ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by willmarth2

What do ya'll think of Asus Probe. It gives a warning that my cpu is running hot at 75 C at no OC, bios set to default. By the way CCA, I am from Alabama too.

Asus probe generally stinks imo; try coretemp and speedfan.

[cca50]

Originally Posted by xtascox

I've been running 1201 for a little while now with no problems. If you are having issues with 1301, it wouldn't hurt to try an older revision.

Thanks! Right now I am ready to try about anything.

[MadDogX]

Originally Posted by xtascox

My Q6600 arrived today (with G0 stepping of course)

I'll see what it can do later tonight.

I'd be interested to hear your results. I gave up after a while. Couldn't get past 2,7Ghz (300x9). Though I must admit, that was a while ago and I'm still on the 0703 BIOS. I didn't even think to check for new ones until today... maybe a newer BIOS works better for the Q6600?

[UkGouki]

Originally Posted by MadDogX

I'd be interested to hear your results. I gave up after a while. Couldn't get past 2,7Ghz (300x9). Though I must admit, that was a while ago and I'm still on the 0703 BIOS. I didn't even think to check for new ones until today... maybe a newer BIOS works better for the Q6600?

nope 0608 is the only bios that can get a q6600 to 3.0ghz stable on this board im on 1201 max i could get stable is in my sig 2.67ghz

[willmarth2]

It is running great and cool. I took a screenshot of all my utilities with the 20% AI OC. I will manually OC later. Hope this is big enough.
http://s243.photobucket.com/albums/f...t=9a38ffa6.jpg

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by willmarth2

It is running great and cool. I took a screenshot of all my utilities with the 20% AI OC. I will manually OC later. Hope this is big enough.
http://s243.photobucket.com/albums/f...t=9a38ffa6.jpg

awesome! you will find you can reach much higher and more stable oc's when manually oc'ing.

[MadDogX]

Originally Posted by UkGouki

nope 0608 is the only bios that can get a q6600 to 3.0ghz stable on this board im on 1201 max i could get stable is in my sig 2.67ghz

Thanks for the info.

Saves me the trouble of going through several different BIOS versions. I'm not sure if I want to downgrade though. I guess I'll just try the 12xx or 13xx version and see if I can keep my 300x9 clock.

[UkGouki]

Originally Posted by MadDogX

Thanks for the info.

Saves me the trouble of going through several different BIOS versions. I'm not sure if I want to downgrade though. I guess I'll just try the 12xx or 13xx version and see if I can keep my 300x9 clock.

your welcome there is a thread with a full guide on how to downgrade and overclock to 3.0ghz on the quad 6600

[xtascox]

Originally Posted by UkGouki

nope 0608 is the only bios that can get a q6600 to 3.0ghz stable on this board im on 1201 max i could get stable is in my sig 2.67ghz

So that's why I'm having so much trouble getting past 2.6GHZ... well that and my psu can't keep the vcore constant anymore.

[xtascox]

Originally Posted by UkGouki

your welcome there is a thread with a full guide on how to downgrade and overclock to 3.0ghz on the quad 6600

Could you post a link to that thread?

EDIT: Found it, nevermind! Here's a link for those interested http://www.overclock.net/intel-cpus/...ml#post3489821