ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[dpawl31]

Originally Posted by Icarusmk2

What's the best overclock anyone has done on this motherboard and an e4300?

Mine maxed out at 3.2Ghz @ 400 x 8 (Pi in 18 secs) [stock cooler and auto voltages] (Been running like this for like 2 weeks now)

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=177538

I'm wondering what other sorts of things I can try to stabilize the system at higher FSB, since when i tried to go to 410, it stalled on me even before reaching Win XP.

That is a killer OC man.
I believe you need NB strap mods to go higher. MadMax got his slightly over 4Ghz doing this... but it's scary... you have to mod the CPU itself

[dpawl31]

Originally Posted by jim.e.

memory capped at 725MHz, cannot get it higher regardless voltage use...

also. for some reason now i cant set my fsb(qdr) past 362.5(1500) (cpu clock of 2.62GHz), system will post but windows will not boot.

2.53Ghz is enough for me now...time to poke around and see how people with the same ram managed to bump it higher.

Seems like that's a good OC, but we need your system info.
I am assuming, with the 725Mhz RAM you are running DDR2-667?

Also, FSB @ 362.5 is 1450QDR
375FSB would be 1500QDR.

[x Swift x]

Originally Posted by TriBeCa

Yeah, thanks. I had actually found some discussion of that over on AnandTech. I'm 20 minutes into orthos now, which is personal record. I've got them manually set to 4-4-4-15, and everything else is on auto. I'd had it set to 5-5-5-15 which I'd thought would be a little more generous, but the board didn't seem to like it.

If this is stable for an hour I'll try to get windows updated, then move onto fiddling with my FSB. I'd like to get the FSB up to 1600 for 1:1, and then try to go 2000/1000, though with the way the RAM's behaving I suspect getting it up that high is gonna drive me nuts.

Anyone had success getting 800 RAM up to 1000 on this board?

i have 533 DDR2 RAM at 1000 running at 2000/1000

[dpawl31]

o_O Awesome.

[TriBeCa]

HEEEEEELP.

I got some mild OC's earlier, but lost them because at some point I lost the OC profiles. Was trying to get them back, and had to fight to get my RAM under control again (I've been at 2T the whole time).

I got it looking stable at stock speeds, and tried a simple overclock. 300 x 8 for 2.4MHz (set to 1200 in the BIOS). I got to windows, started orthos, and the system hung just before the 2 minute mark. I forced a reboot, tried to get into the CMOS, and it crashed while loading. Shut off the PSU, tried again--this time, where I would normally get a system beep, I get a prolonged beep until I shut the PSU down again.

Reset the BIOS with battery and jumper...same thing. And again. And again.

Absolutely NOTHING else changed...*** is going on, and how do I get back to the bios???

[dpawl31]

Ouch...

What BIOS were you running?

Disconnect power to PSU, kill the power switch too, then remove the battery and set the jumper over, leave it for 30 seconds.

No matter what BIOS, you should get back in.

[TriBeCa]

5050. Bios is on the jumper now...crossing my fingers.

Should I got back to 2020? Or 30-- (w/e it was)?

I've only really tried anything other than just try to get my RAM stable under 2020 or 5050, and you can see what happened under the latter....

[End3R]

I had issues overclocking mine as well, but never had trouble getting into the bios, you are hitting del when starting up right? I couldnt get mine to register anything past 2.16 except 3.0, even though it said it was running higher in the bios, when I would boot into windows it would tell me I was at the stock 1.8. The prolonged beep only happened to me when I was rebooting from the bios, so I just turned it off in the back and started back up, normal beep and ran smoothly.

[dpawl31]

I had problems with 0307
0402 was fine, a well as 0202 for me. 0505 is doing fine as well.

I have RAM issues, but it's not the BIOS.

Stay @ 0505, I doubt that is your issue. Just hope you can get back in the BIOS.

I am off to go ridin

Be back in about 5 hours.

Love me mah Yamaha Grizzly 450

[dpawl31]

Originally Posted by End3R

I had issues overclocking mine as well, but never had trouble getting into the bios, you are hitting del when starting up right? I couldnt get mine to register anything past 2.16 except 3.0, even though it said it was running higher in the bios, when I would boot into windows it would tell me I was at the stock 1.8. The prolonged beep only happened to me when I was rebooting from the bios, so I just turned it off in the back and started back up, normal beep and ran smoothly.

I don't have a PC Speaker o_O

So mine just hangs and I know it should be beeping lol.