ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[bshidoheat]

alright so heres a status update, when I came back from work I pulled out 1 of the sticks of corsair ballistix from the mobo, moved it from the black 1 slot to the yellow 1 spot (the slot closest to the mobo). The bluescreen error told me APCI.sys was missing when I tried reinstalling windows vista. And so I took it out, Put it in the black 4 slot and it proceded to load the vista installation files, as soon as the bar 'Windows is loading files...' finishes it bluescreens and gives the message .

just now I set everything to auto began to install windows got to 64% @ expanding files... then it blue screens and gives me BAD POOL HEADER right after I plug in an ethernet cable, gonna try again without touching a freakin thing.

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by dpawl31

1) That silverstone case should be on the floor, it looks rediculous on a desk lol, so big.
2) Time to get a new keyboard and, my god boy, speakers!
3) Who needs a second 19" when you have a 46" rear projection right next to you

Originally Posted by Ravin

New keyboard? You gotta be kidding? I LOVE the ergonomic - I'd only trade it in if it came in black!

Ok it took one year and the death of my keyboard Friday night, but I finally replased that old clunker. Yes, it's still a MS keyboard, but it is at least black this time.

Originally Posted by Ravin

I t40ug4t y0u 4ad 1200m4z ram.... 1128 s40uld be way under 2.34V 4 y0u????

sry b0ut t4e leet speac......ceyb0ard is 0n t4e blinc

Elpida J die 70nm 4TW!!!!!!!!

Translation: I thought you had 1200MHz sticks! 1128MHz should be under 2.34V for you! This settles in in my mind, you got the Micron D9 (probably GKX) version. My RAM and your RAM were originally spec to be identical for the PCB and ICs, yet I ended up with Elpidas. I am not disappointed.

Elpida J die 70nm ICs FTW!!!!

Originally Posted by Ghostleader

Yes but not with cas 4, when I run 1200 5-5-5-15 it´s about 2,26 2,28.

Wow. I only need 1.98V to hit 1128MHz at CAS5. These Elpidas scale well with little voltage!

[Asce]

Ravin where did you get your memory from.

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by TriBeCa

this made me laugh so damn hard. I was like, *** happened to ravin???

Half of the keys on the right hand side went out. I thought my board was just dirty or something, so I opened it to clean. Some of the traces looked to be heat damaged near the IC interface, but I cleaned it anyway just to see. Ended up it was just old and dead- I bought it when the first ergonomic keyboards hit the market something like 10-15 years ago. I took some pics and will write up a "how to:" thread soon (hint, it involves a dishwasher ).

I'll get those sandra scores up Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday morning. Right now my mom and wife's friends are in town for the wife's baby shower, so I have plenty of entertaining to do, plus it's too hot to run the rig during the day and I have to shut it down for the guests sleeping in the room at night.

Ambient indoor temps hit 80F yesterday, still with my zalman running full blast CPU was holding steady at 60C load. I'm not shutting down to keep my CPU cool, I am shtting down because I am getting to hot!

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by Asce

Ravin where did you get your memory from.

The goose that laid the golden Egg

[TriBeCa]

ouch... 80F ambients suck

fortunately my q9300 rig is in a well-AC'd office, so I don't have to worry about summer heat

fair warning--the memory and cache benchmark takes at least as long as the 32M superpi bench.

it's interesting that you outperform my 1M time, but I beat your 32M time. Care to speculate as to why? Obviously your RAM will be beating the pants off mine... is my chip making up for the poorer RAM performance on the longer bench?

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by TriBeCa

.....it's interesting that you outperform my 1M time, but I beat your 32M time. Care to speculate as to why? Obviously your RAM will be beating the pants off mine... is my chip making up for the poorer RAM performance on the longer bench?

IMHO it's gotta be the SSE4 instructions, seeing as it only shows up in the 32M. If it were RAM or L2 differences your 1M time should scale pretty close to how the 32M does. Improved instruciton sets usually rely on small gains per clock spread over larger numbers of cycles, where L2 adjustments would see a larger per clock boost and be beneficial to both short and long threads.

[Ravin]

CPU Arethmetic:
Dhrystone ALU- 61285MIPS; Whettstone iSSSE3 46405Mflops

CPU Multimedia:
Int 8x iSSSE3: 397554 iit/s; Float x4 iSSE2 215538 fit/s

Multicore Efficency:
Intercore bandwidth 21.48Gb/S; Intercore latency 24ns

[Ravin]

RAM Bandwidth: 8472Mb/s
Int Buff'd iSSE2: 8.26Mb/S; Float iSSE2 8.29GB/s

RAM latency: 63ns, speed factor 75.70

Cache and Memory: 53.60Gb/s

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by TriBeCa

SuperPi 32M: 14m 42.422s

SiSoft Sandra:

Processor Multi-Media:
isSE2 277778 it/s

Here's where you win out with that 45nm. SuperPi 32M and iSSE2 ops. Definetly due to improved SSE instrucitons.