ASUS Striker Extreme 1301 BIOS 7/11 Update

[ShoNuff]

Yep, everything (per my sig) is watercooled.

62-64c: Priming w/ small FFT's

58-61c: Gaming

All based on 1.52vCore Windows (bios 1.5625)


I've done the pencil Vdroop mod and lapped the processor. It's flat now and makes excellent contact with the waterblock. As a result my 24/7 3909MHz temps are:

53-56c: Priming w/ small FFT's

48-51c: Gaming

All based on 1.4625vCore Windows (bios 1.4625)

[Leeghoofd]

Shonuff , besides the topic can you pm me some links to your hardware setup, I ordered a complete set of EK waterblocks for my NB, SB and PWM's wanna see how you got them hooked up... thx in adavance

Also why don't you run those crazy 888's at 1000mhz 4-4-4-12 2T ?

[NightRaven]

sorrie guys off track but what version boards are u guys using?

[markost]

Anyone know what's happened to the promised 1401 BIOS ?

[Don_Dan]

Anyone know what's happened to the promised 1401 BIOS ?

That is indeed a very good question... I haven't seen a post about it, and there was no sign of it on the Asus ftp.

[ShoNuff]

Anyone know what's happened to the promised 1401 BIOS ?

That's what I'm talkin' bout! It's been weeks since this bios was "unofficially" talked about. I thought it was done already.

@Leeghoofd PM on the way. I haven't really thought about running the memory at 1000? I was getting such good results with my other processor at really tight timings I was hoping I could do the same with my Quad.


@NightRaven I am using the original revision of the board. Your question is a controversial one as those in the know claim that there was only one revision of the Striker ever produced.

[pmp]

Looking forward to the next bios...1401? While the 1303 is good it has room to grow when used with the Quads. Can't run my memory at tight with my Quad Core.
ex. Using 1303 in both examples...
With Dual core: 3-3-3-9-1T @ 400MHz.
With Quad core: 4-4-4-12-2T @ 400MHz (1T is completely unstable)

This issue could not be resolved by ASUS directly, it's related to NVMM by nVidia. It was addressed last week to my known, maybe next week 140x will be released for public.

Anyone know what's happened to the promised 1401 BIOS ?

Nothig really, it's still at QC stage.

[markost]

More oddities with the Striker. Changed trd from Auto to all of the manual settings and nothing changed. To rule out Bios issues, I flashed back to 1102, loaded setup defaults, then flashed back to 1301. (can't use 1303 as it locks up at post due to my Razer mouse...yeah, I know.....change the mouse). Reset all BIOS settings manually rather than from a saved profile and here are the changes. Latency down by 5 ns and memory read up by 400 MB/s.

[markost]

Here we go again.... On the next and subsequent reboots, latency rose to 45ns which is only 2 ns better than before. I thought 5 ns was too good to be true. 3D05 was also better by 200 points.

[pmp]

It's rather nVidia NB behaviour, than Striker itself. Some portions of BIOS are written by nVidia R&D, and they're not moddable by any vendor.

BTW 13051 - really sweet

[Leeghoofd]

PMP question:

You had pretty good results on the quad, was the board modded in any way , any piccies of your setup, Bios details ,...

I have some friends with quads all reaching 360FSB but not a mhz higher ( on Q6600,QX6700 and on a GO Q6600 )

[noosphere]

Hi,

You think that the new bios will resolve the problem of the lows fsb?
regards

[markost]

Another one........Anyone know why Everest shows different latency values when you run a separate latency bench as against a full benchmark?

[hyde211]

ASUS Striker Extreme 1305 BIOS

2007/8/27 Update

DOWNLOAD

[ 1305 ]
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1. Enhance overclocking capability
2. Enable support for ASUS SK-2690 keyboard
3. Enable support for Razer Copperhead USB Mouse

[Leeghoofd]

Mmm tried new bios on stock all is okay, though I am not be able to test 400FSB/800Mhz ram, doesn't post ( all sorts of various errors though "det IDE" is the most common ), 425FSB works fab, 450 no go also not 475 that ran perfectly with 1303 bios... so might be worth it with quads or newer GO's but for my E6600 back to 1303... think there are new FSB holes but too tired to search for them (again)

I compared stock timings against the 1303 and only thing I noted in the scores they were all slightly slower and ram latency has gone up gain (prolly to enhance the overclocks) from 68 to 70 (ram at stock 800mhz 5-5-5-15 2T)

Hope to see more positive reports then mine.. for me they can withdraw this release asap

[OBR]

BIOS 1305, totally ruined by stable OC settings, dont use it!

[markost]

BIOS 1305, totally ruined by stable OC settings, dont use it!

Thanks guys. That saves hours of pain.

[Ambro]

@ Markost - what do you believe the optimum FSB for a 6X50 is?

[markost]

@ Markost - what do you believe the optimum FSB for a 6X50 is?

Mate, I recon it comes down to what multi you run 'v' clock speed. I found that using an 8x multi, 497 FSB (1988 Mhz to be exact) gave the best performance mainly due to memory bandwidth and latency. Going to 9x, I ran at 446 FSB but couldn't get the same performance even though CPU speed was higher. It's just all these holes which are in the 680 chipset. I sent off my settings to a mate with the exact same setup except for a X6800 and his benches were completely different (far slower) using the identical BIOS settings. Anything over 500 dropped away. I need to run in Linked & synced mode at these speeds otherwise I get no post. Using a 6x00 though has totally different results. 497 x 9 would be nice but phase is not working at the moment....gas leak !! need to get it back to Kayl over in Perth for a fix up.

Funny thing is that Super PI runs are slower at 497 x 8 than at 446 x 9 but all other benches are better (including 3D05'06) and windows is much snappier.

[mussadek]

ASUS Striker Extreme 1305 BIOS

2007/8/27 Update

DOWNLOAD

[ 1305 ]
----------------------
1. Enhance overclocking capability
2. Enable support for ASUS SK-2690 keyboard
3. Enable support for Razer Copperhead USB Mouse

changes :


Striker Extreme BIOS version 1305
1. Enhance CPU overclock capability of FSB1333 processors
2. Add new CPU uCode to support new processors
3. Enhance memory compatibility
4. Enhance overclocking capability
5. Enable support for ASUS SK-2690 keyboard
6. Enable support for Razer Copperhead USB Mouse

[slim142]

I think ASUS forgot about us now. I bet their ROG departmen is working on Blitz Extreme and Maximus

[Don_Dan]

I totally agree with you. The promised 1401 bios wasn't published yet up to now, although we were told that it would be published soon.