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

[Jultsu]

Try 1333fsb

1.2v HT -> 1.5v
CPU VTT -> 1.5v


This board really wasn't meant for quadcores (or at least oc'ing them)

[Radical_53]

Voltages that high never really worked for me, the only thing where they helped was the FSB hole between 350 somewhere and roughly 400.
Below and above, 1.25V for both was the best setting I could find for my board. Vsb was left at default, Vnb might do something for you (I'm running it at 1.44v "real" right now, needed to raise it for higher clocks on the quad).

[>GSXR<mrbusa]

What BIOS did your board ship with. My replacement a few months ago shipped with a 700 series BIOS. From what I see around is that 0801 and 0803 are the best for quads.

I just bought this mobo, along with some other new parts, in hopes of getting at least some OC done. Everything I've tried thus far fails.

I've gotten it to post 1280MHz QDR but anything above that is not posting. Everything but the stock 1066MHz fails to load Windows, it will just restart during loading.

If I set memory to 1066MHz manually it fails to load Windows. Upping voltage doesn't help and at 2.2V to mem it fails to post.

My settings were:


Should expect anything better than stock 1066MHz with stock NB and SB cooling?

My rig is:
C2Q6600 G0
2x 1GB A-Data PC-8500 Extreme Edition
2x nVIDIA 8800 GTS 512MB (G92) in SLI mode

Cooling:
4x 12cm case fans, two in takes and two outputs.
CPU IDLE 47C
GPU IDLE 54C

[trulez]

What BIOS did your board ship with. My replacement a few months ago shipped with a 700 series BIOS. From what I see around is that 0801 and 0803 are the best for quads.

The board shipped with 0705 bios, and I've tried 0801 but that didn't improve the situation.

[>GSXR<mrbusa]

The board shipped with 0705 bios, and I've tried 0801 but that didn't improve the situation.

I would try the 0803 and 0805 also I guess.
Are all your volts staying stable?
Can your PSU handle all that hardware?

[Garrett]

Well I'm totally done with this P5N32-E SLI board... too much hassle and problems getting the Q6600 400fsb to boot... I'm selling it to my cousin along with a dualcore (e6600)
At least the dualcore clocks good on it

[DarkCow]

well, this board is all about cooling the NB and SB like you guys said.


last night after 4 hours of prime testing at 9x1250(~2.8ghz) I was running like a champ, tried 9x1333(3.0ghz) it would post, but it would get stuck at the bios menu, so bscly couldn't get into bios.

this mourning after the NB cooled down, it booted great at 9x1333 first try. But now the motherboard's temp sensor is climbing so im going to shut her down before it gets to hot again...

time to buy some heatsinks!


edit: bah hum bug. can't boot above 1375x9. need to cool it more. tried 1600x8 and no go, I need to get my fan online... time to pull out the soldering iron

one question though, if the motherboard Posts but doesn't get past the Ai logo screen (It beeps, but can't get into bios options, or boot windows) would that be a NB/SB issue or CPU?

[Jultsu]

I'm guessing NB. I can move about happily in BIOS with 4.05GHz and 1.45v, but of course it won't boot into windows. Put 1.2vHT to 1.45v from bios to make sure (and SB 1.55v). I recall ~1.60v to get 400fsb

[DarkCow]

Bah hum bug... FSB 333 was running perfectly for 8 hours, then bam crash, wouldn't reboot (doing the same business of not allowing me to enter bios options) left it off for 30 mins, booted perfectly. Until I can fix my large fan I'm going to have to cope, but I'd rather find a different solution. (The fan, even on the lowest voltage possible is still quite loud)


I'm curious as to which options would have the best "performance to heat" ratio, if you catch my drift.

I'm guessing the NB will hit my temps the most, followed by VTT, then 1.2vHT, then SB. Do you think thats right? I'm just guessing here, I honestly have no idea.


Right now I'm running 313FSB with NB: 1.30 SB:1.55 VTT:1.25 1.2HT:1.25 (which is 5 hours prime stable)

[Radical_53]

I did a "test" with that yesterday. I have the HR-05 on my NB and only used some normal case fans (2 Yate Loons and 2 80mm ones), no direct fan blowing on the NB heatsink. It didn't pass 50&#176;C on the backside of the NB with 1.49V real feeding it.
Still I do seem to have some "hot" part below my graphics card (which is water cooled), as something always gives me trouble when I put the fan aside that the card can "rest" on. SB temps are fine, I guess there's some little stupid chip that gets really hot. Haven't found it yet.

[lesterLL]

hmmm.. i've been running @ 333x9 (1333mhz) for like 2 months now... i dont recall any problem regarding on boot...

i am still running @3.0ghz.. hahahaha... what a bum!hahah

[DarkCow]

hmmm.. i've been running @ 333x9 (1333mhz) for like 2 months now... i dont recall any problem regarding on boot...

i am still running @3.0ghz.. hahahaha... what a bum!hahah

what are your voltages might I ask? still on stock cooling?


I know I can get 3.2ghz to run stable 24/7, just have to tweak the hell outta this mobo to get there.

[lesterLL]

@darkcow
vcore = 1.28v
NB = 1.35v
VTT = 1.25v

NB is still on stock cooling... coz am plannin to buy a new board.. so might as well not buy new cooling for it..

[Radical_53]

I ran into problems after doing stress testing, longer gaming and such also, but I never encountered too bad problems when booting the machine.

I'm still puzzled where my heat problem might come from. It's not the NB, the HR-05 seems to be working great with the case fans running. It's not the PWMs either, they do ok with some fresh air from the case fans and the PSU. But there's something below the graphics card... anyone ever had this?
I'm running PCIe clocks of 160MHz instead of the normal 100MHz on the first PCIe slot, if that might have something to do with a small part getting hot like hell?

[Snyxxx]

South Bidge gets smokin' hot on my board. I ended up watercooling since it felt "burn your fingers" hot. Also, it seemed hotter than the North Bridge.

The latest version of Everest now includes a "MCP" temperature. On my stock motherboard, this MCP temp shows 94&#176;C

I read that the MCP is the South Bridge, makes sense.

[>GSXR<mrbusa]

South Bidge gets smokin' hot on my board. I ended up watercooling since it felt "burn your fingers" hot. Also, it seemed hotter than the North Bridge.

The latest version of Everest now includes a "MCP" temperature. On my stock motherboard, this MCP temp shows 94&#176;C

I read that the MCP is the South Bridge, makes sense.

Mine is pretty hot also at 61c/142f but I am not overclocking much.

[onthepulse]

Hi there,

Anyone using the 0901 BIOS. I am using it with an E2180 and it seems to work fine for me. But it's the only BIOS I have tried so far.

Also, anyone heard anything about Yorkfield compatibility? I know that the word so far is that there is no official 45nm Quad support for this board, but I wonder if anyone has heard anything new?

Thanks,
onthepulse

[Jultsu]

There were rumours that Asus would make a new bios for this board that would support 45nm CPU... Maybe some day.

0901 is not good for overclocking, try 0801 or 0803 for best results (400+ fsb).

[panfist]

So...has anyone been able to get any Penryns working on this board? I flashed the latest stable BIOS, released on 12/28 or something, and it boots but it forces the multiplier to 6 instead of 9. Anyone?

[panfist]

Actually I tried setting multipliers of 7, and 8 and those worked, so apparently if I set the multiplier to 9 something breaks, but that's supposed to be the default multiplier of the proc.

Currently I'm on a multiplier of 8 running a very mild overclock and getting 2.93GHz stable.

[panfist]

As of right now I have flashed the 0805 BIOS onto the board and the processor is recognized as 9x multiplier 1333mhz FSB only the first time it boots after a hard reset (ie clear CMOS jumper or remove the battery for 30 seconds). Every other time I try to boot it, I cannot force a 9x multiplier. I can force 8 no problem and even achieve 3.10ghz on the processor stable. Right now I have 9x multiplier stable except for the fact that when I reboot I cannot figure out how to achieve 9x multiplier again, without performing a hard CMOS reset.

Due to the fact that if I reboot my system I can't get the 9x multiplier, I have to accept the default settings.

[onthepulse]

There were rumours that Asus would make a new bios for this board that would support 45nm CPU... Maybe some day.

0901 is not good for overclocking, try 0801 or 0803 for best results (400+ fsb).

Thanks heaps Amazing difference...

Couldn't get Orthos stable at anything over 2.8GHz with BIOS 0901, stock cooler, Vcore on auto.
Flash to from 0901 to 0801...
3.0Ghz stable immediately.

UPDATE: Reached 3.15GHz (9x350) able to benchmark, etc, still with stock cooler and auto Vcore.
Getting too hot at >3GHz though... Going to get a TRUE-120 tomorrow Can't wait to push it further with some proper cooling...

[onthepulse]

Guys, Orthos stable, but encountering random lock-ups/freezing or BSOD with 0801 BIOS after an hour or so of use. What do you suggest I do? Should I try some more volts to the NB chipset?

Anyone else experience this? Currently:
- E2180 @ 2.8GHz (1120 QDR, 10x multi)
- DDR2-800 (auto timings)
- all voltages on auto
- MEMTEST, zero errors, several passes

[Radical_53]

Voltages on auto, change that. Asus thinks it's a feature to raise the voltages according to the FSB.
The funny thing now comes as the board doesn't like some voltages too high. So just the right spot? Bingo, it gives you increased stability. Too much? Well, there goes stability again...
So I'd suggest that you set those voltages to default first and then try to move on forward.

Btw., I'm using 901 due to my sound card and it seems to work "somehow". I can't get my old clockrate back completely, but at least I'm at 3.8GHz now where I was at 3.833 totally stable before, benching at 3.9...


@snyxxx: Well that's interesting My SB seems to be hotter than the NB too, even if I feed both with the same voltages I thought it was because of the "blocked" HR-05 heatsink that's just below my graphics card (which is watercooled).

[Jultsu]

Well, I might be jumping the wagon

http://www.asrock.com/news/show.asp?id=116


Just placed an order, hopefully it'll be here within next week.