ASUS P5N-E SLI is it any good? HELP!

sweat69 · 29 Dec 2006 at 20:03

Is this motherboard any good ASUS P5N-E SLI NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI i have heard some good reviews on it but has any one got one or maybe a frend has got one is i hvae seen them advertised for £ 68.27 inc VAT.

Jonny L · 29 Dec 2006 at 20:56

Are they even out yet? £68 doesn't sound right, surely a brand new sli board will be priced more highly than this. Have you got any links to reviews please.

sweat69 · 29 Dec 2006 at 22:09

http://techgage.com/article/asus_p5n-e_sli
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2894&p=3

muon · 29 Dec 2006 at 22:32

A simple froogle search does reveal some low prices. But my guess would be that they are using it to attract people to look at their sites. Then again some reliable sources have listed them as well.

Im guessing the launch is very close.

sweat69 · 30 Dec 2006 at 20:46

I have now order the asus i will keep you all posted on how well it overclocks i paid £73 including p&p.

sweat69 · 4 Jan 2007 at 20:40

Mobo arrived to day cant wait to build it up will let you know what it is like when i put it back togather.

SidewinderINC · 4 Jan 2007 at 20:45

i'm hoping to have hold of one of these by the end of next week myself

little more expensive than yours though

EDIT - decided to wait till its more widely available as the one i can currently get is the horrible mustard colour PCBs that are obviously cheaper to buy.

quite strange really.

sweat69 · 4 Jan 2007 at 21:00

Mine is dark blue . I hope it is as good as the reveiws i have seen about it.

Jonny L · 4 Jan 2007 at 21:01

Why are these things so cheap??!!!

sweat69 · 4 Jan 2007 at 21:24

Do not know i bought mine fast just in case it was a mistake.

sweat69 · 4 Jan 2007 at 23:48

just built the computer up wacked the fsb up to 360mhz and my little cpu is chugging along at 2520mhz bloodly good board so far.

sweat69 · 5 Jan 2007 at 00:06

just got 380mhz out of it 2660mhz out of a 6300e cpu not bad. Had to up the volts to the cpu and north bridge to be stable.

Nelly · 5 Jan 2007 at 02:10

Well took me about 30 minutes to find this available in the UK! whats going on OcUK? I thought you would have this mighty budget board in stock, I'm sure plenty of people would buy it.

sweat69 · 5 Jan 2007 at 09:45

I have now overclocked it to 405fsb around 2835mhz will still go a lot higher just bedding the silver compond so will wait a while before taking it higher.

Dravic · 5 Jan 2007 at 10:19

Push it harder and keep us updated.

andyh · 8 Jan 2007 at 09:51

Just ordered one of these boards along with a 6300, 8800gts and 2gb Geil Pc6400 and a scythe ninja (all bar the mb bought from OC), so I am interested in how far you have got in overclocking.

WJA96 · 8 Jan 2007 at 10:20

sweat69 said:
I have now overclocked it to 405fsb around 2835mhz will still go a lot higher just bedding the silver compond so will wait a while before taking it higher.

You need to update your sig then!

WJA96 · 8 Jan 2007 at 10:21

Jonny L said:
Why are these things so cheap??!!!

Because ASUS/NVidia has always had a budget SLi board with 2 8x PCIe slots. This is just the latest one. Previously they didn't clock well though but I suspect they have been looking at the success of the Crossfire/Gigabyte DS4 and decided to have some of that market.

WJA96 · 8 Jan 2007 at 10:36

OK - Mine has arrived. Booted fine at 300x9, booted fine at 350x9, booted fine at 400x9, boots fine at 453*9 but not beyond that.

I'm installing Windows now so I'm hoping for 3.6GHz stable.

OC_A64 · 8 Jan 2007 at 11:30

Have one on order too

Will give it a ragging with 6300/6600 and the Crucial/GSkill when it arrives. Bargainous price for async memory clocking and SLI support!
Can anyone confirm what sort of memory clocks they've seen from the board thus far?