Tom's Hardware > Forum > CPU & Components > CPUs > Will a Q9550 work with a Asus P5w DH Deluxe motherboard?

Will a Q9550 work with a Asus P5w DH Deluxe motherboard?

Forum CPU & Components : CPUs - Will a Q9550 work with a Asus P5w DH Deluxe motherboard?

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!

Ask the community Add a reply

Bottom Search this thread

Hi, I was planing to get a Q9550 as an upgrade to my E6600, and I was concerned that the Quad might not work with my motherboard, since I read on some sites that it might not work, is that true?

Or may I use the Q9550 with my current motherboard?

Greatly appreciate any and all information.

Thank You.

------------------------------ ASUS P5W DH Deluxe |+| Core 2 Quad Q6600 |+| Sapphire Radeon HD 4870OC TOXIC|
4 Gig of Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800Mhz Ram 5-5-5-12 |+| Thermaltake ToughPower 700W PSU
Thermaltake Xaser III Super Tower Series Case |+| ATI TV Wonder 650 |+|Windows Xp, SP2

Add a reply

well sory to say u mobo mite not support the q9550 bcos of the FSB...but it can support the q6600....Go with tat...

Reply to gkay09

thx for the info, just went threw asus's forum, looks like ppl have issues with it, and asus basically lies about support for it with the bios update, i was hoping to get the Q9550, as my last cpu before building a new system with the i7 in about 1.5 yeas from now.
the q6600 doesnt look to be much of an upgrade for the money ...sam clock, only 2 more cores...

yeah ....mayb if u could live with the E6600 for 1.5 yrs then its fine....but i feel that the if the q6600 can overclock so welll mayb u could try ur luck wit ur E6600...overclock it (if u motherboard allows which i doubt cos of the chipset..)but still give it a try ...
so mayb a 3GHz E6600 could stand a chance for those 1.5yrs...

Reply to gkay09

edit: mistake

Message edited by accord99 on 01-01-2009 at 09:16:21 AM

Reply to accord99

Very good plan. I've had X1900, E6600 & 2GB DDR2-PC6400 FOR 2.5 YEARS. All ways runing at 3GHz, it's still a fast machine. A month ago I upgraded to a X4870, Q9550 & 4GB DDR2-PC8400. With the latest bios, she perrs along at 3.2 GHz. Just like yourself, I'll upgrade in 1.5 years. Thats one hell of a good life span for a P5W DH Deluxe, and it will still be a relavently fast machine then.
I gave it fast hard drives as well, 74GB 10,000 rpm, 2x 320Gb Raid 0, 320Gb, 1TB, 500GB internal back up, 500GB external back up

Reply to jas69

I used to own that motherboard. Solid performance and features, but I sold it due to it sticking on the BIOS load screen for about 40 seconds. It was beyond frustrating.

------------------------------

http://valid.canardpc.com/cache/banner/547515.png

Intel Xeon X3370 @3.6ghz Under Enzotech Extreme-X,EVGA GTX 285 SC, 4GB Mushkin Ascent eVCI @ 1066mhz, Gigabyte P45 UD3P
Reply to spathotan

it works for me...

I got my new Q9550 processor today
and it works fine with the motherboard

asus p5w dh deluxe

I have all the latest BIOS and other ASUS related motherboard downloads installed prior to... installing the new chip

winXP initially ran a very fast check disk on the 1st start-up with the Q9550,
but after that no problems

seb6000

Reply to seb6000

The Q9550 has a multiplier of 8.5. According to Asus (and my P5W DH Deluxe), they don't support .5 multipliers. What multiplier are you using?

Reply to GhislainG

I also meant to say in my post above that I was running winXP 32bit and a BIOS v.2801

the v2801 BIOS would not start my computer with windows 7 7600.xxxxx etc... 64bit

It just kept rebooting and would not bring the windows program up, so I changed drives on start up to winXp, then downloaded and installed ASUS BIOS v2901, which can handle both 32bit & 64bit O/S's

then after I installed v2901 I changed my drives back to my win7 64bit and it started right up & operates fine

----

Note: I've been gradually buying some new hardware items (month to month) and updating my current computer to an updated: Win7 Quad Core 2, 775 system (I'm still waiting on the new ATI/AMD video cards that are coming out in october after the win7 final release)

They just came out with a card (not yet released) that will handle 7 HD monitors... all from 1 video card... WOW!

----

Not to sure about the multiplier... where would I check that?

I'm going to buy a new motherboard in a week or 2 and redo my win7 64bit system to run on that with the Q9550

GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard

Then I will revert back to another computer build using my winXP 32bit O/S, my older Intel E6300 chip and this ASUS P5W DH Deluxe.

and switch between O/S systems by using a quick 5.25 quick change-out drive BAYS...

and then build another server system using the ASUS & the E6300 chip

seb6000

Message edited by seb6000 on 09-16-2009 at 01:35:34 AM

Reply to seb6000

You can see the multiplier in the BIOS and in CPU-Z. I'm positive your Q9550 isn't running at full speed. You'll like the GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P.

Message quoted 1 times

Reply to GhislainG

GhislainG wrote :

You can see the multiplier in the BIOS and in CPU-Z. I'm positive your Q9550 isn't running at full speed. You'll like the GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P.

I installed cpuz 64bit and took a picture for you:

seb6000

Reply to seb6000

That's rather interesting. It looks like a multiplier of 8.5 is possible at auto settings. In Advanced Settings, CPU Configuration, can you see that the current ratio is 8.5?

Message quoted 1 times

Reply to GhislainG

GhislainG wrote :

That's rather interesting. It looks like a multiplier of 8.5 is possible at auto settings. In Advanced Settings, CPU Configuration, can you see that the current ratio is 8.5?

Here's another picture:

I set the bios setting back to default after installing the new cpu & didn't make any adjustment to them, so here's what they look like in... Advanced Settings, CPU Configuration

seb6000

Reply to seb6000

That answers my question. As you can see, the max ratio and actual value are 8, not 8.5 as would be expected when using that CPU. You can also see that the L2 and L3 cache are displayed as 0 KB (not an issue). I would also expect VT not to work with that combination, therefore you couldn't use it to run Hyper-V.

Thanks very much for the picture.

Ghislain

Reply to GhislainG

Hi

I try to get my ASUS P5w DH to work with my new Intel Q9550 CPU,
I have upgraded to the latest BIOS 2901,

I am using the CPU setings mentioned here, but,

- The system can boot into bios, and I can load for instance Win XP installer, or Linux installer,
I can leave the system in the menu for 1 hour ( to check for temperature power or other issues),
but as soon as I try to install or run the WIN XP installed on my hard drive the MB turn off power, and system restart.

Any ideas?
I use a geforce 7300 PCI express video, I have 1X 1GB RAM.

Ole

Reply to Oconradsen

The system probably crashes and reboots. If it powered off, it shouln't power on again by itself. Did you test the memory and what is the CPU idle temperature?

Reply to GhislainG

Ask the community Add a reply

Tom's Hardware > Forum > CPU & Components > CPUs > Will a Q9550 work with a Asus P5w DH Deluxe motherboard?

Go to:

Help |
Forum rules

There are 722 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Page generated in 0.681 seconds

Focus On

Will a Q9550 work with a Asus P5w DH Deluxe motherboard?

Forum CPU & Components : CPUs - Will a Q9550 work with a Asus P5w DH Deluxe motherboard?