ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by Kopi

Oh. Glad I could help, IMO ballistix are the best sticks out there, I'm a huuuge crucial fanboy. Unfortunately, they aren't a fan of my budget

I'd say you're probably right seeing as I was able to tighten the timings so much at stock volts. They were a little spendier than some modules out there, however there are not too many that are comparable PC2 8000 kits that I found that are any cheaper. IMO $170 (after sale price and rebates) for 2 gigs isn't that bad of a price when you're going high end. Especially when you see PC2 6400 going for $120-140.

[Kopi]

Originally Posted by b1gapl

OK, at 1600FSB, I set the VCore on 1.4v, RAM on 2.0v, and NB on 1.56v. After a few hours of running, it freezes, and a drilling sound comes out my speakers. What should I do. Increase the voltage more?

Try running a program called memtest to check your ram for errors. Sometiimes you just get bad ram, it happend to me.

http://www.memtest86.com/ and go to the download section. You can either burn it to CD or Floppy and run it on bootup. Its like a DOS thing. So pop it in (whether you chsoe to do it via CD or floppy) opt to BOOT from the disk. Its straight forward from there on and it will test your memory for errors.

[The Pook]

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.as...541818&loc=101
Rabble rabble. Those what ya got?

[pheoxs]

Originally Posted by The Pook

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.as...541818&loc=101
Rabble rabble. Those what ya got?

HOLY thats crazy 99 bucks!!

[JCushing]

anyone try bios 602 yet? its up on asus's site.... the only notes are "adds usb 2.0 support under DOS"

i dunno i was using my usb keyboard and USB camera in dos (camera is what i load bios files with )

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by pheoxs

HOLY thats crazy 99 bucks!!

Think that's nuts check out these....I just paid 179 after rebates....
http://www.dealigg.com/story-Crucial...8-after-40-MIR

[Praeses]

Have any of you replaced the thermal paste on the north bridge? Was it easy to remove and attach again? Was it worth the effort?

Can zalman north bridge heatsinks be easily attached to the south bridge or do I need to find specific south bridge heatsinks? Would a zalman north bridge heatsink be more effective as the stock one? Once again, would it be easy to attach the new heatsink? I've never worked with N/S bridges' heatsinks before :P

[thenailedone]

Quick question from a user on another forum (local South African)...

Hi Folks.
I am amazed at how many ppl are on the forum at this witching hour. Before you log off, hear me out.

I have recently got me a new system:

C2D E6300
Asus P5n-E SLI
OCZ DDR2 800 2x1Gb (crossfire edition)
(not sure if i should list HDDs etc... )

Anyhow, the RAM i got this eve, just arrived from the US. The guy i sent to get this for me made a bit of a muck up. He bought the OCZ crossfire ram instead of Patriot DRR2 800 with some low timings i asked for.

The problem is that the system will only recognise 1Gb and not 2Gb. I have set the vdimm to 2.01v, set the ram to 800 manually with no luck. I have also swapped the ram from the yellow slots to the black slots, with not joy.

I did some digging and turns out the ram while crossfire certified works just fine with Nvidia chipsets (i.e. nforce 590).

I am new to Intel, and would appreciate any suggestions in trying to get the systemt to 'see' the whole 2gigs in dual channel...

I dont if this is any help, but currently the 1gig registers as dual channel at 2T command timing.

Later on some more info...

If i place both ram modules on the module, it registers 1 instead of the 2gb. If only one module is used, it registers 512Mb instead of 1024Mb...

I have swapped slots, swapped the modules, still nothing. The board boots nicely into windows (with 2 modules or one), i am just not seeing my 2Gb ram, or 1Gb ram when i use 1 module.

The more i think i about this, the more i think OCZ screwed up. I think they labelled a 1Gb Dual channel kit incorrectly.

This is frustrating! I have been scouring the net to verify if the 1Gb modules of this OCZ set are single sided modules or double sided. Mine are single sided. Surely in most cases a 1Gb memory module would be doubled sided? ....

Any assistance would be appreciated

[JCushing]

Originally Posted by Praeses

Have any of you replaced the thermal paste on the north bridge? Was it easy to remove and attach again? Was it worth the effort?

Can zalman north bridge heatsinks be easily attached to the south bridge or do I need to find specific south bridge heatsinks? Would a zalman north bridge heatsink be more effective as the stock one? Once again, would it be easy to attach the new heatsink? I've never worked with N/S bridges' heatsinks before :P

yes zalmans can attach to the SB easy. the stock NBHS comes off pretty easy too. from the back of the mobo just pinch the plastic clips with thin pliers and push it through.

and for the stock HS the best bet is to reseat it with AS5 and then attatch fan or fans (whatever fits) to it and see how that goes. otherwise try a thermaltake cl-c0034 or thermalrite hr-05. i dont think that zalman makes any HS's id put on the NB of this mobo.

[Nevaziah]

Well, i swapped the cpu to my old Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 to reset cmos and see if it works, and it still dont work.(i hadnt figured out how to reset cmos asside from batttery)

Now, when i switched my E6300 to the P5NE-SLi, wont even post. tried different ram, video card, cooler etc.. nothing..

what in the world happened?