ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[Awesome]

It did... we were using the Sandra benchmarks and he was getting surprisingly close when I was at stock speeds.

Love your avatar.

[slaney30]

Originally Posted by Awesome

It did... we were using the Sandra benchmarks and he was getting surprisingly close when I was at stock speeds.

Love your avatar.

The Pentium D is not faster. I just upgraded my Pentium D to an E2160 and my E2160 runs circles around it.


http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

A stock E2140 easily outperforms a 3.6ghz Pentium D. Now add 1000 mhz to the stock speed and it completely owns the Pentium D. So rest assured and e21XX will dominate a Pentium D.

[MadDogX]

Hi again. I'd like to ask you guys for some advice on cooling the mosfets and southbridge.

For the mosfets I've been thinking of getting a set of Zalman ZM-RHS1 heatsinks:




And for the southbridge, I believe I may be able to squeeze the Zalman ZM-NBF47 just south of my 7950GX2:




The NBF47 is a northbridge heatsink, but I've read that it will do the trick for the southbridge aswell.

Reckless as I am, I've already gone and ordered them online - if there are any problems I can always send them back. Still I'd like to know what you guys think

[SSJVegeta]

Ok I found out the reason why I couldn't overclock my E4300 to 3GHz or higher. Its the northbride heatsink, it gets so hot. I placed a 80mm fan over it and the PC didn't reboot or crash anymore when OC'd to 3GHz with 1.325v & +100mV = 1.425v, PC reboots with less than that.

Can someone recommend a nice and efficient replacement northbridge heatsink, with fan or fanless?

Also, how much difference in temps would arctic silver 5 paste make if applied to the CPU HSF compared to the regular thermal paste?

Thanks!

[brooking1169]

Hey whats up man check this one out it works real well. My northbridge got so hot i burnt myself when i touched it i was able to get a higher overclock with this chipset cooler http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16835109019

[brooking1169]

Hey whats up man check this one out it works real well. My northbridge got so hot i burnt myself when i touched it i was able to get a higher overclock with this chipset cooler

Sorry about the double post

[SSJVegeta]

Which one do I get?

http://www.scan.co.uk/search/search.asp?criteria=hr-05?

And why does it say (bare sink) next to each one?

[Asce]

Just get a HR-05 Sli with AS5. Even without a fan it doesnt get too hot.

[jimmyj]

I have a Q6600 B3 stepping. A hundred pages or so ago on this board, I started my first OC'ing experience. The P5N-E SLI and Q6600 do not play nice together, period IMO. I've had to at least try every OC'ing variable about 3 times over (you know how addiciting it is lol).

I'm giving up and since I want to keep my quad core, I would like to get rid of the P5N-E. Nothing is broke on it, it just sucks at OC'ing my Q6600, which I'm not happy having it sit there running at stock 2.4, which is the ONLY stable setting.

First and most important: What are my options, any chance I can RMA it through ASUS? If not, what then?

Second: What new board should I be looking at that is proven to OC the Q6600? I do not care about SLI at this point. The board must play nice with with my EVGA 8800 GTS, Corsair XMS 2 6400 ram, and my B3 Q6600. Would love your input! Money is a factor here seeing it's Christmas time and I shouldn't just be buying things for myself lol.

Cheers, JJ

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by jimmyj

First and most important: What are my options, any chance I can RMA it through ASUS? If not, what then?

You won't get anywhere with RMAing a perfectly good board. They'll send it right back to you.

Originally Posted by jimmyj

Second: What new board should I be looking at that is proven to OC the Q6600? I do not care about SLI at this point. The board must play nice with with my EVGA 8800 GTS, Corsair XMS 2 6400 ram, and my B3 Q6600. Would love your input! Money is a factor here seeing it's Christmas time and I shouldn't just be buying things for myself lol.

Cheers, JJ

I like ASUS and Gigabyte boards. Something in P35 ideally, with all solid capacitors (Gigabyte calles it UltraDurable 2 or something). P5K-E Wi-Fi
GA-P35C-DS3R
GA-P35-DS3P Rev 2.0