Asus P5N-E SLI Motherboard Review - The 680i Killer

Post by **Apoptosis** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:10 am

Asus has long been a major player in the motherboard market in every segment you can think of. Their name has long been a favorite with the enthusiast crowd. Can they continue the trend with this motherboard? Can the ASUS P5N-E SLI motherboard compete with the top 680i SLI boards that are out? ASUS claims that the P5N-E SLI has the best cost versus performance ratio of all dual VGA motherboards on the market. Read on and find out if they are right!

Article Title: Asus P5N-E SLI Motherboard Review - The 680i Killer
Article URL: http://legitreviews.com/article/434/1/

ikjadoon · Post by **ikjadoon** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:10 pm

Awesome! I've got this in a build coming up, also a E6600. Can't wait!

Can you guys post some results with additional cooling on the chipsets?

~Ibrahim~

Post by **Apoptosis** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:25 pm

ikjadoon wrote:Awesome! I've got this in a build coming up, also a E6600. Can't wait!

Can you guys post some results with additional cooling on the chipsets?

~Ibrahim~

Additional cooling? What do you have in mind? The way it is now is awesome as 500MHz FSB is hard to come by

Post by **dicecca112** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:40 pm

I remember reading another review that this board can hit 600mhz with the right ram and cooling on the chipset. Something simple like the evercool twinkle

pastorjay · Post by **pastorjay** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:54 pm

If I can dig something up, I will try and see what adding a little cooling and some AS5 to the board will do.

Even without that, this board does rock!

ikjadoon · Post by **ikjadoon** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:00 pm

I was just wondering how much of a difference a heatsink or something on the southbridge would make. Without saying, this board rocks, even without a heatsink on the chipset! I mean, 496+ is just amazing. And out of $150? What are you waiting for??

~Ibrahim~

Gamble · Post by **Gamble** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:01 pm

Looks like a winner to me! I wonder what ASUS is gonna do with the all-out 680i chipset...only place to go is up. ASUS just keeps getting better.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:16 pm

This board was launched at $129.99 and has gone up in price since it came out... This board would have been a steal at that price.

pastorjay · Post by **pastorjay** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:58 pm

The board was on sale at Club-it for $125 earlier today. They are sold out right now though.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:40 am

pastorjay wrote:The board was on sale at Club-it for $125 earlier today. They are sold out right now though.

oh man... insane price

KingClub · Post by **KingClub** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:56 am

Is this board better than the ECS PN1 SLI2 Extreme Motherboard?

Post by **Apoptosis** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:43 am

KingClub wrote:Is this board better than the ECS PN1 SLI2 Extreme Motherboard?

Yes, and the ECS PN1 SLI2 is no longer being made and less than 1,000 pieces were sent to the US.

pastorjay · Post by **pastorjay** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:09 pm

KingClub wrote:Is this board better than the ECS PN1 SLI2 Extreme Motherboard?

Hehe... the ECS is not even close to the performance of the Asus board. Overclocking is awesome on the Asus, and almost non-eistant on the ECS.

pcrobot · Post by **pcrobot** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:30 pm

I was surprised at the relatively small bundle that comes with it. You'd think they'd throw in more on such a sweet board.

It's on my wishlist....

SAMSAMHA · Post by **SAMSAMHA** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:45 pm

wow a 650 to be 680i killer. That sucks as the price of 680i is just too much yet if 650 can performs just as good,I guess nvidia may have hard time pushing 680i (specially with all hte trouble and heat issue).

liqnit · Post by **liqnit** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:18 am

My friend got one and he cannot make the sound work (HD or AC97).
Have you encounter any such problems?
he trien installing the DIvers from RealTek and the ones from the CD supplied.
Checked the BIOS and connectors and nothing.
Windows XP cannot see any sound hardware

pastorjay · Post by **pastorjay** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:57 am

Sounds to me like maybe he got a bum board. I had no issues with mine. Maybe someone else here has gotten a board that had sound issues and will speak up...

Anyone?

Post by **Apoptosis** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:22 pm

If it's enabled in the BIOS and it's not even detected in the Device Manager it sounds like you might have gotten a bum board as Jason mentioned.

liqnit · Post by **liqnit** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:26 pm

Thanks.
I have talked to him and he will do RMA in next days

it is strange that the sound OB can be defective - i thought the bords go through some kind of QA

DaIceMan · Post by **DaIceMan** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:43 pm

I have this board with an E6600F and Corsair CM2X1024-6400C4 ram and I can only OC to a stable 3.2. tried 3.3, 3.41 and 3.6 all resulted in crashes. I have the Tuniq Tower 120 cooling the CPU and a Thermalright HR-05 on the south bridge.