P5B-E or P5N SLI

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Easy question I hope.

I've kinda come down to either of the above but truth to tell the last motherboard I bought had SLI capability but I've never used it and I doubt I will with the new one so really it comes down to is the Nvidia chipset or the Intel one the most logical. I tend not to flat out overclock 'cos the wife uses the PC as well and gets irritated if it gets flakey.... so it tends to be little incremental OC's i.e. the kind of stuff that AI booster offers....

So what do you all think?
 
i haven't experienced any flakey performance with my P5N-E SLI in almost 2 months with the motherboard.

having not had an opportunity to experience life with the P5B-E, i can't comment on its reliability.

many people have experienced memory problems related to a channel not functioning at all on the P5N-E SLI but i can't recreate the problem.
 
I had memory problems and Sata problems with P5N-e. Sata ports don't work and memory requires exact timing specified by the manufacture which isn’t that big a deal also you have to have name brand ram no cheap shit.
 
I'm pretty happy with my P5B-E now that I have pencil-modded it. It had bad vdroop right out of the box that made it usable but annoying. This problem also caused some strange boot issues for me.

So after BIOS updates from ASUS, a pencil mod to fix the voltage, I am running it at 3.2ghz w/ 4GB, vcore: 1.34. Pretty good, and I haven't tried to clock this config higher yet.

If you are looking to do Crossfire in the future, I would get the P5B-Deluxe instead. And there is a new P5B that is "Vista ready," with some added features. 965 chipsets are overall very reliable and overclockable in general, that's why I got one.

I'd be happy to share BIOS setups if you need them in the future.
 
Another vote for the P5N-E. I haven't had any problems at all with mine. I had a bit of trouble with my first kit of memory, but now that I got that RMA'ed, it's been rock solid stable at 3.2GHz ever since.
 
I had a P5N SLI (actually still have it but its back in the box). The board is fine. I had no problems with it.

I had an e6300,1GB Corsair value ram 667,an evga 7600 GT and 2 SATA HDD. It ran fine and was rock stable on both XP and RC1 Vista.
It just wont OC at all.period.

If you dont want to OC then this is a fine board and will allow SLI. Its cheap too.

Now I'm talking about the P5N-SLI, not any of the E versions. The E versions OC like crazy......I have the P5N32-E SLI and the P5N-E SLI and they are excellent boards. The P5N-SLI board doesnt OC worth a shit.
 
I have some low-quality patriot ram in my computer with the bios auto on all the settings for the latencies on the ram (speed at 667) and it works just fine *shrugs*
oh on the p5n-e sli
 
stevedave said:
I had memory problems and Sata problems with P5N-e. Sata ports don't work and memory requires exact timing specified by the manufacture which isn’t that big a deal also you have to have name brand ram no cheap shit.
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No SATA problems here and I have literally the cheapest DDR2-800 RAM on newegg overclocked from 5-5-5-15 to 4-4-4-12 at 800Mhz. You need to use the black slots for the memory.

Edit: Oh the P5N-SLI not the P5N-E SLI? Why would you buy that piece of crap? It's nf570, isn't it?
 
Ta for your replys, that helps a lot though I'm still uneasy about the having to use the black slots to make the memory work! Seems a little on the flakey side and the missus would kill me if the it dumps any of her stuff ;)

I was planning to use Geil ultra memory as I usually use corsair but there is none currently instock and this seemed like a reasonable compromise any experience of this in either of these boards?
 
snaggletooth said:
and you are right in doing so since the VS match here had nothing to do with the 'e' version.

d'oh!
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Well,friend, the OP asked about the P5N-SLI board and you jumped in with advice about the P5N-E SLI board.........huh????

I was merely trying to emphesize the obvious difference as ASUS has chosen to label these boards in a rather confusing way......and the E versions seem to be much better boards all the way around.......

sorry if I ruffled you feathers.

To the OP, I use either Kingston or Corsair memory......sorry.
 
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