Intel Flagship
by Wesley Fink on August 30, 2003 10:55 PM EST- Posted in
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Asus P4C800-E: BIOS and Overclocking
Asus has not made significant changes to the layout of the AMI BIOS used on the P4C800-E and P4C800 Deluxe. The available settings have been improved significantly as we have already said.FSB Overclocking Results
The following setup was used on the Asus P4C800-E for FSB overclocking:| Front Side Bus Overclocking Testbed | |
| Processor: | Intel 2.4C 800FSB Pentium 4 |
| CPU Voltage: | 1.525V (default) |
| Cooling: | Thermalright SK-900U with 120mm Thermaltake Fan |
| Memory: | 2 x 256MB Corsair 3200LL at SPD |
| Power Supply: | Powmax 350W |
While we could boot into Windows XP at overclocked speeds as high as 302 raw FSB at default voltage, the highest stable FSB overclocking that we could achieve at default voltage was 288 (1160 FSB). While this is the best overclocking result we have seen with an Intel motherboard at AnandTech, please keep in mind that the overclocking abilities of CPUs do vary considerably. Tests of other Intel boards have used a different 2.4C CPU. However, in my past tests of this same CPU on Abit, DFI, Aopen, Asus and Gigabyte motherboards, this is the highest overclock achieved with this CPU.
Still, these results are about the same as the highest overclock achieved with the P4C800 Deluxe with 1.010 BIOS. It would appear that the overclocking abilities of the Asus P4C800-E at least match those of the excellent P4C800 Deluxe.
Highest stable overclock achieved with the Intel 3.0 800FSB CPU at default voltage was 245 raw FSB (980FSB). This is the stable overclocking limit of this CPU.
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jsapyta - Sunday, October 17, 2004 - link
Is this board good for gaming or should I switch to a AMD board?aditm - Thursday, December 18, 2003 - link
Can I have this Board please? Can I, Can I ?If so ... what am I sopose to do with it?
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Aniway Thanks !
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Anonymous User - Thursday, October 23, 2003 - link
Thank you for your excellent review. To have theP4C800-E support both RAID 0 and RAID 1, would two
disks in RAID 0 configuration be connected to the two ICH5R SATA ports and another two disks in RAID
0 configuration be connected to the two Promise
PDC20378 SATA ports and then these two 2 disk RAID 0 arrays be configured to RAID 1 (mirroring)?
Anonymous User - Friday, October 10, 2003 - link
I too am having trouble loading a clean install onto a Raid Array, any insight would be appreciatedAnonymous User - Friday, September 12, 2003 - link
Using two WD raptors with the Asus P4c800-E want to run in Raid 0. I get in the raid set up but when I try to install windows [XP pro] I load the raid drivers {F6] window loads drivers.When it says loading windows for about two mins I get blue screen error something about drives or controllers not con figured. Could you shed some light on this problem. Works fine when using sata [non raid] Thanks NWAnonymous User - Wednesday, September 10, 2003 - link
OK, I vaguely remember the 1.5 vs 2.0 issue for Prescott. However, what about the 100+ watts that made a problem with motherboard power supplies? Has this issue been resolved? The Asus web site and the manual state, "New power design supports next generation Intel PrescottCPU. Does this mean this motherboard has fixed the power issue. Also, what CPU heat sink/fan combination was used for the testing with 250+MHz FSB?Anonymous User - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - link
0sparkie - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - link
Thanks,If I have any stability problems I ' ll inform U.
Icewind - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - link
Its a 9800 which conforms to all the standards on mobos, so your fine.Anonymous User - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - link
I believe the manual's reference to the ATI card versions is concerning the old problems with stability and enabling AGP 8x on early versions of these video cards on AGP 8x motherboards. I have a 1 year old 9700 Pro running perfectly on this motherboard at 8x with fast writes enabled, but I am not overclocking.