P5N32~E sli memory folly

Furion · Post by **Furion** » 23 Mar 2008, 07:13

Hello everyone.

yesterday i started overclocking my pc and discovered that i cant seem to get my memory to clock anywhere over the 800mhz that the manual says the board is rated to do. When i go to the bios, unlink my memory and set it to 1066 at 2.35v i just cant get a boot. But i get a solid boot and stability at 800. Perhaps i should consider overvolting the memory controllers but i need some sort of guide as to what values to put in. The ram im using is 4gigs of OCZ NVIDIA SLI 1066 ram which has been proven to clock at 1.2ghz without any issues.

my question is how do i get it there? Im using the latest bios for my board (1403 i think)

and whilst we are here. I took my Q6600 to 3ghz at a vcore of 1.46 (hardware monitor and the bios monitor report it as 1.41) its the B3 Stepping. Has anyone had any luck in getting it at this speed with a lower vcore? I cant get it stable any lower than this. My cpu VTT is 1.4v. NB is 1.4v as well. Everything else on auto.

Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 23 Mar 2008, 16:20

Personally I have had and heard lots of issues with that 1403 BIOS on the ASUS forums.

cYcLIc · Post by **cYcLIc** » 23 Mar 2008, 16:22

Get the 1203 bios if you don't have a Razer mouse. It's a great bios for overclocking.

ADV4NCED · Post by **ADV4NCED** » 23 Mar 2008, 16:35

The p5n32-e sli is only rated for 800mhz ram

Thus when setting to 1066 and the pc doesnt boot, it cause you cant oc your ram that far with that amount of volts.

And yes it is ocing (according to the pc) even though your ram is rated @ 1066, your mobo is rated @ 800.

Hellfury · Post by **Hellfury** » 23 Mar 2008, 21:25

Frozenfireside wrote:Personally I have had and heard lots of issues with that 1403 BIOS on the ASUS forums.

Agreed, as a p5n32-e Sli user I can say it's bloody useless

Interfan · Post by **Interfan** » 23 Mar 2008, 23:48

Bios 1403 is only recommended if you are using the new 45nm cpu's from intel.

Furion · Post by **Furion** » 23 Mar 2008, 23:50

I see the striker extreme is also only rated for 800mhz DDR II...i like asus...but right now....they are smoking their socks.

Hellfury · Post by **Hellfury** » 23 Mar 2008, 23:59

thats why i'm getting rid of mine soon. DFI here I come.even upgraded the cooling on mine, but miniscule diffference.

Furion · Post by **Furion** » 24 Mar 2008, 12:30

lets hold thumbs that they come out with a full release version of 1403. Its still in beta state thats why it has a few issues.

otherwise the P5N32-E sli isn't a bad board at all.

Interfan · Post by **Interfan** » 24 Mar 2008, 14:02

Furion wrote:I see the striker extreme is also only rated for 800mhz DDR II...i like asus...but right now....they are smoking their socks.

You guys need to realise when the nforce 6 series mobo's were designed 800mhz was the norm. The higher frequency ram only started coming out a few months later.

The 7 series supports the higher memory frequencies.

Furion · Post by **Furion** » 24 Mar 2008, 14:10

but you would think with the bios updates they would at the very least add support for faster ram. If they could do it with the FSB why not with Ram? And im sure the controllers wouldnt mind being pushed a little...

Frozenfireside · Post by **Frozenfireside** » 24 Mar 2008, 15:37

My mate who has a P5N32-E sli runs 1066 RAM but it's manually set at 1066 in the BIOS and needs a voltage adjustment to 2.3volts.
Personally I would drop the speed and try get tighter latency from the same RAM as he says it makes little difference to the 3Dmark score if it's 800 or 1066.

Furion · Post by **Furion** » 24 Mar 2008, 15:50

I currently run my memory at 800mhz. With the timings 4,4,4,10. I tried booting it at 1066 with its standard timings of 5,5,5,15. But didn't even post. How did he get his that high? I put the memory voltage to 2.45v using the OCZ EVP. (extended voltage protection) and still got nothing...

ADV4NCED · Post by **ADV4NCED** » 24 Mar 2008, 16:55

Furion have you even thought of upping/loosening the timings ?

To say 6-6-6-18 or -21 ?

You should easily get 880mhz @ 5-5-5-15 so work your way from there-ish

Furion · Post by **Furion** » 24 Mar 2008, 16:59

does this mean the timings written on the ram are false?

8O

ADV4NCED · Post by **ADV4NCED** » 24 Mar 2008, 17:07

O for heavens sakes

I take it the stock volts for your ram is 2.35v ? If so, put it on 2.35v and get as much mhz as you can until unstable. Then loosen timings and see if you're stable. If you are, increase more mhz until unstable.

Repeat above process!!

But you also have like 3 diff threads with different problems. Sort out your problems so that your pc runs stable @ stock speeds and then worry about overclocking otherwise its impossible to troubleshoot!

Mow · Post by **Mow** » 15 Apr 2008, 14:28

Guys, I have cheapy promos chips. I can run my ram @ 850 3.3.3.10 and 1066 4.4.4.12 without any problems on this board. Thats with the 130x beta bios. Going back to 1205 tonite. will let you know what happens.

DoOb · Post by **DoOb** » 15 Apr 2008, 15:12

Mow wrote:Guys, I have cheapy promos chips. I can run my ram @ 850 3.3.3.10 and 1066 4.4.4.12 without any problems on this board. Thats with the 130x beta bios. Going back to 1205 tonite. will let you know what happens.

Well dir they are Promo chips, of course they can do those timings.

Furion, Reading from whats been said, You've got a crap batch of ram maybe, happened to me with the OCZ Reaper DDR2 800 set, sold them within the next week. I couldnt get my pc stable at all at 1066 or even 1000 at cas4 or cas5

You say they are the 1066 pair. I hear and i know mike will back me up DDR800 in most cases clock higher and are better.

Flash you bios to the other one as stated if not done already...

Mike keeps telling me to not go higher than certain voltage on ram, you are going to kill those sticks or at least one like i did to my one Crucial Tracer....

And also dont ever try Cas6 coz thats just a waste of time. Your OCZ should do 1066 at Cas5 at 2.2 no problems, or less, but seeing as they 2x2gigs who knows.

I've got my tracers with flashed SPD, doing 1234 at 2.1v.

@ Hellfury DFI FTW, only board worth using.

How far have you taken your FSB on that board aswell.

I34z1k · Post by **I34z1k** » 15 Apr 2008, 15:28

Furion wrote:But i get a solid boot and stability at 800. Perhaps i should consider overvolting the memory controllers but i need some sort of guide as to what values to put in. The ram im using is 4gigs of OCZ NVIDIA SLI 1066 ram which has been proven to clock at 1.2ghz without any issues. .

Ok, now how has that ram been proven to hit 1200? First thing you must learn about ram, or rather overclocking, every single chip is different. I had some ram that could make nearly 1300 @ 2.35v. But people with the same sticks could only get 1100 with that voltage.

Now as to the matter at hand, try running 2 gigs and see if that makes a difference. You are hitting a wall somewhere, you must just figure out where. Lower your cpu's multiplyer and then push fsb + ram and see if you can get higher like that.

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