ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[dpawl31]

1) I would assume the RAM should be fine.
2) NB is fine for most CPUHS's, just reseat it with AS5.
3) The newer-shipped P5N-E's have a SB HS... bastards... lol.
4) If you get one that doesn't yes, most any HS will work. Not with SLI though!
Check the second post on the first page of this thread
5) I can help you with the mod you'll need to do for the CPU cooler, just realized you have the same as me

You just need to trim some plastic off the fan housing. The corner where it will touch the NB. You could also do what I did, take the ASUS aluminum sticker off the NB, and then bend a NB fin down under the CPU HS.
But that would be dumb. So what, I didn't know I could trim the fan housing. lol.

[Delphi]

Well I just got one of these boards. And i was wondering if any of you have TAT running with them. Cause i cant seem to get it to run with it.

Also i am running this fine right now. But i am wondering if my ram i compatible with this board cause it seems i got a dead stick im my 2gb kit. But it is running fine with a 1gb stick right now.

[dpawl31]

Originally Posted by Delphi

Well I just got one of these boards. And i was wondering if any of you have TAT running with them. Cause i cant seem to get it to run with it.

Also i am running this fine right now. But i am wondering if my ram i compatible with this board cause it seems i got a dead stick im my 2gb kit. But it is running fine with a 1gb stick right now.

Have you tested the ram thoroughly?
ie Try the "dead" stick by itself.

I had an issue where ONE stick worked, in any slot, either stick.
No matter how I put TWO sticks in, I got memory errors and crashes.
I set vdimm to AUTO instead of 2.1 (or 2.0 I forget what I set it as)
And instantly I could run both sticks fine, with no memtest errors at all.

[GunZ]

Originally Posted by dpawl31

I've been using the Gold for about 6 months.
I only have the 1GB Kit, Kopi's P5N-E has the 2GB Kit.
I wouldn't neccessarily reccommend them though, Kopi says his overclock pretty well but I have yet to try it, no need @ the moment.
I would get yourself some D9's...

I've changed some things and I may be stable now. Here is what I did:

I have an Antec Nine Hundred case. I moved the external drives to the bottom, and moved the intake fan to the top. I had seen this somewhere lately, but could not remember where until I looked at your gallery again.
The Nine Hundred has such great ventilation, I never thought heat could be an issue with the memory...

Memtest still gives errors, but I ran Orthos for half an hour until I stopped it. I changed timings/voltage and ran it again.

800 4-4-4-12 2T
vdimm 2.08

I ran Orthos for an hour and a half, but Memtest still gives errors. I fired up some games (Fear, Doom3) and they did not crash!

Temps:
Cpu 54c load
NB/MB 41c load

Running Orthos now at:
1000 4-4-4-12 2T
vdimm 2.178

It has been running for approx forty-five minutes so far... Memtest results bother me though.

[DonNiger]

Myby Orthos just does not "touch" the faulty area. Run WINRAR benchmark, thatone stresses mem quite a lot.

[GunZ]

Originally Posted by DonNiger

Myby Orthos just does not "touch" the faulty area. Run WINRAR benchmark, thatone stresses mem quite a lot.

No errors after running the WINRAR benchmark for a couple of hours.

[dpawl31]

Nice job GunZ.

[Delphi]

Originally Posted by dpawl31

Have you tested the ram thoroughly?
ie Try the "dead" stick by itself.

I had an issue where ONE stick worked, in any slot, either stick.
No matter how I put TWO sticks in, I got memory errors and crashes.
I set vdimm to AUTO instead of 2.1 (or 2.0 I forget what I set it as)
And instantly I could run both sticks fine, with no memtest errors at all.

Yea i tried the dead stick by itself, crashed 30 secs in orthos. Tried the other, was stable for ever.

[b1gapl]

Hey guys,

I tried flashing the BIOS from 0401 to 0505. I used the EZ Flash method. And while it was checking the file, a message popped up saying "Downgraded ROM file was not suitable for this system." Is this a bad thing? Right now I'm still at that window with that message. What should I do? Just restart? Or is it too late? Thanks...

[Christiaan]

You need to default the BIOS, should work then.