I have a P5N-T and am considering exchanging it for this board. Is it worth it? Are there differences in the OC ability or is it the same chips that have the same capabilities (multi, fsb, overvolt, etc). By stepping up to this board, do I gain anything other than the CPU INIT display?
For a start you need to remove the display, because it polls all the time it slows down SuperPi and other benches
What FSB are you getting with your P5NT? You get loads of options with the Striker II but it still has to handle a 680i / 780i chip so that means you need to deal with lots of heat and have good memory that can do low latency.
Regards
Andy
I am just having problems getting stability at stock setting much less trying to OC it yet. I am using default FSB 1066 if I remeber right and 800 for the mem. I was mainly curious if anyone knew if these two boards were base on the same alternate design ASUS uses and if there were different hardware components that affected the overclockability.
Polling display? That seems silly. Seems better off with some event driven model, maybe its own pic or atmega chip if it want to poll.
Well, mine just died.
I just reinstalled vista x64, left it alone for a while, came back and it was in sleep/hibernation. So I pressed the power button for it to come back on and then got up to get a drink. After it gets back into windows the siren on my ultra goes off (the ones that go off if you turn it on without the 2x pci-e power connectors).
So rebooted it, got back into windows okay, but now I couldn't get on the internet, the ethernet ports weren't working. So I turned it off again, try to turn it on, and get CPU INIT, and as far as I can tell, its totally dead.
I'm going to blame this one on vista.
i7 920 @ 3.6ghz stock volts
Asus Rampage 2 Extreme
Corsair 12GB 6-6-6-20 1440mhz
1x EVGA 8800 ultra @ 655/1728/2302
1x NVIDIA ES 8800 ultra @ 655/1728/2302
2x 80gb Intel X-25M in raid 0
Silverstone OP1000 PSU
Cooling:
Loop1 D5->Fuzion v2->MCR320
Loop2 D5->EK8800FC->EK8800FC->MCR320
9 x Yates @ 45cfm
Specs
Asus 780i Striker II Formula
Intel E8400 Wolfdale @ 4050Mhz
2x2GB OCZ Platinum @ 1200Mhz 5-4-3-18
MSI 5850 1000Mhz/5000Mhz
Wester Digital Black 2TB
Antec Quatro 850W
Cooling
Swiftech Apogee
Swiftech MCP-600
HardwareLabes Black Ice Extreme 2
Audio Setup
X-fi w/AD8066, Clock mod, & polymer caps > PPAV2 > Grado SR60 & Grado SR325i & Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro & Beyerdynamic DT990 & AKG K701 & Denon D2000
Got the board today, tests with 4GB 8000 Reaper X and Q9650.
To start board does not like 9 multi
8 is ok but max fsb =5% over stock base FSB so 1333+5%, 1600+5%, more with duals but not much more with quads.
4GB running memtest clean V2 (brutal) 1000MHZ 1.85V, TRFC 52 was key
early findings on new bios I can't share
Got a problem with your OCZ product....?
Have a look over here
Tony AKA BigToe
Tuning PC's for speed...Run whats fast, not what you think is fast
Well, I gave up on trying to fix it and went to class.
Came back, didn't change a thing, turned it on, and it posted.
i7 920 @ 3.6ghz stock volts
Asus Rampage 2 Extreme
Corsair 12GB 6-6-6-20 1440mhz
1x EVGA 8800 ultra @ 655/1728/2302
1x NVIDIA ES 8800 ultra @ 655/1728/2302
2x 80gb Intel X-25M in raid 0
Silverstone OP1000 PSU
Cooling:
Loop1 D5->Fuzion v2->MCR320
Loop2 D5->EK8800FC->EK8800FC->MCR320
9 x Yates @ 45cfm
Specs
Asus 780i Striker II Formula
Intel E8400 Wolfdale @ 4050Mhz
2x2GB OCZ Platinum @ 1200Mhz 5-4-3-18
MSI 5850 1000Mhz/5000Mhz
Wester Digital Black 2TB
Antec Quatro 850W
Cooling
Swiftech Apogee
Swiftech MCP-600
HardwareLabes Black Ice Extreme 2
Audio Setup
X-fi w/AD8066, Clock mod, & polymer caps > PPAV2 > Grado SR60 & Grado SR325i & Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro & Beyerdynamic DT990 & AKG K701 & Denon D2000
quads man...you need to read what I posted
duals clock higher, quads are a mess, also 4GB and 8GB are hard with quads, lots of rules.
Got a problem with your OCZ product....?
Have a look over here
Tony AKA BigToe
Tuning PC's for speed...Run whats fast, not what you think is fast
QX9650 @ 9x450 with 8 gigs ram..
http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=373
Last edited by asp6000; 02-14-2008 at 09:29 PM.
E8400
ECS 8800GT-SLI
Asus Striker II
OCZ 4GB
Although you cannot say much about the new BIOS does it allow half multipiers?
I have a 9.5x E8500 here and it only has options of 7,8,9 in the BIOS which actually equates to 7.5, 8.5 and 9.5 in real life! I can't do full mulitpliers though like 8x400 for instance. Very strange how Asus can allow a BIOS to go out like that, they must have had Wolfdales for ages .... sigh.
Regards
Andy
Question : Why do some overclockers switch into d*ckmode when money is involved
Remark : They call me Pro Asus Saaya yupp, I agree
Is it possible Tony to put out a sticky topic on what those rule are to get these quads running on 780i with or with more than 4 gigs... as you got ya q6600 booting at 400 with the SE....but I too have the best ram stability/clocks with TRFC 52, while the Gskill kit sets in SPD 45 for it... at 1000mhz 2 volts.... Might grab the Reaper kit as one of the Gskills kits died on me ( it was erratic from the start ) 780i XFX board is ordered....
Last edited by Leeghoofd; 02-15-2008 at 02:47 AM.
Question : Why do some overclockers switch into d*ckmode when money is involved
Remark : They call me Pro Asus Saaya yupp, I agree
Gary had 450x9 yes, but it was apparent that the board was liable to fall over during severe stress testing, Raja found exactly the same.
During my tests with striker1 i found the "rules" as i call them when using quads and posted about this on the ocz forum, the issue is most of you guys will not be happy running 3.33 when you Q6600 does 3.6+ easy so you tend to ignore what i posted.
Striker and striker 2 Formula are ONLY good with QX cpu's as the multi is unlocked and you can get close to where you need running a higher multi, if you are looking for FSB overclocking get a dual core although how much over 500 780i will do i have no idea.
The rules with 4GB 2x2 with a quad.
tRFC, you have to tune this, big impact on vdimm and stability
FSB has to stay to the sweet spots, 9 multi has issues for some reason also.
For me 8x1333, 8x1600, 8x1667 all worked well with async and 4GB at 1000, 5-5-5-18 tRFC 54 and 1.85V vdimm. At these FSB's the board sets exactly 1000 for the memory and weirdly this seems to have an effect.
Im still testing, but end users who we helped over at OCZ who followed these rules have had no issues, so there is something to them.
Last edited by Tony; 02-15-2008 at 06:42 AM.
Got a problem with your OCZ product....?
Have a look over here
Tony AKA BigToe
Tuning PC's for speed...Run whats fast, not what you think is fast
I have another interesting "feature" with my FSB and memory. I am running linked and sync mode so 1600FSB (400 real money) gives RAM speed of 400 as expected, but when I run 1872 (468) and expect the memory to do 1:1 again it is actually doing 15:16 ratio and the RAM speed is not 936 but 877.
Are there only certain FSB's where the ratio stays 1:1 and elsewhere it gives best approximation?
Regards
Andy
TT Armor|Asus Rampage II Extreme|i7 940| 2X EVGA GTX 295 Quad SLI|X-FI Titanium Fatal1ty Pro|Feser TFC480 4x104cfm 38mm Panaflows Swiftech GTZ MCP655 MCW-NBMAX|3x2g Corsair Dominator TR3X6G1600C8D|Silverstone Olympia 1000w PSU|Logitech G-15|1x 150g Raptor, 3x320 Seagate 7200.10 sata|2xLite-On 20xDVD/RW sata|37" Viewsonic LCDTV/HDMI-DVI (serious gaming)|Samsung 244T (semi-serious gaming)
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D800,D3,D300,F6,80-400mm G VRII/ 70-200mm f/2.8 VRII/70-300mm VR/24-85mm f/3.5-4.5G/50mm f/1.4G,/85mm f/1.4D AF/58mm Voigtlander f/1.4/
24-70mm f/2.8/200mm f/4D Micro/400mm f/2.8 VRII/300mm f/2.8 VRII/500mm f/4.0 VR
Flash:SB-400/SB-600/SB 900
TC's: Nikkor, 1.4x 1.7x 2.0x III.
Support: Manfrotto 680B monopod Gitzo GT5541LS tripod Induro GHB2 gimbal RRS MH-01 head.
Does anybody has running the striker II formula with Crucial Ballistix 8500er without any problems?
Yesterday evening, i overclocked the ballistix up to 600MHz 5-5-5-12, vDimm 2,25V, Chipset 1,26 if i remember correctly. Worked fine, primed for about 2 hours then i shut down the system. this morning, i tried to boot it up and again cpu init error. Bios 0902, hasn't booted anymore, atm im leaving it without battery because i hope to get it alive again.
Specs
Asus 780i Striker II Formula
Intel E8400 Wolfdale @ 4050Mhz
2x2GB OCZ Platinum @ 1200Mhz 5-4-3-18
MSI 5850 1000Mhz/5000Mhz
Wester Digital Black 2TB
Antec Quatro 850W
Cooling
Swiftech Apogee
Swiftech MCP-600
HardwareLabes Black Ice Extreme 2
Audio Setup
X-fi w/AD8066, Clock mod, & polymer caps > PPAV2 > Grado SR60 & Grado SR325i & Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro & Beyerdynamic DT990 & AKG K701 & Denon D2000
I hand tuned every setting on the board to get that benchmark stable. But it goes to prove that if you work long enough on it, the board will reward you with very good performance. However, testing with the 1001 BIOS I am no longer stable at those same settings, trying to dial the board back in right now.
The 1001 is better in several areas (FSB holes have shrunk, 1T at 800 is working again), but it changed all the rules on tuning the board. It has been like this since the 0701 BIOS. The board (any 680i/780i) is just like a duck, it wakes up in a different world everyday.
Project ZEUS II
Asus Rampage II Extreme
Intel I7 920 D0 3930A @ 4.50GHz (21 X 214mhz)
3 x 2GB G.Skill Trident 1600 @ 1716MHz (6-8-6-20-1N)
2 x Asus HD 6870 CrossFire @ 1000/1100MHz
OCZ Vertex 2 60GB | Intel X25-M 120GB | WD Velociraptor 150GB | Seagate FreeAgent XTreme 1.5TB esata
Asus Xonar DX | Logitech Z-5500 | LG W2600HP 26" S-IPS LCD
Watercooling setup:
1st loop -> Radiator: 2 x ThermoChill PA120.3 | Pump: Laing DDC-3.25 with Alphacool HF 38 top | CPU: Swiftech Apogee XT | Chipset: Swiftech MCW-NBMAX | Tubing: Masterkleer 1/2" UV
2nd loop -> Radiator: ThermoChill PA120.3 | Pump: Laing DDC-3.2 with Alphacool HF 38 top | GPU: 2 x EK FC-6870 | Tubing: Masterkleer 1/2" UV
Assembled in Mountain Mods Ascension Trinity
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im at the point and going to a x38 chipset.or a 8400.this mobo hates the q6600 go.
Does anybody know how to boot from USB on this board? I can't boot from USB. So I can no longer flash my custom 8800 bios.
Specs
Asus 780i Striker II Formula
Intel E8400 Wolfdale @ 4050Mhz
2x2GB OCZ Platinum @ 1200Mhz 5-4-3-18
MSI 5850 1000Mhz/5000Mhz
Wester Digital Black 2TB
Antec Quatro 850W
Cooling
Swiftech Apogee
Swiftech MCP-600
HardwareLabes Black Ice Extreme 2
Audio Setup
X-fi w/AD8066, Clock mod, & polymer caps > PPAV2 > Grado SR60 & Grado SR325i & Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro & Beyerdynamic DT990 & AKG K701 & Denon D2000
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