Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus

Originally Posted by samkiller42
This looks like a very decent board, would Tim or Bindi recomend me replacing my EVGA board with this one?

SAm

If you've got an EVGA that works, keep it.

Is it possible/probable to run crossfire on this board : (question makrk here)

You'd have to use some hacked ATI catalyst and NVIDIA forceware drivers and I'm unaware of any that will do this. You're best off looking at a RD580, RD600 (DFI) or 975X for Intel CrossFire.

Originally Posted by Bindibadgi
True, but it ran two lots of prime95 and I could do other things just fine. It's only when you try to run a game as well it decides to not like Prime and continue the game. We had no problem with multithreaded apps or video encoding which were very intensive. The level of multitasking is something people currently very rarely do. The stress test we perform is more than manufacturers tend to do themselves.

It's also still using the first revision BIOS, which is good considering first revisions of other boards we've seen.

hmmmm okay.. well, I guess what I'm thinking is that: sure, people may not use computing hardware to the level that you tested, however will they in the future when quad(or more)core becomes the 'norm'? ... maybe that's too hard to guess, but I suppose that's my only concern ...I suppose this board will be obsolete by then maybe?

Originally Posted by pendragon
hmmmm okay.. well, I guess what I'm thinking is that: sure, people may not use computing hardware to the level that you tested, however will they in the future when quad(or more)core becomes the 'norm'? ... maybe that's too hard to guess, but I suppose that's my only concern ...I suppose this board will be obsolete by then maybe?

I don't think that quad cores won't be mainstream for a while now - even with K8L, AMD will release dual-core parts based on the architecture, AFAIK.

Originally Posted by pendragon
hmmmm okay.. well, I guess what I'm thinking is that: sure, people may not use computing hardware to the level that you tested, however will they in the future when quad(or more)core becomes the 'norm'? ... maybe that's too hard to guess, but I suppose that's my only concern ...I suppose this board will be obsolete by then maybe?

Yea, it's not so expensive that your upgrade cycle is elongated.

Also usually systems lock up rather than just programs fail, the fact that this didnt and kept the foreground task and another background task running tells me it's engineered pretty well.

i like the look of the evga board but didnt that have issues?

i am the sort of person who if was spending £180 on a mobo i would just spend the extra for the striker. for now the asus p5b deluxe has been excellent but i am thinking of going 975x

I have this board and it would be great except for one huge fault.

You cant use all 4 memory slots as they do not work.

I have 4 1gb sticks of memory running at 800 put them in and it beeps, try different mem from the qvl list no joy.

Strange thing is if you underclock them to 667 it works with all 4 in.

It also works at full speed (800) if you have 1,2 or 3 sticks in but not 4.

Tried everything from bios settings voltages and load of other stuff and at time f writing 5 lots of memory all rated 800.

Asus dont want to know, i have a thred on there site but Asus been Asus dont want to know.

Keep away from this board if you want to use all mem slots.

It aint a faulty board as we have 4 of them here and they all do it, not even the recent bios updates fix it.

I hope the admins from this site get to read this as I would love for them to test it out and report back or even get to speak to Asus abou this.

I would test it out right now, but we've sent the board off to be used in an up-coming mod. I'll definately try 4x1GB sticks in future though.

Cheers thanks for the quick reply, its a shame because it is an outstanding board let down by a silly fault.

that sounds like a chipset limitation :)

Isn't that board supposed to support up to 8gb? I may be getting confused with the specs of another board I guess.

@ Bindi, sent off for a mod you say, it wouldn't be a 6ft'ish mod by any chance would it? ;)

Originally Posted by Mother-Gooser
@ Bindi, sent off for a mod you say, it wouldn't be a 6ft'ish mod by any chance would it? ;)

We can neither confirm nor deny such an activity is taking place or has taken place at some point in time.

Back on topic: FOUND the board, thanks to Geoff pointing me in the right direction. Will take a look later.

Originally Posted by Bindibadgi
We can neither confirm nor deny such an activity is taking place or has taken place at some point in time.

"There are known knowns, there are unknown knowns, there are known unknowns and there are unknown unknowns"

Just tried the board:

Boots but locked up on POST with Corsair and Kingston memory and doesnt even boot with OCZ Flex. It doesn't help that I haven't got four sticks the same here though, but mixed sticks boot up in a 680i just fine.

I tried some 4 sticks PQI last night, it posted but would not boot just locked, it runs fine at 700 though.

Any news on newer BIOSes or higher OCs achived?

There are quite a few fixes in BIOS 0501 dated 15th Feb 2007 and there's also a beta 0602 dated 16th Feb 2007 too. :)