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

Kaiju · 23 Jan 2007 at 16:17

WJA96 said:
That's quite staggering really.

Quite.

OC_A64 · 23 Jan 2007 at 16:21

WJA96 said:
That's quite staggering really.

Performance wise (not as much as i was expecting) or how far 1T can be run?

WJA96 · 23 Jan 2007 at 16:36

OC_A64 said:
Performance wise (not as much as i was expecting) or how far 1T can be run?

You don't think a 30 second differential in 32M SuperPi is staggering? That's 3%. Now, if you apply that to a game, who's going to buy a motherboard that only runs 2T?

OC_A64 · 23 Jan 2007 at 16:51

WJA96 said:
You don't think a 30 second differential in 32M SuperPi is staggering? That's 3%. Now, if you apply that to a game, who's going to buy a motherboard that only runs 2T?

3% isn't a huge amount! Spose it's better than nothing tho!

humax · 23 Jan 2007 at 17:00

so is this board better than a DS3
:confused:

WJA96 · 23 Jan 2007 at 18:25

OC_A64 said:
3% isn't a huge amount! Spose it's better than nothing tho!

Well, if you think about it - to get a 3% improvement on overclocking you'd need to go from 3.5GHz to 3.6GHz. OK - not massive, but worth having.

shrek2 · 23 Jan 2007 at 19:00

humax said:
so is this board better than a DS3

I am getting it. No cold boot issues with bioses either.

Bennah · 23 Jan 2007 at 19:23

Looks very intresting this board. Definatly having one with an E4300 for some overclocking fun... then its just the ram.

silversurfer · 23 Jan 2007 at 19:44

I dropped my ram from cas 5 to cas 3 and it keeps on running fine, 100mhz over the spd. Didnt seem to effect superpi that much though, I'll try tightening the other timings too

OC_A64 · 23 Jan 2007 at 22:43

Bit further, same volts. Still no sign of stability issues! Not bad for a 80 quid mobo!

WJA96 · 23 Jan 2007 at 22:50

@OC_A64 - Is your Northbridge being actively water cooled?

I can't get close to those numbers and I definitely reckon it's because I'm overheating the Northbridge. Running for more than a few minutes at 1.7x Volts the whole system just reboots.

I'm not complaining because the results are great for an £68 motherboard, but I do think this board needs 'finishing' to get the absolute best from it. I may have to invest in an EK Northbridge cooler. Tail wags dog AGAIN!

OC_A64 · 23 Jan 2007 at 22:55

WJA96 said:
@OC_A64 - Is your Northbridge being actively water cooled?

I can't get close to those numbers and I definitely reckon it's because I'm overheating the Northbridge. Running for more than a few minutes at 1.7x Volts the whole system just reboots.

I'm not complaining because the results are great for an £68 motherboard, but I do think this board needs 'finishing' to get the absolute best from it. I may have to invest in an EK Northbridge cooler. Tail wags dog AGAIN!

Yes, NB's watercooled now. Didn't think of that actually, forgot to test the Crucial @ 1T with air on the NB. Do remeber the NB getting hot @ 400 FSB 1T so you could have a good point.
Using Swiffy NB cooler MCW-30 or something? Seems to do the job fine

Hades · 23 Jan 2007 at 23:50

OC_A64 said:
Yes, NB's watercooled now. Didn't think of that actually, forgot to test the Crucial @ 1T with air on the NB. Do remeber the NB getting hot @ 400 FSB 1T so you could have a good point.
Using Swiffy NB cooler MCW-30 or something? Seems to do the job fine

Ah superb. I started a thread a while back asking if there was any overclocking benefit to watercooling the chipset and no-one replied. So I think you've just answered it. I'm watercooling my current S939 setup for silence so quite happy to do the same to the P5N-E if it gets a benefit from it.

Any idea if the E6600 clocks significantly better than an E4300? I know it's not a thread about that but just looking for answers anywhere I can find them

Dravic · 24 Jan 2007 at 00:35

Hades said:
Ah superb. I started a thread a while back asking if there was any overclocking benefit to watercooling the chipset and no-one replied. So I think you've just answered it. I'm watercooling my current S939 setup for silence so quite happy to do the same to the P5N-E if it gets a benefit from it.

Any idea if the E6600 clocks significantly better than an E4300? I know it's not a thread about that but just looking for answers anywhere I can find them

Cooling the NB on this board has made a real difference for me, couldn't get above 3325Mhz stable without any. I've hung an old Duron HSF over the NB and at 3415Mhz now. So I'd say some watercooling would make a good addition.

I've seen people getting E4300's to around 3.7Ghz so far, but 'tis early days yet.

Jumping · 24 Jan 2007 at 13:09

Well I have decided its time to buy the board

So 12:01 tonight I will place the order for the P5N-E sli, E4300, 2GB Team Elite (since OCuk memory not in stock) & AC7 cooler all from OCuk

Now my biggest problem is when the hell does my RMA for my X1900xt gfx come back as I dont have any other PCI-e card i might sit with new parts and not be able to use it

Thanks to all the people who have tested this board in this thread, which have confirmed all the reviews I read on how good this board is and at an amazing price.

Dravic · 24 Jan 2007 at 13:53

I'm having trouble at getting this stable at over 3462Mhz, I get a system freeze after a few minutes of Orthos blend testing. No Orthos errors it just locks up and I have to reset the system.

I'm thinking it's because the NB is getting too hot, so can anyone recommend me a NB cooler that will fit on this board please.
There's not a great amount of space between my AF7 and the current heatsink, so it'll have to be either offset or fairly low profile.

OC_A64 · 24 Jan 2007 at 14:03

Dravic said:
I'm having trouble at getting this stable at over 3462Mhz, I get a system freeze after a few minutes of Orthos blend testing. No Orthos errors it just locks up and I have to reset the system.

I'm thinking it's because the NB is getting too hot, so can anyone recommend me a NB cooler that will fit on this board please.
There's not a great amount of space between my AF7 and the current heatsink, so it'll have to be either offset or fairly low profile.

Make sure you've got a fan over it. What NB voltage you runnig?

Dravic · 24 Jan 2007 at 14:12

I'm running the 1.7xx voltage on the NB and have a 120mm and a 60mm blasting at it.

MB temp is reported as 29C from the Asus PC probe tool, but I'm not sure I trust that.

ArchAnGeL · 24 Jan 2007 at 14:38

got a p5n-e now and a e6400. Just need to get some ram now. hopefully get some results in sometime tomorrow.

GhostRider · 24 Jan 2007 at 14:44

I have this board, an E6600 and some crucial 5300 anns memory and a AC pro cooler. I've overclocked the bus speed to 333 to get 3000mhz. Any more and it won't boot. I don't want to increase the volts they are on auto and show up as 1.312 in CPU-Z at the moment which looks high compared to OC_A64

The memory is set to 3.3.3.8, default had it set 5 latency :rolleyes:

Would changing it to 4.4.4.12 and increasing the frequency make it much faster?

Also I have cold boot problems, is this common?

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