I installed the other ram and everything was OK. I did have to lower thee fsb as this memory wasn't able to handle the higher fsb. I will RMA the DDR600 RAM. I will post the results when I get it back. Thanks for the help!

You can keep the higher FSB, just use a lower divider.

Hi Merc, I will give that a try. However when I tried it before this ram didn't like a low divider.

I have my pinch hitter RAM on a 100 divider, 334 FSB. Slow but not a big deal as it is just till I get the new rig up and running. Same for you as You'll just pull it when you get the fast stuff back from RMA.

I got the RAM back and it is working OK. I am running at 2.8gHZ with no trouble. I could go higher, but my temps are pretty high with the cooling I have. The room I have my computer in is pretty warm even though it is winter. I can live with 2.8 and if I decide to get better cooling, I can push it up a little higher.

Glad things are working better for you. 2.8Ghz is a fine oc. Should run real nice.
Once you start getting up over that things get hot pretty quick unless you have really good CPU cooling.
I wasnt able to run much higher then that either until I got the Monsoon TEC cooler in my sig.

Good luck and have fun

WGF, the very man, can you tell me what settings would give me 2.4 Ghz, I've tried to push the fsb up to 240 but the multiplier auto changes to 8 from 10. I ended up with the darn thing going slower, and AI overclocker only goes to 10% = 2200 or 2.2. Thank you.

Rather then trying to explain the whole process to ya Dee...why dont ya try reading this.
http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/a8n32-quic...de-vt65243.html
Its a real good quicky guide to overclock the A8N32 mobo. Its how I started.
Read through that and then post up here any questions you have after that.

Ok WGF, I'll get to that asap, I thought that not wanting to o/c to the extreme should have just meant changing a few settings, but I understand that with different hardware comes different results. By the way, Merc was right, there is a 'wee overclockin' devil' in us all. Thank you, Dee.

Careful Dee!! Once that devil gets a hold of you....a lil is never enough

Soon you will have a 4ghz Intel, Dual 8800GTX's, and be goin to forum wars with us

Looks likes a recruit for next FW. Yes, oc it just a little, then somemore. Yes.



J/K, have fun with it.

Well, that didn't go so well. The O/Cing guide is probably fine and in the proper language....english...... but doesn't allow for the type of english we speak in N. Ireland .......lol. I think the problem is that yer man was using bios version 1009, as I'm on ver 1303. There seemed to be references that weren't in my bios (probably me just being my usual stupid self) and ones I didn't have control of. Like after I moved the fsb up to a miserly 230 and did most of the other settings, in bootup and cpuz, the multiplier was down to 9 and gave me a speed of 2070. Now considering it was at 2200 prior to this, that would make an o/c of minus 6% roughly. Well..... I suppose it's an o/c of sorts (back to the glass being half full or half empty).
Have now printed out the o/c guide, it will remain my constant companion till such times as all is digested, or ingested, as suggested.
Forum Wars will probably have to wait a while (do you all believe in reincarnation) if I am to make an impact......but all in good time.
Meanwhile, we'll just amble along and give it a bit o' welly later....I'll keep you informed, Dee.

Incidentally, what would be the difference between the P5N32-E SLI Plus and the non plus, I know that the non plus has the 680i and the plus doesn't.....but other than that? Thank you, Dee.

The Plus has a rep as a super overclocking board, much better than the not plus. However, if you're looking for a new board, the ASUS p5k deluxe is the best one out for a *non-sli* set up. It's the oc'ing king right now.

This will hopefully get ya going the right way Dee

AI Overclocking: Manual
CPU FSB Frequency: 240
SB to NB Overclock: Manual
SB to NB Frequency: 200
Adjust PCIE Frequency: 100
PEG link mode: Disabled
Over-voltage cpu vcore: Enabled
Over-voltage NB vcore: Disabled
Over-voltage SB vcore: Disabled
Over-voltage Hypertransport: Disabled
DDR VCORE: 2.75V
FID/VID Change: Manual
Processor Frequency Multiplier: 10X
Processor Voltage: 1.200
DDR Clock Skew: Auto


MEMORY SETTINGS
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1T/2T memory timing: 1T
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ECC: Disable (should be disabled by default)
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Memclock mode: Limit
Memclock value: 166
Timing mode: Manual
CAS Latency: 2
TRAS: 6
TRP: 3
TRCD: 3
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Everything belows this is either left to auto, greyed out. or not even shown.
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TRRD: Auto
TRC: Auto
TRFC: Auto
TRWT : Auto
MCT Extra timing mode: Auto
TREF : Greyed Out
TWCL Greyed Out
R/W Queue Bypass : Greyed Out
Bypass Max : Greyed Out
Idle cycle limit : Greyed Out
Dynamic idle counter : Greyed Out
DDR driving strength : Greyed Out
Enable 32-byte Granularity: Greyed Out
TWR : Greyed Out
DDR input strobe skew : Greyed Out
DDR Data driving strength : Greyed Out
User config mode : Greyed Out
Read Preamble : Greyed Out
Asyc Latency : Greyed Out
Bank Interleaving : Greyed Out
Burst length : Greyed Out
Hardware memory hole : Greyed Out

CHIPSET (Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe)
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K8 to NB Frequency : 4x
K8 to NB linkwidth : 16/16
SB to NB frequency : 5x
SB to NB Linkwidth : 16/16