ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[SSJVegeta]

Originally Posted by slaney30

I would back down the CPU Vcore voltage. I would set it at 1.35v manually in the bios, then enable the +100mV settings. Your VCORE is running over 1.5 which intel specs say is over its rating. You don't really want to fry your chip.

Thats what I did which is why I said I reached 1.425v via +100mV. The vcore setting itself is 1.325v.

[slaney30]

Originally Posted by SSJVegeta

Thats what I did which is why I said I reached 1.425v via +100mV. The vcore setting itself is 1.325v.

My bad. Did you try upping the northbridge volts?

[SSJVegeta]

Originally Posted by slaney30

My bad. Did you try upping the northbridge volts?

It was on Auto so I set it to 1.39v and still had the same result, no internet and PC also reboot after 10mins in Orthos with CPU test.

[TriBeCa]

well...sad to say I don't really know how to help you. only thing I can think of is to make sure you've tried the X-Fi card in both PCI slots. beyond that...contact microsoft and/or asus?

[TriBeCa]

you should be asking about this in the main P5N-E thread, stickied at the top of this board. you'll get more and faster responses there....

[cybershark5886]

I've been trying to tweak my memory for this board recently and I'm seeing only 1ns of speed gain on it. I'm not using an official memory test program, but rather the benchmark on PC Wizard 2008. Is there a decent memory test application I can use to do more thorough benchmarks? I know about memtest86, but don't you have to burn that onto a CD, and boot to it? Is there a more convenient program to test my memory specs?

I got my memory timings all the way down to 4-4-4-8, and (atleast in nanoseconds) no sustantiantial difference. It went from 51ns to 50ns. What else should I be looking at?

[TriBeCa]

the most commonly used benchmark for RAM performance is SuperPi. People generally use the 1M calculation. The question is how fast your computer can calculate a million digits of pi I can get down almost under 17 seconds on a stable OC, and well under 17s on an unstable one (though I haven't done any suicide OCing to see how low I can get it)

[cybershark5886]

Originally Posted by Tribeca

while I had kind of a freakish experience that I still don't have the most satisfying explanation for. I added zalman vram sinks to my mosfets and swapped a fan out, and I saw an 8-10C drop in temps on my cores, MB, and GPU. best explanation I heard from anyone is that they were heating up massively (which i could confirm by touching them when the computer was on), which was increasing the resistance across various circuits in the board (general physical propery--more heat = more resistance). this increased resistance was then requiring more current to be pushed through the circuit in order maintain a decent voltage (because I = V/R), which was in turn heating everything up.

Nice. That's a pretty sustantial drop. Out of curiosity how do you mount a mosfet cooler/sink, since I don't think there are holes in the board designed for such a thing?

Edit: LOL! I just noticed this in your sig for the first time:
"Incorrect using it may cause your system broken. For power End-User use only!"
-Gigabyte MB manual (8I865GME-775-RH-Rev2.0)
I double checked that to see it for myself. That's hilarious. That's what you get for outsourcing your IT jobs.

[SSJVegeta]

I need help with hitting atleast 3GHz with my E4300. I can hit 2.8GHz with stock vcore of 1.325v but only with CPU FSB at 350MHz (1400MHz QDR) and multi at 8x.

With 3GHz on 8x or 9x multi and even with 1.45v vcore my PC reboots or freezes when running Orthos.

I've never fiddled with the +100mV or northbridge voltages. Perhaps now is the time for me to test them and see if I can hit 3GHz with 333MHz FSB and 9x CPU multi.

[cybershark5886]

Originally Posted by TriBeCa

the most commonly used benchmark for RAM performance is SuperPi. People generally use the 1M calculation. The question is how fast your computer can calculate a million digits of pi I can get down almost under 17 seconds on a stable OC, and well under 17s on an unstable one (though I haven't done any suicide OCing to see how low I can get it)

Thanks a million. I'll check it out then post my results.