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

[OC_A64]

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?

As per previous post then, CPU bottleneck but some clocking will fix that

 

[GunRunner]

Originally Posted by GunRunner
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?

As per previous post then, CPU bottleneck but some clocking will fix that

Thanks for the confirmation.

 

[pastymuncher]

Has anyone removed the stock NB cooler and put a waterblock on it yet? Is the chip as fragile as the 680i? Just wondering as i am getting one of these with a 4300 and some Corsair XMS2 pc6400c3 and all will be watercooled.

 

[OC_A64]

Has anyone removed the stock NB cooler and put a waterblock on it yet? Is the chip as fragile as the 680i? Just wondering as i am getting one of these with a 4300 and some Corsair XMS2 pc6400c3 and all will be watercooled.

Yes it's fragile. Just make sure you fit the block flat and you'll be fine

 

[neil27]

Just got mine today...and just wondering the state of the rest of your boards?

Was the box sealed?
Was the Static Bag Sealed?

Asking cos the back of the board just looks manky

Cant see very well...but some mank on the USB case

The top of the box looks like it has been push around on the floor to.

 

[HeX]

Looks like water/damp damage or something :|

How strang....

 

[neil27]

Getting a bad vibe with this build already lol

 

[Weazle]

Send it back ...... your mobo shouldn't have any residue on it at all

 

[silversurfer]

If it wipes off dont worry about it, probably doesnt effect anything

 

[Rameez]

Guys i cant seem to get the audio to work on this, ive tried installing the audio drivers that came with the CD and the drivers from the site? Can someone help pleasE?

 

[J86]

look in bios check its enabled?

 

[jp.pilot]

Guys i cant seem to get the audio to work on this, ive tried installing the audio drivers that came with the CD and the drivers from the site? Can someone help pleasE?

Have you enabled the sound in the bios?

JP

 

[Rameez]

Have you enabled the sound in the bios?

JP

It seems to be enabled :/ dnt know wots wrong?

 

[Minstadave]

It seems to be enabled :/ dnt know wots wrong?

Have you set windows to use the sound card?

 

[jp.pilot]

It seems to be enabled :/ dnt know wots wrong?

Try this:

Go to device manager, and make sure you have most of the below under sound showing (ignore the ATI one). If you have, then you know its installed okay.



Go to control panel, Sound and Audio devices, and make sure under the Audio tab the following is set:



Also, go to Volume Control, -> Options -> Properties, Set this mixer device to Realtek HD Audio Output, ensure that the Wave box is ticked, and check that the volume bar is set to the top:



Hope this helps,

JP

 

[WJA96]

As per previous post then, CPU bottleneck but some clocking will fix that

I would have to disagree. In all the benchmarks the Core2Duo's destroy the AMD processors except in games where the limiting factor is the graphics cards. I have seen benchmarks with a pair of 8800GTX's where there is no benefit to having a Core2Duo over an FX62, so I can't really see even a pair of GX2's allowing an E6600 to perform to it's fullest extent, 8x or 16x slots included. There are lots of benchmarks that show only a very, very small improvement with the 2x 16x slots over the 2x 8x slots.

 

[pastymuncher]

As the Chipset cooler is so large on these boards how big is the actual chipset? Does anybody have a piccy of the chipset please?

Ordered one yesterday with a 4300 and am thinking of watercooling the chipset.

 

[Minstadave]

Does anyone have the earlier BIOS versions on them? I've only got the 0401 and wanted to try the previous ones.

 

[OC_A64]

I would have to disagree. In all the benchmarks the Core2Duo's destroy the AMD processors except in games where the limiting factor is the graphics cards. I have seen benchmarks with a pair of 8800GTX's where there is no benefit to having a Core2Duo over an FX62, so I can't really see even a pair of GX2's allowing an E6600 to perform to it's fullest extent, 8x or 16x slots included. There are lots of benchmarks that show only a very, very small improvement with the 2x 16x slots over the 2x 8x slots.

The only time you'll see a GFX bottleneck (ie where a faster CPU yields a smaller gain than increased GPU clocks) is when you're running a 3d intensive app @ High res with high AA/AF. I'm still CPU limited with GTX @ 641/1044 with the Core2 @ 4.23ghz. (ie more CPU speed yields a bigger performance gain than increased GPU clocks) This is however in the 3dmarks, where the max res is 1280 which is totally understandable. Even running the 7900GT at ~ 7900GTX speeds there was still a slight CPU bottleneck @ 4.6ghz in lower res testing.

Can you link the benchies where SLI'd GTX's are the performance limiting factor? E6600 should show a good boost over FX62 especially with SLI'd cards, the FX just doesn't have the raw grunt to supply the GTX with data. If you're running high res and AA then the performance gap would be smaller but there would probably still be a difference.

7950's will still have a slight CPU bottleneck (GFX cards bottlenecked by the CPU) even with an E6600. Rather than the CPU being held back by the GFX cards

 

[WJA96]

As far as I know there are only 3 release BIOS versions - 0202, 0307 and 0401 and all are available from the ASUS website. I like the 0202 version as I have never had any problems. 0307 is reputed to be a disaster and 0401 is supposedly only a minor update.

Didn't you post in another thread saying that the earlier BIOS version you had was carp and advised everyone to upgrade to 0401? Any reason you want the older ones?