sladesurfer
12-05-2006, 04:45 PM
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Due to the underwhelming overclocking experience I had with the Striker Extreme it's hard to recommend this board over the lower priced eVGA 680i which produced outstanding overclocking results. Even so, ASUS is usually really good about creating frequent BIOS updates and boards like the P5B Deluxe improved greatly over time. Therefore, I'd recommend waiting to see how the Striker Extreme improves over the next couple of months if you don't need to purchase a new motherboard right away.
Overclocking with the Striker Extreme has been challenging to say the least. Our board just didn't respond very well at all at speeds over 400MHz FSB for Kyle or myself in independent testing configurations. Our results shadowed each others using different CPUs, RAM, video cards, and high powered PSUs.
The system would sometimes POST at 400MHz FSB, but it wouldn't actually boot to Windows. In cases where it would, the system would hard lock and have to be powered off. There are a fair amount of overclocking options in the BIOS, and the general stability of the board leads me to conclude that these problems are more than likely BIOS related, and not a matter of hardware quality, although that is unclear still. We did get overclocking documentation of exactly how ASUS described the Striker should be overclocked and neither Kyle nor myself could make the ASUS recommended overclock settings work either beyond our 400MHz ceiling
Due to the underwhelming overclocking experience I had with the Striker Extreme it's hard to recommend this board over the lower priced eVGA 680i which produced outstanding overclocking results. Even so, ASUS is usually really good about creating frequent BIOS updates and boards like the P5B Deluxe improved greatly over time. Therefore, I'd recommend waiting to see how the Striker Extreme improves over the next couple of months if you don't need to purchase a new motherboard right away.
Overclocking with the Striker Extreme has been challenging to say the least. Our board just didn't respond very well at all at speeds over 400MHz FSB for Kyle or myself in independent testing configurations. Our results shadowed each others using different CPUs, RAM, video cards, and high powered PSUs.
The system would sometimes POST at 400MHz FSB, but it wouldn't actually boot to Windows. In cases where it would, the system would hard lock and have to be powered off. There are a fair amount of overclocking options in the BIOS, and the general stability of the board leads me to conclude that these problems are more than likely BIOS related, and not a matter of hardware quality, although that is unclear still. We did get overclocking documentation of exactly how ASUS described the Striker should be overclocked and neither Kyle nor myself could make the ASUS recommended overclock settings work either beyond our 400MHz ceiling