ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[marsey99]

hey guys, geuss im a bit late to this party, 545 pages late, but i have only just found this site. man i wish i had a while back as it might of helped me with my overclock.

what i was wondering was, what bios most people are using now and which will i need to run 4gb under vista 64 bit?

i am on 0404 atm as its been great for me.

thanks.

[arek23]

I flashed my bios 703->803, and I noticed OC potential decreased immensly. Previously I could set it to 2.8 stable, and now I can't set it higgher than 2.57. What a ****y bios... Is there a way to downgrade it back to 703? When I tried to do that with EZ flash 2it didn't allow me saying that downgrade is not allowed

[hanwik]

Originally Posted by arek23

I flashed my bios 703->803, and I noticed OC potential decreased immensly. Previously I could set it to 2.8 stable, and now I can't set it higgher than 2.57. What a ****y bios... Is there a way to downgrade it back to 703? When I tried to do that with EZ flash 2it didn't allow me saying that downgrade is not allowed

having a similar problem, upgraded mine from 0608 to 0803 because i heard it had positive effects from some people, but for me it actually decreased, i still cant run my gskill 6400CL4D-2GBPK in dual channel mode, and on 0608 i had my Q6600 G0 stable at 2,93ghz, now it isn't stable at all, even without oc, and the highest bootable oc i can get now is 2,6 ghz, I tried 4 different ways to downgrade, ez-flash, awdflash, asusupdate and afudos without success

[tankman12]

Originally Posted by pheoxs

Yeah because even when I was using stock cooler + AS5, and my ambients are ... umm the dorm thermostats set to 24C, so say 70F, my idle was around 30C.

Well, I just rigged/installed a 120cm fan on the side door of my cheap case and my temps have dropped almost 10°c. My idle is now around 32-33° and load is around 58°c. So its getting better. I plan on rigging a discharge type fan on the top of my case. Maybe that will help my temps some more.

[arek23]

Originally Posted by hanwik

having a similar problem, upgraded mine from 0608 to 0803 because i heard it had positive effects from some people, but for me it actually decreased, i still cant run my gskill 6400CL4D-2GBPK in dual channel mode, and on 0608 i had my Q6600 G0 stable at 2,93ghz, now it isn't stable at all, even without oc, and the highest bootable oc i can get now is 2,6 ghz, I tried 4 different ways to downgrade, ez-flash, awdflash, asusupdate and afudos without success

It looks like the guys from asus missed something. I hope next version of bios will solve this problem. Should I dare installing it, it's possible I won't be able to get it higher than stock 2.4 and still won't be able to downgrade it...
This mobo is a bit disappointment to me and I wouldn't recommend it for quad core users at all!

[markt]

This board has a capatible ram list on1-18 of the user guide.gskill isnt listed. doesnt mean its the problem but if you have even any other ram to try it might be worth it.

[hanwik]

I got the solution to go back from 803 to any previous version:

awdflash 0608 /sn /py /f

[efrie]

Alright, scratch the 3.2Ghz...



It's all cooled by air, I also have two eVGA 8800GT KO edition cards.

I have the FSB/MEM set to unlinked, left memory at 800Mhz and upped the FSB. Timings are 4-4-4-12 2T. CPU cooler is Arctic Freezer Pro 7

[tonedeaf]

that is very nice *thumbs up*
my 6750 is at 3.6 as well but i only scractch 10k with 3dmark06 with a 8800gts (320mb). what temps are you on idle and load? and what re was 3dmark at?

[davidisflash]

At 1466 FSB / 733 MEM, Vcore at ~1.46, NV at 1.3xx (reduced from 1.5xx), I ran orthos for 15 hours straight. CPU cores at 56 . Also, first temp in speedfan which I believe is the NB was at 49, which is good.

I was using 803 BIOS. Just reverted back to 608. Sounds like you guys like that one better for overclocking. Maybe it'll let me break my ~1530 FSB limit.