ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[dpawl31]

Tribeca you should really rethink your cooling situation, I would not be happy with that high of a core temp with a pricy chip

[dpawl31]

OK So who's buyin my e6320 for my birthday?
It's April 2nd, pretty soon.

You can wait till it gets released and all, that's cool.
If you all want to chip in, ya know, for me startin this thread and all, Maybe you guys can buy me one of dem fancy better chips o_O

lol jk!
(But it is me berfday soon!)

[TriBeCa]

Yeah, I agree. I'm thinking the easiest will be to drill holes in the plexiglass side (you *can* do that right?) to make the 80mm fan I stuck there into an intake fan. Just putting that fan in dropped core temp by 4 degrees, so giving it some intake should add a few more.

I just played an hour or so of CoD2 and temps never went over 51. I think it should be fine for now.

[dpawl31]

I vote for a new case haha

[TriBeCa]

Lol, no. It's a new case, and it's rather attractive. Nothing wrong with the case.

If anything I'd replace the CPU cooler, as the one I have doesn't really cut it. It's built to be quiet.

But drilling very small holes in the side of the case should work great.

[JCushing]

i got the sunbeam silent whisper. works awsome for only 17 bux.... ive never been over 50 degrees ever

[dpawl31]

Er, Bigval just hit me with a doosy.
He said not to worry even up to 70C... he said start to be concerned with 80C+.
This goes against everything I've learned I need to get proof before I start telling people it's OK... holy crap... lol

[TriBeCa]

I think you're just used to thinking of CPU temp, rather than core temp. That's what most temp sensors show. 65 would be way high for cpu.

[Kopi]

Originally Posted by dpawl31

Er, Bigval just hit me with a doosy.
He said not to worry even up to 70C... he said start to be concerned with 80C+.
This goes against everything I've learned I need to get proof before I start telling people it's OK... holy crap... lol

Err....hes wrong. Thats like graphics card temps...C2D shoudl stay below 65c...anything above it is overly hot.

on MY part of the OC, i still have to get an LGA 775 bracket...right now at 3ghz on the e6300 and 1.250 volts its idle is 33c and load is 46c. Thats Stock coolign and stock paste that game with the cooler, that stuff that was pre applied.

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by dpawl31

RAVIN- Clear CMOS already! LOL I want to know!

Got it Although when I cleared the CMOS I was able to access the BIOS, the boot priority went from the SATA RAID array to one of my secondary ATA drives. Pain in the @55 really- I had to install a copy of XP on that drive to copy some system files to boot XP from the RAID array.

So....Now everything is as it should be, except I need to blank this HDD again to get rid of the extra XP install. Just plain odd.

I'm still trying to get the PCI ATA RAID controller working. I'm taking it into the office and going to plug it into my computer there. I just hope the PSU on that rig can handle 2 more drives and the card!