Asus P5N-E SLI small review

[PanteraGSTK]

Thanks I think i will check my heatsink on the NB, Do you think about SB that need heatsink as NB?

I don't know if it "needs" one, but I put one on just to be safe.

[geof]

Thanks I think i will check my heatsink on the NB, Do you think about SB that need heatsink as NB?

your 8x8 fan on nb is enough even with high fsb, check your nb temp with asus probe, speedfan ...
as Pantera i put a heatsink on my sb because the chips was hot but the heatsink is cold so you can do this but i think it's not necessary

[JoeBar]

as Pantera said N650i allows you to use lower mem dividers so it will work but of course with good D9 chips you'll get a good performance increase

I saw several E4300 with P5N-E SLI on french forums, i try to find you some screens ...

here they're

- E4300 with P5N-E SLI aircooling Noctua NH-U12
http://www.hiboox.com/image.php?img=75c96a2c.jpg
the same guy but with less vcore ( 1,5v )
http://www.hiboox.com/image.php?img=5496534d.jpg

- E4300/P5N-E SLI aircooling Scythe Ninja Plus
http://www.hiboox.com/image.php?img=d20b44c2.gif#gd

I hope it can help you

Thanx for the screens!
However u got me confused. I see no prob with 4300 and P5N-E. These are some descent clocks for this cpu on air.

One more question. I've seen posts about pci-e reverting to 8X for no reason. Have u experienced this?

[geof]

Thanx for the screens!
However u got me confused. I see no prob with 4300 and P5N-E. These are some descent clocks for this cpu on air.

One more question. I've seen posts about pci-e reverting to 8X for no reason. Have u experienced this?

problems in oc a E4300 with this board are the fsb holes, if you avoid them it's ok
You must be carefull selecting your ram too because some have difficulties with latest N650/680i

I never saw pci-e problems at least for what i read

[geof]

can someone make a pi 1M with a E6400 @ 3.7 ram sync 4/4/4/12 please ?
i did one @ 3.7 with ram unlinked 520 (4/4/4/12) and 550 ( 5/5/5/12) and i just try the same cpu on P5B-Dlx @ 3.7 sync 462 ( 4/4/4/12 ) and i won nearly 1 second !
I'd like to know if unlinked ram performs bad or if it's N650i which is a lot slower ...
Thanks for the help !

[JoeBar]

problems in oc a E4300 with this board are the fsb holes, if you avoid them it's ok
You must be carefull selecting your ram too because some have difficulties with latest N650/680i

I never saw pci-e problems at least for what i read

Order placed for a 6300. No need to mess with fsb holes...

Tomorrow, probably i'll have preliminary results.

[geof]

Order placed for a 6300. No need to mess with fsb holes...

Tomorrow, probably i'll have preliminary results.

some website observed fsb holes with E6300 too so maybe it's true for all C2D ...
I hope yours will be a good cloker !
Is there a big difference in price with E6400 because with 7 multi you'll be limited ?

[JoeBar]

Quite a big (40€ here) for my 2nd rig...

Plus with the upcoming April price cuts, 6300 will lose less than both 4300 and 6400. This is not my final cpu. I can upgrade it whenever i like...

[geof]

you're right, i bought a E6400 for my 2nd ring too and i'll sell it before end april
Let us know what you can do with this E6300

[John44]

New Bios Release 0505
Haven't tried it so your on your own.


ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/so...N-E%20SLI/

Changes:

1. Add C1E function support for Conroe-L A-1 stepping CPU .
2. Support new CPU, please refer to our website at: http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...el=P5N-E%20SLI
3. Support FSB 1333 CPU .
4. Fix CPR might fail when overclock too much.

[geof]

thanks a lot John !
I'm actually on P5B-Dlx so as soon as i'm back on P5N-E i'll try this new bios

[zeeke]

Anyone had time to try the new bios yet?

[PanteraGSTK]

Order placed for a 6300. No need to mess with fsb holes...

Tomorrow, probably i'll have preliminary results.

Mine is awsome. I never thought this thing would be able to get to 3700mhz. You need to remember that the same cpu can perform totally diffirent on diffirent boards. You should be able to get to 3500mhz if your chip has no fsb wall like my first one did. Even at 400mhz it was still a good chip. Cool the NB and you will be fine.

[PanteraGSTK]

Anyone had time to try the new bios yet?

I'm going to read a little about it first. I'll get it today though. I'll post results when I'm finished.

[zeeke]

Good good, I don't have the energy to switch mobo again if the stability issues aren't resolved with the new bios

[geof]

I'm going to read a little about it first. I'll get it today though. I'll post results when I'm finished.

we wait

[PanteraGSTK]

OK. I've found that the "magic vcore" is 1.443v for 3.5ghz stable. 0505 BIOS didn't do anything noticeable on first impression. I'll have to do more testing to see if there are any benefits over 0401.

[lionheart]

I am going to update 0505 too ^^

[John44]

Can you still change multipliers on 0505? Someone tried it and said it lock his multiplier.

[PanteraGSTK]

Can you still change multipliers on 0505? Someone tried it and said it lock his multiplier.

Did not have that problem. Thats very odd.

[PanteraGSTK]

OK. I changed out memory and now I can't boot to windows. It freezes after about 15sec. Not very happy. Any suggestions? I don't think it has anything to do with the BIOS. I think my board has had a problem from the beginning. I've never been able to do an Orthos blend. No matter the settings. Now it is just broken. I love this board, but what a headache. I'm getting closer to RMA. If I can't find the problem this weekend the egg gets it back.

[Kobalt]

This bios is really weird and unorganized...I'm too used to DFI. I have to go back and forth between ~6 different pages to change OC settings and it gets really confusing.

Also, whats up with the DDR2 clock needing to be one half the FSB clock in bios? You would think that setting 1:1 would actually make it 1:1 and not 1:2 . So I spent 30min trying to figure out why it kept failing POST and only booting every other boot until I went into CPU-Z and saw that setting it to half the FSB was actually 1:1 . Yea apparently my RAM doesn't like to post at DDR1066 533mhz .

[geof]

OK. I changed out memory and now I can't boot to windows. It freezes after about 15sec. Not very happy. Any suggestions? I don't think it has anything to do with the BIOS. I think my board has had a problem from the beginning. I've never been able to do an Orthos blend. No matter the settings. Now it is just broken. I love this board, but what a headache. I'm getting closer to RMA. If I can't find the problem this weekend the egg gets it back.

which ram do you use now ?
i suppose you tried on black slots ...
Let us your bios settings please

[geof]

This bios is really weird and unorganized...I'm too used to DFI. I have to go back and forth between ~6 different pages to change OC settings and it gets really confusing.

Also, whats up with the DDR2 clock needing to be one half the FSB clock in bios? You would think that setting 1:1 would actually make it 1:1 and not 1:2 . So I spent 30min trying to figure out why it kept failing POST and only booting every other boot until I went into CPU-Z and saw that setting it to half the FSB was actually 1:1 . Yea apparently my RAM doesn't like to post at DDR1066 533mhz .

yes bios values are a bit strange but you only have to konw that fsb is " quad pumped" so you must divide by 4 to get real fsb and for ram frequency you have to divide by 2 ...

[John44]

So far people with a E4300 have reported locked multipliers with the 0505 bios. Let me know what results you get if you flash to the new bios and what chip you have.
Thanks


EDIT: That would be a downward multiplier only.