ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[willmarth2]

Is quad really worth it if you don't run a lot of applications at once? I will upgrade my E6300 in the next year and originally wanted a quad. Toms Hardware says it does not really help with games yet. Does a quad boot Vista quicker than C2D?

[kthulhu]

Originally Posted by Pipesafa

Hi, i read almost all the pages on this thread and the other thread about OCING this mobo and certainly can't get a decent OC on my MOBO with a Q6600. Try with the pencil MOD, BIOS Changes between recent and oldies and nothing result.

One thing that is really annoy me a lot is the fact that for some reason I setup some values on the bios include the FSB but when the PC restarts the unique value that not change is the FSB it keep the same before i make the changes and the only OCING posibility is with the ASUS OC OPtion but only to 10% and the memory timings sucks so i been thinking on a Mobo change but i want to take a other round before with your help.

Excuse my bad English i read and understading a lot but the writing is more difficult yet. XD

After a windows crash (blue screen ), once I tried to modified the BIOS and only the voltaje were changed: FBS and multipliers were the same...I clear the BIOS by removing the battery of the MB and everything went OK.

Another posibility is that the battery of MB i sgone, so your changes are not stored and you are always on defalt BIOS settings.

[SickStew]

Do 45nm Quad core work on P5N-E SLI?

[TheScOuT]

Originally Posted by SickStew

Do 45nm Quad core work on P5N-E SLI?

According to Asus in the CPU support for the P5N-E...no they do not work. I bought mine as a combo deal. I had no idea at the time and only realized it about 6 months later. My Q9300 runs great actually.

Originally Posted by willmarth2

Is quad really worth it if you don't run a lot of applications at once? I will upgrade my E6300 in the next year and originally wanted a quad. Toms Hardware says it does not really help with games yet. Does a quad boot Vista quicker than C2D?

I have heard and read a thousand gamers say that games don't benefit from 4 processing cores. I actually wrote an article for an online magazine about this. This is the results I came up with Try running GTA IV or Empire: Total war with a 2 core processor...those two games run all 4 of my cores at around 75%!

http://www.techzine.com/2009/01/22/w...e-all-4-cores/

TechZine is an online magazine started by members of another forum I am a member of. I am not spamming this by any way, shape or form.

[mavizaman]

my idea; dont choise q6600 for this mobo.
if you cant change your mobo,you can buy e7xxx or e8xxx both performance and overclock

Originally Posted by willmarth2

Is quad really worth it if you don't run a lot of applications at once? I will upgrade my E6300 in the next year and originally wanted a quad. Toms Hardware says it does not really help with games yet. Does a quad boot Vista quicker than C2D?

[askareem24]

i just got this board and the vcore is acting very strange; first, i tried upping the fsb to 1460 ( 3.65ghz ) e7300 voltage set to 1.32 in the bios. as i booted up into windows , i checked up with cpu-z and it states that my vcore is a whopping 1.44v X_X . thats a hugeeeeeeeeeeeeee jump. does any body know how i can fix this? i mean what am i suppose to trust? the bios or cpu-z. ( i d/led the latest version of cpu-z ) too

[Zippit]

Originally Posted by askareem24

i just got this board and the vcore is acting very strange; first, i tried upping the fsb to 1460 ( 3.65ghz ) e7300 voltage set to 1.32 in the bios. as i booted up into windows , i checked up with cpu-z and it states that my vcore is a whopping 1.44v X_X . thats a hugeeeeeeeeeeeeee jump. does any body know how i can fix this? i mean what am i suppose to trust? the bios or cpu-z. ( i d/led the latest version of cpu-z ) too

Download ASUS probe... it more accurate since its from ASUS themself.


I get 1.48v in CPU-z while I'm actually only using 1.33v

[askareem24]

Ah thank you so much. i was very worried!. do you know where i can download the probe tool for win 7. i cant seem to find it! thnx repp

[askareem24]

Originally Posted by Zippit

Download ASUS probe... it more accurate since its from ASUS themself.


I get 1.48v in CPU-z while I'm actually only using 1.33v

ok check this out, in the bios i set my vcore at 1.30000v 3.65ghz e7300 10x multi, i downloaded asus probe and its reading my vcore at 1.42 .. !!!!!!!!!!!! im so sad. how the hell can it have that big of a jump. i mean, if anything the vdroop is supposed to be read at under 1.3000v except its reading at 1.42 which is .12v higher, way higher

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by askareem24

ok check this out, in the bios i set my vcore at 1.30000v 3.65ghz e7300 10x multi, i downloaded asus probe and its reading my vcore at 1.42 .. !!!!!!!!!!!! im so sad. how the hell can it have that big of a jump. i mean, if anything the vdroop is supposed to be read at under 1.3000v except its reading at 1.42 which is .12v higher, way higher

is the +100mV option enabled in BIOS? If so, this is why your Vcore is a little high. TBH over volting on the p5N-e is EXTREMELY rare, especially as much as you are reporting.