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E6750 & P5N-E SLI

Wiggins

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OC's description says that this chip is only compatible with the P35 & 680 Chipsets but on the Asus site it says that the processor IS compatible with it.

Am I missing something here? :confused:

I have the Asus 650i mobo and want one of these but unsure which to believe unless its a Marketing ploy by OC's.
 
Look up 'patience' in the OED.

And if ASUS say it's supported, then it's supported. It works in the other 650i boards.
 
Cob said:
Look up 'patience' in the OED.
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Patience is a living hell............

When you buy a Motherboard, you want the processor you have to work on it. When you have a processor, you want the motherboard you have to work with it.

Retail marketing doesnt always give you the right conception. You get me?
 
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its all about the speed

If the board can do 1333 then the processor should work. The official support is the idea that the BIOS will recognise the CPUID string and set default settings accordingly.

the Gigabyte DS-3 boards can do the 1333 FSB, but dont officially support the 1333FSB CPUs as they cannot recognise the CPU. You have to 'overclock' to get to default settings.

So if ASUS reckon it's supported, then it should recognise it off the bat.

PS. the Gigabyte DS3 Rev 3.3 boards are claimed to officially support the 1333FSB range.
 
Worst case is you'll have to manually set the FSB in the bios to 333MHz. If the bios is upto date then it will choose 333MHz automatically rather the 266MHz for the earlier C2D's.
 
Running an E6750 in a P5N-E SLI board here.
Bios recognizes the chip OK. (0608)
Sets 333mhz FSB automatically.

Runs great :)

Only slight problem is the default vcore is set too high on auto.
You can set it to the correct voltage manually though.
This will probably be fixed on the next bios update.

I am very happy with the combination of the P5N-E SLI and the E6750.
Fast. Cheap and overclocks well.
 
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PCZ said:
Running an E6750 in a P5N-E SLI board here.
Bios recognizes the chip OK. (0608)
Sets 333mhz FSB automatically.

Runs great :)

Only slight problem is the default vcore is set too high on auto.
You can set it to the correct voltage manually though.
This will probably be fixed on the next bios update.

I am very happy with the combination of the P5N-E SLI and the E6750.
Fast. Cheap and overclocks well.
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Im looking at that chip, what speed you getting out of it?
 
Tuvoc said:
The P5N-E SLi DOES support 1333 CPUs. It is in the release notes for BIOS 608
For some reason ASUS have missed it off the section where they list the 1333 mobos

And look here, it says:
Support Intel® next generation 45nm Multi-core CPU
http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=473
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Excellent :D

I was looking to maybe update my 650i board in the next 6 months but if its going to support 45nm cpu's then I may as well wait :)
 
pegasus1

I have settled on a 24/7 CPU speed of 3700 mhz.
Thats 462.5 mhz (1850) x8, the default multiplier of the CPU.
Passes all the torture tests, Orthos, Everest, looping 3dmark 2006 etc and runs oblivion for hours on end with no glitches.

The FSB can be increased a bit more to around 1950 thats 3900 mhz for suicide runs.
Seems thats also the limit of the MB as well because dropping the multi down to 7 doesn't allow any further increase in the FSB.

Opoligies to the OP for the thread hijack.
 
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Wiggins said:
Excellent :D

I was looking to maybe update my 650i board in the next 6 months but if its going to support 45nm cpu's then I may as well wait :)
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Yes I did read somewhere - anandtech forums I think - that 4-phase power minimum was required for 45nm CPUs and our board with 3-phase power was not compatible. It now seems this was wrong information
 
Yea but I doubt the 3 phase (and possibly the 4 phase) boards will be any use for overclocking the 45nm chips.
 
Seems strange that you would need to worry about the VRM's.
A die shrink implies a reduction in power consumption and consequently is more VRM friendly.
Is it perhaps that the 45nm chips are sensitive to power fluctuations.
If this is so shouldn't it be considered a design flaw. ?
 
Cob said:
Yea but I doubt the 3 phase (and possibly the 4 phase) boards will be any use for overclocking the 45nm chips.
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Well it overclocks my QX6700 to 3GHz no problem and would likely go further, so I don't see any issues at the moment
 
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