00Smurf

thanks for the reply. Definantly helpful. just got the motherboards into the case. going slow so as not to screw up

cognoscenti

Any ideas why my raid is slow??? 201.4MB/sec now

Robilar

I'm still poking around. I pm'd a guy I know at Xtreme running this board raided. He might have some idea.

cognoscenti

Superb! Thanks.
Can i reload drivers form the MB CD?

Robilar

No. Use the newer ones from the nvidia site.


http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_...a32_15.00.html

00Smurf

well its all together. firing it up for the first time. :fingers crossed:

PhelanJKell

This is mainly toward Robilar, but also towards other's who posted. I spent most of my spare time at work *computer technician, waiting for virus scans and so forth to finish, I know what a hard job right? lol* reading all the posts on here and I have also been looking at maybe going with Intel and a Conroe.. Because of this whole posts, and Robilar's awesome support, which I may say is one of the best I have seen. + rep for that by far.

So my question is to Robilar, and others who have this board, would this be a good choice for a MB/Conroe combo. I was looking for a great combo of hardware that OC's great.

I have only recently got into OC'ing with this rig, and it seems there are alot of differences in MB's between mine and the new MB, esp Intel. Please any help is appreciated. If there is another MB you would suggest I would appreciate it. Thanks ahead of time, thanks guys and great read, keep it coming I am enjoying this! I am trying to get a list of components made for a not to in the future purchase, thanks.

Robilar

Here is the thing. I've now had the board since early december and its truly great. I had a p5w dh with slid 7900gtx (using modded drivers), then went to the evga 680i (waste of time). I returned the evga and went with the asus mostly on faith as there were no reviews out at the time. I went through 4 bios releases and during that time, other than misflashing 0702 (buggy beta bios from hell), I haven't had a single issue.

The 680i boards are very easy to overclock and the asus P5N32-E is the only one that will consistently hit 500 FSB (assuming you get a decent stepping).

The fact that I'm a big fan of SLI drove my decision. I even had a pair of 8800gtx for a month until I returned one (immature drivers, I'll buy another in a month or two once the 100 series drivers are released).

With that said, if you have no intentions of going SLI ever, the the Asus Commando is a stronger overclocker and so is the Asus P5B Premium. consider however how cheap video cards become and how easy it is to add a second card into sli down the road for a major boost in performance, I personally feel its worth it.

My two cents but this board plus a conroe of any speed with some decent ram will give you a stable, fast platform.

alexisd

Hey[Robilar ]I vote for sticky this guide.Really this board start to pick up some attention.
Edit.In relation with the Raid 0 problems that the people have,im interest to see some benches to compare with mine.I dont have any problems so far.And any one interest in benchmarks.I run most of them.And this board is real fast when compare with others ones.And the last bios [0903] thats the ones,i run 3 differents settings and all are stables.Even im using an ES chip that need more volts.

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00Smurf

well it posted. everythign is good. cpu is at 21C idle according to the bios. board revision is 1.0 and the bios was 603. flashed it to 0903. installing windows now. the only voltage settings i changed were to lower the nb to 1.4 and the sb to 1.5