ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[BungalowJunkie]

Wanted to let all of you I've been reading this thread for months, and was able to use alot of your advice to get my machine moving in the right direction. Thanks everyone!

I just moved my current rig into an Antec Nine Hundred case for more room and better cooling, and with stock cooling I pushed my E6750 to 3.2ghz, leaving my memory stock.. thats as far as I want to go until I get a south and north bridge cooler, and cooler on my cpu..


3 quick questions/concerns I have for the crew here:
Any thoughts on a zalman 9500 vs a Zalman Fatal1ty for cpu cooling? (or other recommendations)
What about a Thermaltake CL-C0034 or a ZALMAN ZM-NB47J for NB?
lastly,HR-05 for south ( I have a single 8600gts, and sli isnt on my radar for a while) or just a lower profile one as the SB doesnt get real hot

thanks in advance!

[Zippit]

Originally Posted by Aardobard

You guys are both right. You can use RAM faster than 800 MHz in this board, or most any mobo for that matter. You do have to OC your 'memory bus' if you want to go over 800MHz. That's how it seems to me, anyway.

But that means the NB will get hotter right?

[Gauvenator]

Originally Posted by BungalowJunkie

Wanted to let all of you I've been reading this thread for months, and was able to use alot of your advice to get my machine moving in the right direction. Thanks everyone!

I just moved my current rig into an Antec Nine Hundred case for more room and better cooling, and with stock cooling I pushed my E6750 to 3.2ghz, leaving my memory stock.. thats as far as I want to go until I get a south and north bridge cooler, and cooler on my cpu..


3 quick questions/concerns I have for the crew here:
Any thoughts on a zalman 9500 vs a Zalman Fatal1ty for cpu cooling? (or other recommendations)
What about a Thermaltake CL-C0034 or a ZALMAN ZM-NB47J for NB?
lastly,HR-05 for south ( I have a single 8600gts, and sli isnt on my radar for a while) or just a lower profile one as the SB doesnt get real hot

thanks in advance!

When i was using the p5n-e i used a coolermaster blueice heastsink on the southbridge, and an hr-05 with a fan on the northbridge. As for the cpu cooler I recommend one of the Xigmatek 120mm coolers.

[Royaltramp]

Alright, an update on my situation. I spent all of today trying to get my latencies working, with no luck. I even flashed my BIOS to the latest version on the Asus site, still no luck.

But eventually I found the culprit. nTune. I remembered that nTune runs in the background and was always resetting my graphics card clocks back when I'd tried to use it for overclocking, so I thought it might be doing a similar thing. Since installing nTune I've been running at 4-4-4-12 @ 2.1V for the last hour with no problems.

It is interesting how all the threads I find through google relating to latencies of 5-5-5-31 all relate to the P5N-E though, so I'm guessing that it's an incompatibility between nTune and this motherboard.

Hope this helps anyone else experiencing the problem that I had.

-Matt

[BungalowJunkie]

Originally Posted by Royaltramp

But eventually I found the culprit. nTune. I remembered that nTune runs in the background and was always resetting my graphics card clocks back when I'd tried to use it for overclocking, so I thought it might be doing a similar thing. Since installing nTune I've been running at 4-4-4-12 @ 2.1V for the last hour with no problems.

did you mean that you used ntune to OC your system, or just your gpu?? figured just the gpu.. have you found a way to keep ntune from going back to default on your gpu clocks? mine seams to set back to default for some reason.

good to hear you got it going

[Bryan 702]

I been looking at over 50 pages of this thread and still havent understood or figured out how to overclock my computer here are my specs
OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 / 1066MHz / NVIDIA® SLI™-Ready Edition
Asus p5ne sli 650i
500gb seagate sata hard drive
nvidia geforce 8800 gts 328mb
Intel core 2 quad q6600
Tuniq Tower 120 Universal CPU Cooler 120mm Cooling Fan and Fan Controller/Heatsink - Retail
and my bios version is BIOS revision 1101 any tips on what to download or what do i change my fsb or vcore at if u can halp plz n thanx.

[donthaveacow]

hey anyone know how to set the pci-e lanes to 8x instead of 16x I wanna do it to test if a 9800GTX+ bottlenecks at 8x. and also can anybody tell me whether this is a pci-e 1.0or 1.1 slot as i am currently away form my computer and ill want to setup when i get home.

all help is appreciated

[africandavid]

Hi, i just installed 64-bit vista, it seems my wireless nic is set to 802.11b for some reason and not 802.11g, can someone give some advice on how to change this? I have a trendnet tew-443pi 108mbps nic. I though it could be a driver problem, the trendnet site however does not provide vista 64-bit drivers. The chip used in the card is an atheros chip and I know that atheros does support vista 64-bit, i just cant seem to find the drivers for this chip.

[BungalowJunkie]

Originally Posted by Bryan 702

I been looking at over 50 pages of this thread and still havent understood or figured out how to overclock my computer here are my specs
OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 / 1066MHz / NVIDIA® SLI™-Ready Edition
Asus p5ne sli 650i
500gb seagate sata hard drive
nvidia geforce 8800 gts 328mb
Intel core 2 quad q6600
Tuniq Tower 120 Universal CPU Cooler 120mm Cooling Fan and Fan Controller/Heatsink - Retail
and my bios version is BIOS revision 1101 any tips on what to download or what do i change my fsb or vcore at if u can halp plz n thanx.

hmm must read more!!! someone will come along who has had success with a quad..

mainly its about choosing unlinked in your bios, and manually setting the fsb for the chip and the memory, in a 1:1 config (ie, if your memory is rated at 800mhz, then a 1:1 would have your fsb on your chip at 1600.)

because the fsb on the chip is quad pumped (Mine is 1333, but really its 1333/4=333.3, and fsb on memory is dual, so 800mhz is really 400... so the key is to get those 2 numbers (the 333.3 and 400) to match.. but again, this is what I did for my E6750 ( went from 2.66 to 3.2 on stock cooling) your results will vary with your quad..

hope that helps a bit

[africandavid]

Originally Posted by Bryan 702

I been looking at over 50 pages of this thread and still havent understood or figured out how to overclock my computer here are my specs
OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 / 1066MHz / NVIDIA® SLI™-Ready Edition
Asus p5ne sli 650i
500gb seagate sata hard drive
nvidia geforce 8800 gts 328mb
Intel core 2 quad q6600
Tuniq Tower 120 Universal CPU Cooler 120mm Cooling Fan and Fan Controller/Heatsink - Retail
and my bios version is BIOS revision 1101 any tips on what to download or what do i change my fsb or vcore at if u can halp plz n thanx.

what bios version do you have?? you need to downgrade to version 608. keep reading through the posts, there is a very good guide i used posted, keep you eye open for that, many people have used this guide.