Asus P5N-E SLI small review

[tvdang7]

can some one give me tips on using this damn board?
i cant overclock a thing. i put in linked mode and tried a conservative 1200 and it didnt boot. coming from a ds3 that did 400fsb fine and this wont even move 1 mhz. and i doing something wrong?

EDIT#1 oooooo put the memory in async mode not 1:1 now thats confusing.
Edit #2 is there a windows overclocking tool we can use? surprised asus a company so well known doesnt have a windows utility.
tried the vdroop mod it didnt work. what kind of pencil am i sopposed to use? its pretty hard to swipe that thing.

[sbinh]

can some one give me tips on using this damn board?
i cant overclock a thing. i put in linked mode and tried a conservative 1200 and it didnt boot. coming from a ds3 that did 400fsb fine and this wont even move 1 mhz. and i doing something wrong?

EDIT#1 oooooo put the memory in async mode not 1:1 now thats confusing.
Edit #2 is there a windows overclocking tool we can use? surprised asus a company so well known doesnt have a windows utility.
tried the vdroop mod it didnt work. what kind of pencil am i sopposed to use? its pretty hard to swipe that thing.

If you are using "LINK MODE", make sure that you do NOT set it to 1:1 ....
Otherwise, your RAM will not be able to handle that speed that you set (except that it is at acceptable speed for that RAM.)

Ex: your RAM is rated 800MHz. You set your FSB = 1200MHz and in LINK MODE (1:1) --> this would FORCE your RAM to run at 1200MHz

Personnally, I preffer using "UNSINKED MODE". That way, I can either let system decides RAM speed or I can manually key in
(i.e: using 1066MHz RAM, by default, if set FSB to 1600MHz --> system will set RAM at 800MHz. However, you can key in the (acceptable) speed for RAM ... to have higher RAM speed --- 1066 ... 1070.... etc)