Asus P5N-E SLI small review

[lionheart]

Yes I removed bios battery but not work.The screen boot is blank

[JoeBar]

I mean run it linked. Unlinked causes problems.

I haven't experienced any probs with unlinked after a week testing with numerous settings.

[PanteraGSTK]

Thx for the reply what I really wanted to know is which one of the HR-05 would give better temps.

I have an infinity and the mormal hr-05 would not fit. I had to get an sli version. They are the same and cool the same. Getting one over the other is pointless. The both help you with nb temp, even if used passivly. As long as you have a fan on it, it doesn't matter what direction it is blowing. mine is blowing air toward my video card.

[PanteraGSTK]

I haven't experienced any probs with unlinked after a week testing with numerous settings.

me neither. Linked causes more problems for me than unlinked. This motherboard is weird on fsb holes and ratios. Some will let you get a higher fsb, while others will limit your fsb, but let your memory run wild. Strange board.

[PanteraGSTK]

Yes I removed bios battery but not work.The screen boot is blank

Does it power up at all? Have you shorted the cmos jumper? What were you doing when it "died"? What were all of your voltages. You might have killed your video card, or your memory, or your cpu, or your psu. We need more info.

[lionheart]

Does it power up at all? Have you shorted the cmos jumper? What were you doing when it "died"? What were all of your voltages. You might have killed your video card, or your memory, or your cpu, or your psu. We need more info.

I tried to check everything and know exactly my mobo is dead . But others device still work well . I had recevied new mobo yesterday moring hope new mobo will not die again ^^

[malik22]

I have a E4300 running with this board at

3ghz
vcore 1.4
Vmem 2.19
Nb 1.39
offset auto
unlinked 1333 Qdr


I raised everything to the following just to see if i could boot into windows at higher clocks im using the 9 divider.

vcore 1.55
vmem 2.28
Nb 1.7
offset 100v

the pc will boot at qdr 1400 but wont at 1450 1500 1550 1600 what could be the problem?

Do i need to change ltd from 5? or change NB pci Mhz from 100?

I disabled everything unnecessary in bios tried my corsair 6400C4 in the yellow and black slots even loosened timings to 5 5 5 15 2t but it still wont boot at 1450 1500 1550 1600 linked or unlinked.

[ceemic]

malik22, if you use unlinked, whats the mem freequency?

[malik22]

malik22, if you use unlinked, whats the mem freequency?

Its at 800.

[ceemic]

try to lower multi to see is there some FSB "wall"
my e4300 had wall on 385mhz

[malik22]

try to lower multi to see is there some FSB "wall"
my e4300 had wall on 385mhz

Used the 8 multi and it wouldnt boot at 1600.
I shouldnt touch the ltd and NB pci Mhz right?

[ceemic]

I shouldnt touch the ltd and NB pci Mhz right?

no need to, IMO

try multi 6 also

[malik22]

Could the pin mod for the E4300 help me oce further?
I cant go further than 1440 3.24 ghz It doesnt seem to like other multis im still using stock cooler on cpu and have a 80mm fan on NB maybe temps raise to fast.

[PanteraGSTK]

Could the pin mod for the E4300 help me oce further?
I cant go further than 1440 3.24 ghz It doesnt seem to like other multis im still using stock cooler on cpu and have a 80mm fan on NB maybe temps raise to fast.

You need an aftermarket HSF. Tower, infinity, ninja, gemeni, something other than the crap stock hsf. If that doesn't cure your problem, try putting an aftermarket hsf on the NB. That cured my random rebooting problem. My NB was overheating and causing my pc to freeze. I put an HR-05 sli on there and no more problems.

[malik22]

You need an aftermarket HSF. Tower, infinity, ninja, gemeni, something other than the crap stock hsf. If that doesn't cure your problem, try putting an aftermarket hsf on the NB. That cured my random rebooting problem. My NB was overheating and causing my pc to freeze. I put an HR-05 sli on there and no more problems.

Im gonna do that PanteraGSTK but how about the pin mod does that open up a E4300 for ocing or is it not worth the risk?

[Lestat]

northbridge cooling aside form the stock heatsink is a MUST, i can not stress that enough.
if you dont put a fan on there its gunna over heat. even at stock its insanely hot.

i've said it before i'll say it again. no matter how cheap asus wanted this board they were absolutely retarded for not putting a fan on that northbridge.
and it would have costed them less than a dollar to do it.

hell 50mm fans are only like 3 bucks. go buy one, you wont regret it.

and you should seriously look into a heatsink and or heatsink/fan for the southbridge, that sucker gets hotter than hell too.

[eagle_]

Could the pin mod for the E4300 help me oce further?
I cant go further than 1440 3.24 ghz It doesnt seem to like other multis im still using stock cooler on cpu and have a 80mm fan on NB maybe temps raise to fast.

My e4300 didn't boot past 333. Did the pin mod to fsb 266 and it didn't help in fsb wall (altough it booted at 266). But imho there's no risk in making the pin mod...

[Kobalt]

northbridge cooling aside form the stock heatsink is a MUST, i can not stress that enough.
if you dont put a fan on there its gunna over heat. even at stock its insanely hot.

i've said it before i'll say it again. no matter how cheap asus wanted this board they were absolutely retarded for not putting a fan on that northbridge.
and it would have costed them less than a dollar to do it.

hell 50mm fans are only like 3 bucks. go buy one, you wont regret it.

and you should seriously look into a heatsink and or heatsink/fan for the southbridge, that sucker gets hotter than hell too.

I ghetto mounted an 80mm fan right between the video card and hard drive and it works well. It cools the southbridge very well in addition the the RAM and northbridge. I don't like whiney 50mm fans :thumbsup:

[775911]

I have a half kilo brass lock sitting on my northbridge, soaks up the heat nicely though the heatsink itself is still hot enough to hurt when touched. Registered temp with a cooker thermometer is only 50c but thats likely under estimating a bit. Highest Ive seen is 150F

[CikaNovo]

Could the pin mod for the E4300 help me oce further?
I cant go further than 1440 3.24 ghz It doesnt seem to like other multis im still using stock cooler on cpu and have a 80mm fan on NB maybe temps raise to fast.

Get a better heatsink.Still,it's very hard to get E4300 orthos stable past 1450 FSB at 9x multi.Mine also doesn't like lower multi's.

[stealthbomber]

Got terrible vcore drops from 1.6v idle to 1.52v under load, done the pencil mod and now the vcore seems a lot more stable (1.6v in bios now shows 1.63 in software).


Currently set vcore to 1.53v in bios, shows 1.55v above under software.

[RAMMAN]

just sitting in windows, my cpu is always at 50% load, usually with 1 core at 80% with the other at 20%.any reason for that? and this rig is really slow at logging of and shutting down(takes over a minute.) performs normally in all my benchmarks and games.currently on the 0401 bios.does it support the q6600?

[Ron 61]

@ RAMMAN Sounds like a software program causing that. Open windows task manager and see what all you have running. Close everything in sys tray one at a time and anything else running in the background til you find what it is.

[RAMMAN]

turns out it was abit uguru still installed from my last mobo.now my cpu is back to 0% load.

[RAMMAN]

is it safe to assume linked is more stable than unlinked in the bios? and is the q6600 compatible with my board?