ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[Awesome]

Dude, you only have to push a tiny bit. You've never put in a graphics card before? You wiggle the card loose, then push on the plastic thing and pull the card the rest of the way out. It doesn't need to move hardly at all, just a few millimeters.

[Armalite]

Originally Posted by Awesome

You've never put in a graphics card before? .

well obviously not...


anyway thank you for your help I'll give it another try then

[Awesome]

Interesting... never put in a graphics card before and here you are jumping straight into overclocking. You're brave.

[Armalite]

Originally Posted by Awesome

Interesting... never put in a graphics card before and here you are jumping straight into overclocking. You're brave.

Only because I have to apparently, I have a 4870 here and I've been told from multiple sources that my E6600 will bottleneck it like no tomorrow. Don't really have a choice do I?

[Awesome]

I have no idea what a 4870 is, but I'll tell you honestly: overclocking a graphics card is much more dangerous than overclocking a CPU or motherboard, and not only do they not overclock well, but it gains you far less. It's much better to just buy a better card.

EDIT: Okay nvm I thought it was a typo but now I understand what you were saying. I still don't know what a 4870 is though.

BTW an E6600 bottlenecking a graphics card? LOL... depends on what game I suppose.

[Armalite]

Originally Posted by Awesome

I have no idea what a 4870 is, but I'll tell you honestly: overclocking a graphics card is much more dangerous than overclocking a CPU or motherboard, and not only do they not overclock well, but it gains you far less. It's much better to just buy a better card.

EDIT: Okay nvm I thought it was a typo but now I understand what you were saying. I still don't know what a 4870 is though.

BTW an E6600 bottlenecking a graphics card? LOL... depends on what game I suppose.

Sorry, I meant the new ATI graphics card, the HD4870, to my understanding a fairly high end card at the moment. I'm only running my E6600 at stock (2.4ghz) and I've been told many times, that I need to OC it to at LEAST 3ghz, which is quite daunting for me, as mentioned before, I've never OC'd a CPU before and I'm having trouble just putting in the damn GPU in

Games will be along the lines of COD4, Crysis , Far Cry 2 stuff like that.

[jaihenwood]

I'm getting blue screen during install of Vista 32 bit and 64 bit install.

I get the first vista boot install screen, then the pretty vista boot screen, then it goes to the blue screen for install and just locks up.

Anyone run into this problem?

Thanks for any help!

[Awesome]

Originally Posted by Armalite

Sorry, I meant the new ATI graphics card, the HD4870, to my understanding a fairly high end card at the moment. I'm only running my E6600 at stock (2.4ghz) and I've been told many times, that I need to OC it to at LEAST 3ghz, which is quite daunting for me, as mentioned before, I've never OC'd a CPU before and I'm having trouble just putting in the damn GPU in

Games will be along the lines of COD4, Crysis , Far Cry 2 stuff like that.

ATI and "high end" is kind of an oxymoron. I wouldn't jump into overclocking until you get more familiar with your machine. Try gaming. If you like the way the games play, then just leave it as it is for now.

Originally Posted by jaihenwood

I'm getting blue screen during install of Vista 32 bit and 64 bit install.

I get the first vista boot install screen, then the pretty vista boot screen, then it goes to the blue screen for install and just locks up.

Anyone run into this problem?

Thanks for any help!

Your overclock MUST be very stable before Vista will work. Linux is the same way. If your overclock isn't stable, Linux will have massive problems. I had my Overclock "stable" at 3.2 ghz a while ago, but I got tons of BSOD's in Vista. I thought it was a Vista problem until I found out that it was my overclock. I don't get any of them now.

[teabag]

Originally Posted by marsey99

lolz

sweeden, i envy you and your cold air :P

It's not always cold here, sometimes it's around 10c and sometimes its 28°c

Originally Posted by marsey99

1.4vcore is about as much as the stock intel blower can deal with, with your lower than most ambient you should be able to cope with a bit more but not alot.

batch munber is printed on the ihs of the cpu and on the label on the box.



bottom line on cpu



1 line up on bottom left of pic

hmm i will have a look at that when i remove the cooler next time.
(i don't have the box)
and btw, i got a 92mm adda fan on the heatsink instead of the original intel fan. it does 3800rpm at 100%

Originally Posted by marsey99

what volts do you have the nb set to? you may need 1.39v or more tbh.

It's at 1.53 or something.

[Gauvenator]

@armalite: Just wiggle ur graphics card until it stops, then push the arm upwards toward the socket while pulling and it will come out.