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

The 650i SLI chipset supports SLI as PCI-E x8 + x8 when running 2 cards. with a second 8800GTS you could gain a decent boost, 2nd hand 8800GTS's are damn cheap now!
Just make sure you have a psu to deal with an sli setup.
 
I'm thinking about getting an E5200, can't really push my E4300 past 3Ghz. Plus it runs quite hot.

What do you guys think? Worth the investment?
 
icey_haj said:
I'm thinking about getting an E5200, can't really push my E4300 past 3Ghz. Plus it runs quite hot.

What do you guys think? Worth the investment?
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I just did that same thing. Bought the e5200 some months ago though as it was £50 which I thought was quite cheap back then.

Didnt get time to install it until yesterday. Now sitting here at 3.8ghz so quite chuffed. Still optimizing the vcore etc so might be able to get it to 4ghz.

I would say its worth it as personally I had a 1.2-1.4ghz overclock on the e4300 and it was running quite warm. Had to lap it to shave a few more degrees off the temperature. I also think the TJ max for the e4300 was wrong as the case did feel warm even when sitting at 33C, I wouldnt be surprised if it was actually at 43C. With the e5200 the case is no longer warm and its sitting at 37C with TJ max of 100.
 
icey_haj said:
I'm thinking about getting an E5200, can't really push my E4300 past 3Ghz. Plus it runs quite hot.

What do you guys think? Worth the investment?
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Like I said earlier, its a great chip for 50~ quid and suits this board a lot as far as overclocking is concerned.
 
xiphrex said:
I just did that same thing. Bought the e5200 some months ago though as it was £50 which I thought was quite cheap back then.

Didnt get time to install it until yesterday. Now sitting here at 3.8ghz so quite chuffed. Still optimizing the vcore etc so might be able to get it to 4ghz.

I would say its worth it as personally I had a 1.2-1.4ghz overclock on the e4300 and it was running quite warm. Had to lap it to shave a few more degrees off the temperature. I also think the TJ max for the e4300 was wrong as the case did feel warm even when sitting at 33C, I wouldnt be surprised if it was actually at 43C. With the e5200 the case is no longer warm and its sitting at 37C with TJ max of 100.
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Have you noticed a performance increase?
 
icey_haj said:
Have you noticed a performance increase?
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Yes definitely especially in CPU intensive games such as counterstrike source.

Its not a significant improvement, but it is a noticeable improvement. Not surprising as they are practically the same cpu, just the e5200 has a higher multiplier of 12.5.
 
xiphrex said:
Yes definitely especially in CPU intensive games such as counterstrike source.

Its not a significant improvement, but it is a noticeable improvement. Not surprising as they are practically the same cpu, just the e5200 has a higher multiplier of 12.5.
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Hmm...I think I may just order one on Monday.
 
xiphrex said:
Yes definitely especially in CPU intensive games such as counterstrike source.

Its not a significant improvement, but it is a noticeable improvement. Not surprising as they are practically the same cpu, just the e5200 has a higher multiplier of 12.5.
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There not really the same as the old 65nm Conroe/Allendale cores, these Wolfdale 45nm processors come with a new instruction set, with more refinements over the older cpus. So clock for clock they are slightly faster anyway :)

An e4300 is still a good processor mind, you could flog it for an easy £30 quid, so your lucking at a £20~ upgrade which will make a fair difference :cool:
 
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Hesky82 said:
There not really the same as the old 65nm Conroe/Allendale cores, these Wolfdale 45nm processors come with a new instruction set, with more refinements over the older cpus. So clock for clock they are slightly faster anyway :)
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3.8 a real possibility then? It'll be under a TRU + Noctua fan.
 
Results always very, but all you will need is a little over 300 fsb to hit that clock.
I think its not unrealistic, most e5200 seem to manage 3 to 3.2GHz on stock voltage.
Like I said the early M0 stepping was a great clocker and the new revised R0 stepping looks very promising to.

xiphrex do you know what stepping and batch code yours was?
 
If your software takes advantage of the later instructions then it will be a little faster.

At a similar clock speed Ive worked out an e6600 with 4mb cache performs about the same as an e5200 with half as much cache, so yeah the wolfdale must have a slightly improved architecture over the old conroe to make up the cache deficit. so if the e4300 has less cache than an e6600 it must perform a little worse than an e5200 at the same clock, would be slight but still a difference.
 
So, I got my E5200 delivered today.

Got it clocked it to 3.7GHz, which is pretty decent I suppose.

Anyways, thanks for all your help Hesky and xiphrex. ;)
 
icey_haj said:
So, I got my E5200 delivered today.

Got it clocked it to 3.7GHz, which is pretty decent I suppose.

Anyways, thanks for all your help Hesky and xiphrex. ;)
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Nice job! that set-up should see you through for a bit longer until you decide its time to upgrade your entire rig.

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Does the Abit Serillel Pata to Sata adapter work with this board, anyone using an old ide device on a sata channel like this?
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you mean one of these...

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I have used one on my old p5n-e and quite a few other boards to pull off data from my old ide drives, pretty handy device actually.
 
Your issue does sound ram related.

Ok, to manually setup your ram get into your bios and go to 'Memory Timing Setting' in the advanced section, you may have to change AI tuning to manual to allow you to change ram latencies.

You want to manually set these values for your ram....

tCL (Cas Latency) - 5
tRCD - 5
tRP - 5
tRAS - 18
Command Per Clock (CMD) - 2t

Leave advanced memory setting all on auto.

Go to your 'Voltage Control' tab in the bios and set 'Memory voltage' to 1.920v.

Finally go to "FSB & Memory Config" and set to unlinked and set 'MEM (DDR), MHz' to 800.

Make sure 'FSB (QDR) MHz' is 1066 (suit your e6600 stock FSB)

after run memtest86 and see if it runs error free.

edit: corrected latencies
 
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Hesky82 said:
Your issue does sound ram related.

Ok, to manually setup your ram get into your bios and go to 'Memory Timing Setting' in the advanced section, you may have to change AI tuning to manual to allow you to change ram latencies.

You want to manually set these values for your ram....

tCL (Cas Latency) - 5
tRCD - 5
tRP - 5
tRAS - 5
Command Per Clock (CMD) - 18

Leave advanced memory setting all on auto.

Go to your 'Voltage Control' tab in the bios and set 'Memory voltage' to 1.920v.

Finally go to "FSB & Memory Config" and set to unlinked and set 'MEM (DDR), MHz' to 800.

Make sure 'FSB (QDR) MHz' is 1066 (suit your e6600 stock FSB)

after run memtest86 and see if it runs error free.
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Hi thanks for this...

Will go have a look now

im sure ive only seen

Command Per Clock (CMD)

settings were 1T 2T ????

added u to msn btw :)
 
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