ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[Anth0789]

Guys I was wondering if this ASUS P5N-E SLI mobo would be a good choice to go SLI with one day, Is it still worth it?

[sha]

Asus p5n e sli board that's a mission to overclock even on water,
I tranfered my q6600 to my other board asus p5b plus and acheived
a 3.60 stable overclock on air, Its still running on prime 95 with all four cores
being strest,
here is a screen shot

[lord_legion]

Good evening thought i would just quickly share my stable overclock with this motherboard i have been running on these settings for arround 2 days now with no problems details are as follows.

Bios - V1101
CPU - Q6600 (105w non energy efficient) @ 3Ghz
Memory - OCZ 6400 2gig SLI @1Ghz

only thing i have changed in the bios is setting to manual unlinked and settings CPU FSB to 1333 and memory too 1000 i have left all other settings as default and have left all timings and voltages on auto.


Please see screenshot

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by SovereignRedoubt

So as to say, slots 2 and 4 rather than 1 and 3?

Wouldn't PSU make it shut off completely?

yeh try those slots instead

also faulty psu could cause stability issues, but it sounds like you only have that with 2 sticks.

[SovereignRedoubt]

Originally Posted by Gauvenator

yeh try those slots instead

also faulty psu could cause stability issues, but it sounds like you only have that with 2 sticks.

Thank you very, very, very much! This solved the problem! Finally, I can run with 2 gigs again. It must be the motherboard.

If possible, could anyone give me settings that won't fry anything? (not trying to be rude) My specs are below, Raptor Jesus.

[nathris]

Originally Posted by Anth0789

Guys I was wondering if this ASUS P5N-E SLI mobo would be a good choice to go SLI with one day, Is it still worth it?

Not with a quad. They suck with quads. However I updated to bios rev 1201 and I can hit 400 fsb!

I think I may eventually go SLI with this board though. Its next on my list after a new monitor and PSU.


I don't like the overclocking options though. Linked timings are just plain messed up and the northbridge is crap, it also only runs 8x/8x with both PCIe x16 slots enabled. 8x will bottleneck anything faster than an 8800GT.

[Anth0789]

Originally Posted by nathris

Not with a quad. They suck with quads. However I updated to bios rev 1201 and I can hit 400 fsb!

I think I may eventually go SLI with this board though. Its next on my list after a new monitor and PSU.


I don't like the overclocking options though. Linked timings are just plain messed up and the northbridge is crap, it also only runs 8x/8x with both PCIe x16 slots enabled. 8x will bottleneck anything faster than an 8800GT.

Okay thanks for the input.

[UHLELEMENT]

Ok guys, I am extreamly new to overclocking, so I just got all my parts put it togeather and tonight I am going to run orthos at stock everything for a stability test. This is what I got

Intel Core 2 Duo E4700 2.6GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor

COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-WW Black/Silver Aluminum Bezel, SECC Chassis ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

PNY VCG88512GXEB-FLB GeForce 8800 GT 512MB

PC Power & Cooling S75CF 750W EPS12V SLI NVIDIA SLI Certified

Patriot Viper 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (4-4-4-12)

ASUS P5N-E SLI LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard

Zalman 9700LED


What should my first steps be for slow and stedy overclocking after the orthos test assuming all goes well?

[Bleemv1]

well I spilt water on the motherboard and shorted it out...that's the end of my p5n-e sli. Replaced it with a biostar Tpower i45. Thanks for the help in the past

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by SovereignRedoubt

Thank you very, very, very much! This solved the problem! Finally, I can run with 2 gigs again. It must be the motherboard.

If possible, could anyone give me settings that won't fry anything? (not trying to be rude) My specs are below, Raptor Jesus.

well, first unlink the fsb. Then you want to raise the fsb for the cpu to oc. I would try 50mhz increments.
Before you start oc'ing, you should get your stock voltage from CoreTemp. Once you manually set it to stock vcore, start raising the fsb. If you become unstable raise your voltage. Do not go over 1.5v, and don't let you processor go over ~70°C load. If you hit that you need to drop your voltage, and possibly your oc if it becomes unstable.

Oh and make sure you disable Speedstep and C1E, as they may interfere with your overclock.

Stability testing can be done with Orthos, OCCPT, and Intel Burn Test.