ASUS P5N-E SLI

MiXdNuTs said:
What kind of speeds could you hit with the above bundle?
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The eight systems I have built at work,with that exact parts list has consistently hit 3.15 to 3.4+ Ghz with low ram timings.As well,this was with the retail HSF in all 5 builds.Only
thing I did was slap AS5 and a cheap sink on the chipset for an extra 3 or 4 bucks.
 
Do NOT flash in windows. I tried it and bricked my first p5n-e. Windows bluescreened and I was a sad, sad, panda. EZ-flash worked fine from a usb flash drive.

Currently have my week 32B e6600 running at 3600 at 1.425v, 400Mhz FSB * 9, NB 1.5v, and the cheapest ram on newegg at 800Mhz 4/4/4/12 2T 1.9v. Gotta love cheap RAM. Kid tested, orthos and memtest 12 hour approved.

Active cooling on the northbridge is absolutely required to overlock. Without it, not only did the NB get too hot to touch but my 8800GTS below did too. Really scary.
 
No, but you can clock the ram asynchronously so you shouldn't have any problems. Pretty much all DDR2-667 will overclock to DDR2-800 anyway with relaxed timings and maybe a bit of voltage.
 
Okay. Maybe I am just being a dip here but I can't get my system to post at any fsb higher than 333/1333.
I have the northbridge at 1.3whatever v in bios, all the speedstepping stuff turned off... memory unlinked at 667. Memory also at auto or at what its rated at 5-5-5-15-30-2t (even though i can run it faster). All the speedstepping stuff off.... I active cooling on both the northbridge and southbridge. Only one stick of ram....
 
I just thought i'd drop by and say that I'm running 1T timings in what looks to be stable conditions. I'll run it through a stress test tonight and see what happens, but i just made it through quite a few 3dm06 runs. The motherboard is running the bios that shipped with it, and my memory is in the back two slots. The rig is a e6300 at 3.32 ghz and ram at 800 mhz (pc2-8500 dominator mem). The 3dmark06 cpu test didn't come out any better, i'll have to download sandra and do some memory benchies and see what type of difference it'll make. All of this to run eq2 at max settings, hah :)

Edit: Yeah, after running 2x instances of prime95 last night, it failed going into the second test, not so stable after all :(
 
Got a couple issues with my P5N-E SLI.

1) First the bios (0401) is reading my Tuniq tower CPU temp at around 34 Celsius which doesn't seem right.

2) Vista Ultimate 64-bit is not reporting any info on CPU-Z or the NVIDIA Monitoring software.

Has anyone experienced any similar issues?
 
I wonder if anyone has bought these coolers for the northbridge (HR-05) and for the southbridge (HR-05 SLI), and can confirm they fit ?

I want to be sure before I buy these

Also are they supposed to come with any thermal paste?

thank you
 
bpmurrGT said:
Got a couple issues with my P5N-E SLI.

1) First the bios (0401) is reading my Tuniq tower CPU temp at around 34 Celsius which doesn't seem right.
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That seems about in-line with testing I've seen on the Tuniq, depending on the clock of your chip. Is it higher than you've seen before with the same chip on a different mobo?
 
Saw this in another thread.
I think I will go with the same cooling setup.

Anyone have this setup or atleast the Tuniq in a TJ09?

From:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1133290&page=7


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In addition to my earlier question, I wish to know if the ZALMAN passive ZM-NBF47northbridge cooler will be a better option than the stock huge heatsink on the northbridge chipset?

http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=200&code=014


Update: I emailed thermalright and they wrote the HR-05 will not fit the northbrigde chipset on the P5N-E SLI, and the HR-05-SLI will not fit the southbridge chipset, unless used with short video cards

So any suggestions for other northbridge / southbridge chipset (to allow SLI)?

and what about the last 3 as southbridge cooler? http://www.zalman.co.kr/usa/product/code_list.asp?code=014

any idea what differes the ZM-NB32K from the ZM-NB32J?
 
Commander Suzdal said:
That seems about in-line with testing I've seen on the Tuniq, depending on the clock of your chip. Is it higher than you've seen before with the same chip on a different mobo?
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Honestly I wasn't sure, Anandtech did an article showing lower idle CPU temp, 27 Celsius on a X6800 stock. I still can't get any reads in Vista 64-bit from the motherboard. Hopefully NVIDIA will update the monitoring software soon.
 
stalker said:
In addition to my earlier question, I wish to know if the ZALMAN passive ZM-NBF47northbridge cooler will be a better option than the stock huge heatsink on the northbridge chipset?

http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=200&code=014


Update: I emailed thermalright and they wrote the HR-05 will not fit the northbrigde chipset on the P5N-E SLI, and the HR-05-SLI will not fit the southbridge chipset, unless used with short video cards

So any suggestions for other northbridge / southbridge chipset (to allow SLI)?

and what about the last 3 as southbridge cooler? http://www.zalman.co.kr/usa/product/code_list.asp?code=014

any idea what differes the ZM-NB32K from the ZM-NB32J?
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Glad my rig came in handy :) The Zalman on the northbridge was removed, I ended up lapping the stock cooler and dropped my temps to 45c load on the NB. (8800 GTX really adds to the temps of a NB)

I am mounting that Zalman on the southbridge, as I don't intend to SLI yet. Each cooler you listed is too tall for SLI on the southbridge. I tested the 8800GTX in the second slot and nothing over 1/2 inch tall will fit under it.
 
stalker said:
In addition to my earlier question, I wish to know if the ZALMAN passive ZM-NBF47northbridge cooler will be a better option than the stock huge heatsink on the northbridge chipset?

http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=200&code=014


Update: I emailed thermalright and they wrote the HR-05 will not fit the northbrigde chipset on the P5N-E SLI, and the HR-05-SLI will not fit the southbridge chipset, unless used with short video cards

So any suggestions for other northbridge / southbridge chipset (to allow SLI)?

and what about the last 3 as southbridge cooler? http://www.zalman.co.kr/usa/product/code_list.asp?code=014

any idea what differes the ZM-NB32K from the ZM-NB32J?
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I currently have the ZM-NB32J installed on the southbridge and it's keeping the chip nice and cool. That said, like Rurki stated, you can't do SLI with it installed because it's too tall. Also, the difference between the NB32K and NB32J is the mounting arms. If you look closely in the photos, you can see that they're slightly different. Honestly, I don't think it matters that much, but technically speaking, the NB32K is the newer of the two versions.
 
I am really curious to know how the chipset temps of this board compare to the P5N-SLI, which by all accounts is a very hot running board. Since the P5NSLI is the only nForce board I own, I have no standard of reference besides that.

Also: Does this mobo (P5N-E SLI) use 6 stand-offs or 9?

Thanks
 
the p5n-e sli is mounted on 6 standoffs and the northbridge does tend to get quite warm...though i'm not seeing temperatures like many core 2 users are reporting, i felt it was still getting hot enough to warrant a rework of my side fan ducting.

clearly, using lower end parts helps to keep the nb temps down. :p

the southbridge heat doesn't worry me at all.

hopefully this board lasts longer than the 2 months i had with my p5nd2 sli.

*shakes fist*
 
Howdy fellers.
I build a fresh rig every odd year january. This box was a weird-o since I really wanted it to be a platform for DX-10 so I'd be DX-10 capable for combat flight sims, my most demanding excuse for DIY and OverClocking too. I had no desire to be an early-early adopter of Vista bugs, nVidia 8000 series vga cards untested on DX-10 nor even the requisite not-ready-for WHQL drivers. Flight Sim X is out but wobbly, and *combat* DX-10 games are altho my main motivation ...y'know just a dream at best.

Like lots of other flight simmers, I was stuck in a crazy-expensive and risky cutting edge place in terms of planning the rig, and not at all interested in paying ridiculous hi prices for hardware just for the bragging rights to be an involuntary beta tester!

Like plenty of guys I decided to go ahead and build this winter... but with cheap-ish placeholders at critical spots... (like a 7600GT PCIe card instead of 8800GTX, an E4300 instead of a X6800 proc) figuring I could goof around with OverClocking while waiting for stable drivers,Vista's SP1, the second tier of shader 4.0 vga cards, price drops, hybrid HDD, hell maybe even quad cores!

Reviews of E4300's outstanding OC success at Xbit last month was the last encouragement I needed to jump in and make a rig loosely patterned after a P5N-E SLI version of Maximum PC magazine's February feature on building a $1500 gaming-with-DX10 rig. I have
it running WinXPPro on a 120GB SATA drive, the E4300, 2 gigs of
Corsair XMS DDR2, and all stock cooling. I have upflashed BIOS to 402 and the E4300 was pleased to take a fsb OC from 1.8 up to 2.2 GHz at 1.4 Vcore and all clocks unlinked nicely.

My collection of cannibaliized coolers (HSF and waterblocks big and small) is extensive. If I'm gonna have some fun OCing this setup, can you get me back on track: should I be clapping HSFs or waterblocks on everything? Do I need to advance timings on the RAM too? etc etc
I should mention I built in an Antec 900 case - the thing's amazingly breezy cool: plenty of ventilation and a 12cm blow-hole fan (the piece in MaximumPC didn't use watercooling at all) and with a 750watt PSU.

Sorry for jumping in with this digression!

-Maggs
 
stalker said:
In addition to my earlier question, I wish to know if the ZALMAN passive ZM-NBF47northbridge cooler will be a better option than the stock huge heatsink on the northbridge chipset?

http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=200&code=014


Update: I emailed thermalright and they wrote the HR-05 will not fit the northbrigde chipset on the P5N-E SLI, and the HR-05-SLI will not fit the southbridge chipset, unless used with short video cards

So any suggestions for other northbridge / southbridge chipset (to allow SLI)?

and what about the last 3 as southbridge cooler? http://www.zalman.co.kr/usa/product/code_list.asp?code=014

any idea what differes the ZM-NB32K from the ZM-NB32J?
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I beg to differ. It fits just fine for me with the stock mounting hardware, but you do have to use their (included) little foam spacer and may need to adjust the angle you face it a little to keep it stable. Here's my HR-05 on P5N-E SLI:

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See also the SB heatsink; it's a modified NB heatsink from an older Asus board. I removed 3 rows of fins, allowing SLI... it's not optimal but it will be right behind the front case fan and it's much better than nothing.

From my worklog :) http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1159992
 
Just wondering but anyone tried oc with older netburst based processors?

I'm wondering if using this mobo for 805d overclocking won't kill it (especially power circuits) as i have seen this cpu kill dozens of asus p5p800 se 865 mobos.
 
Michaelius said:
Just wondering but anyone tried oc with older netburst based processors?

I'm wondering if using this mobo for 805d overclocking won't kill it (especially power circuits) as i have seen this cpu kill dozens of asus p5p800 se 865 mobos.
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Read the reviews at newegg for this board, one guy claims to have his PD805 running at 4GHz.
 
Michaelius said:
Just wondering but anyone tried oc with older netburst based processors?

I'm wondering if using this mobo for 805d overclocking won't kill it (especially power circuits) as i have seen this cpu kill dozens of asus p5p800 se 865 mobos.
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funny you should mention that, as i'm fresh off a P5ND2 SLI/805d combo which stopped taking current at the 4 pin ATX for some odd reason after a couple of months @ a 1:2 ratio with a modest voltage increase.

the only thing that's changed is the board to this new P5N-E. the preloaded 0202 bios worked perfectly for me out of the box. i ran my system at specification for a week after i finished the assembly...just to make sure nothing weird was gonna happen and to let the thermal interface cure, make sure it could run all my apps.

so i setup my previous basic overclock; set the fsb to 667. of course, no problems. this time i could even have the voltage set to auto and better still, i'm now running 1T timings on my ram. that's the plug and play overclocking i'm after. so, happy happy, joy joy; 2.66ghz to 3.34ghz by changing two values and forgetting about it. but the suddenly not working thing after a couple months of rock solid operation phenominon kind of bothers me. And considering the age:eek:verclock ratio of my A7N8X, i expected alot more from the P5ND2.

i also expect alot more from this P5N-E and will be sure to pop in for a comment if any 4 pin related malfunctions occour.

sweet motherboard for sure. i have yet to encounter a problem.

/knows that a problem will arise very soon with that said.
 
I can't seem to get this mother board to work for me. I have Buffalo Firestix and I tryed setting them at 4-4-4-10, 4-4-4-12, 5-5-5-15, 4-5-5-12 and nothing has worked yet. I am lost on how to fix it and only have 5 more days left to return it any suggestions on what settings to make it work.

I would like to try running older bois does anyone know ware I can get the older bois.
 
stevedave said:
I can't seem to get this mother board to work for me. I have Buffalo Firestix and I tryed setting them at 4-4-4-10, 4-4-4-12, 5-5-5-15, 4-5-5-12 and nothing has worked yet. I am lost on how to fix it and only have 5 more days left to return it any suggestions on what settings to make it work.

I would like to try running older bois does anyone know ware I can get the older bois.
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What FSB speed are you running? What mode is your RAM in in the BIOS (unlinked?) What is your RAM voltage?

Basically, you need to post more information, we aren't mind readers.
 
MastaLock said:
What FSB speed are you running? What mode is your RAM in in the BIOS (unlinked?) What is your RAM voltage?

Basically, you need to post more information, we aren't mind readers.
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Yeah, based on what I've read so far, RAM voltage settings seem to be the main issue with this chipset as far as memory goes. Finding timings for your RAM that will work at 1.8 volts seems to be the safest route.
 
This is the last setting I tried that didn't work

tried both Unlinked and linked
FSB - 1600
Ram - 800
CPU voltage - 1.3785
Ram voltage - 2.08
nb - 1.3
set at 5-5-5-15 2T all the rest auto.

The time before it I had setting of

tried both Unlinked and linked
FSB - 1066
RAM - 800
CPU voltage - auto
Ram voltage - 1.92
nb - 1.2
4-4-4-12-2t rest auto


Do you see any problems with the configurations above? I have tried other configurations as well but I can't remember them.

I also tried running just one stick of ram and that didn't work either.
 
I got a setting to work. 5-5-5-18 2t changed some voltage and everything else auto.

I let my computer just sit there for 4 hours to see if it would freeze and it didn't. So I put Warcraft 3 on there and played that for about 3 hours and still no freeze, so I figure I should be ok to start installing the updates and then service pack two killed it. Stopped my screen and fried my install, tried to repair and it didn't work.

I am starting to think I may have a problem with the sata express, or my harddrive. Have any of you had or have herd of problems with the express harddrive setup this is my first time using it so I don't know. My brother has windows with Service pack two on it so I'm going to try that and go from there. Only bad part is I only have 3 days left for RMA but I'm fairly confident that the board isn't bad considering so many others started out with tons of problems but eventually got them all fixed up.
 
Hey guys, new to the forum, but LONG time lurker. I just picked up this board and need some help reaching its full potential. First let me clue you in on what I have and how it is set up.
PN5-E SLI, duh
E6300 (1.86Ghz)
2Gb OCZ SLI Memory 8500 5-5-5-15 SLI Ready
Tuniq Tower 120
Zallman ZM-NBF47 northbridge cooler
No southbridge cooler
2 Hard Drives
Audigy 4 soundcard
2 BFG 7900GT SLI
BFG 650W SLI Power Supply
Antech 900 Case
I bought a zallman cooler for the southbridge, but wasnt thinking about the SLI, so it is not being used.

I tried setting the memory manually to 1066, which is what it is rated (without changing anything else) and my system locks up, even in the bios.
What I am using now is one of the AI overclocks (I think the 20%) and it is running at 2.24. Current temps with Asus Probe @2.24Ghz are CPU 44c MB (northbridge?) 36c. Any help would be great, so where should I begin?
 
Hawk88 said:
Hey guys, new to the forum, but LONG time lurker. I just picked up this board and need some help reaching its full potential. First let me clue you in on what I have and how it is set up.
PN5-E SLI, duh
E6300 (1.86Ghz)
2Gb OCZ SLI Memory 8500 5-5-5-15 SLI Ready
Tuniq Tower 120
Zallman ZM-NBF47 northbridge cooler
No southbridge cooler
2 Hard Drives
Audigy 4 soundcard
2 BFG 7900GT SLI
BFG 650W SLI Power Supply
Antech 900 Case
I bought a zallman cooler for the southbridge, but wasnt thinking about the SLI, so it is not being used.

I tried setting the memory manually to 1066, which is what it is rated (without changing anything else) and my system locks up, even in the bios.
What I am using now is one of the AI overclocks (I think the 20%) and it is running at 2.24. Current temps with Asus Probe @2.24Ghz are CPU 44c MB (northbridge?) 36c. Any help would be great, so where should I begin?
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Start slow and work your way up. I would leave your ram at 800mhz for now and overclock the cpu first. The best resource I've found is over in the anandtech forums, there's an unofficial asus P5N-E thread there thats over 150 pages. Page 92 has the OC guide. It's VERY useful. Also you'll probly want to find a small passive sink for the southbridge, something to fit under your 2nd vid card. Lastly that second temp is not the NB sadly, its just another temp sensor somewhere on the board.
 
Just received my Overdrive PC, with the P5N-E SLi installed. They've got it at 3465MHz with my E6600. Not too shabby, I might say!

~Ibrahim~

P.S. No sink on the southbridge, though it has four 120mm fans blowing on it, lol!
 
stevensondrive said:
I recently bought this board. the price has dropped $10 in the last couple of weeks. are they discontinueing it??

thanks

Steve
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Severely doubt it. $10 is nothing, just a normal price fluctuation.

They might, however, be coming out with a P5N SLI Premium to fight off the MSI P6N SLI Platinum, with it's copper cooling and three PCI slot design. Still, however, is remarkably similar to the P5N-E SLI, most likely using (at least heavily) the reference design.

~Ibrahim~
 
Hey, I noticed some of you guys are using the Zalman ZM-NBF47 northbridge cooler.
I was just wondering what your temperatures are? Mine are around 50C idle on stock cooling.

I think it's kind of hot, being 10C above my current CPU temperatures.
 
My e6300 is running at 52 with stock cooling but it's overclocked from 1.86 to 2.5. Without the overclock it runs at 38.
 
I ment the northbridge temperature if you have the Zalman cooler, sorry for not making it clear.
 
Don't know my NB temps but its someware in the 40's it's not stock the stock one will get really hot and it's a good idea to get a better one, also buy a small one for the SB.
 
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