ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[dpawl31]

Really, I saw that heatpipe and the fan for it, looked like it would do the trick. I'll have to see how my little trick does. My 650i gets here tomorrow, on my day off!

[Zabaco]

Still tinkering with it on OCing. I'm new to this and school finals are coming up so my time is super limited. Right now I just pulled it out of my comp to put on a active colling NB heat sink and still looking to find a passive heat sink for the SB. Nice thing is a tall sink on the SB won't bump into any large graphics cards. (I'm planning on buying an 8800gts in the next few days). Also if you're not doing sli a big card will not block any other PCI slots. People let me know your specs including voltage configs on this baby.

[dpawl31]

I want to get another 7600GT in a few months, and I love it because its so skinny and I can save both my PCI, because I have a Wireless G card and want to get a real sound card. Have you played with the onboard HDA? I heard good things and bad. Bad being they said when there is no sound there is a lot of crackling... but I would attribute that to bad connections/wiring?

What did you get for a NB sink? And I am not positive but don't all NB sinks fit the SB holes?

[Zabaco]

I got the Extreme Spirit two by Thermaltake for about 25 bucks at frys. I am going to order http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835103155
for my south bridge. I'll probably use a different thermal paste/adhesive or whatever since people say the one with it sucks.

[dpawl31]

Got my board today. Everything installed great, except I am having some memory problems. CPUZ is showing a memory divider of 1:2, and 400Mhz. I have DDR2 800. I manually set the divider in the bios (after shutting off AI) and I assumed it was all set, now it still shows 1:2. DAMN! I'll have to go look @ that Techage review again and see what he did to get around these memory issues. What is yours running @ Zabaco?

[dpawl31]

Oh by the way my Freezer 7 Pro didn't quite fit with that massive NB heatsink, I am going to snip off the ASUS piece which will allow it to fit. For now, the freezer is in there backwards lol. It fit that way, but its blowing the air towards my empty space beneath my CD drives lol. Need to fix that soon, But I am running 34c idle even with that blowing backwards!

[Zabaco]

Originally Posted by dpawl31

Got my board today. Everything installed great, except I am having some memory problems. CPUZ is showing a memory divider of 1:2, and 400Mhz. I have DDR2 800. I manually set the divider in the bios (after shutting off AI) and I assumed it was all set, now it still shows 1:2. DAMN! I'll have to go look @ that Techage review again and see what he did to get around these memory issues. What is yours running @ Zabaco?

Well I have mine turned to manual and I just unlinked my FSB and Memory if thats what your asking. The bios is weird cause it lets you change the Bus Speed as apposed to the Front Side Bus but they change together. I have my setup running at 1700Mhz Bus speed making a 425 FSB and my memory is OCed to 930Mhz with clocked back timings of 5 5 5 15. My memory voltage is something like 2.3 or 2.4, fairly high, but my friend said our memory (he has same kind) is suppose to run at that. O and my Vcore voltage is at 1.43 I believe. Running orthos for about 1 hour and seems to be doing good. My temps are anywhere from 37-40 (have 3 different things monitoring temps). All for an OC of 3.400 Ghz

[Zabaco]

O well for some reason I thought you had a C2D. Just realized you don't so most of those facts I told you won't help. Guess others can use it if they have the same setup as me.

[dpawl31]

Im still learning this stuff. For sure.
Apparently 400Mhz and 1:2 divider is because its DDR and 400Mhz means 800mhz? Thats what I have been told in another thread.
I just dont get the rated FSB thing, @800Mhz, and its currently @200Mhz?
So does that mean I could pump it up to 800?

[dpawl31]

Hah, look at that. Read a little and now I get it!
Rated FSB is 800, Bus Speed is 200 because Intel chips are "quad pumped" meaning the 200 is multiplied to 800. It is a bit confusing when your Bios lists yours FSB as 800, and your Ram as 800, when your ram is running 400Mhz, and your FSB is really 200Mhz. LOL. CRAZY. Double this, Quad that, divide my @$$, Intel! lol.

Anyway, I got this thing cruising @ 3.5Ghz, with stock memory (using 5:4 divider) I will start playing with the memory once I really start understanding the timings, for right now I have no clue. I think I am done tinkering for the night. Time to run 3DMark and see a new score, then off to bed.