ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[TriBeCa]

Yup... I got rolled pretty hard on the rest of those benchies :/

Now I really do wanna get some higher clocking RAM in here to see if I can catch up

But... work has to take priority.

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by TriBeCa

Yup... I got rolled pretty hard on the rest of those benchies :/

I knew that would happen I couldn't let my rig get trounced on it's first drag race.

Don't feel so bad- I've got you beat pretty good on the clock speed. I'm actually pretty impressed with that Q9300 after seeing the results from the higher multi 45nm quads. TBH for a 24/7 buisness server that needs 100% reliability those are some very impressive clocks and benches.

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[TriBeCa]

You don't happen to have a Matlab 2007b license for some strange reason, do you? Cause those are the benches that are closest to "real-world" benches for me (minus the two graphics ones). But I can't really compare this rig to others since nobody's gonna drop the 2 grand or w/e Matlab costs for a license just to run benches

Although I did compare it to the other machines in the lab and I *smoked* the 8-core Mac they bought... and of course this rig cost 1/3 of what that Mac did. Completing the FFT bench in 50% of the time it takes that mac felt pretty damn good

[Purostaff]

I've asked this question in another thread but never knew this thread existed. I wanted to make sure I'm not gradually frying anything on the board.

The question was what is the max safe voltage for VTT (FSB) and vNB (chipset)? The numbers I got were 1.35 for VTT and 1.60 for NB.

[Asce]

Originally Posted by Ravin

The goose that laid the golden Egg

Grrrrr only found the 2Gb kit versions. Oh well my next RAM on the list.

[TriBeCa]

I run 1.56v 24/7 on the P5N-E NB, no sign of any trouble there with over a year at that voltage. I did replace the NB HS with an active cooler, mind you.

You can't set VTT on the P5N-E... unless I've been seriously missing something all this time.

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by TriBeCa

You don't happen to have a Matlab 2007b license for some strange reason, do you? Cause those are the benches that are closest to "real-world" benches for me (minus the two graphics ones). But I can't really compare this rig to others since nobody's gonna drop the 2 grand or w/e Matlab costs for a license just to run benches

Although I did compare it to the other machines in the lab and I *smoked* the 8-core Mac they bought... and of course this rig cost 1/3 of what that Mac did. Completing the FFT bench in 50% of the time it takes that mac felt pretty damn good

I may have a licence for the 1996 version- although I'd have to dig. I know that I have licenses and copies accessable for Fortran77 and Ada95 compilers. Maybe we can use something more common- like audio encoding. I'll try to find my volume licenses for Cool Edit 2000 and Pro, perhaps we can apply an effect to a given WAV file and time it.

Originally Posted by Asce

Grrrrr only found the 2Gb kit versions. Oh well my next RAM on the list.

That link should have went straight to the 4x1 kit. If you do a search for RAM and look under the 4x1Gb kits filter, there should only be 4-5 different models available.

[Asce]

Im from the UK, but thanks for the link anyways.

[Ethereal PanMan]

I just wanted to say hello to my fellow P5N-e owners!

I am very new to the technical side of computers, but I am trying to learn as much as I can. I had cyberpower build this rig for me and my previous computers were *clears throat* Dell.

The more I play around with my computer though, the more I wish I would have just built it myself. I am so tired thinking they did things wrong. At least if I build it and something goes wrong, it was me!

I have OC'd my CPU to 3.67, but I was using the case power supply and after having read that case power supplies suck, I ordered a new OCZ 600W from newegg and I have put all of my settings to stock until I receive it.

Thanks for starting this thread! I am sure I will be spending quite a lot of time going through all of the old posts.

Cheers!
~EPM~

[KHORR]

Hey guys Just installed my brand new Zalman 9500 so I can continue 'clocking my cpu.

So far I have it running at 2.7ghz ( I have an E6300, C2D 1.86ghz ) and I'm still getting 48-50 degrees idling. Only thing I am wondering about is that I haven't touched my RAM or my voltages and I'm wondering whether I should. I've left my ram at 800mhz, or whatever it is, in the bios. Should I do anything with that? I'm also running 1.325 volts. Does any of that need to be changed to get better performance? I'm still pretty new at OC'ing.

Thanks