THE Asus P5E X38 Thread

[ChrisB17]

I just got my P5E today. It really looks like a quality board. I hope it works good.

[XxSilent22xX]

Originally Posted by ChrisB17

I just got my P5E today. It really looks like a quality board. I hope it works good.

Congrats yea it is a really good quality board and you'll love it

[bfgDennis]

What is a safe NB temp for a maximus formula?

currently my NB idles at 49c and during crysis gets as high as 60c
is that too hot?

[trueg50]

I just got my Maximus Formula, and..Wow... all I can say is .. Wow..

I love this board!!!

So with my old one (this is going by memtest by the way, not Everest or anything), at 4-4-4-12 1T and 900 mhz, I was getting 5600 mb/s. Now at the same speed 5-5-5-15, only 2T, I am at 5800 MB/s. So I just nocked the timings down to 4-4-4-12 2T 900 mhz, and I am at 6100 MB/s.

That is the same bandwidth I got on my P5N32-E SLI at 5-5-5-15 2T and 1100 mhz!.

All I did was look around a little at the Xtremesystems thread on the Maximus and set all my setup to match their settings for an 8x multi CPU, and according to memtest, my system seems stable enough to get into Windows and run Ortho's.

I love this board!

Heck, I at least was able to just post and run memtest for a bit at 3.8 ghz! Unstable, but that was because I underestimated the Vdroop, I guess I should get a conservative 3.6 down before shooting for 3.8 and above.

[TnB= Gir]

Originally Posted by bfgDennis

What is a safe NB temp for a maximus formula?

currently my NB idles at 49c and during crysis gets as high as 60c
is that too hot?

NB chips start to cause instability and start dying if kept higher than 60C for a prolonged period of time. No telling how long it will take to die, but it can certainly cause immediate instability.

[Dostoyevsky77]

^ x2. What is your vNB? I have 4x1GB @ 1182 and need 1.59v, so that's about the highest you would probably need to go unless you have some mad RAM overclock going on. My temperatures (without reseating chipset) are about 40/42. Make sure you have plenty of air circulation and check your cable management.

There is also a chance that it's misreporting. That seems really high temps if you have a reasonable vNB (especially if it's green in BIOS).

trueg50, glad you're having fun with it. What will happen to your P5N32-E? Mine went into my wife's system. Little by little, she's ending up with my old system: just last week, she got my 8800GTX!

[trueg50]

Originally Posted by Dostoyevsky77

trueg50, glad you're having fun with it. What will happen to your P5N32-E? Mine went into my wife's system. Little by little, she's ending up with my old system: just last week, she got my 8800GTX!

It will either be going into a new backup rig (possibly given to a friend) or it will be sold. I was actually going to call them and see about getting a different model board, as that was the third P5N32-E I have gone through.

[ericeod]

I just cheched out the P5E open bos (yes it is still up) and I saw that the Maximus Formula is now available for $129 as an open box! If it doesnt come with an I/O shield, you can get a Maximus Extreme I/O shield for $8.00, which only differs from the MF as it has 2 eSATA ports.

[trueg50]

Originally Posted by ericeod

I just cheched out the P5E open bos (yes it is still up) and I saw that the Maximus Formula is now available for $129 as an open box! If it doesnt come with an I/O shield, you can get a Maximus Extreme I/O shield for $8.00, which only differs from the MF as it has 2 eSATA ports.

Does that item include the LCD poster?

Since my Open box maximus came with no LCD poster or Thermal probes, I am left with having to pay ~$5 a thermal probe, or wait til June for the Asus store to carry them.

[Dostoyevsky77]

Thermal probe? I didn't get any thermal probes with my retail board!