Asus P5KC overclocking

[Speedo]

I got the P5KC in combination with a E4500, and could reach 3GHz with quite some effort. I thought my CPU wasn't the best out there, and got the chance to try another one. It appeared that one just made 2.6GHz. Later I heard some talk about this mobo not being that great for overclocking. Would it be worse than other P5K flavours? Anyone out there with experience?

Would the P5K Pro be a better choice for overclocking?

 

[F1shF4t]

My friend's P5k Deluxe doesn?t overclock at all, gives drive errors when you increase the clocks (we talking easy overclock q6600 to 3 Ghz). The sata ports stop working. I had the same board and had the same issues, except mine were slow sata drives instead of crashing.

If you have plans of getting a new mainboard I would look at a different brand. Gigabyte ones are a lot better than they used to be, my P35 - DQ6 gave no problems and overclocks quite nicely with the quad.

I have a MSI MSI P35-NEO-F (cheapest P35 board I?ve seen) coming in 2 days so I?ll be able to test how well it overclocks.

 

[Markfw]

My P5K vanilla wouldn't do better than 3 ghz on my Q6600. Put a DQ6 on it, and bam 3320 stable ! For a lot less, I like the DS3R.

 

[Speedo]

Okey... so is there anyone out there who has achieved some high overclocking with this board?

 

[Speedo]

No one achieved a nice good o/c with this board in the whole world?

 

[jdkick]

I have yet to OC with my P5K-E/WiFi AP, but i'm expecting that it will do a decent job.

With a quick Google search I came up with several discussions/reviews regarding overclocking using various flavours of the P5K, such as:

http://www.overclock3d.net/rev...cket_775_motherboard/4

You may need to spend some time sifting through some searches to find comments specific to the P5KC.