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

Yea Im not about to change my board any time soon really. I couldnt justify it, I barely use the cpu power I have right now. Its usefull for video encoding and compression in general but I'd only upgrade if some game needed more but nothing is going to need more then 3.4ghz dual core for years :)

I'll have this for years and I dont think my settings, volts or heat will kill it. If Im wrong and it goes bad in 2 years it wont matter too much because of depreciation.

We're going to have 32 core chips in 3 years time apparently, my lil conroe will be worth peanuts then
 
waso_dude said:
Yea a fan over the NB is needed to OC its the only let down of the board, i can't wait to get mine WC and get hopefully 4ghz.
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I'm at 3.2ghz with no fan on this, even having a fan on the NB does not get me any higher clock speeds.
 
Since suspending the 80mm fan above the northbridge, it has also had a beneficial effect on CPU temps as well - some of the air must be cooling the base of the Freezer 7 Pro as well. My core temps are down a good 3 degrees or so. My machine runs 24/7 so I figured the extra cooling for the northbridge will help it achieve a good long life. If I only used the machine a few hours a day I probably wouldn't bother.
 
Hmm, I would have thought the NB would have been cooled by the air passing through the CPU cooler. It's the SB that has no heatsink isn't it?
 
MilanoChris said:
Hmm, I would have thought the NB would have been cooled by the air passing through the CPU cooler. It's the SB that has no heatsink isn't it?
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If you have a downward facing stock Intel heatsink then yes, but if you have something like the Freezer 7 which blows horizontally out the back of the case, then No
 
I got a Noctua cooler. Oh well, got two 120mm fans on the front, I should be fine. Need to sort out my bloody cables though but that can wait till when I get my Enermax 720 tomorrow.
 
Monitoring/Fan Control & Antec P182

Does this mb work with Speedfan? If so does someone have a config that works with SLI graphics cards, or anything that I can use as a base.

If not can someone suggest an alternative. I'm using a Noctua three pin fan on the CPU so I'll need something that will work by changing voltage rather than using the PWM line.

I've put the kit in an Antec P182, and while it is the heaviest it is the best designed case I've used so far. Once I've finished testing I'm hoping to replace the supplied Antec 120mm fans with 4 Noctua 120mm fans connected to the two chassis fan headers using a pair of Y leads. I've checked the power requirements and the board will be able to handle them without problem. The one complaint I have seen about the 182 is the fan between the lower drive cage and the PSU fouling on the lower part of the case. Removing the fan and shroud while fitting the PSU and using an Enermax Infiiti modular PSU meant that I had no problems. Once I've finalised the cable routing I'll post some pics.

Tim
 
Which Windows?

Vista installed fine for me using the embedded drivers (the ones that come on the Vista DVD). You do have to create and format a partition in Windows set up after you've created your raid set using Mediashield (F10 during boot).

Once installed install the full set of Nvidia 650i drivers from their website (15.00 WHQL).

Tim
 
yea i did all that, and nothing.

I've even got a image here of my old hdd and it has the raid drivers in it, and it get a coruption error everytime.

I think my raid controller is dead tbh.
 
Tuvoc said:
Is anyone running 3-3-3-12 memory timings on this board ?
For example Crucial Ballistix DDR2 PC2-5300 BL2KIT12864AA663 ?
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Yes. You'll get loads of errors though if you're not running the right voltage and you may also experience difficulty if the LDT has been adjusted upwards. I think I ended up having to run mine at 4x to get the optimal overclock/timings combination.
 
I've got myself some decent monitoring now - I had a licence to Everest 3.5 so took advantage of the free upgrade to 4.0 which has a very comprehensive Sidebar gadget.

I've got my 6600 running at 3300 now, I might be able to push it a bit further once the AS5 has bedded in. Temps are 40 degrees idle, 51 degrees under full load.

What doesn't seem to work with 0608 bios is Q-fan with a 3 pin (Noctua) fan. No matter what the internal temerature the fan runs at full speed. Is this a 0608 bug? Is it worth trying 0605? There doesn't appear to be an area to set the fan on/off temps. I'm going to add an extra fan into the P182 which blows air through an empty hard drive cage onto the video cards and should reduce case temps slightly.
Tim
 
Tuvoc said:
Is anyone running 3-3-3-12 memory timings on this board ?
For example Crucial Ballistix DDR2 PC2-5300 BL2KIT12864AA663 ?
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I couldn't get mine running at CAS3 at all, mind you though I was too scared to put too much volt through it cuz they die easily AFAIK.

WJA96 said:
I think I ended up having to run mine at 4x to get the optimal overclock/timings combination.
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Any noticeable performance drop with the LDT @ 4 instead of 5??

timmorris said:
What doesn't seem to work with 0608 bios is Q-fan with a 3 pin (Noctua) fan. No matter what the internal temerature the fan runs at full speed. Is this a 0608 bug?
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I think your fan isn't PWN enabled as it has only 3 pin and that's why it's running at the same speed constantly. Q-FAN requires a PWN fan (with 4-pin) to work.

flexo786 said:
hi
can someone tell me which is more reliable coretemp 0.94 or 0.95 as 0.94 shows my idle temps around 30 while 0.95 shows them around 40
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I used to look at 0.94 but now I'd say trust 0.95 to be safe.
 
steve258 said:
I think your fan isn't PWN enabled as it has only 3 pin and that's why it's running at the same speed constantly. Q-FAN requires a PWN fan (with 4-pin) to work.
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I thought that might be the case. My last board allowed to check between using the PWM signal line and varying the voltage. It isn't a big deal as the Noctua fan is pretty close to inaudible running at 1300rpm with the insulated case panels of the P182 (I've said it before but it is a great case).

I'm pretty happy with the cooling using the stock Antec fans set to their lowest speed so I'm going to replace them with Noctua fans which will move slightly more air and produce less noise.

This board may not be perfect, but it is pretty good value for money. I've got some new PCs to build, and I might move my 6600 into one of them and replace it with a quad core just for the hell of it. I do quite a lot of music encoding for use on a whole house audio system. At the moment if I need to transcode my whole library (322 CDs) it takes almost 24 hours. The program is multi-threaded so it will take advantage of the extra cores. I can't think of anything else that will be helped.

My PC is way overpowered for the games I play - I'm still on Doom 3, X2 COD2 and HL2. Are there any decent, recent FPS games I should look at?

I've got a 6600 running at 3.4Gig and 2 7800GTXs in SLI mode. My monitor is 1600x1200 and I'm about to hook up to my plasma which is 1920x1080.

Interestingly my last board supported 16x Dual SLI, and haven't noticed any difference in terms of graphics performance even on the plasma. SLI is defintitely better than a single card, but then again I get the impression that if I install an 8800could get better frame rates.

Tim
 
Tuvoc said:
Is anyone running 3-3-3-12 memory timings on this board ?
For example Crucial Ballistix DDR2 PC2-5300 BL2KIT12864AA663 ?
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I ran 720mhz at 3-3-3-11 with my crucial 10th tenth anniversary with 2.2v vdimm and a dropped ldt multi to get it stable, now run 4-4-4-12 for anything over 850mhz which im running at the mo.
 
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