ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[africandavid]

Nice man.... let me know what happens..

[Praeses]

Hello

Does anybody have some advice on OC'ing my QX6850 on this board? Is the vdroop pencil mod recommended?

I understand the 4 phase power limits the OC'ing capabilities of this board. Does that include OC'ing by increasing the multiplier or only by increasing the FSB?

[deltaepsylon]

Oh god, good luck with that. I couldn't even get it stable by bumping up the multiplier... I was having stability problems at stock due to the 4phase power not doing a good job at cleaning the power if that makes any sense (and it wasn't a faulty, I went through 4 of those, 2 graphics cards, 2 harddrives, 2 CPU's, etc etc)

Doesn't help that you have 4 sticks of ram, which this board seems to not like much (correct me if I'm wrong)

[Ghostkilla]

Originally Posted by deltaepsylon

Oh god, good luck with that. I couldn't even get it stable by bumping up the multiplier...

Doesn't help that you have 4 sticks of ram, which this board seems to not like much (correct me if I'm wrong)

I ran my old rig with a E6400 oced to 3.4ghz stable with 4 1gig sticks of corsair.

[mtbmike777]

Originally Posted by deltaepsylon

Oh god, good luck with that. I couldn't even get it stable by bumping up the multiplier...

Doesn't help that you have 4 sticks of ram, which this board seems to not like much (correct me if I'm wrong)

i beg to differ with you there im afraid, my sig will tell you all you need to know really, 4x1gb and pencil mod 3.8 oc from 3.0 is a reasonably good oc on air (3.9 minutely unstable and 4.0 with heat issues so its qualiy overclockable ram is important in being able to take the fsb on this mobo higher as ive found that oc my ram to get 1.1 divider kept it stable

[mtbmike777]

duplicate post

[deltaepsylon]

Okay, maybe 4x1 isn't as bad a deal for this board as I thought, learn something new every day

Although I'd like to point out that both of those are dual cores and not quads, but I honestly don't know if that'd affect the results at all.

[mudd]

Does this board have problems with 1066 FSB? i have a set of 2 x 2gb reapers with timings 5-5-5-15 @ 2.2v rated at 1066 FSB, but when i manually enter the settings, computer isn't stable.

running @ 3.6 GHz stable for 12+ hours with my FSB @ 800 5-5-5-15 2.2v

[mtbmike777]

if your refering to your rams fsb i dont think it will go that high 800 is its highest, so underclock your ram providing its stepping ram for lower frequencies with an unlinked bios setting and manually put in your ram mhz at 800-850 900 max se if that helps you could get them timings alittle tighter to 4,4,4,12,2t providing your ram allows

[mudd]

Originally Posted by mtbmike777

then try going past it that be your mobo's hole try 1166 or 1200 with maybe 1 notc up on the vcore voltage

sry let me clarify. my FSB is set at 1512 which makes my proc = 3400 MHz

my problem is that when i try to overclock the memory itself (actually set it to stock speeds), it just crashes.