I just found this thread and wanted to answer a few unanswered questions and share some relevant info that is of the interest of all of you building a computer.
I also have the ASUS P5N32-E SLI motherboard. It uses NVIDIA 680i chips for the memory controller and the hard drive controller. These chips perform other tasks as well but they manage the two important ones wonderfully. I have 2 1GB sicks of RAM overclocked at 950MHz and 4-4-4-12-1T trimmings which all in all add bandwidth and responsiveness. It is hard to say how good of a job the memory controller is doing other than by pointing out that the benchmarks affected by increased bandwidth were significantly affected by the increases. However, the South Bridge is also a stellar performer and there is no doubt about it. I have three pairs of perpendicular recording HDDs set up in three different RAID0 configurations and I am getting 133.3 132.4 and 131.8MB/s average reads for each.
Also I got my E6300 to a rock solid stable overclock of 3.15GHz with seldom peaks of 51C through 15hs of testing at 26C ambient temperature by using 1.3 Vcore (actual). I am using a Tuniq Tower 120mm CPU cooler which will also fit in any of the LGA 775 CPUs. This socket includes Quadros with 1333FSBs. The NorthBridge and SouthBridge get very hot when overclocking though, so if you want to be able to edit you will also have to fit special $30 coolers on these, or add little 40mm fans to the existing heatsinks and re-set them with Artic Silver thermal compound as mentioned before (better and easier to do the first). The Motherboard obviously supports up to 8GB of DDR2 for later releases and comes with lots of bells and whistles. There is only two Firewire ports, one in the I/O and one on-board, but there are two PCIE x16 ports one PCI-E x8 one PCI-E x1 and two PCI ports (M-Audio 2496 uses normal PCI)...
All we have to wish for now is that hopefully Sony will step it ALL up on their end by 8.0, or at least the multiple core support for previews! AGHHH! How incredibly frustrating! And stupid.
I also have the ASUS P5N32-E SLI motherboard. It uses NVIDIA 680i chips for the memory controller and the hard drive controller. These chips perform other tasks as well but they manage the two important ones wonderfully. I have 2 1GB sicks of RAM overclocked at 950MHz and 4-4-4-12-1T trimmings which all in all add bandwidth and responsiveness. It is hard to say how good of a job the memory controller is doing other than by pointing out that the benchmarks affected by increased bandwidth were significantly affected by the increases. However, the South Bridge is also a stellar performer and there is no doubt about it. I have three pairs of perpendicular recording HDDs set up in three different RAID0 configurations and I am getting 133.3 132.4 and 131.8MB/s average reads for each.
Also I got my E6300 to a rock solid stable overclock of 3.15GHz with seldom peaks of 51C through 15hs of testing at 26C ambient temperature by using 1.3 Vcore (actual). I am using a Tuniq Tower 120mm CPU cooler which will also fit in any of the LGA 775 CPUs. This socket includes Quadros with 1333FSBs. The NorthBridge and SouthBridge get very hot when overclocking though, so if you want to be able to edit you will also have to fit special $30 coolers on these, or add little 40mm fans to the existing heatsinks and re-set them with Artic Silver thermal compound as mentioned before (better and easier to do the first). The Motherboard obviously supports up to 8GB of DDR2 for later releases and comes with lots of bells and whistles. There is only two Firewire ports, one in the I/O and one on-board, but there are two PCIE x16 ports one PCI-E x8 one PCI-E x1 and two PCI ports (M-Audio 2496 uses normal PCI)...
All we have to wish for now is that hopefully Sony will step it ALL up on their end by 8.0, or at least the multiple core support for previews! AGHHH! How incredibly frustrating! And stupid.
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