The Unofficial ASUS P5N-E SLI 650i Board Thread

[adder1971]

Originally posted by: HRPretzel

Originally posted by: adder1971

Originally posted by: AZDude
I've worked it up to 2625 (375.1 X 7) and seems stable ( I have only changed the FSB, everything else is still stock). The temperatures have gone up a little. I have run Orthos a couple times after I increased the FSB and it runs with no errors. One thing I did notice is the core temps on my last run (@2.4GHz) went up to 56 degrees Celsius. Is this high or normal?

http://usera.imagecave.com/bear254/2.6GHzOC.JPG

Going to lunch with the wife and will run Orthos while I'm gone. It will be about 1 1/2 hours.

i wouldn't worry until the upper 60's but thats just me. my old 6800gt would get that hot just in windows desktop.

CPU temps and Video Card temps are totally different things. It's my understanding that you don't want to run your CPU much hotter than the low 60's.

here's a good thread for informational purposes.

xtremesystems temp thread

 

[Core2]

Originally posted by: Septimus
Has anyone successfully got the P5N-E to boot with all 4 sticks of memory in, with the new BIOS?

I RMAd my P5N-e and am getting a replacement next week. I have 4x1GB of Crucial Ballistix -- previously the board would only boot with all 4 if you linked the memory and ran it below 800 MHz.

I Have always had 4 sticks of ram

8x440 with Four sticks of ram

 

[adder1971]

Originally posted by: Core2

Originally posted by: Septimus
Has anyone successfully got the P5N-E to boot with all 4 sticks of memory in, with the new BIOS?

I RMAd my P5N-e and am getting a replacement next week. I have 4x1GB of Crucial Ballistix -- previously the board would only boot with all 4 if you linked the memory and ran it below 800 MHz.

I Have always had 4 sticks of ram

8x440 with Four sticks of ram

nice, over the 3.5 barrier :-O

 

[adder1971]

Originally posted by: Core2
I think I'll do a little more tinkering tonight. We have to find the new holes.

roger that, i'll be checking for them this weekend as well. hopefully there are less to find. lol

 

[AZDude]

Originally posted by: AZDude
I've worked it up to 2625 (375.1 X 7) and seems stable ( I have only changed the FSB, everything else is still stock). The temperatures have gone up a little. I have run Orthos a couple times after I increased the FSB and it runs with no errors. One thing I did notice is the core temps on my last run (@2.4GHz) went up to 56 degrees Celsius. Is this high or normal?

http://usera.imagecave.com/bear254/2.6GHzOC.JPG

Going to lunch with the wife and will run Orthos while I'm gone. It will be about 1 1/2 hours.

Well, I came back from lunch and the PC had locked up. Restarted it and ran orthos again and it lasted 18 minutes before it froze again. Restarted again and it wouldn't finish loading windows. Dropping it back down a half a click to 1450/800 to see what happens.

 

[adder1971]

Originally posted by: Nevets Drassel
OK, here I am:

3.2 GHz (1600HT 800M)
1.35V CPU
1.98V MEM
3.93V NB


Whats next? Do I continue to up the HT or work on the memory?

i would say up the cpu HT. try 1700 you should be fine for NB voltage until the higher 1800's

 

[adder1971]

Originally posted by: AZDude

Originally posted by: AZDude
I've worked it up to 2625 (375.1 X 7) and seems stable ( I have only changed the FSB, everything else is still stock). The temperatures have gone up a little. I have run Orthos a couple times after I increased the FSB and it runs with no errors. One thing I did notice is the core temps on my last run (@2.4GHz) went up to 56 degrees Celsius. Is this high or normal?

http://usera.imagecave.com/bear254/2.6GHzOC.JPG

Going to lunch with the wife and will run Orthos while I'm gone. It will be about 1 1/2 hours.

Well, I came back from lunch and the PC had locked up. Restarted it and ran orthos again and it lasted 18 minutes before it froze again. Restarted again and it wouldn't finish loading windows. Dropping it back down a half a click. to see what happens.

may want to increase NB voltage, lock ups are normally associated with that, although i wouldnt rule out temps either with the way it runs less stably everytime you boot it.

 

[Core2]

Was never able to hit this spot. Still with 4 sticks

8x450 3600

Temps at 3600

Don't drool when you look at those temps guys lol

Edit: Temps for the NB 109F SB 87F With extra cooling, heatsink on the SB and a fan on the Stock NB temps were monitored with sensors at the base of the heatsinks

Voltage Setting:
vcore 1.35
NB 1.56
vdimm 2.08

Unlinked 1800/800

 

[Nevets Drassel]

Originally posted by: adder1971

Originally posted by: Nevets Drassel
OK, here I am:

3.2 GHz (1600HT 800M)
1.35V CPU
1.98V MEM
3.93V NB


Whats next? Do I continue to up the HT or work on the memory?

i would say up the cpu HT. try 1700 you should be fine for NB voltage until the higher 1800's

OK I'm at 3412 (426.6 X 8) HT=1706

I POST, BOOT, and Windows starts but when I run ORTHOS, it fails after about 9 min. Timings are 4-4-4-12T 2T as per manafacturer specs.

On a side note, if you run your NB at 1.5V better put a fan on that sucker. I put the Thermalright HR-05 SLI on my board and it was hot, enought that I could burn my finger. Put a fan on it and now it is cool to the touch. Don't care what anybody says, get a good heatsink and fan for your NB if you are going to OC.

 

[imported_Septimus]

Pardon my total ignorance, but what is the 3.5 barrier? I thought Vista was supposed to be able to deal with 4 (and 8 with the 64 bit)?

 

[idiotekniQues]

i put an hr-05 on my nb and even at full load after an hour i could rest my hand on it and it would be very warm but i could keep it there forever if i wanted to.this was at the 1.56v running at 3.2+ghz

no fan needed if your case has good airflow.

 

[adder1971]

Originally posted by: Septimus
Pardon my total ignorance, but what is the 3.5 barrier? I thought Vista was supposed to be able to deal with 4 (and 8 with the 64 bit)?

sorry 3.5ghz for CPU, not really a barrier just a mark to strive for

 

[adder1971]

Originally posted by: Nevets Drassel

Originally posted by: adder1971

Originally posted by: Nevets Drassel
OK, here I am:

3.2 GHz (1600HT 800M)
1.35V CPU
1.98V MEM
3.93V NB


Whats next? Do I continue to up the HT or work on the memory?

i would say up the cpu HT. try 1700 you should be fine for NB voltage until the higher 1800's

OK I'm at 3412 (426.6 X 8) HT=1706

I POST, BOOT, and Windows starts but when I run ORTHOS, it fails after about 9 min. Timings are 4-4-4-12T 2T as per manafacturer specs.

On a side note, if you run your NB at 1.5V better put a fan on that sucker. I put the Thermalright HR-05 SLI on my board and it was hot, enought that I could burn my finger. Put a fan on it and now it is cool to the touch. Don't care what anybody says, get a good heatsink and fan for your NB if you are going to OC.

i always have one of the cores fail at that setting as well. end up having to up vcore to get it to pass orthos. will boot into windows fine though. is the top one failing or the bottom one? my cpu 0 seems to need more volts than cpu 1

 

[adder1971]

Originally posted by: Core2
Was never able to hit this spot. Still with 4 sticks

8x450 3600

Temps at 3600

Don't drool when you look at those temps guys lol

Edit: Temps for the NB 109F SB 87F With extra cooling, heatsink on the SB and a fan on the Stock NB temps were monitored with sensors at the base of the heatsinks

Voltage Setting:
vcore 1.35
NB 1.56
vdimm 2.08

Unlinked 1800/800

too late i'm already droolin can you run core temp and let me know what that says? your core is absurdly cool

 

[Core2]

I must of missed a few pages. What does the HT stand for? either that or I'm
getting to old.

Welcome Aboard to all the New People
Have a seat and join in

I think we set a record this week on how many pages were posted to this forum.

 

[imported_Septimus]

I just ask about the 3.5 thing because when I did get all 4 gigs to boot up in the previous p5n-e, Vista (business edition) only reocgnized 3.5, though BIOS had all 4. didn't have time to investigate it before I had to RMA the board though.

 

[Core2]

too late i'm already droolin can you run core temp and let me know what that says? your core is absurdly cool

Sorry, I should have put that in. Its been right on with speedfan so lately I haven't been running it

I'm going to try 460 in a little bit I'll make sure I run it for you. Just don't ask me to run that Orthos (cpu cooker) program

Folks, again I am going to mention this that I do this for fun (hobby) so I try to hit higher clocks not stability could care less. So my voltages and setting are more like a base reference.

 

[Nevets Drassel]

Originally posted by: adder1971

Originally posted by: Nevets Drassel

Originally posted by: adder1971

Originally posted by: Nevets Drassel
OK, here I am:

3.2 GHz (1600HT 800M)
1.35V CPU
1.98V MEM
3.93V NB


Whats next? Do I continue to up the HT or work on the memory?

i would say up the cpu HT. try 1700 you should be fine for NB voltage until the higher 1800's

OK I'm at 3412 (426.6 X 8) HT=1706

I POST, BOOT, and Windows starts but when I run ORTHOS, it fails after about 9 min. Timings are 4-4-4-12T 2T as per manafacturer specs.

On a side note, if you run your NB at 1.5V better put a fan on that sucker. I put the Thermalright HR-05 SLI on my board and it was hot, enought that I could burn my finger. Put a fan on it and now it is cool to the touch. Don't care what anybody says, get a good heatsink and fan for your NB if you are going to OC.

i always have one of the cores fail at that setting as well. end up having to up vcore to get it to pass orthos. will boot into windows fine though. is the top one failing or the bottom one? my cpu 0 seems to need more volts than cpu 1

Thats because no 2 cores are alike. One has to fail before the other.

Update:

Now at 3520 (8 X 440) In Windows playing around. Still having problems with ORTHOS. For me it is my top core where-as on my AMD system is the lower core. It just means that you are near your limit.

My VCore reads as 1.36 in ASUS P II, 1.4 in BIOS, 1.36 in CPU-Z and 1.36 in Speedfan. Looks like the 1.36 wins and I am going to up the voltage on the CPU to get to 1.385. Looks like around 1.4275 or there abouts (in BIOS).

Ne help with STABILITY. If I can keep the OC and get it stable, I'd be VERY impressed with Intel.

 

[Nevets Drassel]

Originally posted by: Core2
I must of missed a few pages. What does the HT stand for? either that or I'm
getting to old.

Welcome Aboard to all the New People
Have a seat and join in

I think we set a record this week on how many pages were posted to this forum.

HT = Hyper Threading (AMD Talk)
HTT = Intel's version (Hyper Threading Technology or Hyper Transport Technology)?

In an AMD system, you no longer have the traditional FSB due to HT technology. That is why I (amoung others) use the HT term when we should be refering it as HTT.

I need STABILITY.......

 

[AZDude]

Originally posted by: adder1971

Originally posted by: AZDude

Originally posted by: AZDude
I've worked it up to 2625 (375.1 X 7) and seems stable ( I have only changed the FSB, everything else is still stock). The temperatures have gone up a little. I have run Orthos a couple times after I increased the FSB and it runs with no errors. One thing I did notice is the core temps on my last run (@2.4GHz) went up to 56 degrees Celsius. Is this high or normal?

http://usera.imagecave.com/bear254/2.6GHzOC.JPG

Going to lunch with the wife and will run Orthos while I'm gone. It will be about 1 1/2 hours.

Well, I came back from lunch and the PC had locked up. Restarted it and ran orthos again and it lasted 18 minutes before it froze again. Restarted again and it wouldn't finish loading windows. Dropping it back down a half a click. to see what happens.

may want to increase NB voltage, lock ups are normally associated with that, although i wouldnt rule out temps either with the way it runs less stably everytime you boot it.

Update; Dropped the FSB to 1450/800. Runs stable. Ran Orthos for well over an hour with 0errors and 0 warnings. Both cores ran at 54C under a full load. I do have a question on voltages,Both SpeedFan and Probe II show a Vcore voltage drop under load.
Idle @ 1.31
Load @ 1.264

Is this normal?

 

[Nevets Drassel]

I just kicked up the VCore to 1.43875 in BIOS to get a 1.39 reading in the software. That is a .05V difference. Work need to be done here....

I also noted the voltage drop in Windows. It is around .05V for me. 1.392 at rest, 1.344 at load. I have heard of others talking about a voltage 'droop' and I wonder if this is it..

 

[Core2]

Here's is OC 3666.73

Temps and yes with coretemp
Temps at 3667

Edit: NB 110F SB 87.5F
vcore 1.3625
NB 1.56
vdimm 2.08

Unlinked
1840/800

 

[Core2]

Originally posted by: Nevets Drassel
I just kicked up the VCore to 1.43875 in BIOS to get a 1.39 reading in the software. That is a .05V difference. Work need to be done here....

I also noted the voltage drop in Windows. It is around .05V for me. 1.392 at rest, 1.344 at load. I have heard of others talking about a voltage 'droop' and I wonder if this is it..

Thats it vdroop all boards do it Asus is famous for it

 

[Nevets Drassel]

Originally posted by: Core2

Originally posted by: Nevets Drassel
I just kicked up the VCore to 1.43875 in BIOS to get a 1.39 reading in the software. That is a .05V difference. Work need to be done here....

I also noted the voltage drop in Windows. It is around .05V for me. 1.392 at rest, 1.344 at load. I have heard of others talking about a voltage 'droop' and I wonder if this is it..

Thats it vdroop all boards do it Asus is famous for it

Thats pretty massive.

I got to here so far:

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y119/slessard/3600.jpg

Going to see how long I can run ORTHOS

 

[Core2]

Originally posted by: Nevets Drassel

Originally posted by: Core2

Originally posted by: Nevets Drassel
I just kicked up the VCore to 1.43875 in BIOS to get a 1.39 reading in the software. That is a .05V difference. Work need to be done here....

I also noted the voltage drop in Windows. It is around .05V for me. 1.392 at rest, 1.344 at load. I have heard of others talking about a voltage 'droop' and I wonder if this is it..

Thats it vdroop all boards do it Asus is famous for it

Thats pretty massive.

I got to here so far:



http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y119/slessard/3600.jpg

Going to see how long I can run ORTHOS

I thought your board was dead?
What did you do to jump start it??
I'd say that board is working A OK