Asus P5N-E SLI small review

[Shampoo]

I believe Bios 0803 is for the new dual core support. I might pick up an E8400 and update to this new one sometime in the near future.

Don't go and confuse people. It only takes a quick minute to check if what you're saying is true before posting it.

0803 DOES NOT SUPPORT 45NM CPUs.

I posted a thread in this same forum section about this board and my endeavors with an E8400 recently.

Your E8400 will not work "properly" until the bios is released sometime next week by Asus engineers.

My source? An Anandtech editor who emailed Asus for me since I asked him to.

There are a couple threads in here about P5N-E SLI boards and the new 45nm processors, just take a quick look.

Couple members have the processor stable on this board, but I don't know how they did so, because I couldn't get it stable even at stock settings. Maybe it's because I'm using 4GB of ram and they're not.

Just can't wait until the official bios release next week so I can rush out and pick up another cpu to try out.


Cheers,
Mike

Edit:: 0803 seems to get rid of the FSB hole when using 4GB (4x1GB modules) of ram, between high 700Mhz and low 800Mhz. One member at Anandtech forums experienced the hole is still present with 8GB of ram. I don't see many P5N-E SLI owners using 8GB of ram, so I think you'll be fine using this bios. I love it. No more having to take out ram sticks just to get it to boot to bios then having to change settings and then putting the stick back in, after a cmos reset.