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RE: transaction booster on asus p5kc

conrad101 — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:59:15 GMT

The only bios setting that I've changed was "transaction booster". Changing it from "auto" to "enabled" and giving it a max value of '3'. Before it was throttling, after it wasn't throttling. The spread spectrum and such like was disabled throughout. I think asus have made some changes to transaction booster with this 1004 bios.

RE: transaction booster on asus p5kc

tighthead — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:40:45 GMT

Conrad,

The speed drop is becauase of "speed step" - drops your multiplyer when the CPU is idling, saves power, heat and noise.

Mike

RE: transaction booster on asus p5kc

conrad101 — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:26:51 GMT

resurrecting an old thread. I've just changed my p5k bios to 1004, I think Asus have changed a few things on this new bios and enabling transaction booster and setting it to the highest level - '3' is a good idea. With transaction booster on auto, cpuz was reading that my clock-speed was halved most of the time. On enabling transaction booster this throttling is not occurring.

RE: transaction booster on asus p5kc

conrad101 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:59:18 GMT

I'm pretty sure I've disabled the transaction booster on mine, I believe I read it somewhere that it can sometimes cause issues. Next time I reboot I will double check. :)

RE: transaction booster on asus p5kc

steveori — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:45:36 GMT

Just keep an eye on your temps if your going to push it up more!

you'll notice much better performance from tighter timings as opposed to higher ram speed!

cheers

RE: transaction booster on asus p5kc

mog wilson — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:11:35 GMT

your probably right about the ram,its running fine on 5 5 5 12 timings and il loosen these up more when i take the e6750(try to) to 3.4ghz,at 5 5 5 12 ive already beaten my best pi score so i should be happy.my boy is fed up with 1)me breaking and fiddling with his pc 2)me being in his room a lot(as a teenager he wants privacy,ahem) 3)he doesnt want the pc on all the time when the xbox is on,as for sorting him out i wish u luck,hes 6ft 2 and has been boxing for 5 years so hes a handful even for me(not his mother though).i might get my way soon though as hes aware just who buys his xbox toys and his pc upgrades.ive read on google that ocing is addictive and im finding that out myself,it must be a mans thing to want to squeeze every last drop of performance out of his equipment and i dont think i can stop myself from raising my fsb just a tad more.thanks for replying.

warm regards

RE: transaction booster on asus p5kc

steveori — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:47:34 GMT

thats ok mate!

it sounds pretty normal for ram to be acting like that tbh.

you won't see much improvement from having it @ higher speed (800mhz) as you have it in sync mode (i.e cpu fsb @ 800mhz ram should be @ 400mhz) the cpu should be getting as much bandwidth as it needs.

it's not the ram that's faulty methinks and if you RMA it you may not get any money back.

you could try disabling that transaction booster.
if you REALLY want to raise the ram speed & lower timings knock your cpu's overclock down until it becomes stable.

and why won't your boy let you use my guide?
i'll sort him out if u like ;)

RE: transaction booster on asus p5kc

mog wilson — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:17:50 GMT

my ram is on auto 1/1,with 4 4 4 12 2.2v and its stable at 794mhz but blue screens at 800mhz,the ram is rated for these low timings so i dont know whether its faulty ram or my mobos playing up(p5kc and ram problems,googles full of em)

at the moment im 5 5 5 12 on auto voltage at 400fsb which runs nice however i would like the ram to do what it says on the tin.it wont do 800mhz without bsod,im trying to find out if anything(transaction booster) could be pushing the ram to far before i rma or blow it the hell up.thanks for reply steveori and my boy wont let me change his xbox connection to your guide the skanky sod.

warm regards

RE: transaction booster on asus p5kc

steveori — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:40:27 GMT

i disabled it on my mates rig, couldn't notice any changes!
give it a go!

what settings have u set for the ram?
seed, timings and voltage?

RE: transaction booster on asus p5kc

Mithrandia — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:44:00 GMT

BIOS update fixed my RAM instability problems when I had 4 sticks of 1GB ram installed overclocked quite heavily. This was on a PK5-E but I'd give it a go.

transaction booster on asus p5kc

mog wilson — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:45:48 GMT

hello,ive been googling this as a quest to find a cure to my ram instability issues and im wondering if anyone here disables this when ocing on an asus mobo,im trying everything possible to stabilise my ram as i really dont want to send it back,any ideas?

warm regards