Asus P5N-E SLI small review

[Trice]

Im installing my board now, I have RAID 0, BUT my SATA for my 300 GB SATA II drive has broken pins so I will need a new one of those before I test the issues.

BTW they dont include a floppy RAID, you have to insert the CD, load it as first CD, then boot off it, then make a RAID floppy off that. Bit of a hassle but it works.

[Lestat]

And the max fsb is...

503.

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=147192

It ran orthos for 15 minutes just fine. I think this is a wall on my cpu, not on the board. The board is completely stable with just 1.4v on the northbridge. Going up to 1.76v does nothing. It'll be interesting to see Trice's results.

dont you jsut love how their relaly expensive boards cant do that but their elcheapo ones can.

thats such a crock of crap lol.

but loving the clocks man.

[Cooper]

Can you copy RAID driver to USB flash drive and install them from it on this board ?

[couppi]

Can anyone tell me if this superpi result is good? This is on a fresh install of xp pro without any tweaks.


Vdroop is horrible. In asus probe, it goes from 1.57v idle to 1.49v fully loaded. This board desperately needs a vdroop mod.

[siodine]

Is this board a better buy than the Asus P5B-E? I don't know if I will go SLI in the future, but it's a possibility.

[Trice]

So far my results:

I have had ZERO issues with my RAID and SATA setup.

1.5 in BIOS reports 1.4ish with ASUS Probe under ORTHOS.

NB sink gets too hot for my tastes, I put A5 on it and a 120 mm fan on it.

Im at 1500 FSB and 850 RAM so far, but havent really messed with it THAT much.

So far Im pretty happy with it for the price I paid.

[Lestat]

me and Trice are talking on Msn and for whatever reason he cant even do 400mhz FSB
now he has a 6600 and i am trying to help him and nothing is working.


if your able to get above or at 400mhz with a 6600 then please post how you did it.

and just as i feared, droop is typical asus style. once again you are forced to mod their retarded baords to achieve what they should be doing from the factory.

[Supertim0r]

not bad for a budget board

this thing look like their first p4/sli mobo

[Trice]

I finally got 400 FSB to work. I cranked NB Core up and its perfectly fine. RAM is at 850 for now, but going to go to bed looooooong day.

[Khaotic]

Yeh looks good......hopefully it doesnt have the 680i bugs.

What motherboard made for the Core 2 Duo doesn't have quirks.
I guess a lot of folks are going to toot the RD600 horn. I however, will never BUY another ATI/AMD DAAMIT product again.

[zert]

RD600 is definitely nice, but it will cost an arm and a leg. and im afraid it will take quite some time before we see them availible in volume.
N650i has "decent" prices. seems to OC ok (couppi got 503mhz fsb)
if it doesnt have N680i's random data corruption etc... it will be a real killer platform

cant wait to get till i get my board

[couppi]

I finally got 400 FSB to work. I cranked NB Core up and its perfectly fine. RAM is at 850 for now, but going to go to bed looooooong day.

That's pretty strange. Mine can do 400mhz stock volts totally stable and boots into windows at 450mhz, but needs a bump to 1.4v to be stable.

[Trice]

I have a 4MB L2 chip.

[zert]

I have a 4MB L2 chip.

so you're saying it's your cpu holding you back and not the board?

[Trice]

Well I was told that the extra L2 makes it a lot harder to OC. I'm pretty new to this board, HOWEVER, once I pumped up the FSB to 400 and added volts to the NB (was using AUTO prior) it worked fine and has done so since.

[Trice]

Ok as I said that, I just reboot, went ot BIOS and put FSB to 1800 and 8x multi.

Tadaaaaaaa.

I will start working on my RAM soon.

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=147487

14.750 1M (stuff open, etc)

38.969 2M

[Trice]

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=147497

E6600 4 MB L2 too.

[zert]

nice result so far mate keep em comming.
so far both boards do 500fsb without to mutch hassle, looks promising.

Trice how is the NB temp?

[[XC] hipno650]

nice work trice!!! whats the max fsb at 8x or at 9x?

[Trice]

nice result so far mate keep em comming.
so far both boards do 500fsb without to mutch hassle, looks promising.

Trice how is the NB temp?

Im ORTHOSing right now, with NB maxxed ASUS probe says MB is 39 deg.

I dont know if that is actual MB or the NB though.

[Trice]

nice work trice!!! whats the max fsb at 8x or at 9x?

Havent tried yet, but Im going to try 525 after I prime here in another 50 min.

[Lestat]

hey coupi resize your pictures eh ? theres no need to post an entire screen shot of your desktop.
just crop the inportant stuff and post that.

[Lestat]

Can you copy RAID driver to USB flash drive and install them from it on this board ?

cooper using usb flash drive for windows install is only possible with Windows Vista.
XP does not look at usb flash drives for drivers

[cabe]

Ahh and just when I was about decided on a mobo this thing pops out of nowhere doing 500+ fsb for the few (two lol) who have tried it so far..

Going to scour the internet for more reviews as I've got to make a decision by tonight.

[nealh]

Question how is vdroop on this board...if max 1.6vcore but can you get 1.55v at idle and load?

what is the difference bewteen this and the 680i...getting so confusing