ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[Thrice]

Originally Posted by dpawl31

Do you have that whole kit? Or just the fan? Or just one of the heatsinks?

If you have just a heatsink... don't use it on the NB. Because it is smaller and has less overall surface area to disipate heat.
If you have the fan, which is a fan designed for a GPU... I doubt it will fit on the NB, but you can try.

If you have either of those heatsinks, stick one on your SB!

**EDIT**
If you have the big heatsink, it says one HS is alum and one is copper. If the big one is copper, it should outperform the stock NB HS.

I have the whole kit. It was never even opened.

The kit comes in 2 different types. All copper or all alum, I have the alum one. All the sinks and fan are alum.

The fan is a heatsink/fan combo, its just pretty small (it will fit the NB to, holes line up perfectly and it came with pins to attach it). I attached it to the stock NB with thermal tape. I think it will work better just blowing some heat off.

I put one of the passive Heatsinks on the southbridge with tape also.

Overclocked my e6600 to 3.4 ghz. Its stable I ran orthos all night. My temps at are 34 idle, and 43 under max load for my CPU. the Motherboard temp seems hot tho. under load it goes to 48-49c. The NB still seems really hot to the touch. Should I be worried?

[Kopi]

Fill in your system specs in the UserCP up at the top, so we can see all your stuffs. I just did a little OC, 2.4ghz on stock cooling/volts

[Thrice]

Originally Posted by Kopi

Fill in your system specs in the UserCP up at the top, so we can see all your stuffs. I just did a little OC, 2.4ghz on stock cooling/volts

Done.

I was able to OC about 40% with out barely even touching my voltages. I'm running at a 1:1 divider with my ram right now, so to go higher I need to OC my ram right?

[Kopi]

If your at 400fsb yep, from now on will be a ram OC or, in the bios you can set it to unlinked, where you can raise your FSB and Memory seperately. If you wanted, you could leave memory at 800mhz and raise FSB without effecting ram

[Thrice]

Originally Posted by Kopi

If your at 400fsb yep, from now on will be a ram OC or, in the bios you can set it to unlinked, where you can raise your FSB and Memory seperately. If you wanted, you could leave memory at 800mhz and raise FSB without effecting ram

Yep. I'm at just below 400 fbs.

I unlinked it to clock it up, untill I reached 1:1.

If i want to maintain the 1:1 the ram needs to go up as the CPU does right? I don't think I'm going to take it any higher really. I scored 9550 with 3dMark6, thats plenty for me.

[Kopi]

Thats a great score, if you want to keep 1:1 you'll need to OC ram which shouldn't be too much of a problem, you've doubled my score by the way

Sadly, this new rig isn't performing well in benches. Aquamark3 is 101k and 3Dmark06 isn't too much better at 5008 (2.4ghz and gpu oced to 545/750)

The stuff is

e6300 (2.4ghz for now, stock volts)
p5ne-sli
2gb OCz XTC gold 5-5-5-12 at 800mhz
BFG 7900gs OC (545/1500)

Some systems with valueram and 3600+ are beating me. Anyone got any ideas?

[rsfkevski]

Hey Thrice, what are your settings in the Bios to get to where that OC is stable. I just recently built basically the same system as you, for a friend, and I can't seem to get stable @ 400 x 8. If I take the multi to 7, I can easily reach 400fsb stable, but no matter what I take the voltages up to, it just doesnt seem to be stable with the multiplier higher. I'm unsure of the stepping or week and I'm not going to tear it all apart just to get that. BTW, he's running a Thermalright HR-05 SLI w/70mm fan on NB and a CoolerMaster H/S/F on SB. Temps are wonderfully low, like 21ºC @ idle (ambient 20ºC)cccccold!!! Temps, obviously, are not a problem. I need some input cause I'd like to see this E6600 hit at least 3.6 on air! Ram will go to 900mhz stable as well. If that helps.

[Kopi]

Hey just wondering if any of you guys have had any problems with TAT? Me and pook cant get it running, think its not reading mobo right

[dpawl31]

Memory
2 GB Corsair ddr2-6400

Thrice just an FYI, it's DDR2-800 or PC2-6400, not DDR2-6400, that would be 3200Mhz RAM. Jesus! lol

[squrrel444]

Originally Posted by rsfkevski

Hey Thrice, what are your settings in the Bios to get to where that OC is stable. I just recently built basically the same system as you, for a friend, and I can't seem to get stable @ 400 x 8. If I take the multi to 7, I can easily reach 400fsb stable, but no matter what I take the voltages up to, it just doesnt seem to be stable with the multiplier higher. I'm unsure of the stepping or week and I'm not going to tear it all apart just to get that. BTW, he's running a Thermalright HR-05 SLI w/70mm fan on NB and a CoolerMaster H/S/F on SB. Temps are wonderfully low, like 21ºC @ idle (ambient 20ºC)cccccold!!! Temps, obviously, are not a problem. I need some input cause I'd like to see this E6600 hit at least 3.6 on air! Ram will go to 900mhz stable as well. If that helps.

Very few people are actually getting e6600s on air up to 3.6 mhz....
alot are getting stuck around the 3.2 area..
There may be a spot in the 400 to 435 fsb area that works....
Whats the best 9x multiplyer fsb you can get.....?

The corsair pc 6400 might be a problem they downgraded there mem reciently and all but the very expensive modules will not go very far over 800 mhz..

Yours might be marginal......