ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Thread

[dpawl31]

Hey glad you dropped in.

Why do you NEED a 16x SLI board? Did you see the link on the first page, showing 8x8x is almost exactly the same?

What are you looking to hit? It will take whatever you throw at it.
It seems to be more a deal of what your CPU can take, not the board

[dpawl31]

For any of you that don't have a clue what I do when I am not hogging this thread...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll2kESR6bmA


YES. It is me.

[Ravin]

Originally Posted by dpawl31

Ravin- THAT SUCKS Sorry man. Glad my rig isn't as complicated, I don't need to deal with that mess

Meh.....It's not really more complicated, just got more storage

Originally Posted by dpawl31

Hey glad you dropped in.

Why do you NEED a 16x SLI board? Did you see the link on the first page, showing 8x8x is almost exactly the same?

What are you looking to hit? It will take whatever you throw at it.
It seems to be more a deal of what your CPU can take, not the board

Why do we even need SLI....or PCIe for that matter, the AGP8x bus was not even ever fully utilized

Hey...side note, Sandra is now recognizing that I have 2 cores instead of just one. I think that I had a bad install my first go with XP and the nVidia drivers. the nVidia drivers can be finiky like that. I had some severe problems when I went from the old VoDoo3/3000 to the GeForce4 Ti4600 before doing a reinstall.

[Nevaziah]

One of these days i'm going to have to try SLI. just for the heck of it, see if 'I' notice a difference. maybe when 8600s come out.....

[Mr Pink57]

http://www.performance-pcs.com/catal...oducts_id=4551

Board came today and I got this cooler some of you where talking about for the SB. I will say it is a weak NB cooler if that is what it was designed for. It is very light and seems almost hollow. I swipped a bit of sand paper across the bottom to smooth out any impurities. The mounting is kinda wack as the screws are a pain to get in, just make sure you have it exactly sized with the wholes before doing anything.

I am gonna take it slow with installing this board as I have some wires to remove and re route. I usually rush the install to get it going and then worry about it all later (I do check twice though). Also I lapped the HR-05 SLi for the heck of it and the Infinity last night with some decent results but I gotta say lapping is a pain in the ass and rather boring.

pink

[TriBeCa]

Originally Posted by pheoxs

hey tribeca, whats the voltage of your 6400 running at 3.2? I can boot my system but it shuts off on full load, i need more voltage but i don't really know how much, i tried 1.35V but don't really want to go any higher, i'd love to get that final little bit so i can run 400fsb

My vcore is at 1.36 with the +100mV option turned on (so 1.46--I've been told that the +100mV reduces vdroop, though I haven't formally tested it). The last 18mV or so were needed to prevent vdrooping down to 1.36 during orthos testing, which I suspect is why I was getting errors after several hours (3.5 and 5.5 in two seperate tests) of stress testing. Basically I was getting these brief (1-2 seconds) spikes from roughly 1.378 mV to like 1.362 mV during testing, once I pushed the vcore high enough to stop that from happening I was all good.

The other thing I had to do, though, in order to get into windows at 387.5 or above, was put the northbridge voltage up to the max possible (1.7 something). I have crazy airflow in my case, so the temp isn't really a problem (although after I did this I did electrical tape an 80mm fan right smack dab in the middle of the left side case panel). I'm still planning on seeing if I can lower the NB by a notch, cause it doesn't seem like it should need to be that high, but I haven't had a chance to risk making my system unstable yet. I'll probably do it in a month or so.


edit: pheoxs, I just noticed you're at 3.75 x 8. This suggests to me you ran into the same block I did before I upped my NB voltage...so I'd start there if I were you. Also, note that I didn't just max out my NB voltage suddenly. I first went to 1.5?, and suddenly I could get into windows. Wasn't orthos stable past a few seconds though, so I upped it again and I was all good. Then I went up to 400 FSB and started fiddling with the vcore again.

[mcogan10]

how are these damn boards? do they overclock consistantly over 500 fsb???

[Kopi]

450 at no problems yet, due to current stock cooling i havn't tried higher

Check this review

http://www.techspot.com/review/43-asus-p5n-e-sli/

[TriBeCa]

there's plenty of reports of 500 FSB out there. I'd say it's not clear how 'consistent' the boards are on that front, as there's not exactly a whole pile of chips out there capable of that kinda of bus speed.

I will say that I haven't seen anyone out there who's clearly run into a limit of the board, rather than their processor.

[Kopi]

I got bored guys.

3.2ghz now on stock cooling

456 FSB...sweet eh? 1.35 volts and currently 40c idle and 60c orthos load...thats not bad. Rams at 5-5-5-12 at 912mhz (stock timings) and 2.1 volts...seems to be running great, no hitches. I reaaaaaaaaaly want to get my XP-90 running, been so long, but this stock cooler rocks. 18s superPI...i LOVE THIS THING.