Striker pwns EVGA with Q6600 G0

[NKD]

alright two hours in, after one loop of prime i will be testing at 3.6

[NKD]

got my crysis beta key right now from fileplanet, to bad i am using my 6600gt right now, cant wait till i get my 8800's tommorrow.

[NKD]

STRIKER IS BACK, q6600 at 3.6ghz 8x450, almost two hours prime stable and counting. vdrop is way better than evga board, 1.4725 set in bios, 1.44v in windows and under load stays between 1.39-1.405v. once i get this stable for 3-4 hours atleast through one loop of prime i will try more.

[nugzo]

STRIKER IS BACK, q6600 at 3.6ghz 8x450, almost two hours prime stable and counting. vdrop is way better than evga board, 1.4725 set in bios, 1.44v in windows and under load stays between 1.39-1.405v. once i get this stable for 3-4 hours atleast through one loop of prime i will try more.

Awesome! My sweet spot is 1700(425) *9 for 3825 1.55v bios. Maybe try that with a little less voltage.. That is if 3600 proves stable. What batch is your q6600?

[NKD]

cpu batch# L723A795 VID 1.2250, what would you actually call stable, i actually run one loop of prime95 which takes about 3-4 hours, and i call it stable, and if i have time i would let it go for 8 hours and any time its stable for 4 hours it always proved stable for me for 8, so it goes for one loop i call it stable honestly. here is a shot after 3 hours. i guess i will let it run as long as i am awake.

[NKD]

alright 4 and half hour prime stable i will be shutting it down pretty soon, and people can call it stable or not, but for me its stable enough, time to go to sleep, i usually dont leave my computer on at nights, so more overclocking to come tommrrow i guess.

[MacClipper]

great
striker is finally fixed it seems >> must be a new revision

No one can confirm this yet?

[Don_Dan]

No one can confirm this yet?

That's what I'm interested in too.

But another question: What happened to the promised 1400 Bios versions?

[REVHEAD]

No one can confirm this yet?

No M8 unless you call my 6 month old board a new revision ,I call it a reborn board due to Asus 1303 bios ,why it has been removed from the asus Site i dont know ,I think its the best bios to date

[NKD]

mine is revised a little but the version on the board says the same old 1.00g made in china, the heatpipes now are going in different directions and mine also has the built in bios chip cuz the earlier revision had the removable one, i think they have improved the layout but as Revhead said its probably the bios if he is getting the same overclocks. here is prime runnin at 3.8, highest front side bus i was able to get was 450. prime stable for 8 hours.

this board is a lot more stable than the ip-35 pro i had(overclocking wise), the max i could prime was 3.6 on that one, it would shut off at anything higher if i run prime on it. well here is a few hours of prime stable at 3.8 with reasonable temps. the delta between cpu and core temp was abut 5-6c at 3.6 but at 3.8 its the same. so i guess my waterblock is really efficient.

[NKD]

i will be settling at 3.7, with 1.4975vcore in bios, i did the vdrop and vcore pencil mod, now whatever i set in bios is what it says in windows, and under load it only drops .02v to 1.4775. and the temps stay in the high 50's. i did prime 3.8 for more than 3 and half hours and the temps were in the low 60's and the highest i saw was 65c.

i am pretty happy with the results i have gotten with the striker.

[MacClipper]

No M8 unless you call my 6 month old board a new revision ,I call it a reborn board due to Asus 1303 bios ,why it has been removed from the asus Site i dont know ,I think its the best bios to date

Thanks for the input cos some were making distinction between revisions, check the last paragraph on this page,
http://www.digital-daily.com/motherb...ker/index5.htm

[nugzo]

Thanks for the input cos some were making distinction between revisions, check the last paragraph on this page,
http://www.digital-daily.com/motherb...ker/index5.htm

That says revisions are 1.00 and 1.03. I have the 1.00. I can do 500fsb on C2D

[Ace-a-Rue]

yes you can but you are using water...i would like to see guys with an air cooled quad on this board.

[Khaotic]

I've had my Striker since WAY back too. I'm pretty sure mine is a 1.00G like the picture from the link above. I have a C2D Xeon that has seen better numbers, but i gave up on trying to get them again with this board and settled for a measly 366 FSB. I'll try the settings I saw earlier in the thread and see what happens.
Nugzo's chipset/motherboard revision on his CPU-Z screenie is "FF" where mine and a few others are A2. has anyone else noticed/gotten an FF on theirs?

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Also: where is the best place to try and secure a G0 stepping Kentsfield?

[Ace-a-Rue]

clubit.com or tankguys.com sell specific "G0"...

[TheSamurai]

ClubIT has great ratings on resellerratings.com so i'm going with them... not to mention the price is great too!

[ShoNuff]

I've had my Striker since WAY back too. I'm pretty sure mine is a 1.00G like the picture from the link above. I have a C2D Xeon that has seen better numbers, but i gave up on trying to get them again with this board and settled for a measly 366 FSB. I'll try the settings I saw earlier in the thread and see what happens.
Nugzo's chipset/motherboard revision on his CPU-Z screenie is "FF" where mine and a few others are A2. has anyone else noticed/gotten an FF on theirs?

<edit>
Also: where is the best place to try and secure a G0 stepping Kentsfield?

Good catch on the "FF" CPU-Z screenshot. I got my board back in December of 06' so I'm pretty sure it is an A2. Swapping out video cards and waterblocks ATM. I'll check as soon as I fire it back up.

NKD what does your say?

[linflas]

Mine is A2, does all the same clocking, I believe the FF may be the soldered bios chip version, as mine is removable, thank goodness.

[Khaotic]

This is my second striker. The first one met a bitter end after a bad BIOS flash. Moving on........this stiker is still quite old, but does have the removeable BIOS chip.

I just flahsed up to 1305 for its "better overclocking" and still can't get out of the 366 FSB. So i'm wondering, will the G0 be WORSE on this board - or do you reckon it would at least do - just as good? I'm quite sure I could live with a 366FSB on a Quad Core CPU - i would be back at 3.5Ghz again but with double the core count. Yeagh, I could live with that - but sure. 3.6 woudl be awesome.................... Hmm. It is only $275 at CLUBIT.COM ATM. Hmmmmmmm

[Leeghoofd]

pz reflash back to 1303 and read up here, 425 and 450 FSB are the way to go with quads mate just make sure you got plenty of cooling on the board to tame that hothead !!!

[NKD]

Good catch on the "FF" CPU-Z screenshot. I got my board back in December of 06' so I'm pretty sure it is an A2. Swapping out video cards and waterblocks ATM. I'll check as soon as I fire it back up.

NKD what does your say?

mine says A2 i dont know what cpuz version nugzo is using mine is the latest one 1.41, i am running 24/7 at 3.6 with 450x8. and i tested prime close to 8 hours and also tested prime at 3.8 for hours but i am quite happy with 3.6, the temps went up about 10c with voltage increase that was needed to run at 3.8. temps 55c at 3.6 with 100&#37; load and 65c with 3.8 and 1.52v loaded.

well nugzo says his board has a built in bios chip and so does mine, i really dont think there is a striker revision 1.03G, i think it was the regular p5n32-e or they misinterpreted something at digita-daily. because if there was that revision i dont think 8 months later asus would be shipping out 1.0G, i do believe the boards are somewhat revised, because mine has heatpipes going in different directions than the original striker extreme.

[NKD]

A2 is the northbridge revision i believe, even if u run cpuz on 680i A1 revision it is sill A2 under the hood and cpuz reads it as A2 also, they just made adjustments in the board design and called it a1 that was about it.

[nugzo]

I've had my Striker since WAY back too. I'm pretty sure mine is a 1.00G like the picture from the link above. I have a C2D Xeon that has seen better numbers, but i gave up on trying to get them again with this board and settled for a measly 366 FSB. I'll try the settings I saw earlier in the thread and see what happens.
Nugzo's chipset/motherboard revision on his CPU-Z screenie is "FF" where mine and a few others are A2. has anyone else noticed/gotten an FF on theirs?

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Also: where is the best place to try and secure a G0 stepping Kentsfield?

What is strange is that now i'm running bios 1301, and cpuz says rev a2 instead of FF.

[REVHEAD]

i will be settling at 3.7, with 1.4975vcore in bios, i did the vdrop and vcore pencil mod, now whatever i set in bios is what it says in windows, and under load it only drops .02v to 1.4775. and the temps stay in the high 50's. i did prime 3.8 for more than 3 and half hours and the temps were in the low 60's and the highest i saw was 65c.

i am pretty happy with the results i have gotten with the striker.

Is there any pics or links on this pencil mod for Striker,and is it beneficial? ,because ive heard a lot about this but only found pics of other models of board so didnt know were to start.
Will thgis yeald a higher stable overclock? I just cant get 3.82Ghz stable.