ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by Armalite

My E6600 is actually a B2 stepping 6. I know G0 are the best overclockers, so yer at about 1 hour 30 minutes it did end up hitting 60c so I stopped it, so I'll be looking into buying a ThermalRight 120 Ultra eXtreme, but for the time being, I'm fairly certain its stable, its running alot more smoother after applying the settings you recommended. idling at 30c, and in games its gets in between 44-48 max, during midday in Australia. Tonight when the temperatures go down to about 9-12c I'll run an overnight Orthos test for stability.

Thanks again guys for the help, Appreciate it

o my bad I thought you had an e6550 for some reason lol

glad it's more stable now..i hate wondering when my pc will crash next

[Armalite]

Hey guys.


the P5N-E SLi main PCI-E port is PCI-E 2 right?

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by Armalite

Hey guys.


the P5N-E SLi main PCI-E port is PCI-E 2 right?

no I believe it is 1.1 or 1
Pci-e 2 wasn't out when this board was released.
edit: http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1...74&modelmenu=2

[mcogan10]

ye bro, check my rig title!

[marsey99]

for most cards you get no gains but i read somthing about it helping the g/x2 cards.

[SSJVegeta]

New bios is out, 1101 since 7th July.

Anyone tested it?

P5N-E SLI BIOS 1101.
1. Modified "SCSI:" string to "RAID:" on the Boot menu for RAID device.
2. Support new CPUs, please refer to our website at: http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...el=P5N-E%20SLI
3. Enhance system stability when applying SLI mode built of nVidia 9600GT VGA cards.
4. Fix it shows incorrect CPU frequency under "Properties" of "My Computer" when the following conditions are met:
-Using multiplier-locked Merom CPU
-Using Windows Vista OS
-EIST in the BIOS is enabled
5. Now system would no longer halt upon showing keyboard error message.
6. Fix it might be unable to update BIOS from Internet by Asusupdate under Windows Vista 64bit OS.

Download: http://dlsvr04.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/...20SLI/1101.zip

[Armalite]

So I should be alright to run a single HD4870 on the P5N-E ?

[UkGouki]

Originally Posted by Armalite

So I should be alright to run a single HD4870 on the P5N-E ?

yes all pcie gpu;s are fully backwards compatible with 1.0/1.1 pciex16 lanes

[wcl]

@SSJVegeta P5N-E SLI BIOS 1101.
I'm running 1101, it has more clock mutiple options. From memory it goes upto 14 in 0.5 steps. Previous version had a max value of 9.

Which brings me onto my next question.

Clock multiple is set to 10 but CPU-Z reports it is 9 under load (Prime95 running test), did the same with the mutiple set to 9.5. Any other tools available to check the cpu speed?
[edit] clock multiple is being reset in the bios, will do more testing and post again with results[/edit]

[Armalite]

Thanks for the reply's guys