Anyone receive any flavor P5B in the last week?

[sskings]

I'm holding out until the chipset changeover on P965 boards. If you've received any flavor P5B (or other P965 board) from zzf or NewEgg in the last week, I'd appreciate knowing if it has the c2 chipset?

Thanks!! :thumbsup:

 

[ChiPCGuy]

I have the P5B-E on order from NewEgg, and should get it this coming Wednesday. I can report back.

 

[sskings]

bump.

 

[crydee]

Can you also report if it's the 1.01g or the 1.02 that was in the P965 roundup article? I kind of want the 1.02g because it seems to OC better.

 

[you2]

I just ordered a p5b-e - it should come by friday (i hope). it will be a few days later than chipCguy. If you tell me how to check revision/chip i'll do so... my guess is it will have a c2 and a 1.01g

 

[cmdrdredd]

If you get a Deluxe (if you have the funds) you don't even have to worry about which chipset. The Deluxe overclocks better than any P5B/P5B-E revision.

 

[crydee]

Originally posted by: ChiPCGuy
I have the P5B-E on order from NewEgg, and should get it this coming Wednesday. I can report back.

bump! Any word?

 

[Darknessxk]

I would too like to know whether or not I can get the 1.02 version from newegg. I want to order the motherboard asap.

 

[imported_Hamster]

I gave up on waiting for the 1.02 rev so I got the Deluxe. It's only $30 more and most people say it is tops.

 

[ChiPCGuy]

Rev 1.01g. Don't let this concern you, though. The thing is stable and fast. I just ran it through 24 hours of Orthos and then launched SuperPI from time to time to really put the screws to it and there was not a hiccup. Setup as follows:

1. ASUS P5B-E with latest BIOS (flashed first thing)
2. E6700 (not overclocked)
3. Corsair XMS2 6400C4 at 2.1v and 4-4-4-12
4. Seagate 7200.10 320Gig hdd at SATA 3.0 Gig
5. GeCube X1950XTX
6. Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Music
7. Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro with stock TIM
8. NEC 7170A DVD-RAM burner
9. Samsung floppy
10. ATech 28-1 card reader
11. Corsair 520W modular PSU
12. Antec SLK-3000 case with 2 Scythe S-Flex 1200rpm SFDB fans

I did use MOSFET heatsinks from Frozencpu for all the MOSFETS. The machine booted immediately and after flashing I disabled on-board audio and legacy ports and set RAM timings/voltage manually. I had NO ISSUES AT ALL. Very uneventful install. Incredibly fast machine, and I am very happy with it. I did not need to use F6 to load any drivers during XP install and the JMICRON controller has caused no issues at all. There are no "unknown devices" in Device Manager and the optical drive is at UDMA4 automatically.

For those considering this board, rest assured it is a good pick.

 

[kwo]

Originally posted by: ChiPCGuy
Rev 1.01g. Don't let this concern you, though. The thing is stable and fast. I just ran it through 24 hours of Orthos and then launched SuperPI from time to time to really put the screws to it and there was not a hiccup. Setup as follows:

1. ASUS P5B-E with latest BIOS (flashed first thing)
2. E6700 (not overclocked)
3. Corsair XMS2 6400C4 at 2.1v and 4-4-4-12
4. Seagate 7200.10 320Gig hdd at SATA 3.0 Gig
5. GeCube X1950XTX
6. Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Music
7. Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro with stock TIM
8. NEC 7170A DVD-RAM burner
9. Samsung floppy
10. ATech 28-1 card reader
11. Corsair 520W modular PSU
12. Antec SLK-3000 case with 2 Scythe S-Flex 1200rpm SFDB fans

I did use MOSFET heatsinks from Frozencpu for all the MOSFETS. The machine booted immediately and after flashing I disabled on-board audio and legacy ports and set RAM timings/voltage manually. I had NO ISSUES AT ALL. Very uneventful install. Incredibly fast machine, and I am very happy with it. I did not need to use F6 to load any drivers during XP install and the JMICRON controller has caused no issues at all. There are no "unknown devices" in Device Manager and the optical drive is at UDMA4 automatically.

For those considering this board, rest assured it is a good pick.

Mine is coming from the Egg in a few days......did you even try out the onboard sound? I was going to grab one of those $60ish X-fi's but they sold out before I got my order in, so I was tempted to try the onboard......

 

[ChiPCGuy]

Originally posted by: kwo

Originally posted by: ChiPCGuy
Rev 1.01g. Don't let this concern you, though. The thing is stable and fast. I just ran it through 24 hours of Orthos and then launched SuperPI from time to time to really put the screws to it and there was not a hiccup. Setup as follows:

1. ASUS P5B-E with latest BIOS (flashed first thing)
2. E6700 (not overclocked)
3. Corsair XMS2 6400C4 at 2.1v and 4-4-4-12
4. Seagate 7200.10 320Gig hdd at SATA 3.0 Gig
5. GeCube X1950XTX
6. Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Music
7. Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro with stock TIM
8. NEC 7170A DVD-RAM burner
9. Samsung floppy
10. ATech 28-1 card reader
11. Corsair 520W modular PSU
12. Antec SLK-3000 case with 2 Scythe S-Flex 1200rpm SFDB fans

I did use MOSFET heatsinks from Frozencpu for all the MOSFETS. The machine booted immediately and after flashing I disabled on-board audio and legacy ports and set RAM timings/voltage manually. I had NO ISSUES AT ALL. Very uneventful install. Incredibly fast machine, and I am very happy with it. I did not need to use F6 to load any drivers during XP install and the JMICRON controller has caused no issues at all. There are no "unknown devices" in Device Manager and the optical drive is at UDMA4 automatically.

For those considering this board, rest assured it is a good pick.

Mine is coming from the Egg in a few days......did you even try out the onboard sound? I was going to grab one of those $60ish X-fi's but they sold out before I got my order in, so I was tempted to try the onboard......

I did not try out the onboard sound. The X-Fi was already waiting to be moved from my Athlon X2 4600+ machine (that I gave away to my friend) to the new Core2Duo platform. The X-Fi I own is the more expensive earlier variant, not one of the revised cards.

 

[Darknessxk]

I've heard mixed reviews on the onboard. I was also planning on using it for now since I really don't find the need for an extra soundcard as of now. Anandtech's review said the sound was fine but some people on newegg say there is some cracking and popping so I'm hoping that isn't the case usually.

 

[tpalik]

It's the same audio chipset as the P5B Deluxe which also has had a few reports of crackling. Others though have praised its performance. There seems to be a correlation between sound levels on the master volume. I would just leave those levels low and raise the volume on the speaker system which in my case has it's own amp.

 

[kwo]

Originally posted by: Darknessxk
I've heard mixed reviews on the onboard. I was also planning on using it for now since I really don't find the need for an extra soundcard as of now. Anandtech's review said the sound was fine but some people on newegg say there is some cracking and popping so I'm hoping that isn't the case usually.

I recently built a rig for a friend using an Asus A8N32Deluxe. The onboard sound (on two boards) was atrocious with pops and hisses....nasty nasty! I wound up getting him an Audigy 4.......

Hence my concern with this Asus board.....

 

[davidos]

Still waiting for the 1.02G version.... although losing hope.

 

[Darknessxk]

I just hope its something similar to what I get out of my insperon 6000. The sound coming out of it is incredibly powerful and sounds pretty good too.