ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by Peroxide

So I've read a bit about 4x1GB being bad on 650i and 680i.

Does this hold true to this board?

I'm doing fine with 4x1gb sticks of mushkin ram. 4gb DDR2-800 5-5-5-12 for only $100!!!

[markt]

How is this score on 3d06I'm at 3.22 now ,q6600 b3 ,stable . Ihad it to 3.3 Ghz but not 100% stable.I tried different voltages but ...no.Any suggestions?1.44 V-core.timings and voltss on RAM stock .Sync n linked.

[davidisflash]

Originally Posted by markt

How is this score on 3d06Attachment 63764I'm at 3.22 now ,q6600 b3 ,stable . Ihad it to 3.3 Ghz but not 100% stable.I tried different voltages but ...no.Any suggestions?1.44 V-core.timings and voltss on RAM stock .Sync n linked.

Holy cow! That's a GREAT score! Probably can be made higher if you are stable and if you revert back to XP Pro. I lost about 3% in Vista when using 3dmark06.

[ZionEx]

Anyone else unable to run Ballistix PC2-6400 at 1000Mhz on this board?

[markt]

Where I'm at you'd be lucky to find Ballistix, or anything the civilized world would be familiar with- lol. I couldnt get my ram to run above stock. But I havent used that kind. I sync n linked .356x9...RAM at 712.

[gooddog]

3DMark06 question - couldn't find answer elsewhere

When I run it, the CPU are incredibly slow - 1 FPS. That clearly doesn't make sense.
I have a Q6600 at between 2.7G and 4G of memory at 800.

Clearly there is something wrong here?

Any help appreciated!

[pheoxs]

Originally Posted by gooddog

3DMark06 question - couldn't find answer elsewhere

When I run it, the CPU are incredibly slow - 1 FPS. That clearly doesn't make sense.
I have a Q6600 at between 2.7G and 4G of memory at 800.

Clearly there is something wrong here?

Any help appreciated!

Nope thats about right, mine runs at around 0.5-0.75 FPS with my C2D.

The cpu test only renders using the CPU, now their not made for it, their made to do a variety of tasks and thus are nowhere near as quick as GPUs, which are dedicated for rendering, so CPUs are much less efficient at it.

For example, one of the top 3dmark scores in the hall of game

Intel Core 2 Quad 5660 MHz --> 3 fps on the first CPU test.

[gooddog]

Originally Posted by pheoxs

Nope thats about right, mine runs at around 0.5-0.75 FPS with my C2D.

The cpu test only renders using the CPU, now their not made for it, their made to do a variety of tasks and thus are nowhere near as quick as GPUs, which are dedicated for rendering, so CPUs are much less efficient at it.

For example, one of the top 3dmark scores in the hall of game

Intel Core 2 Quad 5660 MHz --> 3 fps on the first CPU test.

Whew...thanks a bunch...

So this test seems to be much more about the GPU than the overall system? But it seems that a lot of people here use that to benchmark their system when it seems that the CPU doesn't factor much into the equation.

Are there other benchmark programs that people use to look at the overall system?

[davidisflash]

Originally Posted by gooddog

Whew...thanks a bunch...

So this test seems to be much more about the GPU than the overall system? But it seems that a lot of people here use that to benchmark their system when it seems that the CPU doesn't factor much into the equation.

Are there other benchmark programs that people use to look at the overall system?

The CPU is still a big factor in the equation (the 2nd biggest to your GPU being the first). I had a pentium d 920 dual core CPU, and my 3dmark score went up 20% in 3dmark06 when I upgrade CPUs.

[davidisflash]

well it looks like I was stable after 8 hours of orthos at 1511 FSB and MEM at 756 (3.4GHz). Vcore was 1.5375, no 100 mV push, NB was 1.5xx, mem at factory rating stuff.

I determined that if the Vcore is brought any lower, Orthos fails.

My temps were around 68-69...I know this was an improvement since I got the air out of my system, but given I'm running on 30% fan speed and have a high voltage, is this temp "expected" or still higher than what I should be seeing?

I am running the test now with NB reduced to 1.3xx. So far, 2 hours, no failures