** The Official ASUS P5N-E SLI & Ultra 650i Thread **

[flexo786]

thanks got it all working now.

 

[timmorris]

Southbridge Cooling?

I've got a Zalmann passive Northbridge cooler which I can cut down to fit on the Soutbridge. Is it worth the bother?

Tim

 

[Kaiju]

I've got a Zalmann passive Northbridge cooler which I can cut down to fit on the Soutbridge. Is it worth the bother?

Tim

The southbridge won't cause any problems without passive cooling, but it depends how bored you are?

I thought about doing it, but it's not worth the hassle unless you are doing something else such as installing a new CPU.

 

[timmorris]

I haven't installed the board yet and I do own a Dremel so I'll cut the bottom row of fins off.

Tim

 

[steve258]

Why do you have to?

I have a zalman NB heat sink on southbridge and it's a perfect fit unless you have running SLI.

 

[waso_dude]

I've just recieved a Thermal Take 05 SLi chipset cooler i'll post some pics later, as long as it works :S

 

[waso_dude]

Why do you have to?

I have a zalman NB heat sink on southbridge and it's a perfect fit unless you have running SLI.

Its a problem if your running a 8800 as the GPU overhangs the southbridge.

 

[timmorris]

I run SLI.


Tim

 

[waso_dude]

you will need to trim it then,

you looked at the thermalright?

its cheap and looks good.

I'll tell you later about the performance of it.

link to it:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-033-TR&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=399

 

[matthew2456]

any software which reads the correct cpu voltage on these?

 

[WJA96]

any software which reads the correct cpu voltage on these?

PC Wizard 2007 works reasonably well.

 

[matthew2456]

PC Wizard 2007 works reasonably well.

is speedfan accurate?

for me 1.5v in bios give 1.5 in speedfan and then 1.44 underload

 

[WJA96]

is speedfan accurate?

for me 1.5v in bios give 1.5 in speedfan and then 1.44 underload

If 1.4V in BIOS gives 1.4V in Speedfan, then I would think you could say it's working accurately.

 

[matthew2456]

any known fsb holes around 400mhz on this board?

 

[silversurfer]

Its 425 or 1700 that the NB timings change. Im not aware of any other significant figure.


I swapped my ram over from yellow to black and clocked it up another 70mhz, it will go even further but its not orthos stable

 

[willhub]

To get C2D CPU's past 3.2 is it usually the case you have to manually set the NB Voltage to 1.5? because I am at 3.2ghz now but any higher and in orthos I keep resetting with my C2D E6600.

 

[silversurfer]

Yea sounds about right, Im on the top voltage and its not about to do any harm

 

[willhub]

Yea sounds about right, Im on the top voltage and its not about to do any harm

Ah great, I was worried 3.2ghz was the limit of the C2D E6600. I have my Voltage for the CPU set to Auto, should I set it to 1.45?

 

[silversurfer]

No way, Im on 8 x 426 just with a e6400 and a cheap cooler. With water I think I could get 4ghz but this is just a budget system.

You should try the same and then try for x9 if you have a good cooler setup.

My voltage is 1.55 +.100 and nb is 1.7v

 

[willhub]

No way, Im on 8 x 426 just with a e6400 and a cheap cooler. With water I think I could get 4ghz but this is just a budget system.

You should try the same and then try for x9 if you have a good cooler setup.

My voltage is 1.55 +.100 and nb is 1.7v

I cant change the Multiplyer downwards, just wont have it, once I did it, changed something else too and after saving and exiting bios my pc power shut off and came back on my itself

1.55V seems high, would be worrying me going over 1.5V, whats the +100mv for? so if its set to 1.45v the +100mv sets it to 1.55? why should one need to use +100MV?