ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[jim.e.]

well i just got confirmation. e6300's after week 32 dont overclock that well if at all unless u use stupid amounts of voltage... long story short...mines a week 48 production.

will see what i can do when i get some PC6400 ram.

[DonNiger]

Where the hell is that bios file. The latest I see is rev 401. I think, I'm blind myby.

As long as I have heard, there is no problem to get stable FSB up to 480 Mhz, to go higher you need some knowledges.

[Ravin]

Cripes that was a long read. Man I really lucked out in grabbing a good board at a great price without doing the research first. Well all the files are backed up- I'm ready to yank the POS abit MB and X800XL out of the box and put in the ASUS. Just not looking forward to the reinstallation of all the software

I'll keep you guys posted!

[jim.e.]

im just gonna wait til my friend has time so he can oc my rig for me. i dont like messing around with the north bridge voltage. happy with a 2.53GHz 1:1 (fsb: dram) ratio oc that runs stable and passed orthos 2 hours and counting.

[TriBeCa]

Originally Posted by Lude

Quick question, dont feel like going through 70 pages, i went through the last 10.

How high of FSB's are people getting with this board?

And can it run 4gigs of memory fine?

FSB seems to be limited by the CPU, not the board. There are reports of stable 500 MHz FSB's (iirc it was on a C2D 6400, maybe a 6600).

People say 4 GB is fine, but I'd recommend going with something that shows up in a manufacturers configurator, and not just picking something. There seem to be some issues with RAM (see my posts, lol) on the board, so I would expect it to be a bit finicky.

Originally Posted by DonNiger

Where the hell is that bios file. The latest I see is rev 401. I think, I'm blind myby.

As long as I have heard, there is no problem to get stable FSB up to 480 Mhz, to go higher you need some knowledges.

It's been taken down of their site. I suspect they're repairing it. In fact, it may very well be that BIOS that killed my channel 2 DIMM slots. Apparently they've taken it down a couple times before.

Either that or their webserver went down and they restored an old backup ;p

[TriBeCa]

Forgot this one in that last post:

Originally Posted by JRussell1388

so it's only the "first time" I turn the computer on after it's been off. After a hard shutdown... it works fine

Given the trouble this board has with memory, that's where I'd start.

Try running memtest and see if it comes up with errors. If it does, try setting the RAM timings manually to the manufacturers specs.

[DonNiger]

Originally Posted by TriBeCa

It's been taken down of their site. I suspect they're repairing it. In fact, it may very well be that BIOS that killed my channel 2 DIMM slots. Apparently they've taken it down a couple times before.

Either that or their webserver went down and they restored an old backup ;p

The 0401 killed my Corsair kit with the first boot. It was really a good one, PC5400 was running at 950 5-4-4-12-1T

[TriBeCa]

This is why I've sworn off ever using anything that's not recommended by a RAM manufacturer in this board....

[rsfkevski]

Originally Posted by Perry

Dude, that's an awesome heatsink. Could you post some pictures of it installed? I know it's your friend's rig but I'd like to see it.

I was just going to go with the Spirit like most people.

I'm not quite sure how to post pics, pm me and let me know, but I do have a few that I took while building it. They are of the board with everything on it except the 7600GT, and as you will see, the two that I put on the board work fantastic and leave room for another 7600GT as well.

[rsfkevski]

I think I figured it out! Me So Toopid!