ASUS P5N32-E/Striker SLI Tips and Tricks Thread

[charlie]

Let's give it a shot!

ASUS 680i tips, tricks and valuable info... please donate here!

Let's stay on topic, just tips, tricks and solutions...

1) Complete support for 680i chipset from the new CPU-Z 1.38 from cpuid.com and don't forget to donate a few bucks to Frank!

2) Newest BIOS 0405

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[ewitte]

Someone has to know some voltage mods on these boards. The drop and droop are horrible. Good thing the latest BIOS revisions go to 1.9v. Someone please sticky this.

[lowdog]

(Striker Extreme) You'll need a stick of DDR2 with speced 1.8V to boot the board first off to get into bios and set 2.xx V for you ram that requires 2V and over to run. Default V for ram is 1.8V in bios on first boot.

Also voltages like NB, SB etc all overvolt by around .03 and default to pretty high settings, lower all these as they don't require such high settings to run stock or even oced. Vcore underlolts by around .10V

[charlie]

I can't hit 500 fsb (QDR2000) for hte life of me with this L628B...

What is LDT5x on a Intel board, wtf?? Best setting for 500+

ANd WTF is SPP<->MPP Ref Clock, mHz??????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????


wtf man? Did BIOS writers just arrive from a different planet?

[Blacklash]

Just a general comment about low voltage and ram. Before you buy low cost ram as a backup try booting with a single stick. My mobo wouldn't boot with both sticks in @ 1.84v and would with one stick. I just went to the BIOS, increased the voltage then appropriately added the second stick after a save|shut down.

[Synicalcop]

for high fsb increase nb voltage at fist then increase cpu vtt voltage if the nb voltage alone doesnt help. mine is running 3ghz at 1.18vcore and 1.3v NB. all other voltage on Auto.

[ewitte]

If your not booting at 1.8v the memory maker didn't do it right. They are supposed to have very conservative SPD settings and you have to modify it to specs. For instance mine is 667 3-3-3-8 at 2.2v but the SPD is like for 5-5-5-15 and that works at 1.8v.

[ewitte]

I had my vcore at 3.825Ghz 1.36v (1.344 after droop.. BIOS setting 1.475) and the other day I was getting 40 minutes in Orthos priority 10 blend. A few minutes ago I tried with higher vcore and it instantly stopped. The biggie is the FSB. I updated to 0302 and all my BIOS settings were wipped. After changing NB to 1.45v and VTT to 1.5v its running again.

Still not optimal. I need a lot more playing.

[ewitte]

It looks like things were working better with the 0202 BIOS. Also note that after flashing you do have to unplug and pull the battery for a few minutes to get it to post. To give you an idea.

3.825 Ghz BIOS setting 1.4750v all on auto instant orthos priority 10 blend stop
messing with northbridge and vtt voltages up to about 2 and a half minutes
Up BIOS setting to 1.50v and it drops in 30 seconds!

I'm right now back on 202 BIOS and its 14 minutes in on 1.49785v BIOS 1.35NB 1.45VTT. I got 40 minutes before on the 202 at 1.475v BIOS.

[charlie]

Does P5N32-E use same BIOS as Striker???? 0502, 0508??

[bingo13]

On the Striker Board -

This depends on the CPU you are utilizing -

1. Install a single DIMM in the number three memory slot and watch your FSB increase on average about 15~30, in some instances I have seen a 40FSB increase on this board. While the single channel memory performance will still fall about 5~10% under dual channel after the normal tweaks, it will allow you to post some interesting CPU-Z screeenshots.

2. I will list out the voltage tweaks this weekend to get the board in the zone when overclocking.

[msgclb]

Does P5N32-E use same BIOS as Striker???? 0502, 0508??

I would want Asus or someone with inside knowledge before I would us a Striker BIOS.

There is a BIOS version 0405 on the Asus P5N32-E download site. If I select the BIOS tab all I see is BIOS version 0302. If I select the BIOS option on the left side then I see BIOS version 0405. The manual is also available using the + - options.

[Raja@ASUS]

Striker 0505 bios,


1) use a single ram stick in the farthest ram slot for initial boot up, it should work.


2) NB works fine at 1.2v, even for overclocking, anything past 1.5v actually worsens stability.

3) You can lock MCP frq to 250 or so if you wish, and lock the other pcie freq' to around 110 if not using Nvidia cards. Locking theses freq's should prevent any chance of non detecting raid array's etc.

4) 0505 vcore droop is not as pronounced as earlier bios, generally drops about 0.03 under load.

5) Leave all ram timinngs on auto for initial testing over 1700qfsb to get a feel for how the chipset like to be run. Then you can lock cas and try your own settings..

regards
Raja

[rjw]

anyone having problems with the multiplier?

0202 I ran 15x with my qx6700

everything else defaulkt = 4Ghz

upgraded to 0305 then the latest and it won't boot over 10x???

where can I find the DOS utility to flash back to 0202?

thx

[charlie]

P5N32-E SLI BIOS

official 0405 on d/l site NOW!!!! 12/7/06

[rjw]

this board (P5N32-E SLI) or at least mine acts really wierd.

I tried aflash and afudos to flash back to an older bios and neither worked.

Then in the bios, I tried using the utility to flash and nothing until after 5 bios resest via jumper.

Then it took and I flashed back to 0202...finally...

No battery removal required this time.

Now running at 4Ghz or 15 x 1066

Voltage at 1.675 = 1.54

I have had this chip running at 4Ghz on 1.3v on another board, but this one won't boot it at such a low voltage...

Anyhow...will try 0302, \cause I don't remember if it would take 15x...0405 will not (so far)

Nice being a guinny pig, no?

[Keith Wing]

I just received my E6600 and my P5N32-E SLI MB but after reading stories about machines that won't post or memory that causes BSOD I am pretty worried about getting the wrong RAM. I had settled on getting two of the Kingston KHX6400D2LLK2/1GN sets for a total of 2GB with 4 512MB chips since these are on the QVL. I do plan to upgrade though at some point to 4 Gig. of RAM but i probably won't be until next Summer.

What do you guys recommend as good solid RAM that shouldn't give me any problems? I plan to try running my system at 2.8GHz. Stability is very important to me.

Thanks,
Keith

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Dual Core Opteron 170@2.5GHz (stock vcore)
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum
2 Gig. OCZ PC-4000
1 TB of HD Storage

[pumero]

Charlie: maybe you could add a bios list with pros/cons of each version?

btw. my striker came with bios 0402 which is dated 11/10/2006, on the asus site is the 0302 with release date 11/21/2006 and here are versions 0202 and 0505 mentioned.
0505 is the newest, that's clear but did i get it right that the 0302 is newer then the 0402?

[ewitte]

I just received my E6600 and my P5N32-E SLI MB but after reading stories about machines that won't post or memory that causes BSOD I am pretty worried about getting the wrong RAM. I had settled on getting two of the Kingston KHX6400D2LLK2/1GN sets for a total of 2GB with 4 512MB chips since these are on the QVL. I do plan to upgrade though at some point to 4 Gig. of RAM but i probably won't be until next Summer.

What do you guys recommend as good solid RAM that shouldn't give me any problems? I plan to try running my system at 2.8GHz. Stability is very important to me.

Thanks,
Keith

Just about anything is going to handle 2.8Ghz. I'd actually recommend just going in and changing to 1333FSB if your not looking for much. That would be 3Ghz and it shouldn't require any other setting change to get things stable. Except maybe some memory settings (timings, etc which suck on auto and some memory needs more voltage for rated specs).

[Ibinco]

Charlie: maybe you could add a bios list with pros/cons of each version?

btw. my striker came with bios 0402 which is dated 11/10/2006, on the asus site is the 0302 with release date 11/21/2006 and here are versions 0202 and 0505 mentioned.
0505 is the newest, that's clear but did i get it right that the 0302 is newer then the 0402?

Good question guys, Wich one is newer? Mine was delivered with the 0402 chipset bios. But which one is newest 0402 or 0302?!

[pumero]

i'm on 0505 now but things on the overclocking front are still disappointing.

my testsystem:
Asus Striker
QX6700 Quad-Core
2x 1GB Supertalent PC8000 CL5
2x 512MB Corsair XMS2-8500 CL5
Radeon X1900XTX
Be quiet Pro 600W

the good thing with the 0505 bios is tighter timings at lower voltage with more stability with the supertalent modules using stock fsb.

the bad thing is, that i'm still unable to get over 300fsb with the supertalent dimms and 333fsb with corsair has a 50/50 chance of a successfull boot or hanging at the boot screen before the memory test. two times i got it to boot at 360fsb but crashed and at 400fsb all i get is a black screen.

checked out the other striker threads here on xs.org, tried a lot of different memory timings, frequencies and voltages but without any countable results.

[pumero]

switched the cpu to a core 2 x6800 and the bad oc results are gone.
at least 450fsb seems to be no no problem now, even without extensive tweaking.

anyone else having oc problems with the combination qx6700+striker?

[rjw]

I put my p5n32-e sli on hold for the same reasons.

[Nilson]

check your P5N32-E revision....

remove mark label from the board... Mine board print says: Striker Extreme rev. 1.0

[rjw]

check your P5N32-E revision....

remove mark label from the board... Mine board print says: Striker Extreme rev. 1.0

Mine as well

these are probably the defective boards