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

trojan698 · 9 Jan 2007 at 11:55

It also crops up in the anandtech article:

anandtech said:
Vdroop was terrible on this board during overclocking with an average drop of .06 ~.09V during load testing.

Wonder what these are like with E6300's

WJA96 · 9 Jan 2007 at 14:17

OK - Thanks to OC_A64 and Dravic we now have;

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=154975

Also my first ever sub-14 second Super-Pi with this chip

Which has been stable in Orthos for about an hour now, so I'm quietly confident. I now have an Akasa 40mm chipset cooler stuck to the top of the Northbridge heatsink (I can touch it now :rolleyes:

) and I'm pretty chuffed for a £70 motherboard. It's now clocking better (for me) than my DS4 did.

SidewinderINC · 9 Jan 2007 at 14:24

why is your ram running so slowly?

WJA96 · 9 Jan 2007 at 16:13

SidewinderINC said:
why is your ram running so slowly?

Is it running slowly? It's cheapo Patriot PC5300 (333/667MHz) so by running it at 375/750MHz it's got a small overclock on it. By controlling the timings like that I get the best SuperPi performance. I could lash out £215 in some Crucial Anniversary but I'd rather spend it on better chipset cooling to be honest. There is so much potential in this board

SidewinderINC · 9 Jan 2007 at 16:15

oh, i thought you had the crucial stuff

my bad

@ myself

you reckon with better chipset cooling it'll be a winning board? better than the P5B-Deluxe?

OC_A64 · 9 Jan 2007 at 16:26

WJA96 said:
OK - Thanks to OC_A64 and Dravic we now have;

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=154975

Also my first ever sub-14 second Super-Pi with this chip

Which has been stable in Orthos for about an hour now, so I'm quietly confident. I now have an Akasa 40mm chipset cooler stuck to the top of the Northbridge heatsink (I can touch it now ) and I'm pretty chuffed for a £70 motherboard. It's now clocking better (for me) than my DS4 did.

Nice

*Should* have mine tomorrow, will test with 6300 (6600 later) and crucial anniversary. Looking forward to seeing the results based on what you've shown so far

trojan698 · 9 Jan 2007 at 16:42

Looking forward to the results, at £70 this is bargainous.

WJA96 · 9 Jan 2007 at 18:23

SidewinderINC said:
oh, i thought you had the crucial stuff my bad

No, you were right I do. I only had it in there yesterday when someone asked what the max FSB was, so I used the CA. It's gone back into one of my other machines - the DS4's need the best clocking RAM there is, which is the Crucial Anniversary. As I'm certain you know, the 650i can run quite happily with poorer RAM because of the asynchronous speeds.

SidewinderINC said:
you reckon with better chipset cooling it'll be a winning board? better than the P5B-Deluxe?

I haven't had a P5B-Deluxe, but it's better than a DS4.

WJA96 · 9 Jan 2007 at 18:24

OC_A64 said:
Nice *Should* have mine tomorrow, will test with 6300 (6600 later) and crucial anniversary. Looking forward to seeing the results based on what you've shown so far

When you get it, check out the originating shipping address

WJA96 · 9 Jan 2007 at 19:07

You're not allowed to post competitor names! I'd take it down smartish if I was you!

hardtarget · 9 Jan 2007 at 19:51

Well I Have just ordered this board from a competitor, any of you guys recommend a heatsink for the southbridge and fan for the northbrige? Also can you use a Zalman CNPS9700 with this board :confused:

Was originally going for the 680i, but way over priced for a beta board. This looks like a real bargin if the price stays low :rolleyes:

Subliminal Aura · 9 Jan 2007 at 20:24

At last a decent board at sensible prices ?

Thanks WJA for the alpha test looking good m8.

PS whats the max this board can get to on air ?

WJA96 · 9 Jan 2007 at 21:59

Subliminal Aura said:
PS whats the max this board can get to on air ?

I got a suicide shot in CPUz at 4GHz but it's taken out the RAID array now so I'm rebuilding it
:rolleyes:

Subliminal Aura · 9 Jan 2007 at 22:28

WJA96 said:
I got a suicide shot in CPUz at 4GHz but it's taken out the RAID array now so I'm rebuilding it

Sorry to hear that mate ...

No divider locks at your frequency ?

Anyway I'd be happy to get to 3.6 and leave it there : If I get greedy I'll pay the consequences. :eek:

WJA96 · 9 Jan 2007 at 22:59

Subliminal Aura said:
Sorry to hear that mate ...

No divider locks at your frequency ?

Anyway I'd be happy to get to 3.6 and leave it there : If I get greedy I'll pay the consequences.

There are no divider locks at all in the unlinked mode.

As for being greedy I ate the whole all you can eat buffet and then some more!

easyrider · 9 Jan 2007 at 23:36

@ WJA96

when you have finished playing with the mobo can you post it to me(usual address) so I can test it with my quad core please

Thanks

will check my inbox in the next few days for confirmation

terryuk22 · 10 Jan 2007 at 04:35

To cap it all im nearly building from scratch

after days and days of searching and reading endless reviews of mobo's ive decided to go for this one as seems superb
all i need to know what memory to go for chip power supply and most silent fans
money is a bit tight and dont really need to overclock atm
also any memory voltage problems with this and if u can paste the links from o/c hopefully buy later

Ps im an old dog learning new tricks

WJA96 · 10 Jan 2007 at 06:57

easyrider said:
@ WJA96

when you have finished playing with the mobo can you post it to me(usual address) so I can test it with my quad core please

Thanks

will check my inbox in the next few days for confirmation

Of course. I genuinely think 4GHz is feasible (week 28B CPU) with active water cooling on the CPU and Northbridge.

The Vdroop is horrific though so the difference between idle and 100% utilization temperatures is quite small - It's idling at 48C and maxing out at 62C and even with an 80mm cable-tied to the Northbridge the heatsink is still 70C (thermometer measured). Silent it's not!

OC_A64 · 10 Jan 2007 at 09:23

WJA96 said:
Of course. I genuinely think 4GHz is feasible (week 28B CPU) with active water cooling on the CPU and Northbridge.

The Vdroop is horrific though so the difference between idle and 100% utilization temperatures is quite small - It's idling at 48C and maxing out at 62C and even with an 80mm cable-tied to the Northbridge the heatsink is still 70C (thermometer measured). Silent it's not!

What mounting does the NB cooler use? Push pins or hooks?

Kaiju · 10 Jan 2007 at 11:17

OC_A64 said:
What mounting does the NB cooler use? Push pins or hooks?

I'm also intrigued by what NB fan will fit this mobo.

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