ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[TriBeCa]

Originally Posted by Ravin

and where is our founder???? WTH happened to dpawl?

I cut off his head. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

j/k

[Kopi]

Hey guys, long time no see.

I was banned.

Whatever, I'm back yo.

My motherboards dead I think

Can't hold 3.2ghz anymore

Swapped CPU's, still couldn't hold that (3.2 was stable in other rig)

Can't bother to RMA because of 3 weeks without PC

EZ flash bios doesn't work

Tried flashing bios by floppy, wont work, 0608 says "Downgraded BIOS not suitable for system" error

Going watercooling on my DS3 rig

Have VF-1000 for sale if anyones interested.

Thats all for now

Too many lines

Oh well, too late

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by Kopi

My P5N-e Thread sense kicked in and i clicked on OCN. Turns out P5N thread was in top 10..this happens all the time.

Lol....I was wondering what happened to you. How did adding cooling to the MOSFETS help you out way back when????

[TriBeCa]

Originally Posted by Kopi

Hey guys, long time no see.

I was banned.

Whatever, I'm back yo.

My motherboards dead I think

Can't hold 3.2ghz anymore

Swapped CPU's, still couldn't hold that (3.2 was stable in other rig)

Can't bother to RMA because of 3 weeks without PC

EZ flash bios doesn't work

Tried flashing bios by floppy, wont work, 0608 says "Downgraded BIOS not suitable for system" error

Going watercooling on my DS3 rig

Have VF-1000 for sale if anyones interested.

Thats all for now

Too many lines

Oh well, too late

Can you tell us what voltages you were running on CPU, NB, and RAM? My last board stopped being able to hold 3.2GHz as well. I thought it was heat related, so I replaced all my cooling. Going straight back to my old OC still wasn't stable, so I decided to try a new BIOS since I was still on the release BIOS. Tried flashing to 0608 and it corrupted the CMOS so I needed a new chip = RMA. But i always suspected that the instability and maybe even the bad BIOS flash were actually due to having run 1.75V on the NB 24/7 for 3 months.

Also, there's a way around that downgraded BIOS error, although I can't remember what it is at the moment. Ravin or Asce should know...if not, go digging through this thread

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by TriBeCa

Also, there's a way around that downgraded BIOS error, although I can't remember what it is at the moment. Ravin or Asce should know...if not, go digging through this thread

Clear the CMOS by pulling the jumper by the SATA ports.

[rsfkevski]

Anyone tried the E21** series of processors on this board yet?

[hometoast]

Ok so I don't have a problem w/ my CPU tests but Orthos hangs when I test RAM.

Ran 400x8 for 3.2 Ghz.
vcore was one step over 1.225 (+100mV)
vdimm at 2.178
nb at 1.393
ram at 4-4-4-12,
LDT at 1x.

when I get a hand from memory test, what should be my next move? more vcore? loosen timings? bump nb to 1.5? (nb is at stock cooling cpu has AC freezer 7.)

[Kopi]

Never got around to adding the mosfet coolers. Plan was to put the HR-05 SLI on and that, but the HR-05 came without a mounting kit..so i never mounted it and never got in to put the sinks on.

1.5nb
2.2vdimm (only 915mhz, it memtests ok)
1.35 all the way up to 1.4v (with 100mv on)

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by hometoast

Ok so I don't have a problem w/ my CPU tests but Orthos hangs when I test RAM.

Ran 400x8 for 3.2 Ghz.
vcore was one step over 1.225 (+100mV)
vdimm at 2.178
nb at 1.393
ram at 4-4-4-12,
LDT at 1x.

when I get a hand from memory test, what should be my next move? more vcore? loosen timings? bump nb to 1.5? (nb is at stock cooling cpu has AC freezer 7.)

Try bumping up your NB to 1.5, if that does not work try loosening your timings and bringing the NB down to 1.39

[TriBeCa]

Originally Posted by Kopi

Never got around to adding the mosfet coolers. Plan was to put the HR-05 SLI on and that, but the HR-05 came without a mounting kit..so i never mounted it and never got in to put the sinks on.

1.5nb
2.2vdimm (only 915mhz, it memtests ok)
1.35 all the way up to 1.4v (with 100mv on)

Hrrm...wonder if the mosfets (maybe even vdimm mosfets?) burned out a bit over time and made your OC unstable. i've heard people say running over 2.2 without mosfet cooling can be bad news. what were you cooling the NB with?