ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[dpawl31]

Check out both reviews @ the beginning of the thread, they both hit over 500 FSB and both are professionals and also both say they have seen others around the web hit 500FSB easily. I personally CAN'T hit 500 with this CPU, it has a locked multi of 14.

[Dman]

Its highly unlikely you will hit 500bus (2000FSB) on that cpu without a phase unit. On the core 2's however its pretty easy to hit 500BUS, especially with the e6300.

[Robilar]

Originally Posted by Dman

Its highly unlikely you will hit 500bus (2000FSB) on that cpu without a phase unit. On the core 2's however its pretty easy to hit 500BUS, especially with the e6300.

I agree. The results I've seen in reviews and enthusiast sites were all with C2D chips. They downclocked the multi and upped the FSB with voltage increases as needed. If your multi is hard locked, you will get very limited increases.

[dpawl31]

I never said I personally could hit 500. I said the BOARD is capable of it.
And I also noted that it was C2D chips, I know this. That is my plan, to eventually get one.

Please re-read...

I personally CAN'T hit 500 with this CPU, it has a locked multi of 14.

[Zabaco]

I'm at 425 FSB on this board. Once finals are over I hope to increase that without uping the voltage on my CPU too much more. If not I'm at a nice OC of 3.4 right now

[dpawl31]

Nicely done!
I am @ 3.5 and only 1.3v vcore still.
Why not up your voltage?
Too hot? Didn't you get NB/SB upgrades?

[dpawl31]

Finally Orthos'd for 12 hours at my current setup and damn she's stable!

[gtboi604]

wow, hey congrats!
but i got a few q's bout ur OC.
well, i got mine to 3.5Ghz also, cept i had to up the Vcore to 1.6v, and NB to 1.7~v...I have no idea why u didnt need to up ur voltage yet.
I have mine set to 3:2 FSBRAM...
could it be that my temps are much higher than yours? i find it weird.

anywho, would u happen to have Rainbow Six: Vegas?
Cuz when I go to 3.5Ghz, my game starts to artifact like mad!
But its fine when i go to 3.4Ghz...
Could u possible use that as a stress test to see how urs go? thx!

Nice OC' btw, this board Rox!!!
D~

[dpawl31]

I was getting wierd errors @ 3.5, it was kind of a suicide OC and happened to boot XP. When I ran orthos before I hit 10min mark I got errors.
Rebooted and upped vcore to 1.3v and I can now run orthos over 12 hours errorless.

I have not touched anything at all yet.
Are your memory timings manually entered? This is another thing that caused errors.

I have HL:2 and CS:S, both set to full settings and I am running 130FPS+.
No glitches at all in game.

[gtboi604]

hmm, good point, maybe ill try to manually enter my timings and try...

no, those games arent that stressing anymore for the current gen of games...see, with R6:vegas, it would destroy even 8800's with high res + settings...
thx for the info tho...

keep u posted.
D~