**Official ASUS Striker II Formula Discussion/Review/Overclock/Guide/BIOS Thread**

[barza]

I have been playing with one of these over the weekend, kit as in my signature. Using the 0902 bios: a few observations

1. My 2 sticks of OCZ 9200 runs 5-5-5-18 at 1200mhz @ 2.34volts fine, but won't do much more than that. Westsideplaya - I'll check on your latency change when I get chance.

2. The board has an odd glitch with the voltage (I don't have a voltmeter to check beyond what software is reporting). With 1.6925 selected in the bios and loadline calibration enabled, it gives 1.60 according to CPUID under win XP. Set the voltage to 1.70, and CPUID then gives 1.712. This means that, at least for me, I cannot get a VID between 1.60 and 1.712.

3. Northbridge temps in bios get to 50-60c with an 80mm fan pointing at it, I'm running 450FSB with 1.48volts for NB set in bios. The NB runs hot, but hasn't got a lot hotter as I have raised the voltage a bit and added a fan.

4. The 0902 bios seems pretty stable, but after a day or so of playing I'm a bit underwhelmed by what I have so far under phase - my QX9650 ES is prime stable at 4.5ghz with 1.60v, losing stability up to 4.75ghz, and given the cost of this CPU I don't have balls to be playing with volts above 1.71 at this stage (once I forget how much it cost me I might...)

QX9650ES
Asus Striker 2 Formula 780i 0902 bios
2 X 1GB OCZ 9200
2 X 8800GTX SLI
Thermaltake toughpower 750w
Toshiba 47wlt66