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

tereu5 · 5 Feb 2007 at 19:10

SpudMaster said:
its not a big problem and a lot of boards droop. it just means that u might need to use a higher vcore when overclocking to get a cpu stable compared to a board with little or no droop. Ambient temps will be a bit higher to

that's good. At the beginning i will use stock cooler and maybe little overclock later i will use some Nocuna (if it wil fit) or Tuniq .

Now about sound.....there is a problem to use mic and get 5.1 sound there?
And what about the quality from the built in sound - usually this is weak point of every on board sound cards I think i will get something like Audigy 2 zs or Audigy 4 from what i learnd it will be a much better choice. Second think the PCI sound will work fine when oerclocking ?

smids · 5 Feb 2007 at 19:17

Not used onboard sound tbh. Shoved an Audidy 2 ZS straight in there - and yes the PCI bus is locked so clocking does not affect it.

silversurfer · 5 Feb 2007 at 20:03

Clockgen shows my pci in line with pci-e

Ive raised pci-e to 125mhz so the pci is raised to 42mhz or so.

Seems to work anyway

smids · 5 Feb 2007 at 20:59

silversurfer said:
Clockgen shows my pci in line with pci-e

Ive raised pci-e to 125mhz so the pci is raised to 42mhz or so.

Seems to work anyway

Aaah, but but clocking the CPU makes no difference - and there is no need to clock the PCI-e up anyway.

andyh · 6 Feb 2007 at 07:22

Can anyone help with regards to my overclock. I just cannot seem to get my e6300 stable over 2.4ghz. The strange thing is is taht orthos runs fine for a couple of hours without failing at which point i turn it off but playing BF2142 results in BSODs after about 30mins or so. My temps after 2hours of orthos are around 55.
My current settings are:
CPU fsb 1378 (unlinked)
vcore= 1.3
voltage offset= +100mv
northbridge voltage= auto
vdim = auto although did try 2.085 and no difference
mem timings 800 @4-4-4-12 (geil pc6400 ull, tested in mem test and no errors).

I didnt want to push any more volts through the CPU as I thought 1.41 on vcore was the limit for these CPU's and with the vcore + offset I am already at 1.4v.

Any ideas?

Dravic · 6 Feb 2007 at 07:58

Up the northbridge volts to 1.5xx and try.

andyh · 6 Feb 2007 at 09:03

Dravic said:
Up the northbridge volts to 1.5xx and try.

Will that not need extra NB cooling?

silversurfer · 6 Feb 2007 at 15:34

Stick a fan on it but not really.
My machine wont boot with 1.7v on the nb I found, pity because Im stuck at 3.15ghz pretty much

GunRunner · 6 Feb 2007 at 17:33

WJA96 said:
Even a stock E6600 can hurl data at any current graphics card faster than the graphics card can make use of it. That's why in games the extra speed of the Core2Duo's tends not be seen in gaming benchmarks. The graphics cards bottleneck the processors, not the other way around.

Does this apply to 2 x Palit GeForce (512MB) 7950GTs (running at 8x) as I am now considering getting this board instead of one of the 680i nVidia reference boards that appear to be giving so many users problems?

Minstadave · 6 Feb 2007 at 20:33

andyh said:
Can anyone help with regards to my overclock. I just cannot seem to get my e6300 stable over 2.4ghz. The strange thing is is taht orthos runs fine for a couple of hours without failing at which point i turn it off but playing BF2142 results in BSODs after about 30mins or so. My temps after 2hours of orthos are around 55.
My current settings are:
CPU fsb 1378 (unlinked)
vcore= 1.3
voltage offset= +100mv
northbridge voltage= auto
vdim = auto although did try 2.085 and no difference
mem timings 800 @4-4-4-12 (geil pc6400 ull, tested in mem test and no errors).

I didnt want to push any more volts through the CPU as I thought 1.41 on vcore was the limit for these CPU's and with the vcore + offset I am already at 1.4v.

Any ideas?

What BIOS are you using?

andyh · 6 Feb 2007 at 20:48

Minstadave said:
What BIOS are you using?

0202.

Minstadave · 6 Feb 2007 at 21:28

andyh said:
0202.

Try updating to 0401, I found the 0202 just horribly unstable, this is what I've got this afternoon on 0401:

silversurfer · 6 Feb 2007 at 22:46

What voltage/cooling did you use to get that. Nice low MB temp

Must be water cooled I guess, on the nb too ?

Minstadave · 6 Feb 2007 at 23:14

silversurfer said:
What voltage/cooling did you use to get that. Nice low MB temp Must be water cooled I guess, on the nb too ?

Voltage was 1.45V in BIOS dropping to around 1.36V under load. Cooling was a Scythe Infinity and a silent fan. Only lasted about 30 minutes under Orthos load unfortunately. As for the NB temp thats nonsense as its too hot to touch after running Orthos.

silversurfer · 6 Feb 2007 at 23:28

dam thats on air

But I see you use lower volts then me, nice
The MB temp is the SB I think, Ive seen it go upto 45 but its about 35 when I use orthos now

Minstadave · 6 Feb 2007 at 23:30

silversurfer said:
dam thats on air But I see you use lower volts then me, nice
The MB temp is the SB I think, Ive seen it go upto 45 but its about 35 when I use orthos now

I think the heatsink must have really good contact with the CPU, its really firmly clamped on, I'm really surprised by how good the temps are.

andyh · 7 Feb 2007 at 08:39

Minstadave said:
Voltage was 1.45V in BIOS dropping to around 1.36V under load. Cooling was a Scythe Infinity and a silent fan. Only lasted about 30 minutes under Orthos load unfortunately. As for the NB temp thats nonsense as its too hot to touch after running Orthos.

Well i have now got it stable at 2.4GHz on the 0202 bios using 1.5 NB voltage and 1.30625 on vcore +100mv offset (1.328 under load). Temps are now 59 for cores (Coretemp) and 49 on the MB (Asus probe)after several hours of orthos which seems a little dissapointing seeing as I am using a Scythe Ninja.

GunRunner · 7 Feb 2007 at 10:12

Originally Posted by WJA96
Even a stock E6600 can hurl data at any current graphics card faster than the graphics card can make use of it. That's why in games the extra speed of the Core2Duo's tends not be seen in gaming benchmarks. The graphics cards bottleneck the processors, not the other way around.

GunRunner said:
Does this apply to 2 x Palit GeForce (512MB) 7950GTs (running at 8x) as I am now considering getting this board instead of one of the 680i nVidia reference boards that appear to be giving so many users problems?

Does anybody know as I am making a decision soon?

OC_A64 · 7 Feb 2007 at 10:22

GunRunner said:
Originally Posted by WJA96
Even a stock E6600 can hurl data at any current graphics card faster than the graphics card can make use of it. That's why in games the extra speed of the Core2Duo's tends not be seen in gaming benchmarks. The graphics cards bottleneck the processors, not the other way around.

Does anybody know as I am making a decision soon?

Bit confused as to what your asking tbh. WJA answered the question as far as I can see...
If you were going to run 2 7950GT's on a 680i board, there's going to be no difference running them on the 650i. E6600 will be fine for those cards, CPU limtied, but not a huge amount. Small overclock should sort that.
Does that answer (the question?) ok?

GunRunner · 7 Feb 2007 at 21:19

OC_A64 said:
Bit confused as to what your asking tbh. WJA answered the question as far as I can see...
If you were going to run 2 7950GT's on a 680i board, there's going to be no difference running them on the 650i. E6600 will be fine for those cards, CPU limtied, but not a huge amount. Small overclock should sort that.
Does that answer (the question?) ok?

Not quite sure! He said the graphics cards bottleneck the processor. I am asking would that be the case with 2 x 7950GTs SLi in full 16 x mode on a 680i?

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