** The Official ASUS P5N-E SLI & Ultra 650i Thread **
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Just a quickie as i'm going home. Thanks for the replies. And double thanks because they were so quick!
Right i'll use the two black as I intend to try overclocking altho i'll have to hunt for a guide on how to do it with this board
Chherrs
Mike
Right i'll use the two black as I intend to try overclocking altho i'll have to hunt for a guide on how to do it with this board
Chherrs
Mike
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Start Up Delay
Just a quick question from me(for now), I have just installed this motherboard right now and its now formatting my hard drive, but one thing that I noticed about the startup once I push the on button, that there is a delay of proly about 4 second before it will display the asus logo and make the beep, why is this ?
Just a quick question from me(for now), I have just installed this motherboard right now and its now formatting my hard drive, but one thing that I noticed about the startup once I push the on button, that there is a delay of proly about 4 second before it will display the asus logo and make the beep, why is this ?
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Slinger said:
Your guess is as good as mine, 4 seconds seems like a long time - mine will wait 1-2 seconds before it restarts. I'm using *** 0401 BIOS it does seem to take longer than the original 0202 BIOS did, but it always recovers from a failed overclock, whereas before it was 50:50.
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-Mike- said:
If that is what the slowdown is, then I'm OK with that. I always have my PCI card handy just in case I need to recover from an overclocked graphics card problem.
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thanks for the replys, I will try that, cheers
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I am having a few troubles getting my board past 1200fsb, currently running at 1200 300x9 for 2.7 on a e4300 but it doesnt want to go any higher.
Settings im using at the moment are-
Vcore 1.4
mem 2.2
nb 1.5
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Memory is Crucial 5300 3/3/3/12 running it at 5300 but at 4/4/4/12 just to take it out of the equation, tried upping the vcore and nb and still no boot at 1260.
Tried dropping the multi and upping the fsb and it doesnt want to do that either???
Im confused, lol
Settings im using at the moment are-
Vcore 1.4
mem 2.2
nb 1.5
unlinked
Memory is Crucial 5300 3/3/3/12 running it at 5300 but at 4/4/4/12 just to take it out of the equation, tried upping the vcore and nb and still no boot at 1260.
Tried dropping the multi and upping the fsb and it doesnt want to do that either???
Im confused, lol
Soldato
Agr3sive said:
Are you running the extra 100mV? Most of the high clocking E4300's are doing 1.5V-1.55V if I remember correctly. You might also need to make a big jump - say 1475FSB or something to get over a strap wall. Try 1500 - what do you have to lose?
Also - do make sure that everything that is supposed to be disabled is - eg. spread spectrums, C1E, EIST etc. It is possible that you've run out of cooling (possibly on the Northbridge), or the chip needs a whack of voltage to get it moving.
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I have dropped the multi to 8 and upped the fsb to 350 which has given me 2800 which is an extra 100mhz, there seems to be a load of gaps where certain fsbs dont want to load.
Everything between 300-350 seems to be dodgy, and I have just tried upping to 360 and that seems dodgy too, when was oc'ing this much of a headache
Voltages are still the same by the way.
Everything between 300-350 seems to be dodgy, and I have just tried upping to 360 and that seems dodgy too, when was oc'ing this much of a headache
Voltages are still the same by the way.
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Agr3sive said:when was oc'ing this much of a headache
I don't ever recall being able to get a 50% overclock so easily. In fact, I don't ever recall being able to get a 50% overclock before. Can you?
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Well on an 2.4 celeron yes, dont get me wrong im more than impressed with the overclock its just not as easy getting it as it was when you just upped 5fsb at a time.
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Its a little bit more involved but overall I think its easier for the results you get.
Best I had before this was a 2500+ athlon running at 4400+ levels, I had to leave the window open on a frosty night to get that though, hardly practical and not even close to the increase in performance we get because of the dual core factor.
That was a year ago and my rig is about 4x faster now
Best I had before this was a 2500+ athlon running at 4400+ levels, I had to leave the window open on a frosty night to get that though, hardly practical and not even close to the increase in performance we get because of the dual core factor.
That was a year ago and my rig is about 4x faster now
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I have tried with the ram linked now at 1/1 and it seems to be giving me more fine tuning, its just let me in at 1440 360x8 for 2880, i think i'll put it back to x9 with linked ram and see where that gets me.
Soldato
You should be able to alter some settings in real time using clockgen and crystalcpuid. I dont think memset works fully on this board/chipset (yet)
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vdroop mod worked fine for me but the mod to increase vcore didn't do anything - max is about 1.73v. Still need a tad more for 4 gig - ran orthos for slightly longer though.
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I think I must be hitting fsb walls, I can get 300x9 or 350x8 but cant get anywhere between 300-350 on the 9x multi, im on 1.4vcore and have tried upto 1.55 but get no post.