A little confusion.

ranalli · TweakNOOB Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 3

I am running the Asus P5N32-SLI with a p4 3.2 ghz extreme edition. The chip came in a Dell XPS 500. I also have 4 GB of ram from the Dell in my new computer using the Asus board. I'm running two 400GB HD's in Raid 0 on Windows Media Center Edition. I have two 7800gtx's running in SLI that are tring to push 1600x1200 in battlefield 2 on a Dell 2405FPWS. I have every setting jacked up to the max and my chip is O/Ced to 3.6. What type of performance SHOULD I be getting?

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racing87stang · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:54 pm Post subject:

what speed is the Ram, and PSU power rating. Depending on the question in general I believe it to be safe to assume you are not happy with that output, and wondering if it should be more. Describe your gaming experience in general what screen size, and what not.

With SLI and those TWO cards your getting plenty of gaming power, but dpending on your ram just as my system is using dell parts on a ASUS board.

Dell even in their XPS systems, is only using DDR2667 Ram. Which is bottlenecking the performance. What exact thing ar eyou looking into.

To me it should handle easily around 100+ FPS in that game with that setup, but I cant be SURE until you can give us more information. A

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ranalli · TweakNOOB Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 3

I'm runing the Seasonic PSU which is 600w. I'm using the RAM that came out of the XPS so that's most likely my problem. I'm getting extreme issues of bottlenecking and it's keeping me around 40fps in the heat of a battle in bf2. I would expect that the P4 EE 3.2ghz o/ced at 3.6 would be able to handle the game at 1600x1200 with all settings on blast and AAx4 using 4GB's of ram. I opened up NotePad and did the old Help -> About option to see how much physical memory I have and it's only showing 2,489,572kb available. I guess i'll look into picking up some memory before I leave for school. Any recommendations as far as the best memory that'd run with the Asus P5N32-SLI?

racing87stang · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:06 pm Post subject:

I would say anything DDR2 800 is good. (those who make it, are top brandage anyway) if you wanna splurge then go for a DDR2 1000 kit.
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[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 12:31 pm Post subject:

For the ram I would get the corsair 5400UL or 8000UL, very good performers.

To be honest with you I am amazed that you have a system that actually works with that motherboard. I had the orginal Asus Intel SLI motherboard and it didn't make it past memory testing. I took it out and am using it as a pattern for building fan supports and other mods. The nForce Intel Edition is just horrible to deal with. And like I said you should feel lucky your computer works as well as it does.
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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

and doesnt it only handle TWO gigs at dual channel?
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

From the ASUS manual:

If you installed four 1gb memory modules, the system may detect less than 3gb of total memory because of address space allocation for other critical functions. This limitation applies to Windows XP32-bit operating system.

If you installed Windows XP 32-bit OS version, we recommend that you install less than 3gb of total memory.

TH...........that board supports 16gb of DDR2 in dual-channel.........

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ranalli · TweakNOOB Joined: 31 Jan 2006 Posts: 3

Thanks, if I only RTDM :/

So now on to the next question. What do you guys recommend as a good motherboard to use with the P4 3.2 EE and two 7800gtx.

Btw fussnfeathers.. I seen your drumrock link in your sig. www.myspace.com/ranalli check that out I got a video or two up on there.

racing87stang · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:18 pm Post subject:

I dont know about any other INTEL based board, that will run SLI. I would recommend selling that EE and getting a Opteron, or X2 athlon with a different motherboard.
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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

oops...my fault....guess i should do some reading on the DDR2 platforms some more...=P
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