P5nSLI - Conflicting Reviews? Anyone own one?

[OhNoPoPo]

Anandtech review:

http://anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2820

Looks decent. Within 1-3 seconds on most tests run in this review.

Bit-Tech review:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2006/09/06/asus_p5nsli/6.html

The memory benchmarks look fairly bad.


I was hoping this would be a nice, budget friendly stable and fast board (no overclocking). Anythoughts?

 

[Skott]

Its okay for non-overclocking but limited if you want to overclock. The fsb can only get up to 320 or so I heard. If you plan to run a Conroe chip on it in stock form it'll do fine. Thats what I have read about it.

 

[OhNoPoPo]

Can you comment on the fairly bad performance results in the bit-tech review?

Especially the "unbuffered memory" test?

 

[Gary Key]

Originally posted by: OhNoPoPo
Can you comment on the fairly bad performance results in the bit-tech review?

Especially the "unbuffered memory" test?

They ran their tests at DDR2-533 with 4-3-4-11 timings. As in our memory tests anything below DDR2-800 will really hamper the board. Our overall results are not that much different when you compare like memory settings. In the DDR2-533 tests our board was up to 20 seconds slower in the WinRAR testing which is actually worse than their test results if they had equalized the memory settings on the other boards.

 

[OhNoPoPo]

Thank you for the clarification.

How did you guys run DDR800 memory when it doesn't seem to officially support it?

Also, does it require me to have an old memory stick lying around so I can boot into the bios to change the voltages (which I can't do...)?

 

[Snowice]

Originally posted by: OhNoPoPo
Thank you for the clarification.

How did you guys run DDR800 memory when it doesn't seem to officially support it?

Also, does it require me to have an old memory stick lying around so I can boot into the bios to change the voltages (which I can't do...)?

it runs DDR800 fine. i didnt have to use an old stick to boot into bios in order to change the voltages and i have ocz pc2-6400 plat.

 

[skinnyj]

what will 320 get you on a e6400? what speed?

 

[Skott]

320fsb x 8(e6400) multiplier = 2560 or 2.56GHz. E6300 uses a 7 multiplier and the E6600 uses a 9 multiplier. Not sure about E6700 & E6800. 10 & 11 respectively?