ASUS P5N32-E Motherboard

[.geek]

Hi all

Does anyone have one of these motherboards: ASUS P5N32-E?

I'm looking at getting an E6600 Intel Core 2 Duo to go with it. Any pro's or con's with this board? Or recommendations for other socket LGA775 motherboards?

Also what are the differences between the nVidia 680i SLI chipsets and the Intel chipsets? e.g. the Intel 975x

Thanks!

 

[supersunbird]

The main difference is you can SLI with the nvidias. The rest is probably just a few features (8 vs 10 USB or similar)...

 

[.geek]

Thanks, I never knew that.

 

[killadoob]

hmmm is this the same board that struggles with 4 sticks of ram?

well the 680! is good chipset but for overclocking the only chipset to get is 965

 

[.geek]

Do you have a link to an article with this memory problem?

 

[.geek]

I see: PC won't boot with 4GB RAM

 

[killadoob]

there is another thread as well about it

my advice is if your going to put 4 sticks in dont touch this board

 

[stefan9]

I have this board. I have had it since December. If your not going to overclock allot this board is fantastic. The main issue with the board is that the northbridge gets very very hot.

And on the memory this board is very picky with ram. Before some bios updates it also wouldn't take some corsair ram so it's not just when using 4 gig's.

 

[.geek]

Thanks. I was looking at getting Corsair Dominator RAM. Worrying..

 

[killadoob]

get a different board man

 

[.geek]

Any recommendations killadoob?

 

[.geek]

HardOCP: Asus P5B-E with 4 x 1GB ram not detecting all the ram.

Different board, but similar RAM issue.

 

[The_Techie]

I was looking at getting Corsair Dominator RAM.

Great RAM, you won't go wrong with those!

 

[killadoob]

gigabyte 965 boards are awesome