P5N32-SLI overcloking guide? please?

Blue Cypher · 21 Mar 2008 at 14:26

Hello, i am having trouble overclocking on this motherboard so i was hopeing someone could either send me a step by step guide on what they did (i mean every step) or point me to a guide somewhere for this board? your help would be most apreciated thankyou!

Blue Cypher · 21 Mar 2008 at 16:35

Can someone please help, i set my RAM to 2.1v and my core i have set upto 1.38 (i have a vdrop of .8) and no matter what my computer just crashes on boot everytime even though i only change my bus slightly!! i can only over clock to 2.47 Ghz on my Q6600 with this board, anthying over and it doesnt boot!!! WHY???

I really need someones help please!

modo77 · 21 Mar 2008 at 21:30

Increase the nb and 1.2vtt volts a bit as that should help get it stable.

I'm at 3.4 gig with
vCore 1.39375
NB 1.5
SB 1.4
1.2vht 1.3

I am on water though. So you might want to watch the temps on the nb, since they do get hot on this motherboard.
Oh and i have a dual core not quad, so these volts probably wont be perfect for you anyway.

Blue Cypher · 21 Mar 2008 at 22:11

thx, modo i will take a look now, but for some reason it seems to crash on boot up before i can get to the BIOS so i keep having to reset it!!!

modo77 · 21 Mar 2008 at 22:41

Sounds like you might have to reset bios via the jumper on the motherboard if you cant get in at all.

Blue Cypher · 21 Mar 2008 at 23:04

i just take the bios battery out and put it back in.
i tried your settings modo but no joy im afraid, i cant get it past 2.5 Ghz and i cannot see why, is there anyone out there who has overclocked on my board who can tell me how to do it please?

modo77 · 23 Mar 2008 at 23:44

I forgot to add that the CPU VTT is very important for overclocking on this board. Push it upto 1.55.

Hybridtheory · 24 Mar 2008 at 01:25

Does this board even support a q6600 ? i have a P5N32sli and it doesnt.. ?

Matt26LFC · 24 Mar 2008 at 12:56

Depends on the BIOS revision. *** Mobo r u running excatly? P5N32-E sli? P5N32-E Sli Plus? P5N32 Sli Premium? P5N32 Sli Deluxe? or P5N32 Sli SE Deluxe?

BIOS Revisions Required for the Q6600 Respectively Are;

Rev 1103 or Later
Rev 0705 or Later
Not Supported
Not Supported
Not Supported

Obviously if u have one of the latter 3 you dont have support for a quad and cant get it, so hybridtheory is correct. If u have either of the 1st two then you'll need the corresponding BIOS Revisions which can b obtained at the Asus Website.

This is a link 2 a sticky for beginners OC'ing i suggest u read it throughly before attempting OC'ing

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17612922

Blue Cypher · 25 Mar 2008 at 22:35

Bit of a late reply:

my motherboard is p5n32 - sli premium with BIOS reviosn 0901
I tried changing my vtt to what modo says but no joy. Yes this motherbaord is Quad compatible and runs abolutely fine on stock, its when i oeverclock that it crashes before i can press delete to get into BIOS!! i have tried everything i can think of and yes matt i already read the thread and this is my second overclock.

can anypne help?

Matt26LFC · 25 Mar 2008 at 23:54

Well this is a link to the CPU support list from the offical asus site

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=P5N32-SLI Premium

Possible its not up too date, but i see no quad support, seems strange that it runs fine under stock and not when OC'ing. I have the P5N-E sli board and had to lower the LDT to x3 to get a stable OC, If u have that setting try lowering it mine was set to x5 by default.

FlyingHaggis · 26 Mar 2008 at 00:45

I'm using the Plus version of this board and i havea Q6600 G0 running at 3GHz.

FSB: 333 (1333QDR)
VCore: 1.3v
Multiplier: 9

EDIT: FSB and Memory are unlinked and the PCIe and all that lot are set to 100 MHz.