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sweet, still going strong I see. This thread rules MDPE> you probably already know this board isn't very good for overclocking quad core processors because of its power design. Some P5N-E SLI owners DO have their Q6600s running fairly well on this board, but they might have just received...

Hey guys long time no post. I'm surprised you guys haven't changed your bios to 0901. Since 0803 the FSB hole with 4GB of ram (4x1GB) has disappeared for me at least. I don't know how it's affected my overclocking, but I don't think it has. I had major problems getting Crysis running stable...

That's probably something else. I've had my ram up that high and things were fine. I have OCZ Titanium EPP PC2 6400 ram. That's 800MHz ram that'll do 1066 speeds with 5-5-5-15, 2T timings. Also the windows 32bit ISSUE is not an issue with showing 4GB of ram, it's a 32bit addressing...

You should be fine with those settings. I would suggest just using your ram at 5-5-5-15, 2T. CMD rate has to be at 2T for 4 sticks of ram, not too sure about 2x2GB sticks, but I have 4 sticks of 1GB ram and you must run it at that timing. The reason I suggest the relaxed timings is...

Good choice on the board. You'll like it. Keep us updated on how it's going with the build.

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Oh you mean PC2 8500 ram? Sure it will. I don't see why not. Which ram? Gotta be a little more specific. Also check Asus' ram compatibility list as well. Just have some low voltage ram on standby because some boards don't post with performance ram requiring high voltages to work...

Hey welcome to the forum and to this discussion! Just update to 0901, I've updated my bios to this version and I'm good thus far. The E8500 will work with this board with bios starting from 0803 according to Asus, but I personally had problems with the E8400 running stable at stock...

How about the Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H. I have the same processor as you do and ordered this board for an HTPC build, but the board itself is just solid for a mATX motherboard. With a modded bios update you can change voltage settings and overclock to your hearts content. Awesome board...

Guys the new bios is out! Not on Asus' website, but their FTP as I had suspected. ftp://ftp.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb...5/P5N-E%20SLI/0901.zip Let the wolfdale overclocking begin!!!!

Could always be the possibility of that ram not being compatible with this board. That's worst case of course. Double check everything, connections and buy yourself a cheap power supply tester as well just incase. I don't know if your PSU is new, but sometimes even fresh out of the box...

What geek said. I would also suggest just installing your OS at default settings with only 2GB of ram in the Black slots, then after you've installed your OS and downloaded the new 0803 bios from asus, see if you can boot with 4GB installed at any frequency you'd like. Worked for me, but...

Your problem my friend is an unstable system. No really. I had similar problems before. Everything was fine, but only video would do strange things to my system. Also if you are using any codec packages, uninstall that and only install codecs that you require, so you don't run into any...

Was speed was all of this done at? If you read previous posts you'd realize that there is a FSB hole between high 700's and low 800's, so you should just overshoot and clock your ram at 850MHz, see if that does anything, and also update your bios to 0803 if you haven't done so already...

I couldn't get my board stable at stock settings with an E8400, I have a couple threads going over at xtremesystems.org, but yeah there are a couple guys who claim to have their E8400s stable with this board. I exchanged emails with an anandtech editor and he said he's going to contact Asus...