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First Impressions
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Windows XPJust installed this board. No problems at all. Although not using raid like the review below.
Seems to be fine so far been installed for a few hours now. Easy to install, basic compared to the 680i chipset but if, like me, your on a budget and looking to upgrade in the future its a pretty solid bet. It has the ability to run the better, more expensive core2duo, its SLI and takes up to 8GB mem. Check out this review -
http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=925&cid=3
Installed with
Pentium D 805,
XFX GeForce 7900GS,
2gb Corsair ddr2 667mhz (VS2GBKIT667D2)
Excellent budget overclocking board
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Windows XPI have been running this board for a couple of weeks now with an E4300. I have gone straight to 3.1Ghz (1380 fsb - 345x9) at stock voltage. Tested stable with orthos for 24h, it will probably go further but I have not really pushed it yet.
The 650 chipset can get toasty, so a fan pointed at the chipset heatsink, or a CPU heatsink/fan that is big enough to cool the surrounding components is recommended.
This is a very fast and good board
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Not ApplicableThis was an easy build - the board is a stripped down Striker board that goes for a hundred and thirty I think. So this is a bargain board for the price.
It is a warm board and needs a lot of cooling and a good PSU - I got a Hipper 580. With the cooling it can be tweaked right up.
Getting the BIOS to post the memory was fiddly - it saw the first stick -but not the second - the connector had to be cleaned - maybe there was dust in the slot. Memory was OCZ 1 gig sticks 4 4 15
This is a great board and easily updateable
Good for gaming - but I have not explored the overclocking fully yet - but the E6400 should do 3000 Mhz no problem.
Wow!!!
OMG Buy One!!!
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Windows XPBought this board to upgrade from my Asrock dual-VSTA motherboard.
I have to say what an overclocker easily got my E6600 up to 3.5GHz on air cooling, just upped the fsb to 1556MHz but had to up the vcore voltage a little to compensate for the bad vdroop on this board, the vdroop in my opinion is this board only fault. I think the motherboard could achive more but it is my cpu cooling which is holding me back at the moment, I am thinking about going for water cooling.
Few notes about this board:
Put a fan blowing over the northbridge chip as it get very hot. I have jammed and 80mm fan between my heatsink and my graphics card.
Also buy a heatsink for the southbridge which also get very hot. I bought a Akasa AK-210 as it was the only heatsink I could find which didnt get in the way of my dual slot graphics card.
Conclusion: Not the best motherboard in the world but for value for money it is.
My Specs:
Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.5GHz
Artic Cooling Freezer Pro 7
Asus P5N-E SLI
2Gb (2X1Gb) Corsair TwinX XMS2 DDR2 PC5400 (667) @ 675 4-4-4-12 T1
250GB Western Digital SATA2 16mb & 250GB Samsung SATA2 8mb in RAID 0
500GB Samsung HD501LJ SATA2
BFG 320MB 8800GTS OC Editon
Pioneer DVR-111D
Seasonic S12 430W
Antec Nine Hundred
20" Dell 2007WFP
Very Good Board
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Windows XPI build lots of systems and this is the best board I have yet used. No problems with OCZ memory using 2G PC6400. It has a big advantage with two IDE ports so great for upgrade of a system with older IDE drives. Very easy to fit as the layout of connections is good and the Q Connector makes fitting case wires a doddle. Set the Bios to find the LAN on boot and it works OK with my Netgear Router. It does sometimes report finding the Lan a little later than you would expect but works well. A quality fast board that is as good as a P965 board with the extra IDE channel and costs less for the same spec. All in all a little gem.
top board
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Not Applicablethis is a top board. with the newest bios revisions it appears to have solved many of the complaints shown here, especially the pesky memory compatability glitches that seem ironed out on the revision i have. make no mistake it is a budget board, but for the money you will be hard pressed to find better for the core 2 duo range. the 650i chipset is a merely cut down 680i. dont let the fewer pcie lanes put you off here for SLI either, the board suffers no bottlenecks running 8800gtx's in sli. compared to the fantastically expensive asus striker extreme 680i performance is identical!
no southbridge heatsink, but it doesnt seem like a hugely pressing matter. can be bought seperately if you so desire but im not in need of one yet. the sli setup is also of the old reversible card design but again it hardly matters, just slightly unusual to see on a new board.
overclocking potential is huge. what you would expect from an nforce 680 derived chipset. mine is running an e6600 at 3.5ghz quite comfortably with mild core voltage increase and a zalman 9500 HSF. keeps temperatures well within acceptable tolerances. hope this helps someone.
If used with the artic cooler fan...
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Not ApplicableThe board is fine, but if you are planning to use the artic cooler CPU fan and heatsink, beware as the northbridge cooler of the board obstructs the heatsink and fan from being properly installed.
What i had to do was saw off a small part of the corner of the plastic bit and bend the bottom aluminium fin to fit it. Now it fits properly!
2 & 3 Stars WTF !
cant understand why people are giving this board bad comments and reviews as its class got my E6600, 4GB Ballistix Ram and my EVGA 8800GTS SUPERCLOCKED 640MB running perfect and stable, cant understand the gentleman few comments below with memory problems as mine works fine :S
all in all a good mobo for the price
Very Very Good Mobo!
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Windows VistaI just built my gaming pc with this MoBo and it is perfect, as for the Memory issues, well to me its complete tot! i used the OCZ 2gb Platinum set and it worked fine, booted up first time, very stable, runs games and Vista Ultimate like a dream, my specs:-
~This Mobo
~Core2Duo 6600
~BFG 8800GTX OC
~OCZ 2x1gb Platinum Ram
~W Digital 250gb Sata 2 HDD
~Coolmasters 650w PSU
~Windows Vista Ultimate OEM
~Antec Nine Hundred Case(IS AMAZING)
~LiteOn DVD RW with light scribe
is one neat set up, would highly recommend it, was just over £1000 and runs like a dream, play Stalker, BF2142, BF2, RSV and so on.. all at the highest settings! was just on 2142 on a full 64 player map with everything maxed out and it looked amazing!
Blinding Board though a little unstable
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Windows XPThis board is very good for the money. Lots of room for ram, i have 3gig in mine and it works real good. dont listen to the other reveiws. just dont buy crap ram.
Real good for overclocking aswell bumped my 3.3g p4 up to 3.9 which is crazy, though i had to higher the core voltage to do so.
One thing i did find is its a tad unstable. it took a while before it stopped crashing. fiddled with some settings and everthing was ok. was like a drunk in a rehab centre, just needed time to settle down.
for the money you should buy it. Nvidia chipset is fast and Asus have delivered again
