Anyone here with a ASUS P6X58-E PRO? For you X58 people.

[Sasqui]

Grabbed an ASUS P6X58-E PRO with an i7 950 on eBay for $138 (from Calgary of all places). It's going to be home to an X5670 that currently resides in a EVGA X58 board.

Questions:

1) I downloaded the latest BIOS P6X58-E-PRO-ASUS-0504.ROM... how do you flash the board? Yea, I know... look at the manual, lol...
2) Why is the Audio driver package 290MB??? Does it come with Windows XP ?
3) I see it has on-board Bluetooth! Any luck with that?
4) Any especially good overclocking guides? I ran across this

TIA ...happy overclocking.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

1. http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/asus_update_utility.html

2. dunno

3. dunno

4.my X5670 is currently at 22 multi and 204 fsb for a 4.5ghz overclock....1.323 V

 

[Kursah]

1. I would put the firmware on a USB flash drive, and boot into BIOS, and use the Asus EZ Flash utility they've had for ages. You should be able to see the USB drive and the firmware BIN file (or whatever format they're using).
2. It includes the audio software package which may include 3D audio, equalizer, extra sounds, etc.
3. Bluetooth should work fine if the drivers are still relevant for it and the Windows OS you choose. Likely a crapshoot though.
4. I would think that utilizing many of the X58-era OC guides will help get you in the right direction, that and a little old school trial and error, setting and testing. This is back when bclk was adjusted along with multi's. I didn't get to enjoy OC-ing as many X58 platforms as I wanted (was broke at the time lol), but work through the guide you found and use some consistent testing, you'll do just fine.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I would put the firmware on a USB flash drive, and boot into BIOS, and use the Asus EZ Flash utility they've had for ages. You should be able to see the USB drive and the firmware BIN file (or whatever format they're using).

you dont need a flash drive, it does it straight off the net.

 

[Sasqui]

4. I would think that utilizing many of the X58-era OC guides will help get you in the right direction, that and a little old school trial and error, setting and testing. This is back when bclk was adjusted along with multi's. I didn't get to enjoy OC-ing as many X58 platforms as I wanted (was broke at the time lol), but work through the guide you found and use some consistent testing, you'll do just fine.

One thing I learned from my EVGA X58 is how important the Uncore frequency multiplier is. It translates the BCLK to another frequency to be used by memory and a few other things. Problem is that ASUS calls it something else. The voltages are a complete mystery to me, other than VCore and DRAM.

you dont need a flash drive, it does it straight off the net.

From BIOS or Windows... or both?

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

From BIOS or Windows... or both?

Ive only done it in Windows . Its very simple.

 

[Kursah]

you dont need a flash drive, it does it straight off the net.

True, that's been available for years, but the tried and true option is a floppy, disc or flash drive and using the BIOS utility to do the flashing. That's still my preferred method, though I've had a lotta luck using in Windows flashing, I've also had more failures with in Windows flashing. When in doubt, do it at the BIOS level, leaving the OS and potential issues that can happen with an OS out of the equation.

Either option should work fine, but should Windows lockup in the middle of the flash..you're fucked. No different than a power outage in the middle of a flash.

 

[jsfitz54]

@Sasqui : What happened to the EVGA, did you blow it up?

You can use the bios flash utility from the ASUS site from Windows desktop.(look up under W7 as OS) Download Utility and Bios to desktop and go from there. It works fine.
Dual Bios or not on that model?

 

[Sasqui]

I'd rather flash form USB that Windows. Too many variables in Windows!

@Sasqui : What happened to the EVGA, did you blow it up?

Not Quite... It was running stable at 4.4 Ghz. I brought it to work and started to try pushing it. I'd up the FSB or multiplier and save changes and it wouldn't reboot. Other times it would reboot then go through some weird post code cycles but never reach windows. I cleared the CMOS more times than I can recall. Looked up the cycling post codes and most answers were "failing motherboard". So, it's humming away right now at 3.4Ghz, with a mild OC. When I bring it home to swap out the X5670, I'm going to try re-flashing the BIOS first and see if that improves things.

 

[Tomgang]

I dont have the same motherboard so i cant say anything about bluetoofh and the other thing than about oc, but close to it. Since my mobo is a ASUS P6X58D Premium and not a "E" model and im not running a Xeon on it but a I7 980X cpu. Basicly is the same CPU. Only real difference is that your Xeon has a second QPI-link for running with dual CPU and a bit lower base/boost clocks and with that lower multiplier.

I used the same OC guide i used to my I7 920 CPU i used to have and made some settings but change a few things as completly disable turbo mode since i found out that BLCK oc is more effektive that oc on multiplier. and that has proven to give a solid OC at 4.25 GHz Intel burn test stable at max setting.

What is importen then oc a X58 CPU is that you have volts under your controle and not on auto. And UCLK shall always be twice the clock of your memory. So if your memory is clokket at exsample 1200 MHz, then UCLK shall be at least 2400 MHz. For vcore dont go above 1.35 volt for long life span and the same with memory dont go above 1.65 volt or you can risk frying your cpu memory controller. oh and keep your core temp at max 70-75C. temp close to 90c is in the danger zone.

this are the settings i use for my i7 980X oc.