ASUS Announces nForce 650i SLI MB ,P5N-E SLI

[sxs112]

http://pic.digital-info.net/Makoto/ASUSTeK/P5N-E-SLI/1.JPG

http://pic.digital-info.net/Makoto/ASUSTeK/P5N-E-SLI/2.JPG

http://pic.digital-info.net/Makoto/ASUSTeK/P5N-E-SLI/3.JPG

http://zeus.asus.com

[Reinvented]

Oh my god, no heatpipe!

Looks good. I hope it costs considerably less than some of the 975X chipsets. ;)

[K404]

Why have those SLI mode reversible cards not been left in the past?

[perkam]

Man oh man. AMD + ATI combo will be dead in terms of new chipsets till q2 2k7 or something, while Intel continues to make good first party chipsets and nvidia continues to supply chipsets for intel first :(

Perkam

[Kunaak]

2 IDE slots on a Asus board?

damn, havent seen that in a long time.

[Johnny Bravo]

Why have those SLI mode reversible cards not been left in the past?


money saving? Looks to be a budget board, in the Asus sense :p:

[rapty]

No they ran out of copper with the Striker Extreme

Oh my god, no heatpipe!

Looks good. I hope it costs considerably less than some of the 975X chipsets. ;)

:banana:

[Saiyan[CHW]]

I guess it will replace the P5N SLI... a bit more expensive due to overclocking features, the NF570 didn't reached 333Mhz FSB. I think it will be around 150-180 dolars.

Hope good overclocking results, 965 has been better than NF5xx.

[kromosto]

:D :D :D :D :banana: :banana: :banana:


No they ran out of copper with the Striker Extreme



:banana:

[sxs112]

2 IDE slots on a Asus board?

damn, havent seen that in a long time.


NV 650Ultra,650SLI Support 2 IDE slots
NV 680SLI only support 1 IDE

[metro.cl]

no we only need to see performance and price :) should be a great mobo

[Rovtar]

passive alu cooler looks to big..

[HamidFULL]

MCP51 (430) is naked!

[aiya]

MCP51 (430) is naked!
its the same SB used in the 6100/6150 matx boards. so, in it doesn't really need a HS on it but it would be nice just to put one on so it doesn't feel lonely :p:

[thephenom]

So instead of a $400 board, this is going to be a $250 board?

[JoeBar]

2 IDE slots on a Asus board?

damn, havent seen that in a long time.
What about the SLI switch? A blast from the past... :p:

[nn_step]

what is ASUS letting their Noobs design their budget boards now?
1) bad IDE placement
2) WTF is with the connector card?
3) a 3 Stage Analog power regulation
This board isn't going to OC much and it probably isn't phase worthy. The only redeeming feature of it is the lack of Heatpipe (abuse)

[JoeBar]

It has a better pci-e/pci layout though. U can run SLI with a pci soundcard at least... :p:

[Revage]

Wanna see some results !

[DTU_XaVier]

Anybody talking about good OC needs to read the specs listed:
"FSB tuning from 200MHz to 412.5MHz in 1MHz increasments..."...
BOOH on ASUS, booh... :(

Best Regards :toast:

[sofarfrome]

xxxx

[2k7zero]

The board is here. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131142

[Trice]

I just ordered it, I asked for overnight so I should get it Friday. Im hoping. Shoudl hold me over until enough RD600 boards are out.

[couppi]

I ordered mine a few days ago. UPS says it will get here tomorrow.

It looks like the P5N-e has been pulled from Asus' website:
http://www.asus.com/products3.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=473&slname=NVIDIA%C2%AE%20nForce%C2%AE%20650i%20SLI%E2 %84%A2

[shimmishim]

strange, they did pull it... i wonder why

[Trice]

Some info for guys as I just got mine today. From the manual:

Memory from 533 to 1200 Mhz in 1MHz increments
PCI-E frmo 100 to 150 MHz
FSB from 200 to 750 at 1MHz

vCore .856v to 1.6v
Mem Ratios 1:1, 5:4, 3:2
Multis 6 to 50
NB Core 1.2058, 1.393, 1.563, 1.748 with offset of +100mV
Mem Volt 1.920, 2.013, 2.085, 2.178, 2.259, 2.353, 2.424, 2.517v

Ok thats from the manual, Im at work right now and just got mine so I dont know what the ACTUAL BIOS says, but thats what it says. Will be installing tonight.

[Leon2ky]

Wonder if it'll be plagued with the same problems.

[Trice]

As the 680i? Who knows, I hope not the RAID because I will be using it.

[[LCN]Knowledge]

Thanks Trice, waiting for some tests from you :)

[sbinh]

Got mine earlier and playing around with it.
Cannot enable SLI on 2 7600GT cards (XFX -xxx version- and BFG)
BFG with 580MHz in PCI-E16-1 slot (blue) and XFX in second slot.
Set the SLI connection to DUAL, and connect 2 cards with brigde ...

Received following message when trying to enable SLI in Nview Desktop Manager:

Your graphic cards feature NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface (SLI) technology. However, your motherboard is not qualified to run in SLI mode.



Don't know what to do next ... :)

The OCing features is not as easy as P5B Dlx board.

[sbinh]

After updated with 93.71_forceware_winxp2k_english_whql, I am able to set SLI