What OC Speed should I be getting with P5N-E, E4300 and CrucialRendition DDR2 5300 , all at default voltage and intel cooler

There is no blue slot.
Slot A's, yellow
Slot B's, black

It's the yellow slots that most people have problem. Most earlier review
sites never mentioned the yellow memoery slot problem and gave very good
review, and I bought this MB based on their review. Now if I want to up
grade to 4 GB of ram, I have to buy two 2GB ram, instead of just two
more 1GBs which is way cheaper. Another problem with this MB is that for
OCing it is very picky about the ram timings. Have I known about these
problems, I would have went with MSI P6N Neo or the little bit more
expense 680i Lt chipset MB.

So I am not as happy as I first thought.


Thomas wrote:
> tim wrote:
>
>>My MB is P5N-E SLI not P5N32-E SLI. I am using dual channel 2 stick of
>>1GB Crucial Rendition DDR2 5300 in slots B1 & B2.
>>
>>Does anyone have same problem with memory slots A1 & A2 on this MB?
>
>
> Is that the blue slots or the black slots? I've been reading up on this
> mainboard's problems, and see many people that cannot use the blue slots.
>

No, the B slots (black) are dual chnnel too. As confirmed by the bios
boot up post screen.

Fishface wrote:

> Thomas wrote:
>
>>tim wrote:
>>
>>>My MB is P5N-E SLI not P5N32-E SLI. I am using dual channel 2 stick of
>>>1GB Crucial Rendition DDR2 5300 in slots B1 & B2.
>>>
>>>Does anyone have same problem with memory slots A1 & A2 on this MB?
>>
>>Is that the blue slots or the black slots? I've been reading up on this
>>mainboard's problems, and see many people that cannot use the blue slots.
>
>
> http://www.surcouf.com/images/editorial/clubic/00412258'.jpg
> In this picture, the blue look very yellow. Must be the lighting!
> It appears that B1 & B2 are the two slots ****hest from the CPU.
> This is confirmed by this zipped PDF:
> http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/...sli-insert.zip
>
> http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/...-E_SLI_QVL.pdf
> On this memory QVL, there are some bizarre gaps in the DIMM
> support column, where some memory is supported in a single
> module, others are supported in dual channel but not single, and
> another works when there are one or four dimms, but not two.
> This seems very bizarre.
>
> In order for two DIMMs to run in dual channel, they are placed
> in same colored slots. I would presume B1 & B2 to be a single
> channel configuration and performance would likely suffer greatly.
>
>

tim wrote:
> No, the B slots (black) are dual chnnel too. As confirmed by the
> bios boot up post screen.

The black slots are named DIMM_A2 and DIMM_B2. The yellow
slots are named DDR2 DIMM_A1 and DDR2 DIMM_A2. But at
least we now know what you're talking about, even if you do talk
wrong!

> The black slots are named DIMM_A2 and DIMM_B2. The yellow
> slots are named DDR2 DIMM_A1 and DDR2 DIMM_A2. But at
> least we now know what you're talking about, even if you do talk
> wrong!

Seem to be talking wrong myself. That should be:

The black slots are named DIMM_A2 and DIMM_B2. The yellow
slots are named DDR2 DIMM_A1 and DDR2 DIMM_B1.

tim wrote:
> There is no blue slot.
> Slot A's, yellow
> Slot B's, black

Sorry about the blue, dunno why that colour stuck in my head. I'm using the
black ones now, and it seems okay.

> It's the yellow slots that most people have problem. Most earlier
> review sites never mentioned the yellow memoery slot problem and gave
> very good review, and I bought this MB based on their review. Now if
> I want to up grade to 4 GB of ram, I have to buy two 2GB ram, instead
> of just two more 1GBs which is way cheaper. Another problem with this
> MB is that for OCing it is very picky about the ram timings. Have I
> known about these problems, I would have went with MSI P6N Neo or the
> little bit more expense 680i Lt chipset MB.
>
> So I am not as happy as I first thought.

Ditto...

--
Grtz Thomas