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  • Hey guys I can add 2x550 ti sc

    On this motherboard asus p5n-e with Q9650 at 3.0ghz??

  • they are liars i cant get any dirvers for it from asus realtek nvidia or ati for vga cards with tv encoders or tv tuner cards

  • will crossfire work on this, somone please reply

  • @ShervinGetOffMee Since its Nvidia that made SLI chipset i dont think so.

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  • @rock962000 well of course. but you should update the BIOS before installing new CPU

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  • @rock962000 call asus for support. it may be broken.

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  • @rock962000 Haha , Lucky , Good for you :)

  • There is noreason that anyone should ignore this motherboard. It does exactly what the box says, Best cost ratio. Well they did lie but who cares it is an Awesome Cost performance ratio. Heres the Deal, I have a Core2Duo E7400. I have OC'd this system 1 Ghz, without Voltage mod, or memory modifications in Voltage or timings. For real, that alone makes this board perfect. Yes the SATA Headers do get in teh way on SLI Address 1, right angle SATA fix this, GTX275's is what I have!!

  • memoryexpress is better

  • Hey subscribed dud, Hey dud Could you please help me buying a new mobo with c2duo, My budget is 400$.Thanks.

  • all you people getting on asus arent that knowledgable in mobo's, asus rank top in mobo and their company grew up from it. They are the most respected company for mobos.

  • I have the same mobo. Sad part is I spent the money on a fancy case and 600w psu. Stuck using a p4 for now. I am looking to get a new cpu, there was just a bios update that made the board work with a Core 2 Quad Q9505(rev.R0,2.83GHz,1333FSB,L 2:6MB)

    Anyone use this with this board yet?

    Can you even run a 200s Nvidia card on this thing? I cant afford a whole i7 platform switch, so if anyone can help it would be cool

    Funny thing is even with a p4, it still plays games alright with a bfg 8500gt

  • lol 200s yes it can run those cards, i own this motherboard and i have a 9800gt on it its usually around same play just make sure u got a good psu

  • O man... You can run one... but if you want sli.. the sata connectors are in the way.... i accidently reaped one off when i installed my dual 250 gts. So.. the 200 series.... is kind of blown when you speak of sli... I had to install a new cooler on my 2nd 250 gts.. as the factory one.disturbed my sata things.

    I recommend you to use a q6600. It has 8 mb of l2.When you put in sli... just take out the litle red ram thingy that is between the pci-e-es and put it in with the dual card head first.

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  • i have a 8600GT that only runs @ 1x and its horrible

  • i have this motherboard and i cant get a signal for the graphics card even when i change graphics cards i still have the same problem.

  • I have the same problems, I'm throwing it out the window and getting something better. Sucky mobo.

  • I have this board I have so many problems

    1. the onboard sound doesnt work in XP or Vista.

    2. I cant hibernate or standby in XP (not sure if thats cos of the mb but yeah)

    3. Sometimes when I boot up I get messed up display.

    my mate has this, and he bought 2 9600GS cards to run in SLI and he just gets a blank screen.

    Another thing I didnt like about it was the installation for the drivers. It looks very amatuer. (almost like a keygen from a torrent) i didnt expect this from asus.Go with Intel mb

  • also, i had to exchange the samsung 800 dimms i had originally bought as they had chipset problems.

    Next time i will go with an Intel or EVGA mobo.

  • This and that doesnt work with xp and vista? maybe its just you or your board that had problems not the overall motherboard it works perfect with me.

  • maybe you suck or you suck or you maybe something like that

    because i have this motherboard running windows 7 64 bit the sound works fine

    i have an e6300 running at about 3.5 almost 500fsb

    and i even have 4x1 gb that stress the hell out of that northbridge

  • Maybe you got lucky, or I got unlucky, theres no need to say I suck. Im just telling my story.

  • Oke your so wrong!!!!!

    I have this motherboard and just love it :D

    I use the on board sound car and really no problem. good sounds to

    also in sli after the last update the SLI performance increased a LOT (running 2 8800GT's)

    i geuss your videocard is fucked up dude first look for the problem and than start whining.

  • no. but you wouldnt notice the difference between x16 cf and x8 cf

  • I bought this board with an 8600 GT for my PS and AI PC. and..

    the damn board died on me after a minute of using it.

  • That sucks man. I have been very happy with mine. Working like a champ for the last few years. I just got my first i7 920 and looking to upgrade to a new board too.

  • LOL, an i7 doesnt even fit on this board -.-

  • Read my post again. I stated "I just got my first i7 920" You follow so far? Then I stated "Looking forward to upgrade to a new board too." Meaning: I will have to get a new board also. Most likely will go with the Rampage Extreme from ASUS. It's $400 here in Japan. :-P

  • oh ok

  • @akosiramil, u were just unlucky, i am using this over 1.5 years now. with overclocks.

  • dam bad lucky bro. i also bought this board in 07 with the 8600 gt and bro now 09 still runs super nice no problem what so ever. now i'm looking for a upgrade i saw the new evga x58 Classified wow amazing MB, so nothing gl

  • i got this with dual gts 8800, i play crysis on it, and damn still fast, upgrading to AMD GA-MA790XT-UD4P

  • awesome i have friends with that MB and they like yes this board is super nice, i want try the 920 see what happ :)

  • i have a / for anyone who will please help i just baught a bfg gts250 for this board to replace my xfx7900gs ive reseated the 250 many times but no picture the card itself is fine as it works on my fathers p5k i know its not a bad mobo cause my 7800gs works fine any help is apreciated

  • try flashing the bios, that is a very new card and if the bios is outdated it won't have a clue what to do with it

  • ive tried the newest bios and the newest beta bios still nothing but i just today built a new pc w/a q9400 that gts250 and windows7 64bit but would still like to know why it wouldnt work but thanks for the reply i appreciate it

  • i got the same motherboard whit a geforce 9800 gtx

    i run crysis @ 1650 X 1050 graphix @ med works great

  • he said almost the same as the striker in game ..hahahah I say BS..if you run a single card solution you are fine.. but if you want to sli you will not see an improvement.. I know I have this board. so if you want to run a single card cool this board if for you but sli ... don't buy it x8/x8

  • ye i know i had 2 8800 sli

    sucks, my 9800 gtx is better

    just get one graphix card 2 doesn't work

  • I have two 8800's working a little less then double in some games. I had just one for a year before I got the 2nd.

  • can this motheboard handle geforce gts250 ????

  • yes

  • I have this on my gaming pc.But i have a extra one.Lol im willing to sell it for 110 bucks.

  • not pcie2

  • how do i know if there is pci express 2.0??

  • just look at your mobo and check it online

  • oh i forgot, this guy is lying to you. the MB has 1066fsb native not 1333(this is a 25% OC)

  • is a great board, can get easy at 1800fsb, at least for me, but the cpu vdrop is insane (0.01v) so is not realy a good deal for oc 1.425v -0.1= 1.325 and got 3200 from e6600 (8*400) but... for 400*9 i need 1.525 cause after the damn vdrop, under stress, i only have 1.525-0.1=1.425v(stable 10 loops intel burntest) and everyday setings, but i keep it on the 400*8

  • i just got a 8800 gts 640MB. DO YOU RECOMMEND THIS BOARD.I don't want to break the bank .something cheap and ok.

  • Got the older version the p5n-sli not the e version. The one with the ancient Nforce4. Had to rig a socket A heatsink (slk-900a) 527g of copper only to get the nb to 336.8mhz but that is from only just from 300 with stock. For this board ditch stock cooler with the biggest you can get on to it and then it will push a q6600 to and past 3ghz.

  • Had it. Worked great for over a year then took a s#$t on me. Ordered another so I could do a straight swap. Worked ok for a couple months then took another S#@t. Ordered the Rampage Formula today to replace as I've already got the DDR2 memory and everything else. Last chance for ASUS with the Rampage.

  • No difference between 8x or 16x pci-e with my 8800gts 512( I tested it ).

    Very bad VDroop on this board.

    Very poor for quad overclocking, because of 3 phase power mosfets for CPU.you will be very lucky to get a q6600 past 3ghz.

    Northbridge gets very hot, put a small fan on it.

  • have one^^

  • 650i chipset.. what a horrible motherboard.. 5 channel onboard sound and only 8x sli speed.. tigerdirect is so horrible hit up newegg

  • Newegg sells the same shit idiot.

    This motherboard is bad to buy now, but a year ago when it was fairly new for $100, it was an excellent deal. I still use mine and it's excellent.

  • i't megging this motherboard in 2 weeks !!!

  • I want to get this board and another 9800GT :D

  • I have this Mortherboard and want to upgrade from my Asus 7600 GT card to a 9800GTX+ card I only want a single card so I wont use the SLI, will these huge new cards fit on this motherboard I have looked at the board and it looks ok the PCi slot seems unobstructed but just wanted to be sure before I buy. Anyone have this board and is running a single 9800 GTX+ card please let me know, cheers.

  • I've checked it....i'm gonna do the same thing...change from 7600GS to 9800GTX+...but not in SLI as u do so...and there's no prob about if it fits...it fits right there:P

    2 months until i buy it...hell yeah!!

  • Running P5N-d board in my huge Cosmos 1000 case with older 3.73 Extreme dual core that is OC'ed to 4.07ghz. Running two 8800GTX in SLI but getting silly stupid 3Dmark6 score of 2980.

    Yes, using latest drivers etc. Any help on stepping up this 3Dmark6 score. Note- Runs stable at 59 degree C.

    High Temp was anticipated due to 3.73 Extreme dual core was always tempermental.Ran "Pi" stress program for 48 hrs burn in with no problem. HELP anyone??

  • Oh, great, this guy.

  • Lol i agree hes just annoying lol

  • haha, oh great this guy........... LMAO

  • im too lazy to upgrade my parts in my old build and I've got this board. Any know if you will get crazy speeds with say 2x gx280z????

  • can u run crossfire on this?

  • nooooo only sli

  • why no crossfire

  • because its an SLI motherboard man.

    hey does anyone know how to use the ethernet thing on the back of motherboards?? mine never work!!

  • i just plug it in and it works for me

  • should i get this to SLI my Evga 8800GTs? i can get it used for $AU130 on ebay?

    doesnt 8x 8x in sli slow performace?

    i got 500W PSU, can i run sli?

    THankss GEz

  • i think you maybe could but its better with 800watt or more in sli the performance its a lot better

  • no good for my 9800gt's only use this board for low end cards in sli because of the x8 lanes in sli

  • lol u suck, 2 x hd 4870's run just as fast as the striker extreme, g

  • not on this mobo, can't run crossfire, only SLI on it

  • do ur cards shaire the 16x speed between the 2 pci-e slots in sli sorry i meen crossfire?

  • not to sure if maby i have a faulty graphics card after all, because people are going both ways on this topic. all i know is my 2x 8600gt work fine in sli but my 2x9800gt do not, i have up to date drivers & ive tryed each card seperately, i have plenty of power & a good cpu. im now w8ing on the P5N-D 750i sli board to arrive & i will c if it fix's the problem.

  • i am selling my any one interest it ?

  • it is a superb Motherboard, had one since I got my PC, and it has never let me down

  • This is a good mobo?

  • Obviously!

  • I have this Mortherboard and want to upgrade from my Asus 7600 GT card to a 9800GTX+ card I only want a single card so I wont use the SLI, will these huge new cards fit on this motherboard I have looked at the board and it looks ok the PCi slot seems unobstructed but just wanted to be sure before I buy. Anyone have this board and is running a single 9800 GTX+ card please let me know, cheers.

  • Course it will fit :) theres plenty of space between but im not to sure about the pci bellow the top pci-express slot so if you don,t have anything in there im sure you,ll be fine!

  • I had this mobo for years now...rly reliable and solid.

  • I have this mobo on my new PC. It's great :)

  • Can this Mobo Run a 4870?

  • Yes of course

  • Will this board take 2x9800GTX cards in SLI?

  • Yes of course^^

  • yes

  • i have dis motherboard for only 70pounds, i cant believe i was gonna spend around 200pounds on a motherboard, the expensive 1s are just bloody inflated in price

  • i have this MOBO... i had the p5n sli and it died... i found this one... and i didnt have to reinstall xp... the drivers are vertually the same with some minor changes...

  • ATX SUCKS! power efficient mini itx with gamer case mods is the new desktop!

  • Can this mobo support Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200?

  • yes

  • Can this run 4GB 1066Mhz RAM?

  • Yes

  • Actually my mistake, it can't. Its maxed at 800MHz. Sorry for messing up.

  • cant overclockit at all!!!!!!!!! it sucks

  • ur right this sucks

  • hey can someone help ?

    ive got a 650i sli motherboard dell to be exact got it off a friend lol

    will i be able to run a 9800gtx on this board due to the board is pci-e and the gpu is pcie 2.0 ?

    thanks

  • absolutely it is backwards compatible it will just run at pci-e1.1 speeds

  • thanks dude that means that performace will very slightly decreased ?

  • yes but not much just make sure you have good cooling the board run hot

  • yeah ive got more than enough cooling lol

    whats that the board chipset that gets warm ?

  • its a 650i chipset the northbridge wich is the huge silver heatsink with asus on it i know its supposed to get warm but mine was roasting until i put a small fan on it also the southbridge has no cooling definetly get a cooler for that i would sugest a vantec for the southbridge its very important exspecially if your overclocking or playing crysis you could fry an egg on these things with no cooling and will effect performance

  • well my antec should be taking care of that lol i may buy another 120mm fan for my case cooling everything no sure its ok now and all the fan setting are on low.

    i dont know if you would know but on the 9800gtx does the fan on the case of the gpu does it suck and exourst the air out the back or the other way ?

  • i believe the gtx is a dual slot cooler the fan sucks air in on the gpu processing unit and out the back of the case by the way all fraphics card fans blow in on the gpu unit

  • yeah thanks thats good not like cooling is a problem or heat for that matter but i know some gpus go the opposite way carnt name them though lol

    you aught to check out my page and look out for when i update in the nest week for the quad but the gpu will be added friday

  • i definetly will by the way witch quad are you getting whatever it is make sure its revision is stepping go and not revision b2 b2 is good but stepping go is way better for overclocking i have a core2 e6600 b2 but both revisions are good

  • i am realy loosing it lol

    wtf is revisions ?

    ime getting a q6600

    cool i want to get as many subscribers and views i can possibly get lol

  • i thought it would be a q6600 get cpu-z it will tell you what revision it is im not really sure what the different revisions mean all i know is stepping go is better than revision b2why are you worried about hits on your page and subscribers is there something in it for you

  • ile have a look

    naa i just like the idea of loads of people talkin about pc's etc cuz i send my dad mental lol

    pluss ive only got 3 subscribers it may change when i add the new stuff lol

  • just to cool ill subscribe now and tell everyone that the apple berry bakery boy is coming

  • lol like it lol

    thanks dude ive been trying but its not easy on my own and with the crap system at the mo no wunder why lol

  • will i be bale to put a AMD processor in there ????????XD

    thks

  • no it does not support amd processors

  • geez who buys power draining atx boards anymore when mini ITX does the same job at 80% less power.

  • should i get this one or the XFX 750i motherbaord?

  • I have this mobo, very good for the price, some people have had problems with it but i havent had any in the time ive owned it touch wood. :)

  • umm i have a problem maybe the wrong video to post my comment on but ill post it any way, .. so i have an asus motherboard i've had it for a while its ok i try it for gaming and surfing the net and suddenly in the past weeks my computer has stoped working i found out it was the power supply so i replaced it with a 700watt power supply and now i have no visual coming from the monitor :

    it is not the AVG cable

    it is not the monitor (works with my laptop)

    any thoughts on what my problem is ?

  • not that a own the asus motherboard, but considering you know that your PSU was the main problem that caused your computer to not working.. and you replaced it with 700watt power supply...just curious, how do you know 700 Watts PSU is needed? I'd like to know what your specification of your rig. I'm no expert to this but i know that OC, mine goes no where near necessary to 700 Watts. Just my thought of why it isn't working.

  • A noob question this can be watercooled right ?

  • .. yes dude any motherboard pretty much can.. its mostly about the case with water cooling

  • PLEASE NEED HELP, PLEASE REPLY urgent :

    when i want to install windows xp sp2 64 its on this mobo and a samsung 500gb sata, i get A DIS READ ERROR OCCURRED, I GUESS it is cuz of drivers..

    i dont have a floppy, so i just add them with nlite,when i do this i add floppy64 drivers, WILL GIVE SAME ERROR :( PLZ HELP!

  • err i had same problem. u can assume its a random error when installing windows. simply boot to xp install cd and try installing same thing again with a full format...if this dosent work i would next look at wether or not your hard drive is damadged or playing hell with you. hope you fix it

  • AwEsOmE xD

  • I got this mobo in hopes of bulding a really good system for not so much, but I am now doubting my choices. My plans were to buy the Q9450, XFX 9800GTX, and Coirsair XMS2 800MHz RAM (already own). I really don't want to buy another, but with it not having PCIe 2.0, some reported issues with 45nm, & complaints about nVidia's "crappy" chipsets, I'm stuck. Should I get a newer board? If I do should I go with nVidia or Intel (no plans for SLI)?

    Could anybody help me out-keeping in mind the price?

  • Never mind. I looked at what CompUSA had, and decided on the Asus P5N-D motherboard. Not a big upgrade, but for $30 more, I got the PCIe 2.0 and a newer chipset. So it's all good.

  • can you have 2 Asus GeForce 9800GTX 512MB GDDR3, PCI-Express 2.0, 2xDVI-I/HDCP on this motherboard? plz reply i want to know i might buy it!

  • of course you can even run 2 9800 GX2 cards on this board!!!

  • i mean so you run 2 cards as one so you dont need 2 screens

  • I'm having some problems with this motherboard, I'm running on a 32bit Vista with Corsair Twin 4g RAM, XFX GeForce 9600 GT and Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz, now, the issue is, the card freezes the computer, and gives me "the" bluescreen, I did a system recovery and yesterday I re-formatted the harddrive. Now, any ideas on what might be causing this?

  • what is your power supply rated?

    you setup looks pretty power hungry so make sure it is above 450, if not, maybe it is because you computer takes up too much power

  • Great board

  • I have one of these but with no parallel or eSATA have i been ripped off?

  • I have never seen one product reviewed as being bad on these TigerDirect videos. Anybody else?

    They don't mention on this review the lack of a heatsink on the south-bridge for example.

  • Well its not a review, its a commercail bascally and STFU Logan rocks!

  • It stays cool enough, so it's not an issue.

  • I own that mobo,

    CAN I PUT 2 * 2GB GSKILL AT 1060 ?

    cuz it says till 800 mhz.. so idunno :S

  • only 800mhz i have the mobo too

  • is it a good mobo for a budget gaming rig?

  • allankapo

    dude yes u can

    buy them and put them on the bios at 1010 thats the max speed i can run my corsair's

    but they are overclocked to 1010 so maybe u can actually run them at 1060

  • I have this MB as well. My main problem is the GIG lan went out after about 6 months.

  • Don't buy it

    it's really not that great.

    just spend 50 bucks more and get better stability.

    And about the pci-e slots not only are they 8x in sli but they are only pci-e 1.1 too. So when your are doing sli with for example 2 8800 gt's you get way less performance.

    The motherboard also has a huge Vdroop and no south bridge cooling so it's not that great for overclocking.

  • lol dude i bough that mobo for 70euros... added a 4x4 led fan on the northbridge for 0.50euros and a copper heatsink on the southbridge for 1euro

    so 71.50euros total cost and im running 2gb 1010mhz ram 3.3ghz e6300 and sli 8800GT's

    i have tested all the same and on motherboards with sli x16 and pci-e 2.0 he gets 200 3Dmarks more on 3dmark06 ... thats sad cuz he is using ASUS M3N-HT DELUXE

  • im sorry i got no freakin clue what the euro to dollars are

  • hehe (: 1 Euro = 1.5762 U.S. dollars

  • i bought this mobo for 70 U.S. dollars

  • and now do what i said

    new northbridge or a 4x4 fan on it

    and a heatsing on the south bridge and u will have an awesome motherboard

  • this a cool board and runs my games, 3DS MAX and mudbox well with a core 2 but the only thing that shits me off about this MB is that the south bridge is left uncovered :( I'm gonna use sli soon with two xfx 8800 GT with I'm going to have zalman vga coolers on and even then I can't cover it...I may just get a second hand MB and rip out the southbridge and cut it down till it fits and glue it with thermal adhesive :'( either way what the hell was Asus thinking.

  • The other thing that will shit you off is that you can't use more than 2 sticks of RAM in dual channel mode on this board. It's a known issue that ASUS will not acknowledge, they try and blame the RAM. I use Maya, Mudbox, and Zbrush...so I wanted to use 6 gigs of RAM since Vista 64 uses 1.2 right off the bat and Zbrush can access up to 4096 alone. Good thing RAM is cheap these days, I just ordered 2GB x2 sticks of OCZ Reaper to hold me off until I upgrade to a board that works as advertised...

  • ...or until the Asus people that write the bios updates for these boards put down the game controllers and whip up a fix in the next update.

  • yeh but u cud just use it for a budget gaming rig

  • definatly easy to set up no problems and if u are on a budget like i am may i recommend the Q6600 its great for games (buy it the keepest u can find tiger or amazon are pretty cheep

    Also the bfg nvidia geforce 9600 OC2 from tiger its only 150 bucks with rebate and it is better then a most of the 8800

    and u can;t beat it for the price.

    since the mobo only takes 800 mhz ddr 2 so get 4 gb nvidia 800 mhz sli memory

    (i just got some from tiger for 70 bucks after rebate 2 sticks 2 gb each.

  • would a Radeon HD 4850 be good too? i've heard it does better than the 9800 GTX

  • what only 800mhz?

    corsair xms2 dhx with corsair dominator airflow fan running at 1010mhz

    i have 4x4 blue led fan on the northbridge and its very silent and on the southbridge a copper small heatsink and my processor was 1.8ghz and now runs at 3.3ghz so i guess this is a very good motherboard for everything not only budget

  • where is the place to connect your monitor

  • there is no one, you have to buy a video card

  • have you guys seen the reviews on newegg? (just mainly pointing out on the one/two star reviews) I just wanted to know if they are doing something wrong when building it or is it partly Asus' fault as well?

  • ive got that :D

    it ownz :)

  • what cpus fan fit it tyvm

  • whats better this mobo or the xfx nforce 680i LT SLI mobo?

  • 680i chipset = 2 x pci-e @ x16

    but this board is absoulteley amazing for the price and for overclocking its a dream

  • Hey, ive got a question,IF i put in 2 graphics cards in SLI, Can i till use the 1Xspeed PCIE slot? Or will it be covered. I plan to use the 9600GT and plug in a sound card as well...

  • what software does the mobo come with, and does it have the SLi bridge with it?

  • I have this motherboard, its awesome.

  • its very easy to overclock with it

  • what about the q6600?

  • i got mine to 3.2 just fans

  • i love my psn-e sli 650i mobo. i've heard bad things about sli but i don't care. I plan to always have one beast of a video card instead of 2 lessers(hoping to upgrade to 8800 gtx soon with the price drops). right now i'm overclocking my e6750 to 3.2 to match my pc6400 memory sticks.

  • is this one good at ocing?

  • check out my vids for this mobo watercooled & overclocked :)

  • I have a computer that had hardwareissues due to the fact that it was overheating and restarting while i was asleep (the power supply fan failed). some peices of the computer have issues now, likely the RAM or Hard drive or both. I'mtakingthe dual core processor out of there and putting it into this motherboard (featured in the video); would it be a bad idea to use old peices from a computer that had overheating issues? if the processor is faulty could it do further damage to the motherboard?

  • that man is like a brother to me. He helps me out alot with thoes good hardware reviews, thanks bro.