ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[Criswell]

As of Friday March 30 2007:

ASUS P5N-E 650i:

Zipzoomfly 134.99 + 0 = 134.99

Tigerdirect 139.99 + 12.42 = 152.41

Newegg 124.99 + 6.41 = 131.40

Buy.com 134.99 + 0 = 134.99

Frys 148.00 + 7.73 = 155.73

Prices in USD.

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by Criswell

As of Friday March 30 2007:

ASUS P5N-E 650i:

Zipzoomfly 134.99 + 0 = 134.99

Tigerdirect 139.99 + 12.42 = 152.41

Newegg 124.99 + 6.41 = 131.40

Buy.com 134.99 + 0 = 134.99

Frys 148.00 + 7.73 = 155.73

Prices in USD.

If you can get to a Fry's you can pick one up in house for 129.99 (new) or 119.99 (repacked)

[TriBeCa]

Originally Posted by USlatin

what multiplier are you using?

I need to learn a whole chunk more about OC'ing... my DS3 had a fixed x7 multi and a lowest 1:1 ratio... what are the minimum and max settings for the multi and ratios?
The whole T1 and T2 thing is a complete unknown to me

Multi = 6:60 (min:max)
Ratio = whatever you can get I was able to get 15/16 but not 31/32 :P

I'm not 100% clear on the T1/T2 thing myself, but I believe it has to do with how many commands the ram is sending per clock. T1 reportedly gives a large performance boost.


When I have time again I'll try taking my TRAS down some...and maybe see if I can get the CAS down to 3. This corsair kit cost a fortune and has huge heat dissipators right under my extra case fan, so it should be ok heat-wise. Sometime this summer I'm sure I'll get really ambitious and drill holes in the plexiglass side of the case for that fan, and then try pusing my FSB up to somewhere between 420-450 :P

[Ravin]

Alright, I've just about had it with the low/variable bandwidth from my RAID array so I'm going to do a complete re-install, right down to the partitions. Hope this works.

[Digikid]

WOW! This thread is still going?

PC Updated....and still LOVING my mobo like crazy. However I cannot seem to get to 3.5 with my specs.

Any ideas?

[The Pook]

Seems like Intel locked some E4300 chips to limit what can be done with 'em.
(Tuchan and a few others were having problems with their sets under phase past 3.5/3.6)

[USlatin]

Originally Posted by Ravin

Alright, I've just about had it with the low/variable bandwidth from my RAID array so I'm going to do a complete re-install, right down to the partitions. Hope this works.

Explain, please. What are your problems/numbers you are unhappy with?
I will be installing XP (using media center XP now) onto a RAID0 comprised of my slower two HDDs for my OS drive and partitioning it with a small chunk for the OS and programs and the rest for storage/backup of important footage.
I have read that I would have to boot up with a floppy if I want a RAID C: and that then when I boot up I should install drivers in a very particular order.

Could you tell me how you go about doing this yourself so I can make sure and follow your steps. I never knew it would be such a weird process and thought it would be much more simple. I wanted to just ghost over you know... But it doesn't hurt to start fresh. Just a lot of work

[Killroy]

I need help with the p5ne-sli motherboard. What is the best DDR2 PC6400 for thus motherboard without getting boot up post beep or reboots and BSOD?

I got the motherboard running OCZ Platinum 2 GB DDR2 PC6400. It work for 2 weeks and it gave me a post beep without booting up the system. I remove 1 memory from the motherboard and it boot up. The timing is 4-5-4-15.

What I need to do to make it work with the OCZ memory?

Thanks

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by USlatin

Explain, please. What are your problems/numbers you are unhappy with?
I will be installing XP (using media center XP now) onto a RAID0 comprised of my slower two HDDs for my OS drive and partitioning it with a small chunk for the OS and programs and the rest for storage/backup of important footage.
I have read that I would have to boot up with a floppy if I want a RAID C: and that then when I boot up I should install drivers in a very particular order.

Could you tell me how you go about doing this yourself so I can make sure and follow your steps. I never knew it would be such a weird process and thought it would be much more simple. I wanted to just ghost over you know... But it doesn't hurt to start fresh. Just a lot of work

Originally Posted by Ravin

ASUS response:

Depending on if you're loading the operating system to a drive attached to this controller or not, will determine how the drivers should be installed. If you're loading the operating system to the raid device, then you'll need to create a driver diskette so that windows can see the drive. Starting out with bare minimums, videocard, memory, processor, 1 hard drive, 1cdrom and floppy, you must boot up and format and do a clean installation of windows. Once that is complete, then insert the support cd that came with the motherboard, and install all the drivers in the order in which they're listed. Videocard drivers last. Once doing this, you shouldn't have any conflicts in device manager, except maybe universal serial bus controller. Which that is installed with a windows update. Please let us know if you! have any further problems. Thank you!


Allan T
7100 Intermodal Dr
Louisville, Ky 40258
Asus Support Team.

Uhhhh....If you load XP onto one HDD and then create the RAID array won't that wipe out your install?

ok....here goes. I've been seeing an average read/write of 107Mb/sec which is ATA 100 speed. It should be nearer 300Mb/sec. So I am following ASUS instructions as above, then ghosting to a 3rd drive, THEN creating the RAID0 (wiping out the initial install) and restoring from the 3rd drive to the Raid array. I'll let you know how it goes.

Originally Posted by Ravin

Ok.... Stock timings with 1T are officially stable on my rig.


RAID users check this thread:

http://www.overclock.net/intel-mothe...-e-raid-4.html

[USlatin]

Ravin, you keep giving me the link to that thread when I had allready posted on it before you gave it to me the first time. LOL
Trust me I read the whole thing, twice... lol

Anyway, thanks for the explanation in cleared terms... I won't be ghosting unless I can install XP OVER media center to get rid of it... I don't think that can be done, so I might have to just start from scratch. Right?