Asus P5N-E SLI small review

[zjohnr]

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

Good luck. If you find any, post a link here if you can. So far I don't think there are any (formal) reviews available. (Maybe they'll appear during the upcoming week?)

I've been waiting around to see what the lower end of the NVidia 600 series would be like since I first saw it announced. Up to this point trying to find info about the 650i has only been a quick route to frustration. Is it just because this is happening over the holidays that this product rollout seems to be happening in such a <expletive omitted> way?

-john, the confused, fence-sitting, redundant legacy dinosaur

[Trice]

I like the board for the price. The only knocks I have on it is the droop, and heatsink on the NB and lack of one on the SB.

[noobzed]

Do you have sound issue with SLI enabled ?

[Trice]

I dont have SLI.

[Millyons]

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.

thats pretty slow for 3700mhz.....the other person with 3600 is also pretty slow......just as a comparo im running 3500 389@ 4-4-4-12 on P5Bdlx and i just ran 1mb PI with IE, MSN, Nod, MBM, etc open on a 24/7 os and my rez is 14.659sec

[koensa]

no i think its normal,cpu-z says its 2MB Cache, so its a allendale (not conroe(4MB))

my allendale at 475 fsb does 15 secs superpi.

so its pretty normal

[Millyons]

ya i didnt pay attention, i saw xeon and just asumed 3060, sorry....

although Trices rez
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...4&postcount=41

is a little slow...... Trice can you run it with everything closed, and just put Super PI to realtime, and run it 3 times and post what you get, just to compare a little bit im interested in this board also

[Trice]

14.313 with 400 FSB

Going to 450 FSB doesnt give me anymore speed.

[nealh]

14.313 with 400 FSB

Going to 450 FSB doesnt give me anymore speed.

how bad is the vdroop?

did you need to add a HS to SB and change the NB

is max vcore 1.6v?

[zert]

what i wanna know: is that NB cooler really as crap as it looks?

[couppi]

I put together my p5b-deluxe and did a few benches.

Specs:
Xeon 3050 at 3.7ghz
P5B Deluxe or P5N-E SLI
Team Xtreem 2gb 462mhz 4-4-4-12
x1900XTX stock

SuperPi:
1m

P5B Deluxe: 15.890s


P5N-E SLI: 16.140s


32M
P5B Deluxe: 14m 50.828s
P5N-E SLI: 15m 10.812s

3dmark
3dmark 2001 SE
P5B Deluxe: 46732
P5N-E SLI: 47096

3dmark 2003
P5B Deluxe: 21500
P5N-E SLI: 21779

3dmark 2005
P5B Deluxe: 12989
P5N-E SLI: 13024

3dmark 2006
P5B Deluxe: 6741
P5N-E SLI: 6754

Sandra
Dhrystone
P5B Deluxe: 34551 MIPS
P5N-E SLI: 34339 MIPS

Whetstone
P5B Deluxe: 23498 MFLOPS
P5N-E SLI: 23508 MFLOPS

Bandwidth Int
P5B Deluxe: 7757 MB/s
P5N-E SLI: 7994 MB/s

Bandwidth Float
P5B Deluxe: 7742 MB/s
P5N-E SLI: 8083 MB/s

Memory Latency
P5B Deluxe: 74 ns
P5N-E SLI: 70 ns

It looks like 650i is just slightly faster than p965 in 3D, while p965 is slightly faster in pi.

[Ron 61]

Thanks, looks like you've been busy. Im not a pi junkie so a little faster in 3d is good. Is the 1.36v set in bios or is that after the droop? Mine should be here thursday but I won't get to play with it til Christmas, I hope it does well with sli.

[adamsleath]

what's not to like; it performs; now if only i could get one in aussieland...

[adamsleath]

the only 650i i can find here is a bmw 650i

[Trice]

Yup I think it the droop wasnt there this would be the killer board for many.

[cabe]

Good luck. If you find any, post a link here if you can. So far I don't think there are any (formal) reviews available. (Maybe they'll appear during the upcoming week?)

I've been waiting around to see what the lower end of the NVidia 600 series would be like since I first saw it announced. Up to this point trying to find info about the 650i has only been a quick route to frustration. Is it just because this is happening over the holidays that this product rollout seems to be happening in such a <expletive omitted> way?

-john, the confused, fence-sitting, redundant legacy dinosaur

Well I was under a time constraint to make the decision, so I went with the proven-many-times-over P5B Dlx since the 650i is just so brand spankin' new..

the only 650i i can find here is a bmw 650i

I'll trade you an Asus 650i for a BMW 650i..

[zeeke]

hmm this looks pretty interesting, I'll have to pick one up and see what it can do. Nice play-around board for that money

[Marlowe]

the only 650i i can find here is a bmw 650i

Buy that! Very good car(d)!

Thanks for testing the board guys. This looks like a great card for us on a budget

[zjohnr]

Thanks for testing the board guys. This looks like a great card for us on a budget

I don't know ... frankly, I'm not all that impressed. The chipset looks like a good add to the mix of what's available (thankfully!), however the board itself doesn't make my socks go up and down.

I'll certainly wait for the more formal reviews before deciding. But right now all the release of this Asus board has done for me is make me more interested in seeing what the 650i boards from MSI and Gigabyte will be like.

-john, the confused, fence-sitting, redundant legacy dinosaur

[falqon]

Thanks for the review, I can't believe there is so little to go on with this board.

About time the sub $150 guys get a decent board, now if only the non SLI version is comperable!

[aiya]

this is looking like a good board for me to grab for my transition to core2. i have a 820D and 2x512mb 667 ocz value ram i'm not using that the moment, should be enough for now till i can grab a e6300/e6400 or maybe a e4300 when they're out next month.

loving the results so far guys :thumbsup:

[adamsleath]

http://www.hothardware.com/image_pop...icleid=675&t=a [p5nd2-sli]
p5n-e looks a bit like dis one

SB doesnt get very hot does it? i could always scavenge an old sb sink from an old mobo ive got in my cupboard.

[couppi]

SB does get pretty hot when oc'ing. I'd say about 120-130F. I'll get a heatsink on it sometime.

[Trice]

SB does get pretty hot when oc'ing. I'd say about 120-130F. I'll get a heatsink on it sometime.

Let me know which one you get.

[wtkprol]

Is anyone else getting a blue screen whenever they are installing the devices during the windows install. Mine says DRIVER_IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, or something to that effect. Any ideas?