ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[Ravin]

Last post from the P5NE-SLI. It's been a great board, and I wouldn't hesitate to reccomend it for a dual core setup. It's been fun hanging here. Cya round.

[scottk]

lol - my wife complains about my pile of old obsolete parts but I always say, you never know when something might prove useful. This active NB cooling is an admittedly ghetto rig up with an old P3 CPU fan. Crude but effective - just stuck to the asus plaque part of the NB HS with some really strong double sided mounting tape

[marsey99]

hey scott thats what mine is, i ghetto engineered my heatsink fan from an old p3 too

[kippostar]

Hi all
I'm an abslolute newbie to OC'ing, and i am at a loss of words as to how much this tread rocks! Quite possible the best online discussion i have ever encountered..Woaw!

Anyways, back to the work at hand:
My current setup is as follows (this is all pre clocking, as i am currently travelling and wont be back to play with it for another month..:

Mobo: P5N-e SLI (obviously)
CPU: Intel E6700 (2,67 Ghz stock)
RAM: 2 x 1GB Corsair XMS2 PC2-6400
GPU: 2 x Inno3D Geforce 7900GS (in SLI)

Currently i don't have any additional cooling, well i have an additional case fan, but that's it.
I do however have a million old CPU fan's and whatnot lying around that i'm thinking about mounting.

After having read this thread more of less from end to end, i'm feeling lucky and readier that ever to commence my first OC, alas, there is yet one thing that i find confusing as hell..
RAM timings??? i have no idea how i find the right settings, what is good and what is bad, and furthermore what potential problems i may encounter playing around with them..

If anybody has a link to a thourough explanation of said subject i'd be most thankful..
oh and also, if you have time and feel like it, i'd love it if you would give your thoughts on what i may be able to expect from an overclock of my setup.. cheers guys! thanks for participating in this thread! (the overclockers guide to the galaxy in my opinion!!!)

Kippo

[P1MP1NJ]

Originally Posted by kippostar

Hi all
I'm an abslolute newbie to OC'ing, and i am at a loss of words as to how much this tread rocks! Quite possible the best online discussion i have ever encountered..Woaw!

Anyways, back to the work at hand:
My current setup is as follows (this is all pre clocking, as i am currently travelling and wont be back to play with it for another month..:

Mobo: P5N-e SLI (obviously)
CPU: Intel E6700 (2,67 Ghz stock)
RAM: 2 x 1GB Corsair XMS2 PC2-6400
GPU: 2 x Inno3D Geforce 7900GS (in SLI)

Currently i don't have any additional cooling, well i have an additional case fan, but that's it.
I do however have a million old CPU fan's and whatnot lying around that i'm thinking about mounting.

After having read this thread more of less from end to end, i'm feeling lucky and readier that ever to commence my first OC, alas, there is yet one thing that i find confusing as hell..
RAM timings??? i have no idea how i find the right settings, what is good and what is bad, and furthermore what potential problems i may encounter playing around with them..

If anybody has a link to a thourough explanation of said subject i'd be most thankful..
oh and also, if you have time and feel like it, i'd love it if you would give your thoughts on what i may be able to expect from an overclock of my setup.. cheers guys! thanks for participating in this thread! (the overclockers guide to the galaxy in my opinion!!!)

Kippo

your ram timings should be 4-4-4-12 2t

[Blizzie]

Originally Posted by kippostar

Hi all
I'm an abslolute newbie to OC'ing, and i am at a loss of words as to how much this tread rocks! Quite possible the best online discussion i have ever encountered..Woaw!

Anyways, back to the work at hand:
My current setup is as follows (this is all pre clocking, as i am currently travelling and wont be back to play with it for another month..:

Mobo: P5N-e SLI (obviously)
CPU: Intel E6700 (2,67 Ghz stock)
RAM: 2 x 1GB Corsair XMS2 PC2-6400
GPU: 2 x Inno3D Geforce 7900GS (in SLI)

Currently i don't have any additional cooling, well i have an additional case fan, but that's it.
I do however have a million old CPU fan's and whatnot lying around that i'm thinking about mounting.

After having read this thread more of less from end to end, i'm feeling lucky and readier that ever to commence my first OC, alas, there is yet one thing that i find confusing as hell..
RAM timings??? i have no idea how i find the right settings, what is good and what is bad, and furthermore what potential problems i may encounter playing around with them..

If anybody has a link to a thourough explanation of said subject i'd be most thankful..
oh and also, if you have time and feel like it, i'd love it if you would give your thoughts on what i may be able to expect from an overclock of my setup.. cheers guys! thanks for participating in this thread! (the overclockers guide to the galaxy in my opinion!!!)

Kippo

Your RAM timings should be 4-4-4-12-2T but if you have the model name of your RAM you can easily Google it.

I believe for those Corsair RAMs the timing in labeled on the RAM itself.


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scottk, I just threw on a 40mm fan on my stock NB heatsink. But now I replaced it completly with a HR-05. Sucks that this board doesn't have NB temps. When I created my computer I didn't know about this forum, or much about parts. Oh boy did I learn a lot.

Originally Posted by Evju

Stock cooler and stock settings. I'll try with a new dash of arctic silver tomorrow. I just wonder if my motherboard or CPU is busted.

Hm.. Are you sure you have the Intel Heatsink on right? Quads don't run that hot even on full load with stock heatsink. You have about a 10 C difference between 2 cores. Not good. I see no problem with voltage either.

To put on the Intel Heatsink you turn the 4 clips so that the arrow faces towards the heatsink. Align the holes and push down all the way. You should hear a click each time. To remove, you turn so the arrow faces away from the heatsink (don't overturn or you'll break it).

[Gauvenator]

So I finally attached a 70mm fan to the hr-05, and it drops temps about 1°C (at a speed that's pretty silent, and not ridiculously loud)

However, the heatsink feels alot cooler, so it must help some, just not according to the sensor on this board...oh and when I reinstalled the cooler with the pad, my temps dropped 2-3°C.

[Blizzie]

Originally Posted by Gauvenator

So I finally attached a 70mm fan to the hr-05, and it drops temps about 1°C (at a speed that's pretty silent, and not ridiculously loud)

However, the heatsink feels alot cooler, so it must help some, just not according to the sensor on this board...oh and when I reinstalled the cooler with the pad, my temps dropped 2-3°C.

What.. My "MB" temperature is still 30C. No change with the stock heatsink or HR-05. Maybe my sensor is dead?

When I boot up it's like 25 C then it raises to the normal 30C. It stays around 30 - 31C. Even under Orthos.

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by Blizzie

What.. My "MB" temperature is still 30C. No change with the stock heatsink or HR-05. Maybe my sensor is dead?

When I boot up it's like 25 C then it raises to the normal 30C. It stays around 30 - 31C. Even under Orthos.

Orthos never really raises it for me either....but it does go up when I play games. I'm assuming mostly from the heat of the gfx card, but possibly from increased nb traffic too.

This is definitely one of the most annoying things about this board

[Blizzie]

Originally Posted by Gauvenator

Orthos never really raises it for me either....but it does go up when I play games. I'm assuming mostly from the heat of the gfx card, but possibly from increased nb traffic too.

This is definitely one of the most annoying things about this board

Games do nothing to raise the MB temp. Still 30-31C.