Asus P5N-E SLI small review

[Ron 61]

I ordered one ( Asus P5N-E SLI)from zipzoom and I have a xeon 3060 to drop in it but I'm unsure of what memory to buy. I would like to get either Team 2 Gb Kit DDR2 (2x 1Gb) 4-4-4-10 800Mhz or G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ. Can anybody tell me if this memory will play nice with this board?

[couppi]

I ordered one ( Asus P5N-E SLI)from zipzoom and I have a xeon 3060 to drop in it but I'm unsure of what memory to buy. I would like to get either Team 2 Gb Kit DDR2 (2x 1Gb) 4-4-4-10 800Mhz or G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ. Can anybody tell me if this memory will play nice with this board?

I'm using the Team Xtreem stuff right now and it clocks horrible. It can't do 400mhz CL4 1T stable and can only do 500mhz 2T at CL5 with 2.5v. I'm going to return these sticks and try the Gskill 2GBHZ.

I'll grab a P5b-dlx and a floppy tomorrow and test performance and raid.

The NF6 only clockgen works great. I can move the fsb downward just fine, but I get a hard freeze at 507mhz

[Phosphate]

I'm using the Team Xtreem stuff right now and it clocks horrible. It can't do 400mhz CL4 1T stable and can only do 500mhz 2T at CL5 with 2.5v. I'm going to return these sticks and try the Gskill 2GBHZ.

I'll grab a P5b-dlx and a floppy tomorrow and test performance and raid.

The NF6 only clockgen works great. I can move the fsb downward just fine, but I get a hard freeze at 507mhz

It will be interesting to see how the HZ D9 sticks work because Anandtech was seemingly having a similar problem with the OCZ Flex D9s.

[Deathspawner]

It will be interesting to see how the HZ D9 sticks work because Anandtech was seemingly having a similar problem with the OCZ Flex D9s.

I've had the same problem with three kits of ram, including the one they mentioned in their review. Seems like the board just doesn't want to clock ram well at all.

[[XC] hipno650]

if it can oc to 500fsb i will take a hard look at it for a e4300 cuz if it could hit 3.2ghz stable with the e4300 and some mushkin em667 i would pick one up for a wcg cruncher and secondary gaming rig. nice results guys!!!

[Ron 61]

Thanks couppi, any info you can post is much appreciated. Looks like maybe I need to get the G skill but doesn't the g skill and team both have micron D9GMH? Why would one be better than the other?

[Trice]

Im installing my board now, I have RAID 0, BUT my SATA for my 300 GB SATA II drive has broken pins so I will need a new one of those before I test the issues.

BTW they dont include a floppy RAID, you have to insert the CD, load it as first CD, then boot off it, then make a RAID floppy off that. Bit of a hassle but it works.

[Cooper]

Can you copy RAID driver to USB flash drive and install them from it on this board ?

[Lestat]

Can you copy RAID driver to USB flash drive and install them from it on this board ?

cooper using usb flash drive for windows install is only possible with Windows Vista.
XP does not look at usb flash drives for drivers

[couppi]

Can anyone tell me if this superpi result is good? This is on a fresh install of xp pro without any tweaks.


Vdroop is horrible. In asus probe, it goes from 1.57v idle to 1.49v fully loaded. This board desperately needs a vdroop mod.

[siodine]

Is this board a better buy than the Asus P5B-E? I don't know if I will go SLI in the future, but it's a possibility.

[Millyons]

Can anyone tell me if this superpi result is good? This is on a fresh install of xp pro without any tweaks.


Vdroop is horrible. In asus probe, it goes from 1.57v idle to 1.49v fully loaded. This board desperately needs a vdroop mod.

thats pretty slow for 3700mhz.....the other person with 3600 is also pretty slow......just as a comparo im running 3500 389@ 4-4-4-12 on P5Bdlx and i just ran 1mb PI with IE, MSN, Nod, MBM, etc open on a 24/7 os and my rez is 14.659sec

[Trice]

So far my results:

I have had ZERO issues with my RAID and SATA setup.

1.5 in BIOS reports 1.4ish with ASUS Probe under ORTHOS.

NB sink gets too hot for my tastes, I put A5 on it and a 120 mm fan on it.

Im at 1500 FSB and 850 RAM so far, but havent really messed with it THAT much.

So far Im pretty happy with it for the price I paid.

[Lestat]

me and Trice are talking on Msn and for whatever reason he cant even do 400mhz FSB
now he has a 6600 and i am trying to help him and nothing is working.


if your able to get above or at 400mhz with a 6600 then please post how you did it.

and just as i feared, droop is typical asus style. once again you are forced to mod their retarded baords to achieve what they should be doing from the factory.

[Supertim0r]

not bad for a budget board

this thing look like their first p4/sli mobo

[Trice]

I finally got 400 FSB to work. I cranked NB Core up and its perfectly fine. RAM is at 850 for now, but going to go to bed looooooong day.

[couppi]

I finally got 400 FSB to work. I cranked NB Core up and its perfectly fine. RAM is at 850 for now, but going to go to bed looooooong day.

That's pretty strange. Mine can do 400mhz stock volts totally stable and boots into windows at 450mhz, but needs a bump to 1.4v to be stable.

[Trice]

I have a 4MB L2 chip.

[zert]

I have a 4MB L2 chip.

so you're saying it's your cpu holding you back and not the board?

[Trice]

Well I was told that the extra L2 makes it a lot harder to OC. I'm pretty new to this board, HOWEVER, once I pumped up the FSB to 400 and added volts to the NB (was using AUTO prior) it worked fine and has done so since.

[Trice]

Ok as I said that, I just reboot, went ot BIOS and put FSB to 1800 and 8x multi.

Tadaaaaaaa.

I will start working on my RAM soon.

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=147487

14.750 1M (stuff open, etc)

38.969 2M

[Trice]

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=147497

E6600 4 MB L2 too.

[[XC] hipno650]

nice work trice!!! whats the max fsb at 8x or at 9x?

[Trice]

nice work trice!!! whats the max fsb at 8x or at 9x?

Havent tried yet, but Im going to try 525 after I prime here in another 50 min.

[zert]

nice result so far mate keep em comming.
so far both boards do 500fsb without to mutch hassle, looks promising.

Trice how is the NB temp?