Got my P5N32-E *Plus* - pics and details here!

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for the life of me I cannot understand why more people aren't interested in this board.
 
well I would seriously like to know your in depth thoughts on this board. No one else seems to be doing a review on it....
 
So this version is not using 680i chips at all, they are using 2 different bridge sections to do the same thing?

Figure at this time buyer beware of what you're getting. It may be a good send though?


Has anyone of the [H] Staffers gotten there hands on one of these yet to compare it to the Non-plus?
 
gyranthir said:
So this version is not using 680i chips at all, they are using 2 different bridge sections to do the same thing?

Figure at this time buyer beware of what you're getting. It may be a good send though?


Has anyone of the [H] Staffers gotten there hands on one of these yet to compare it to the Non-plus?
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I haven't, not sure if Kyle has or not. If it's using the 650i chipset then it's clearly not the same thing. Sure it would have most of the features, excluding those that are chipset specific.
 
That review has none of the information that I am looking for.

It looks like it's just a tertiary analysis of what they think they are looking at, with no experience of running the actually board.
 
Had a lot of instability problems, but they were eleviated by setting voltage for my Corsair RAM to 2.2V and setting the command rate for memory to 2T.

It doesn't do those automatically. Now it is less flaky, but I am not sure everything is sorted either.

CPU-Z definetly says 650i northbridge and 570 southbridge. There is a possibility that this is a bug. The other possible explaination is that ASUS are going down the toilet and concealing the chipset of their products is a symptom of this.
 
jon_k said:
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for the life of me I cannot understand why more people aren't interested in this board.
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Well, its new and there's isnt much hype or actual info about it. That plus I think most people are a little afraid to buy something untested. Especially since the manufacturers tend to put out mobos with unmatured BIOSes and other problems lately.
 
I have the P5N32-E SLI, wonderful board but when I first booted I got a horrible beep. I could not get the board to boot, tried all things with the exception of using a different ram sticks since it is my first DDR2 based mobo. Long story short is a friends of mine is a pc tech, he lives 49miles from me. Drove up there, we tried 3 different ram sticks, all worked fine except mine, but mine worked nice in his machine. I updated bios and got the memory to boot, but slowly developed an issue and it would take a few restarts to get it to post.

My ram is Corsair SMX2 TWIN2X2048-6400C4PRO - Retail DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) 2GB kit
it has the small status lights, long story short it hated my mobo. Talked to corsair, they told me to send them in, they sent me back a new set, possibly newer stock, works like a charm, NO ISSUES AT ALL. Some people complain about their board not working, if it doesen't work RMA things back, I did test, the memory tested fine, but looks like the newer revision works fine. It's a possibility that the modules I received from newegg were sitting there for a while, the new box had a SLI sticker on the box. So far been happy, I am running vista RC1 at the moment. What I wished is that this mobo had a status trouble shoot lcd. My friend has a abit mobo and last 3 he owned had the little 2 digit trouble shooting status lcd, hes builds pc's for business, a pc tech.

I just bought mine 3 weeks ago and now they got vista models, and it comes with some sort of screen that you connect to the mobo.
http://crunchgear.com/2007/01/24/asus-vista-happy-mobos/
I like the P5B-Plus Vista.
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=124494
http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=307&model=1520&modelmenu=1
I still think the P5N32-E SLI is a better board, it just needs some of the extra features from these boards, at least we can support higher ram speeds.

BTW I only have the standar P5N32-E SLI not the plus version.
 
Isn't it strange that Asus would add "plus" to the end of one of their existing boards and it actually be an "inferior" board to the non-plus vanilla version?
 
kirbyrj said:
Isn't it strange that Asus would add "plus" to the end of one of their existing boards and it actually be an "inferior" board to the non-plus vanilla version?
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True. ASUS information on this board and the regular P5N32-E SLI is sketchy. According to ASUS' website the P5N32-E SLI Plus uses the C55 chipset and not the C55XE. Yet some reports on the web show that the board indeed is a 680i board, and the only difference is the capacitors. One thing we do know is that the PCB's for each of these boards is identical. So ASUS has three boards that are almost exactly the same. The Striker Extreme simply has more features that the other two don't have. None of them are performance oriented with the possible exception of the chipset cooling.
 
revenant said:
that's nucking futz.. buyer beware for sure!!
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The fact that it's named P5N32-E SLI Plus would make some people think that it was an improved model over the regular P5N32-E SLI. In addition the boards look virtually identical. The P5N32-E SLI Plus also has the same sticker covering the Striker Extreme silkscreening that the regular P5N32-E SLI does.

I'm not happy about this. I think ASUS should have done something to differentiate this model from the other two more clearly.
 
On top of that, this board uses all solid state capacitors, while the P5N32-E one does not?! What sense does that make? :confused:

I've had some bad luck with the P5N32-E board though, ran into two duds already, ended up selecting the tried, tested, and true EVGA 680i (the current batches have the updated BIOS).

Off on a tangent ...

Good news folks, my 680i Asus is at 1750 MHz FSB ... gogogo!
 
:eek: I was close to buying this board.

So how well will these two different chipsets work together, (C55+MCP55P; a.k.s. nForce®650i SLI & nForce®570 SLI)? I can see how it could save money, the 680i chipset costs 120 for the pair of North and South set for a manufacturer i believe. But i wonder what the result of this combination will be.

If i can get SLI 16X and the other @ 8 that is awesome. Plus 1333FSB for the next CPU batch(if it ends up compatible).

So how hot will this this chipset run, and how much will it over clock. What features will i be missing from the original 680i P5N32-E SLI chipset? I've found it at eWIZ for a mere 205USD.
 
i use onboard audio and had bad experiences with the AD setup so i went with the 965p mobo instead cuz it offered the RT one and the EVGA 680 board seems a bit scary =p thats why im not interested in this board!! :p
 
WITHTEETH said:
:eek: I was close to buying this board.

So how well will these two different chipsets work together, (C55+MCP55P; a.k.s. nForce®650i SLI & nForce®570 SLI)? I can see how it could save money, the 680i chipset costs 120 for the pair of North and South set for a manufacturer i believe. But i wonder what the result of this combination will be.

If i can get SLI 16X and the other @ 8 that is awesome. Plus 1333FSB for the next CPU batch(if it ends up compatible).

So how hot will this this chipset run, and how much will it over clock. What features will i be missing from the original 680i P5N32-E SLI chipset? I've found it at eWIZ for a mere 205USD.
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It uses the C55 Northbridge and the MCP55P Southbridge. The sounth bridges are designed to work with all the 500 and 600 series Northbridges. I wouldn't worry about it.

Hell the 680i's use the same southbridge the 500 series does.
 
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