ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[JCushing]

Originally Posted by goody24

So today i decide to replace my NB heatsink with a thermaltake spirit.

thermaltake spirit

Originally Posted by goody24

The only thing i did when it started booting was to loosen up the bolts on my spirit. Dumb questin, but is it possible to overtighten them?

they should be finger tight, if the little metal arms start to bend, its way to tight.

[The Pook]

Anywho.
I'm gunna lap my heatsink Saturday since I gotta be up at like.
6:30. Gotta drive, from 7:30 to 9:30. Ack.

So, since I'll have the whole rest of the morning to afternoon to blow before hitting the trails with some of my friends - going to lap mah heatsink.

Might lap my CPU, but I'm not sure yet.

[goody24]

dpawl31 - great tip about saving profiles thanks! i had to go back and manually reenter everything. Next time i know better.

Jcushing - I wanted to grab something today and its the only NB heatsink/fan microcenter had today. Is there one you like better? i was thinking about ordering the zalman from newegg along with a sb heatsink.

[dpawl31]

Yeah profiles are great, and when you save them, even if you flash to a new bios, they stay put!

Pook, happy lapping.

And dare I say, "happy trailssssss.... to youuuuuuuuuu, untilllll we meetttt, again!"

[Asce]

Originally Posted by dpawl31

Two 7200 drives will out-speed the raptor for sure... faster boot times and faster loading BF2142. And you'll get more storage, for less money, and faster speed.
But if you prefer the single raptor...

I rebuild my system nearly every 6 months when XP starts going slow. And i always have a second hard drive for backing up data etc on.

[Christiaan]

Hey guys. I only got a small overclock going for now. Orthos passed for about 20 minutes.
Got it at 3Ghz @ stock voltage 1.25v. 150FSB (600) and RAM thank you Asus! At 300 (600) at 3:3:3:9:1T.

I'm so happy with this board. You guys have no idea. Gigabyte truely sucks. I couldn't tune the RAM timings nor set it at any speed. I had to use limited multipliers. And then to top it off. I couldn't get the RAM passed 590MHz.

Also, the CPU speed is spot on in CPU-Z. Showing 3000MHz. On the Gigabyte it could vary the CPU speed by a few MHz constantly.

Many thanks to you guys for this thread. I'm so happy! ^_^

Oh also. I took the voltage settings off auto for everything. Set it manually. What is the NB stock voltage? I selected the 1.2*** or something. It was the minimum one I could choose.

Oh and CPU with F@H at 48 degrees. It's not as cool as before, but still good enough. Will get me some TriCools which should suffice.

Any CPU coolers you guys recommend? Since my Zalman seems to suck?

[JCushing]

Originally Posted by goody24

Jcushing - I wanted to grab something today and its the only NB heatsink/fan microcenter had today. Is there one you like better? i was thinking about ordering the zalman from newegg along with a sb heatsink.

the hr-05 from thermalright is signifigantly better than the thermaltake. if you want something for the SB anyway then just move the TT to the SB and grab a hr-05 for the NB. i bought the thermaltake from newegg cause they were out of the hr-05 for a long time and i didnt want the SLI version. when i RMAd the thermaltake they just happened to have the hr-05 in stock again so i grabbed that with a 60mm fan. no difference in MB idle temps but the load temp doesnt go up at all now, with stock and the thermaltake under load the MB temp would go up a good amount.

also be weary of the fan for the TT. if it starts making a ticking noise its gonna die.

[dpawl31]

As far as CPU coolers, my Freezer7Pro is great... but if I hadn't got it for $30 I would have got the Tuniq Tower.

[Kopi]

As far as CPU coolers, see my sig. Should be up in about a week or so time. You guys will see plenty of my dear P5N-e

So glad I chose this board over DS3

[JCushing]

thermalright ultra 120 is prolly the best out there, tuniq, scythe, zalman all make pretty good ones too.

http://www.anandtech.com/casecooling...spx?i=2978&p=5

click that for results