680i SLI is too expensive? Asus as the solution : P5N32-E SLI PLUS

[Leeghoofd]

that's even harder to setup man get a P5B or P5K so easy to setup but no SLI

[r0n1n]

Guess I'm also pretty lucky since I have the new PSU.
Work with 4 sticks of ram, no prob, even OC'd. Stable at 3.2 with 1.37-ish vcore, and trying to get orthos(4 at least) stable for 3.4.

Considering this board, not too bad I guess.

Well, going at it again, have to raise NB and VTT a tad, and then, its orthos time again...

cheers, and Herwawan, good luck with whatever comes your way

[SLINROB]

Hey guys!

I leave

This creepy mobo is inside his box and NEVER, I've said NEVER go out again

But I'm crazy ... So which mobo arrive? DFi iCFX-3200

I think I've not finished to kick my head against the wall

WHICCHHH BIOOSSS ARRREEE YOUUUUU RUNNNNINGGGGGGG!!!!!??????????

[r0n1n]

WHICCHHH BIOOSSS ARRREEE YOUUUUU RUNNNNINGGGGGGG!!!!!??????????

0702

but th million € question is, where did he get it???

SLINROB, check page 27, I think the last post. He listed all the changes, and THANK GOD he posted it on rapidshare for us...
And I have a copy should something go wrong

EDIT: http://rapidshare.com/files/36706269/0702.zip.html this makes it easyer ;-)

Not flashed it yet, since I'm into some orthos testing atm for 3.4 gHz. Chrashed this morning in the mid 30 mins, wanna know if it passes that point first. 29 mins now... getting pretty exiting...

now all in choire: thanks herwawan

[SLINROB]

0702

but th million € question is, where did he get it???

SLINROB, check page 27, I think the last post. He listed all the changes, and THANK GOD he posted it on rapidshare for us...
And I have a copy should something go wrong

EDIT: http://rapidshare.com/files/36706269/0702.zip.html this makes it easyer ;-)

Not flashed it yet, since I'm into some orthos testing atm for 3.4 gHz. Chrashed this morning in the mid 30 mins, wanna know if it passes that point first. 29 mins now... getting pretty exiting...

now all in choire: thanks herwawan

I am going to flash to this bios and I swear if my MOBO gets fubard someone is going to pay hell for it.

[r0n1n]

I am going to flash to this bios and I swear if my MOBO gets fubard someone is going to pay hell for it.

this series is already sooo FUBAR... what's 1 louzy flash gonna do
I'm gonna wait 10 more minutes, to get an hour orthos (not staying up for the 4 hours) and then also flash...

Will deliberately put myself in the same position, SLINROB, so remember: you're not alone

keep my fingers crossed for you 2 ;-)

Cheers, good luck, and see you on the other side

[SLINROB]

I just flashed to this 0702 and so far so good. My question to ASUS would be WTF have you tards been doing for the last few months!!! THIS BIOS IS DATED 3-28-07 and YOU STILL DONT HAVE THE DAMN THING ON YOUR SITE!!!????

[r0n1n]

I just flashed to this 0702 and so far so good. My question to ASUS would be WTF have you tards been doing for the last few months!!! THIS BIOS IS DATED 3-28-07 and YOU STILL DONT HAVE THE DAMN THING ON YOUR SITE!!!????

You're in' joking, right?

[SLINROB]

You're in' joking, right?

Its working great! The FSB holes that I used to have are now gone.

[r0n1n]

Well, that did raise my heartbeat there for a couple of mins...

Flashed using the asus tool, which requires you to restart.
Then... Nothing. Computer starts, then after 2 secs, restarts, and so on...

did scare me for a sec...

but luckily, the old pop-tha-battery-out trick did it again

will test some more now and get back to you later

btw; good for you for the fsb holes!!!

[HousERaT]

I'll be keeping my eye on this for a while. I don't care where the bios came from long as it fixes some of those problems we've all be complaining about.

[Merc14]

I must be either very lucky or very good but I have had no problems with Asus boards. They do what they are supposed to and this P5N32 Plus is outstanding. Very forgiving. It is the best board I have owned next to my A8N32 SLI Deluxe. Two superb boards that overclock like banshees and are very forgiving. Work with it awhile and the thing sings.

[Jultsu]

Hey guys, where the HELL do you pick up those BIOS files?

[MrRuckus]

Wow. Nice find on the updated Bios. I went ahead and flashed it. Running the 6420 @ 3.6 right now. Well, actually 3599 heh (1799 FSB).

The Bios didn't do anything for my FSB holes though @ 1800Mhz and beyond. 1800-1900 or so = FSB holes (Im not trying every single Mhz because Im tired of reseting the jumper, heh). I can boot all the way up to about 1980FSB or so but always reboots when getting into windows.

1799 was not Orthos stable before. We'll see if thats changed.

[Leeghoofd]

And does 702 solve some of the issues ?

[r0n1n]

And does 702 solve some of the issues ?

Well, to be honest, I'm not the right person to answer this, since I didn't have that much troubles at all. Granted, the board needs some tweakin, but that's all the fun and appart from that, it runs pretty fine.

Issues like hot NB, and high voltage necessity won't really be solved by a bios update.
What I will look for, is if the 1.2VT issue is fixed, since on auto, it gave like 1.5-ish and made systems all over the world unstable.

Besides that, it's just my cpu holding me back on my OC. I even run 4 dimms OC'd w/o any probs on this baby

But on the other hand, it didn't bring any new issues to the table either (yet).
I'm guessing that SLINROB will also post his further findings, and MrRuckus, if you find anything else, we'd appreciate it if you also keep us informed of course, but I guess that goes without saying

Cheers, r0n1n

[r0n1n]

Hi again

Look, I'm about to ask two questions which could sound a tad n00b-ish... but then again, I still am one...

1) could someone explane me why, if you unlinck the mem in the bios, it never actually runs at the speed you manually configure? For example, I run fsb at 400 (1602) and mem set at 900, but it shows as 872 or something like that...
I do notice that everest tells me this is 10/9 or something, but then it isn't unlinked, right??? I'm a bit confused on this one.

and maybe even worse, since I don't really understand the manual on this subject

2) Does the middle pci-e lane (the white one) sport 16x? Here also, everest reports only 8x...
I'm only running 1 card atm, so I thought I could plug it in where-ever I wanted

Thanks for some enlightment on these

cheers, r0n1n

[SLINROB]

And does 702 solve some of the issues ?

Well for me it resolved a ton of stability issues. The FSB holes that I had before are now gone and for the first time ever it looks like I am truly stable a 450fsb E6600@3.6ghz on an 8Xmulti and all 4 slots are filled with 1gb sticks of ram and has now made over 9 passes of memtest error free.


Before this bios the best I could do was 3286mhz with my CPU using a much lower FSB and a 9X multi.

I just might keep this darn board after all.



Now can someone figure out where in the HECK this 0702 bios came from? I mean WTF?! its not on Asus's website so I dont get how someone found this.

[Radical_53]

@ronin: It's not totally unlinked as far as I know. It just has way more dividers than any other chipset plus RAM clocks should never be above what you set it at (at least not much).

I'm still a little puzzled with this board. Today, as it wasn't running normally yesterday afternoon, I lowered 1.2V HT and CPU HTT and the machine was still running normally. Prime wasn't working and led to freezes just like yesterday, but everything else seems to work fine.
I still don't have any clue why Prime does give me such an amount of trouble here... runs flawlessly one day for hours, not even 5 minutes the next...

[r0n1n]

Hey guys, where the HELL do you pick up those BIOS files?

Hi,

to everybody who's wondering where the bios came from...
user Herwawan apparently knows somebody down at Asus, who provided it to him.
As far as I'm concerned, this is also still a bèta, and if in the end one comes out that's also called 0702, I'd definately flash it again. We still don't know if this is the final build...

I'm now over 1 hour 40 orthos stable at 1.4, but still chip seems very vcore hungry. Couldn't breach 3.2 though till a couple of days ago...

Not sure whether it's the board, or the chip...

should lower multi one of these days to find out

well, that's another mistery solved (although you just could have read some posts up...)

Cheers, r0n1n

owa, before I forget, thx radical 53...

[SLINROB]

Screw it! THIS BOARD IS HISTORY! Just when I thought I had things worked out with the 0702 for NO REASON at all my board has started to become unstable again. I have spent more time fuking with this board for the past few months rather than enjoying my system and gaming. It aint worth it anymore.


Getting ready to put a P5B delux wifi board back in. Im officially through with Nvidia chipsets and SLI.

I never once had a single issue with my old P5b delux and that thing overclocked like mad.

[r0n1n]

damn, that sucks for u man...

sorry to hear about that. right when I have good news... stable orthos4 @ 3.4 now...

well, what board it will be... good luck

[SLINROB]

damn, that sucks for u man...

sorry to hear about that. right when I have good news... stable orthos4 @ 3.4 now...

well, what board it will be... good luck

I just popped in an Asus p5b delux that I got off of newegg for $112.00

Sitting at 3.6ghz stable at 450mhz fsb with memory at 900mhz on a 1:1 ratio.


So far rock stable and most importantly no FUSS! Intel chipsets are so much more friendly to OC.

I didnt need sli any way. 1 8800GTX is plenty for 1680X1050.

Now I can sell my second card and sli board and have some extra cash

[matthewrsx]

1) could someone explane me why, if you unlinck the mem in the bios, it never actually runs at the speed you manually configure? For example, I run fsb at 400 (1602) and mem set at 900, but it shows as 872 or something like that...
I do notice that everest tells me this is 10/9 or something, but then it isn't unlinked, right??? I'm a bit confused on this one.

and maybe even worse, since I don't really understand the manual on this subject

I have the same question/problem on my Plus. If I set memory to unlinked, then manually set it to 800, the bios and the post screen both display 786 or something.

If I set to "unlinked", there should be no dividers or multipliers. I'm on bios 0501...I really don't want to go to a beta bios unless I have to. Just wondering if anyone else has seen this issue.

[shimmishim]

I have the same question/problem on my Plus. If I set memory to unlinked, then manually set it to 800, the bios and the post screen both display 786 or something.

If I set to "unlinked", there should be no dividers or multipliers. I'm on bios 0501...I really don't want to go to a beta bios unless I have to. Just wondering if anyone else has seen this issue.

it has to do with the dividers...

1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 6/7, 7/8, 8/9, 9/10, 10/11, 11/12, 12/13, 13/14 and a bunch more dividers exist.

so in order to maintain those dividers, the numbers will round down to the nearest divider until you go above the next one.

let's say you set the FSB at 400 and the MEM at 437

then you will be on the 11/12 divider (as will 438, 439)

you will remain on the 11/12 until you pass MEM over 440

then you will be on the 10/11 divider

you will remain on the 10/11 until you pass MEM over 444

then you will be on the 9/10 divider

etc etc etc

just mess around with it... you'll see what i mean...

it pretty much rounds DOWN to the nearest divider