My P5WDH and E8400 experiences and problems

[evident]

The reason why i got this cpu is for the lower power consumption. I put it in and i see that everytime i enable EIST, it just gets disabled when I go into the BIOS the next time. XP is in max battery mode, but i'm still running at 3.0 ghz, is anyone else experiencing this here?

Also, my default vcore for this board is at 1.25, i' going to try and lower it. i've seen on some forums that people are running at 1.0 or below, anyone else try this?

i really don't want to get another motherboard, as this thing has been rock solid and i've had no problems with it whatsoever, and i would probably have to sell it for not even close to what i paid for it

 

[SilentRunning]

Well ASUS does state that the bios that supports the E8400 is BETA

Core 2 Duo E8400 (3.00GHz,1333FSB,L2:6MB,65W,rev.C0) 2504 Beta BIOS

Version: 2504 2008/01/11
Description: P5W DH Deluxe BIOS 2504
Support new CPUs. Please refer to our website:
http://support.asus.com/cpusup...t.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

Maybe it still needs some work?

 

[evident]

2602 just came out, seems like the problems are still there =\

 

[njdevilsfan87]

At least it's not like Gigabyte... the retards can't implement a functional EIST/C1E and the C2D has been out for over a year and a half. The moment you change your VCore on a Gigabyte board the voltage will not drop like it should in idle mode.

 

[trOver]

good to know the p5wdh- deluxe is still being used for modern cpus!

 

[Binky]

Try Rmclock. The beta (see the RMclock forums) seems to have minimal support the E8400. The only way I can get my multi to drop from 9.0 on an IP35 Pro is with RMclock. I've only experimented a bit with it though, and it did cause a lockup once when I was switching back and forth between 9x and 6x.

 

[evident]

Originally posted by: trOver
good to know the p5wdh- deluxe is still being used for modern cpus!

i never saw the reason to upgrade from it... it overclocks well and is chock full of features, what more is wanted?