My gaming rig
Core i7 920 C0/C1@ 2.66 Ghz
6gb Corsair Dominator 1600mhz
2xClub3D HD 4890 in CrossfireX
DFI LP UT T3eH8
Lian Li PC-V2100B PlusII
MIST 1000w
LG W2600HP-BF
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB
Water cooling system
MCR-320 and MCR-220
D-Tek Fuzion V1
7/16" ID 5/8" OD
MCP-655
What online stores are selling this board in the usa?
PC : Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3 + Intel Core i5 i2500k + 2 x Asus HD6870 DirectCU + 2x2GB PC12800 G.Skill Eco 7-8-7-24 + Creative X-Fi Titanium PCIe + Scythe Mugen 3.
Digicam : Pentax *istDL2 + Pentax smc DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL + Cosina F3.5/100mm Makro.
Heimkino : Samsung LE-46B450 FullHD + Arion AF-4000HDCI + Onkyo TX-SR505E + Quadral Quintas 5.0 + Heco Victa 25A.
Asus Rampage Formula
Intel Core2Quad QX9650 @ 3.3GHz
Corsair H50
GSkill 4x2GB DDR2 F2-8000CL5D-4GBPQ @ 5-5-5-12
Corsair 750HX 750W PSU
Sapphire Vapor-X Radeon HD 5870
AuzenTech AZT-FORTE X-Fi Forte
Audio-Technica ATH-A700 Headphones
Intel X25-M G2 160GB SSD
ASUS DRW-2014L1T
Corsair Obsidian 800D
Microsoft Windows 7 x64
I'm currently having a lot of trouble getting the Striker II Extreme to run with any FSB overclock over 350... the system passes all the torture tests with flying colours, 7+ hours ORTHOS blend, 2 hours OCCT Mix. But then the system randomly shuts down, BSOD, programs randomly terminates, and especially likely when running 3DMark06, PCMark Vantage and shutting down the PC. Latest BIOS and relaxing the memory timing don't help, raising all voltages made it even worse... Very disappointed.
I have since ordered a EVGA 790i Ultra as replacement until better BIOS fix the Asus Mobo..
Question,
My online store have got a few evga 790i in stock tonite! They also have the Asus 790i in stock soon. Can't make up my mind about the two, same price on the boards. Need some help making a decision.
Thanks
Jan
Q6600 G0 L734B252 @2.4
EVGA 790I
TR 120 extreme+120mm s-flex fan
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But check out this blog post from FCG over at anandtech: 500 fsb stable on yorkfield, Asus 790i (plus 2000 mhz with 8gb of ram).
http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=419
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Just had a read through... The results seem mighty impressive. However until they post their BIOS settings and I'm able to duplicate their results, I remain skeptical to the Asus S2E.
I am using the latest BIOS I could find, version 0507, and at stock setting it is 100% stable. I am reluctant to reset the CMOS, as every time I do that I have to disassemble my watercooling, replace my QX9650 with a Core2Duo, take out a stick of ram just for the system to POST and increase the ram voltage. And trust me, I have done it enough times to streamline the whole process.
The problem I find is that everywhere people are reporting that their reference 790i are overclocking demons, and very little voltage has to be raised to achieve 450-500Mhz FSB, where most are set to AUTO.
That is VERY far from what the Asus S2E is doing... after you run hours of torture tests, are are happy with its stability, it BSOD on you launching a web browser, a game, or restarting the PC.
I am currently running the system with 333FSB, 12x Multi, and 909 Mem. 100% stable.
that's shocking (are you sure you are not over tightening your waterblock) >> talking about your bios clearing issues aside from other stuff eek
i don't think you'll have those issues with reference boards to be honest unless you are overtightening or something
you also don't need to be too clever when OCing as nvidia engineers have some some good ground work to improve OCing and make it very easy .> leave volts at auto (only set vcore/vdimm) and let it rip
Thats what I hope with the EVGA I've ordered, and the waterblock is spring pressured and with back plate so not much stress on the Mobo.
On auto was the first thing I did on the Asus board reading all those posts on how its ability to control the volts is awsome, but no go on the Asus. The pinnicle of its stability was with upped Core/vdimm and VTT, with the rest on auto. Hope the EVGA will be much better in that reguard.
@ Eternal, are you sure it's not your RAM. I kinda vividly remember seeing some post about 790i and cellshocks not working well together here @ XS.
Don't take it the wrong way me quoting myself, but here it is;
Also if CellShock don't work with 790i... it will cause havoc here in Xtremesys, as from what I can see almost 1 in 3 DDR3 memory here are CellShock branded.
edit: Also note that the board is absolutely flawless. At its default settings, that is. It is another story once overclocked.
The problem is that it will not post the cellshock at all, the workaround (this was for the EVGA 790i anyway, dunno about the Asus) is to use crap DDR3 RAM, POST, set RAM volts up to cellshock supported, then swap in cellshock. I get my crucial crap kit tomorrow to try for myself. Sonofander was the one who is running the cellshock withe the EVGA, and IIRC he is running it at 500MHz FSB.
lupy is as lupy does
must be something in cellshock SPD cause i have no issues with corsairs
Those wacky Germans....
lupy is as lupy does
Does anybody know if PC3-8500 (1066) memory work on the 790i board or do I really have to get PC3-1333 or better?
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