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

pastymuncher said:
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.
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JP
 
Dam that is bloody tiny. Look at the beast of a heatsink needed in comparison. Smaller then the SB even ( I see you got a HS on yours, wish I had one of those spare I just piled up some old metal discs on top of mine but the temp is presently 40c idling :( ).

Was the paste applied well enough in your opinion. Thanks for the pics
 
pastymuncher said:
Cheers for that JP. :D

What a massive cooler for a tiny chip. Have you got a waterblock on that now then? If so which one are you using? Looks like it could be a pain to get it seated evenly.
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I'n using an EK NF4 chipset cooler. It's no effort at all to seat it because it's on spring loaded mounts. You do have to take your time, but the surface area of the chipset is so small compared to the surface area of the cooler that it's no problem getting good contact.
 
The SB chipset is larger so there was no problem mounting a heatsink on that. I took that heatsink from a ASRock DUAL775-VSTA I broke recently and it worked fined.

As for the NB, if you look a few pages back, you'll see I've posted a picture of a mounted Thermalright HR05. As WJA96 says, the surface area of a heatsink will be significantly greater than the chipset wont be a problem in making contact. The only problem I have is mine is a bit loose, so I had to attach a bit of sewing string to the case to keep it steady.

This motherboards NB like a bit more extra juice to OC it and keep it stable, so make sure you have a heatsink which is well mounted and won't move or fall off!

JP
 
Cheer's guys. As i am going from dual watercooled 7800 gt's down to a single 8800 i thought it may be beneficial to WC the NB to get the most out of my E4300. I do like the EK blocks and will be using one on the 8800 as well. Almost £45 cheaper than the DD version too. :D

I can't find these boards on Asus's website yet so how are you getting the latest bios versions?
 
Memory Issues

Not sure whether to put this here or in memory section but anyway...

My memory Geil 6400 will quite happily clock to 1000mhz at 5,4,4,12 2T (not sure how to test stability)but even if I set it back at its original speed 800mhz 4,4,4,12 it will not run at 1T wont even get into windows :confused:
 
neil27 said:
Not sure whether to put this here or in memory section but anyway...

My memory Geil 6400 will quite happily clock to 1000mhz at 5,4,4,12 2T (not sure how to test stability)but even if I set it back at its original speed 800mhz 4,4,4,12 it will not run at 1T wont even get into windows :confused:
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Its not rated to run at 1T iirc.
 
Anybody have a Swiftech Apogee Extreme Performance Universal Waterblock on their Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650.
Looking at the pics, i'l have to rotate the block 90 degrees due to that HUUGE chipset HS.
 
the horror the horror

This is at 3.15ghz, do I win a prize ?
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Just wondering how many volts Im safe to put through the cpu when using it with an AC freezer pro 7
 
pastymuncher said:
Cheers again. Whats this Vdroop business? Is it where you set at one value and it's actually lower? Looks like that's set to 1.52v but is running at 1.44v. Can they fix this with a bios update?
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No, it's more a hardware thing with the voltage regulators.
 
The .08v drop is caused by orthos on priority 1. Smaller vcore and load show lesser variation. It cant be fixed as far as I know but Im not sure it actually stops me clocking higher either, just pays to be aware what the real volts under load is.
I'd like to try 1.5v under load but I dont really want 1.6v idling as that might burn something out.

Actually I tell a lie, you can mod resistance to chips that supply the vcore and that can help. Can use a variable resistor or a 2B pencil drawing on the actual circuits :o
I want to avoid that really though, the pencil is messy and I dont do soldering on the motherboard if I can help it - I dont need performance that badly yet
 
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