ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[Shojeel]

Originally Posted by Shojeel

So I went back down to the 0403 BIOS and reset the CMOS.

I started overclocking my P4 single core 3.6ghz and got it to 3.83ghz. I tried running prime last night and it froze onlt after about 10 minutes. Here is what I have for settings, maybe someone can give me some suggestions:

Memory Timing- 4-4-4-12
FSB and Memory- 850
Vcore- 1.34xxx

and I think that is all I have done. I am not sure what my memory voltage should be at....... and the rest of the settings I have no clue on. What else can I do?

Can anyone help me. I know I am behindin technologybut it is what it is. I will upgrade soon enough.

[gooddog]

Prime 95 ran all night, so I am done tinkering with this (for a while ).

I am a noob so take all this with that in mind...it was a lot of trial and error and I may have done something stupid

1. bios 803
2. memory (4x1G OCZ) - I made sure the timings were right by running memtest for a couple of runs with the CPU at standard speed.
3. fsb at 1399. Call it superstition, but someone else also noted that odd numbers seem to work better.
4. memory was set to linked/sync. I think this is really important. When I was running unlinked, I could boot, but vista had trouble loading.
5. voltage at 1.35625
6. offset .1
7. memory voltage at 2.175
8. NB at 1.56 (I think this is more needed due to running 4 sticks).
9. fan on NB and I did the Mosfet cooling (found in this thread).
10. No pencil mod (yet)
11. Zalman 9700

CPU temps are fine. low 50s at full load after 7 hours.
NB was at low 50s...I don't know if that is okay.

What I saw was that there did seem to be a rather large hole in the FSB. so i just tried a much higher number and worked down from there.

[gooddog]

The voltage of the q6600 is not supposed to run about 1.5

Can you run it higher than 1.5 as long as you keep the temp down? Or is 1.5 a bad voltage regardless of the temp of the processor?

Reason I ask is that I run at 1.44 max but the temp of the processor under full load is only in the low 50s. Normal usage is in the low 30s.

So is this voltage okay or is it too close to 1.5? Or does it matter that it is close since the temperature is well within range?

[efrie]

Alright, I've overclocked some stuff before but it's been a while since I've gotten back into the game and I don't think I'm getting the performance I should... I just don't know where to start with the OC'ing on this board, here are my specs:

-E6750
-P5N-E SLI
-2GB (2x1GB) Crucial Ballistix 800Mhz 4-4-4-12 (That's not what they're running at)
-2x EVGA 8800GT 512MB KO

I would like to run the processor at around 3.2-3.5Ghz, and I know how to figure out the math to do that, it's not that complicated, but I don't know what else to set up, like what is the SLI ready memory option, etc.

I'm using the 0803 BIOS, by the way.

I've been playing around with it all day today and I can't seem to actually get it stable. If I manually adjust the ram timings to 4-4-4-12 2T it doesn't run.

I also have an Arctic Cooler Freezer Pro 7 heatsink on my CPU.

[quaffapint]

Anyone out there in P5N-E land, know how to get this board to have Vista x64 show 4gb of RAM, when you have 4 ram sticks installed (4 x 1GB Crucial Ballistix Tracers)? The BIOS shows it fine, but in Vista, I only get 3.1gb showing (the rest gets sucked up by my pci-x card apparently).

I heard you need a BIOS that supports 'memory remapping', but I can't find that option anywhere.

Am I simply SOL?

Thanks...

[Gauvenator]

Sure you don't have vista 32? If not, I think there was an update to fix this in x64, but I'm not 100% on that.

[quaffapint]

Originally Posted by Gauvenator

Sure you don't have vista 32? If not, I think there was an update to fix this in x64, but I'm not 100% on that.

Thanks for the reply, Gauvenator...

I'm definitely sure I'm running Vista Ultimate 64bit. The Technet article says I need to set 'Memory Remapping' in the BIOS, but I can't seem to find such an option, at least in 0608 version.

Anyone able to get Vista or XP 64 bit to show full 4gb on this board?

Thanks again...

[P1MP1NJ]

Originally Posted by quaffapint

Thanks for the reply, Gauvenator...

I'm definitely sure I'm running Vista Ultimate 64bit. The Technet article says I need to set 'Memory Remapping' in the BIOS, but I can't seem to find such an option, at least in 0608 version.

Anyone able to get Vista or XP 64 bit to show full 4gb on this board?

Thanks again...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929777

[quaffapint]

Originally Posted by P1MP1NJ

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929777

Thanks, but that's just to get Vista installed. I have Vista x64 installed (and I installed this patch, just to be sure), but still shows only 3.15GB available.

Do you have 4gb showing as available in Vista x64 System Information ?

Thanks...

[APC Boss]

im pretty new here ! i was just wandering about getting new cpu for this board e6850 or q6600? what overclocks better and how much of a difference does the double size cache make for now?anyway just a thought ?wich cpu has more avantages over the other on a p5ne-sli