680i SLI is too expensive? Asus as the solution : P5N32-E SLI PLUS

[HousERaT]

This just makes me think we are in desperate need of a bios upgrade. I have so many holes in my memory clocks & fsb with the 9 multi.

[shimmishim]

Yeah, i'm not too happy with my mobo. not only did it just die (refuses to boot up now), my L628B clocks a lot higher on my bad axe 2.

[The Viper]

same with me, lots of problems with the 9x multi, havent lowered it yet, I will in the next couple days, Im wishin now I went with the 680i.

[easypanic]

Yeah, i'm not too happy with my mobo. not only did it just die (refuses to boot up now), my L628B clocks a lot higher on my bad axe 2.

Let it rest for a while with the CMOS jumper on 2-3 and with the battery out of the mobo...

[espionix]

Well, ran for 2 weeks totally rock stable at stock + slightly overclocked. (Tested my new G.Skill 8500 ram at stock, ran memtest for 24Hours+)

Became unstable, so I went back to stock, lasted for a couple of weeks.

After a couple weeks, wasnt even stable at stock so I underclocked ram from 1066->800, and read voltage with volt meter to ensure it was enough.

Ran fine for a few weeks now its not even stable underclocked (fails prime after 3 seconds) so im going to return this board, and hopefully get an alternative product.

My first venture with Asus. Not happy.

[shimmishim]

Well, ran for 2 weeks totally rock stable at stock + slightly overclocked. (Tested my new G.Skill 8500 ram at stock, ran memtest for 24Hours+)

Became unstable, so I went back to stock, lasted for a couple of weeks.

After a couple weeks, wasnt even stable at stock so I underclocked ram from 1066->800, and read voltage with volt meter to ensure it was enough.

Ran fine for a few weeks now its not even stable underclocked (fails prime after 3 seconds) so im going to return this board, and hopefully get an alternative product.

My first venture with Asus. Not happy.

That's a shame. Asus hasn't failed me until recently with my dead p5n32-e sli plus. i'm gonna give it one more go tonight and if i can't get it to boot, i'm getting another board too.

[theteamaqua]

wow i have been runming 3.6GHz wiht stock RAM speed for couple weeks now, and 3.8GHz for the past week . i guessi m pretty lucky

still i liek this board better than that crappy EVGA 680i .... nvidia makes that board ... so quality control can be their problem .. many ppl had to RMA multiple times to get a working one

[The Viper]

this board is really going south...Anyone know why I would be getting frequent freezes, even in Bios??? What voltages are people using for the NB, SB, and the other ones (except Vcore and Vdimm)?

[Jultsu]

400fsb

CPU VTT 1.55v
NB 1.40v
SB 1.50v
HT 1.45v

LDT 5x

all processor power saving stuff DISABLED (really, all of them, cant really remember how many there were)


oh, and try running memtest86 from a cd-rom, in case you have burned your RAM with too high voltage (I did, once)

[shimmishim]

Let it rest for a while with the CMOS jumper on 2-3 and with the battery out of the mobo...

yeah. board boots up fine now.

[easypanic]

:d

[The Viper]

OMG I just figured out why I was having such an impossible time getting stability with my OC...I was running 2 instances of Orthos, when all I needed to do was run one instance to utilize 100% of both cores...so stupid! Well back to the drawing board

[Pyr0]

hmm, weird, two instances should still run just fine, just slower

[Jultsu]

I agree. Maybe it isn't stable then. Try running orthos on both cores AND dual prime95 as well.

[Jultsu]

Oh btw, it's like 3 degrees celcius outside... I'm kinda tempted to try some OC'ing in the cold again... 4.2Ghz should be a noble target

[The Viper]

I agree. Maybe it isn't stable then. Try running orthos on both cores AND dual prime95 as well.

running one instance of Orthos does utilize both cores, or so I just found out...It makes sense that trying to stress the cores beyond that would cause errors, I havent tested this at all yet, I discovered this last night right before I went to bed, Ill test tonight.

[Jultsu]

running one instance of Orthos does utilize both cores, or so I just found out...It makes sense that trying to stress the cores beyond that would cause errors, I havent tested this at all yet, I discovered this last night right before I went to bed, Ill test tonight.

No it does not make sense. Even if you had 10 prime95 programs running on each core, a few orthos instances, video and audio playing in the background etc. the thing should still be stable with 0 errors! If you are stressing both cores 100% with one orthos, the load should split with 2 instances (both instances get 50% from each core) and so forth.



Oh and by the way... The rig is outside... benching 8x500 as we speak

[safan80]

I'm still running strong after having an over heat issue last night.

[onthepulse]

I'm still running strong after having an over heat issue last night.

Was it worth doing the pencil mod? Apparently BIOS 0602 brings a lot of stability...

BTW, Seems a few people in this forum are rubbising the board before they have tried out all of the options. I have a DFI Expert and that took A LOT of tweaking before I could even install the OS at stock speeds. Brilliant board once you got your memory timings and voltages worked out though... Keep persisting

[shimmishim]

this board is sweet and getting sweeter the more i mess with it.

i've been doing some mem tweaking and benching.

i am now able to do 32M superpi @ ddr2-1200 5-3-3 with about 2.4 DMM measured volts.

and its a fast 3d board. just need to put this board under some dry ice (this coming weekend).

[The Viper]

Heh guys do these memory Benchmarks seem kinda high to you? (Sandra me bandwidth), Im trying to find the max to my RAM

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[HousERaT]

Was it worth doing the pencil mod? Apparently BIOS 0602 brings a lot of stability...

BTW, Seems a few people in this forum are rubbising the board before they have tried out all of the options. I have a DFI Expert and that took A LOT of tweaking before I could even install the OS at stock speeds. Brilliant board once you got your memory timings and voltages worked out though... Keep persisting

This board has all kinds of potential. My issue is the bios. Asus has already had two bios updates on the Striker Extreme since this BETA 0602 bios came out. It's rather clear to me that Asus could care less about these lower tier boards. It's are real shame since one would think this board can really do well with a better bios. My board right now has so many holes in the memory clocks with the 9 multi it ain't funny.

[safan80]

My board right now has so many holes in the memory clocks with the 9 multi it ain't funny.

that's why I went for a 10x with my Xeon 3070.

[Caliber]

Do you guys think this lack of updates will continue, and if so, is this a reason itself for not buying this board? I got my eyes on it for my next rig atm.

[The Viper]

Ive been back and forth with this board...It seems good right now, but it takes so much tweaking and testing, its so tedious.