Official Asus P5N-T Deluxe nForce 780i Review/Overclock/Guide Thread

Smirnoff

Smirnoff

Smirnoff

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Specification

CPU Intel Socket 775 Core™2 Quad/Core™2 Extreme/Core™2 Duo/Pentium® Extreme/Pentium® D Processors
Compatible with Intel® 05B/05A/06 processors
Support Intel® next generation 45nm CPU

Front Side Bus 1333/1066/800 MHz
Memory 4 x DIMM, Max. 8 GB, DDR2 1066*/800/667 Non-ECC,Un-buffered Memory
Dual Channel memory architecture

Expansion Slots
3 x PCIe x16 (blue @PCIe2.0 x16 mode, black @PCIe x16 mode) supports SLI Technology
2 x PCIe x1
1 x PCI

Storage Southbridge
1 xUltraDMA 133/100/66
6 xSATA 3 Gb/s ports NVIDIA® MediaShield™ RAID
Support RAID 0,1,0+1,5,JBOD configuration across Serieal ATA drives
Marvell 88SE6111
1 xExternal SATA

Scalable Link Interface (SLI™) Support three identical NVIDIA SLI-Ready graphics cards (all at x16 mode)

LAN Marvell88E1116 PCIe Gigabit LAN PHY featuring AI NET2

Audio ADI® AD1988B 8 -Channel High Definition Audio CODEC
Coaxial / Optical S/PDIF out ports
ASUS Noise Filter
Support Jack-Sensing, Enumeration, Multi-streaming
AI Audio 2

Overclocking Features Intelligent overclocking tools
- ASUS AI Booster Utility
Precision Tweaker 2
- vDIMM: 64 -step DRAM voltage control
- vCore: Adjustable CPU voltage at 0.00625V increment
- vChipset (N.B.) 64-step voltage control
- vChipset (S.B.): 16 step Chipset voltage control
- vHT (Hyper Transport): 41-step Hyper Transport voltage control
SFS (Stepless Frequency Selection)
- FSB tuning from 133MHz up to 800MHz at 1MHz increment
- Memory tuning from 400MHz up to 2600MHz
- PCI Express frequency tuning from 100MHz up to 200MHz at 1MHz increment
Overclocking Protection
- ASUS C.P.R.(CPU Parameter Recall)

Back Panel I/O Ports 1 x PS/2 Keyboard
1 x PS/2 Mouse
1 x External SATA
1 x S/PDIF Out
1 x IEEE 1394a
1 x LAN(RJ45) port
4 x USB 2.0/1.1
8 -Channel Audio I/O

Internal I/O Connectors 3 x USB connectors support additional 6 USB ports
1 x Floppy disk drive connector
1 x IDE connector
6 x SATA connectors
1 x IEEE 1394a connector
1 x CPU Fan connector
1 x Chassis Fan connector
2 x Power Fan connector
1 x S/PDIF Out connector
1 x8-pin ATX 12V Power connector
24 -pin ATX Power connector
1 x COM connector
20 Pin Panel connector
Front panel audio connector
Chassis Intrusion connector
System Panel Connector
CD audio in

Manageability WOL by PME,WOR by PME,Chasis Intrusion,AI NET2 PXE
Accessories User's manual
1 x 2-port USB2.0 module / 1-port 1394 module
1 x UltraDMA 133/100/66 cable
1 x Floppy disk drive cable
6 x SATA cable
1 x SATA power cable for 2 devices
3 in 1 Q-connector
1 x Optional Fan for Water-Cooling or Passive-Cooling only
1 x 3-Way SLI bridge card
1 x 2-Way SLI bridge cable


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First thoughts on this board.

Very rugged even at beta bios it seems more stable than my evga 680i ever was.

The board is a pretty good clocker, Got a Q6600 running at 3.4ghz with TriSLI and 4gb ram. It did 4 full loops of 3dmark while running prime95 in the background :)

It NEEDS good quality ram, Dominator or OCZ SLI-Ready Edition work well, I couldnt get any stable overclock with crucial ballistix tracer, not even 10 mhz. ( Hopefully a bug with the bios if anyone gets some to work i'll make a note here )

If your thinking of running TriSLi with this board i wouldnt use anything less than a 1000w supply even with a enermax galaxy 1000W the 12v is under very heavy load.

This board loves the volts so the north and south bridge get very hot, good case cooling is a must !!!

They layout is good tho all the PCI slots are covered when running TriSLI.

There are no TriSLI drivers for XP yet, Only vista 32/64 bit there are around 9 different SLI rending options in the latest 169.25 drivers
 
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totally agree...

I gave two of these to our tech support department when they arrived on Friday, half expecting for the first one to be dead by the end of the day. We've thrown all sorts of insane clock speeds and voltages at it since then, tried tr-SLi, reflashed the bios over and over again and the first one out of the box is still alive and kicking. :eek: The second one was put into a customer's systems...
 
Sounds good guys, Have you had a Q6600 above 3.4 ? if not do you think its easily achievable or will we have to wait for new bios releases ?
 
I've been able to boot into windows at 3.5ghz+ and it seemed pretty stable. I think the board can do it with the current bios just need a good clocking chip and cooler. Hopefully i'll have time to really clock this board in the next few days.
 
Cheers for the info Smirnoff, I probably will go for one of these.


Edit: just ordered one and some ocz 8500 ram as recomended fingers crossed this thing will take a Q6600 to 3.8-4.0ghz as its going into my new water cooled set up :)
 
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Cheers mate gettign the OCZ memory on thurs so hopefully will sort out all the problems i have been having...

Can you also answer me this? I am using 2 x 8800GTS in SLI but as i also want to use a SB XFi Audio (PCI-E) card is it ok to use the PCI-E 16x slots 1 & 2 rather than 1 & 3 like it says in the manual? If not the soundcard will not work in the 16x slot...
 
I havent tryed it myself tho i cannot see any harm in trying, I'll try and bench the cards in slots 1 + 3 then in 1 + 2 and see if there much difference.
 
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I havent tryed it myself tho i cannot see any harm in trying, I'll try and bench the cards in slots 1 + 3 then in 1 + 2 and see if there much difference.
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I understand you are using Tri-SLI:).

Is that with GTXs or Ultras?

Also, what case do you have, how many fans installed etc? What PSU?

I haven't yet seen a PSU currently available in the UK that is on SliZone's "certified list", not that the latter is by any means gospel.
One review site used a Thermaltake 1500w which was apparently perfectly well suited.

What's the performance inrease like at high res (1920x1200+), especially with Crysis - with all set to "very high" - and/or Hellgate, if you've had a chance to try either yet. Any other games/benches yeilding a marked improvement?

I've read numerous reviews though I don't entirely trust any of them, would be far more interesting and constructive to get the opinion of an individual enthusist.:)
 
Hopefully i'll have my TRI SLI rig up and running tomorrow night so i'll do some benchtests and report back.

It will be-

Q6600
Asus PN5-T
3x ocuk GTX's
ocz 8500 sli ram
1500w thermaltake
custom water cooling-cpu only
1650x1050 monitor
150gig raptor
 
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I havent tryed it myself tho i cannot see any harm in trying, I'll try and bench the cards in slots 1 + 3 then in 1 + 2 and see if there much difference.
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SLI works with cards in slots 1 + 2 and 1 + 3, Useing slots 1 + 2 enables the pci slot to be used as the slots go

1
3
2

So only with TriSLI will the pci slot be covered.
 
Looks like a nice mobo. I'm waiting in queue for the EVGA 780i upgrade, but it's taking ages since theres none in stock, i might just get this instead.

I have 4GB of Crucial Ballistix 800, do you think they will be ok for this board?. I looked the compatibility list but they werent on it.
 
we tried Ballistix Tracer 8500, which worked at stock but you just couldnt overclock with it...probably a bug in the current beta bios though
 
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