Asus 680i, P5N32-E Sli Results.

[charlie]

great review, thx...

So to summarize, you like it more than 965/975x? How's performance clock for clock?

[84036980]

the Chipset is nF680i ?

[Kunaak]

great review, thx...

So to summarize, you like it more than 965/975x? How's performance clock for clock?

charlie...

hmm, to summarize.

P5B Deluxe Pros:

550+ FSB easy.

Great board for Cas and Mhz overclocks.

Voltages are nice, and works great out of the box.

very user friendly, and uncomplicated, learning curve is very small.

high stability.

P5B Deluxe Cons:

poorly working 4:5 divider, which is a huge drawback as that would be the second most useful divider if it worked...

Zero, Nada, Zilch... Never Happens.... No chance... This Board has Zero Chance at recovering from a Failed Overclock. After a Failed OC, your only option to boot again, is to clear the CMOS... and that gets real old, real fast, if your testing out new hardware, and pushing the limits.

Needs Vcore and Vdroop mod badly if you want real stable OC's.

Not Many Dividers to work with.

Asus 680i Pros: (non Striker board)

Great Vdimm option.

All voltages except Vcore Overvolt, so you get alittle more voltage when you need it, which is better then undervolting as far as I am concerned.
Great Memory Overclocking options and stability. Far Higher then the P5B Deluxe, and the P5WDH isnt even a comparison for this board when it comes to Memory Overclocks.

Certainly capable of 500+ FSB's.

Great Stability.

Great Ability to recover from a failed OC, about 90% of the time you can recover from a failed OC just by resetting and waiting a few seconds.
sometimes you can recover by powering down and powering up.
rarely you will still have to clear the CMOS though.

Cas Latencies all go as low as 1, so theres no limit on how much you can tweak your latency.

1T is very OC friendly on this board.

1200 mhz is very easy with this board.



Asus 680i Cons:

Horrible Vcore options. 1.6 max from bios gets you 1.47 volts tops. Needs a Vcore Mod Real badly.

Chipset voltages go all the way to 2.75 volts, but nothing above 1.6 volts will boot.

high learning curve will definatly get alot of people posting "my board cant do 500 FSB"... not cause the board can't, but cause they dont take the time to figure out the board. it's definatly a board for the advanced types.

runs VERY HOT. Fans are a must. chipset seriously burned me when I touched it. not just warm, painful burned me. This board absolutly needs better cooling, and I now see why theres all them heatpipes on the striker extreme, 100% absolutly needs better cooling for the NB and PWM's.

Very High Price...



so whats better?
well, thats not real easy to say.
like I said... it really depends on the overclocker.
are you a ram tweaker?
do you perfer real high FSB's?
do you want a easy board with no learning curve, or a board with high potential, that has some learning curve?
are you willing to sell a kidney for a board, hahah...

I have both boards... and I dont think I'd choose one over the other.
they are both great for different uses.

[charlie]

cool...

I think I'm going to buy the P5N32-E when it's back in stock @ ZZF for $300.

My logic is that I bought a P5W64 a while back so I've broken the expensive board barrier

Newegg also offers it at $300 but they charge shipping, too.

[Raja@ASUS]

Kunaak,

could you please be so kind as to run dual orthos blend test at the highest mhz/multiplier you can, for a couple of hours or more (if you have time)?

Just wanna see what the highest fsb/mhz combo is under some hard pressure, the board is quite expensive so just a little more testing may inspire some more confidence (on my part anyway). If you don't have time, no worries man!


TIA,
Raja

[Kunaak]

already did at 7 x 500 last night with no errors for about 9 hours, but that was just burn in time for me.
but I will redo it tonight when I sleep.

I havent botherd to go for more FSB then 525 yet.
I got so caught up in the Ram overclocking with this board, that 7 x 500 became my testing default.

[Raja@ASUS]

thx Kunnak, if it holds 500fsb in the blend test, that is indeed special..

regards
Raja

[bingo13]

cool...

I think I'm going to buy the P5N32-E when it's back in stock @ ZZF for $300.

My logic is that I bought a P5W64 a while back so I've broken the expensive board barrier

Newegg also offers it at $300 but they charge shipping, too.

The MSRP on this board is $249, designed to sell in the $230 range to compete with the reference boards and the Striker MSRP is now at $329 and was packaged to be right above $300 or so.

[bingo13]

thx Kunnak, if it holds 500fsb in the blend test, that is indeed special..

regards
Raja

Raja,

I called and checked in on our sample (retail) and it has passed 26 hours at 7x514.

[Speederlander]

I have both boards... and I dont think I'd choose one over the other.
they are both great for different uses.

So which would you lean toward for raw 24/7 overclock performance (in apps, games, etc.)?

[Raja@ASUS]

Raja,

I called and checked in on our sample (retail) and it has passed 26 hours at 7x514.

niiice 514 in blend test for 26 hours, sheesh...

I wanna test that beast with phase, on an e6600, the vcore droop is a little disconcerting though...

It's a toss up betwen this and the striker....
Until the dfi's touch down that is..

regards
Raja

[Kunaak]

niiice 514 in blend test for 26 hours, sheesh...

I wanna test that beast with phase, on an e6600, the vcore droop is a little disconcerting though...

It's a toss up betwen this and the striker....
Until the dfi's touch down that is..

regards
Raja

while this isnt 26 hours, this is all night while I slept.

Speeds 6 x 500 for 3 ghz (stock cooling isnt effective at 3.5 ghz for dual prime all night, temps hit 80C)
ram speeds...... 1200 mhz

[Raja@ASUS]

THX Kunaak, I just ordered the striker extreme, I'm hoping for around 450-470on my e6600 on the 9x multi using phase..


regards
raja

[saboya]

Those 680i seems like the real deal atm... But WAAY too expensive, I'll stick to my $130 AB9 for now

[ewitte]

Any vdroop/volt mods for this board yet? I was just messing with penciling in vdroop on my P5W before I killed it with condensation.

[JoeBar]

P5B Deluxe Cons:

poorly working 4:5 divider, which is a huge drawback as that would be the second most useful divider if it worked...

Zero, Nada, Zilch... Never Happens.... No chance... This Board has Zero Chance at recovering from a Failed Overclock. After a Failed OC, your only option to boot again, is to clear the CMOS... and that gets real old, real fast, if your testing out new hardware, and pushing the limits.

Maybe that's the case with your P5B. Mine runs fine @ 430mmhz with 4/5 divider (mem @1075mhz). However there are quite a few reports about 4/5 divider probs so maybe something's wrong there.
On the other hand i never had to clear cmos in P5B. In fact i don't remeber how long have i had to clear cmos in an asus board. Just unplug power cord, hit power button, plug it again and hit it. The worst scenario is if u have to do it twice. But never clear cmos. Moreover there arn't any reports about this prob, so i belive that your P5B was a little erratic.
Lastly u forgot to mention the biggest P5B bug. The 1x pci-e issue.

[Kunaak]

I dont think 1300 mhz is a fluke...

I now have a second set of ram here, doing 1333 mhz...
I've tested every inch of this board that I could to find any bug I could, and the results are predictable, repeatable, and stable.

1300 + appears to be really really easy with this board, if you have some high quality ram for it.

I think its the independent ICS for the ram that makes this possible.

[Phil The Greek]

And now the the most importand question(for me at least):how is performance in spi compared with 965?
I have the EVGA 680i and spi performance compared to my ABIT AW9D-MAX(975)is very poor.

[Kunaak]

did 14 minutes and 21 seconds in 32M with my E6300 at 7 x 500, 1300 mhz ram, cas 5-4-4-10.

how does that compare to your 32M at the same speed?
cause its far faster then I ever did with my P5B Deluxe.

[Phil The Greek]

Looks pretty good.I havent tryed loosing my TRC.I will do some more testing at 3600Mhz to compare whith previous 975 times.

[Phil The Greek]

Man TRC makes the deference!!!It gave me 1 MIN LESS time than before @3600Mhz,witch means same or better times than 975!!!!

[argonmtt]

impressive FSB that can achieve with this MB. However, can someone post some results of this MB with E6600 chip ..

[Tony]

from what I saw of the EVGA the boards are very ram friendly, they relax timings as you clock up though.
The boards run hot, have ratio's i still have to work out yet also.

1T is where it is at, you can do 1300 but its a pure waste of time IMO and i have been pushing OCZ for 1T parts. 9001T is pretty nice and doable with reasonable voltage also. CAS3 is really hard to do with most dimms without stupid VDIMM, running 2.4 or higher is really not recommended and the level headed amongst you who like their memory to last longer than a few weeks will want to run around 2.2V or so. CAS5 is pretty slick and I was running 5-3-3-4 at 2.1V DDR900 1T for a long period while at the offfice, performance was stunning even with a slack CAS latency so please don't be put off by it.

The only isssue for me was P20 is buggy, I have no idea how the asus boards are but have requested them for test ASAP.

Edit..533 ram 1:1 with a 6400 3-3-2-4 1t 1.8V was as fast as 5-4-4-15 2T DDR800 1.8V

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[lopri]

Has anyone figured out the mystery of dual/quad SP?

did 14 minutes and 21 seconds in 32M with my E6300 at 7 x 500, 1300 mhz ram, cas 5-4-4-10.

how does that compare to your 32M at the same speed?
cause its far faster then I ever did with my P5B Deluxe.

I'm not him but this board is slower than 975X in SP for me. Below is a test on P5W-DH. Unfortunately I got rid of the board so I can't run the test @3500MHz. There isn't any tweaking on 975X either because the board only allows limited number of timing options. (Big 4 only) Don't get me wrong. I like this 680i board alot and that's why I replaced the ASUS board, but there are a couple of things that I can't comprehend yet. For instance, single instance SP run is faster with Conroe, but dual instances is faster with Allendale.. What gives?

[newls1]

How do you think my G.skill 2x1GB ddr800 "HZ" ram will do with the 680i chipset? Currently with my DS3 im @ 462FSB using 4/4/4/12 timings @ 2.2v. But with the damn D9 bug i cant go any higher.... Im really interested in buying the EVGA version, but really need some input on how this ram might react with this motherboard. Thank you