ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[Rectus_Nex92]

Thank you so much for this.

[quakermaas]

Originally Posted by zoner88

Our boards will only take up to the Q6700 quad processors (or 65nm Quad core processors). They will NOT accept any 45nm Core 2 Quad processors, BUT will accept 45nm Core 2 Duo processors with the necessary BIOS updates needed to recognize them (refer to ASUS's site for our boards and Supported CPUs link).

Now, with that said, in order for our systems to recognize the Q6000 series Core 2 Quad processors, we need BIOS version 0608. I recommend staying with this BIOS at it has been found that this partcular version seems to behave much better in overclocking these quads.

I personally have a Q6700 running at 3.33GHz @ 1333FSB (10 x 333MHz) @ 1.425 Vcore @ LDT x5 (LDT x3 helps stability). My idle temps are a bit high (50/52 somewhere around there) and max temps were 67/65/65/65 after running FSX for about an hour on max 1680 x 1050 with my 8800GT. Framerates were mostly high 20's to low 40's peaking at 60FPS. I'm back at stock speeds due to temps hitting into the low 70's during Orthos and other intesive apps (DVD encoding, etc.). I will be looking into better cooling soon.

But the bottom line is, don't let anyone tell you we can't OC quads on this board (Q6000 series), the P5N-E SLI isn't the BEST to OC quads, but they are plenty capable of getting a decent OC.

I have heard of a few people running 45nm quads on this board with no problems, but these CPU,s are not officially supported.
I will see if I can look up some links.

Edit: here is a few, but I have seen others
http://www.overclock.net/6387327-post8918.html
http://www.overclock.net/6389916-post8922.html
http://www.techzine.com/2009/01/22/w...e-all-4-cores/

[thunder12]

any help appreciated http://www.overclock.net/intel-mothe...600-p5n-e.html

thunder

[Psycho Maluke]

mavizaman, try to update to 1403 version and give it a try

[Blizzie]

Has anyone tried to run 2 video cards, non SLI?
Do I have to switch the SLI selector card to dual video card?

http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/5257...t-250-gts.html

[quakermaas]

Originally Posted by Blizzie

Has anyone tried to run 2 video cards, non SLI?
Do I have to switch the SLI selector card to dual video card?

http://www.overclock.net/nvidia/5257...t-250-gts.html

Yes..for the second slot to work at all the sli selector has to be in sli mode.
It will then split the 16 PCI-e lanes to 8+8, in non sli mode all 16 lanes will go to PCI-e socket 1 and nothing to the second PCI-e socket.

[Hajpoj]

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Just popped in a Q9400, OCed to 3.4Ghz on bios 1403.

I've set Vcore to 1.475 in bios, using a zalman9500 cooler, my temps read 38-40 idle.

In windows vcore is reported as 1.6 in CPU-z. But temps still read 38, does that make sense?

[zomgiwin]

Originally Posted by Hajpoj

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Just popped in a Q9400, OCed to 3.4Ghz on bios 1403.

I've set Vcore to 1.475 in bios, using a zalman9500 cooler, my temps read 38-40 idle.

In windows vcore is reported as 1.6 in CPU-z. But temps still read 38, does that make sense?

only things that report correct cpuv for me are everest and pc probe :/




and i am curious guys, what sort of vdroop does everyone get under load?
i pencil modded and i still get .1v spikes. like, i have 1.38v idle, it will load at 1.36 and just randomly spike to like 1.28

just a bunk board or what?

[quakermaas]

http://www.overclock.net/4981112-post8111.html

"Just done the Vdroop pencil mod.

CPUZ: cpu voltage reading
before
1.408 idle 1.344 load
after
1.408 idle 1.376 load

Speedfan cpu voltage reading
before
1.33 idle 1.26 load
after
1.33 idle 1.30 load"

[Psycho Maluke]

CPUZ Validation:
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=591167

CPUZ: cpu voltage reading
1.440 idle 1.424 load