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

[UnSeenSVK]

Hallo...boys...please can somebody help me?...

I ve got striker II formula and i need to know settings of bios.. NB SB CPU VTT and....

i ve got E8400 and i would like to try oc around 4GHZ...

i just need to know that settings...in bios... thanks...

if somebody have E8400 oc around 4GHZ please send me settings ..many thanks

[TheHardCase]

Hallo...boys...please can somebody help me?...

I ve got striker II formula and i need to know settings of bios.. NB SB CPU VTT and....

i ve got E8400 and i would like to try oc around 4GHZ...

i just need to know that settings...in bios... thanks...

if somebody have E8400 oc around 4GHZ please send me settings ..many thanks

Try 3.9 First, I have other friends who use the same settings.
1733 FSB Unlinked

1.34 VCore
1.60 PLL
1.31 VTT In Bios Set 1.40
2.1 MEM
1.60 South Bridge
1.42 North Bridge Note: others had to up to 1.48
1.20 HT
LoadLine Enabled

Hope it works for you...

[UnSeenSVK]

thanks mate...

anybody check new bios? 1101?

[fordf250]

I think it says 1600fsb on the box. Is asus selling a 1600fsb mb that will not do 1600fsb with 45nm quads?

[Wiinter]

Man.. I can't seem to get much over 15k. I'm sure my bottleneck is the CPU. The system is pretty happy at 2.8 or 2.925ghz, but once I start putting it to 3, 3.1 or 3.2 funky things ranging from minor to major start happening. At the least, misc apps like IE will hang, and at the worst, Media Player with crash the system when you, say, resize the window. Prime95 doesn't seem to crash it tho, so it's not a very good indicator of stability on this system.

My temps are fine - awesome in fact. With the vcore at 1.44v or slightly higher, I'm still seeing temps of 30-40C. I've tried manually setting the voltages to this:

cpu volt - 1.44375
PLL - 1.5
VTT - 1.3
NB - 1.3
SB - 1.5
1.2v - 1.2
Bridge - 1.2

And, that's with the FSB set to 325-350 (2925mhz/3150mhz).

BTW, I've my pair of GTXs OC'd at 620mhz/990mhz (absolute max stable on both cards).

You guys have any ideas? I have heard about some stark limitations of OC'ing the Q6600 on this board, but I've also heard that some are able to get 3.2 to 3.5 stable! So, I'm stumped...

[Thakkerson]

Has anyone tried bios 1101 yet?

[WeStSiDePLaYa]

Has anyone tried bios 1101 yet?

where is this bios???!?

EDIT:

got it, downloading now.

[fordf250]

Bios 1101 no good for q6600

No multi change
Pll goes to 2V if set to auto.

[fordf250]

What gtl are people running? needed +30mv to get 400fsb stable with q6600.

[Psycho_eddie]

What gtl are people running? needed +30mv to get 400fsb stable with q6600.

Im hoping you did 400x9

Any chance this board will do 450fsb stable with quads??

Or its 400x9 max really if you want stable?

What other voltages did you have to change besides CPU?

Getting this board soon, so want to get nice stable oc with my Q6600 also!

[Phil The Greek]

Im hoping you did 400x9

Any chance this board will do 450fsb stable with quads??

Or its 400x9 max really if you want stable?

What other voltages did you have to change besides CPU?

Getting this board soon, so want to get nice stable oc with my Q6600 also!

Still testing but I can play Crysis for hours @8X455 with my QX6850

[fordf250]

Im hoping you did 400x9

Any chance this board will do 450fsb stable with quads??

Or its 400x9 max really if you want stable?

What other voltages did you have to change besides CPU?

Getting this board soon, so want to get nice stable oc with my Q6600 also!

yes 400x9, I can get into windows at 450x9 and 450x8 but not stable.

400x9 1.32Vcore, 1.6Vpll, 1.6Vnb and +30mv cpu and nb gtl, everything else auto.My ram is 2x2G, I'm going to try some old d9 to see if its keeping me from 450fsb. This cpu will do 490x8 fsb in a max formula but I dont know if I want to go over 1.7Vnb to get 450fsb even if 1.7Vnb is still green in bios.

[fordf250]

Q6600 on water, testing 425fsbx9 now 1.4vcore, 1.62vpll, 1.64vnb and +30mv cpu and nb gtl.

[fordf250]

Q6600 30min occt stable at 425fsbx9.

Learning lots.

WOOT!!!!

Q6600 now testing 475fsbx8 1.4vcore, 1.64vpll and still yellow 1.8Vnb with +30mv gtl as I type. will give screen at 30min.

[fordf250]

It only made it 6min at 475fsbx8, occt stopped but no bsod. will try more volts.

Here are screens of 20min 425x9 and the 475x8 runs.

http://good-times.webshots.com/album/562815005UcJRyK

Cpuz shows wrong link width?

[fordf250]

Well, 475x8 does not look like it will make it but 450x9 is going well, I do like this cpu, it boots 4G at 1.3V and posts 4.35g at 1.6V,.I need better cooling.

[Wiinter]

fordf250, what's +30mv?

So, you figure this should work/stable for a Q6600 set at 1600fsb (400mhz)?

cpu volt - 1.32
PLL - 1.6
VTT - auto
NB - 1.6
SB - auto
1.2v - auto
Bridge - auto

Also, I noticed your vmem was 2.22.. you sure you got that with 'auto' for setting?

[fordf250]

fordf250, what's +30mv?

So, you figure this should work/stable for a Q6600 set at 1600fsb (400mhz)?

cpu volt - 1.32
PLL - 1.6
VTT - auto
NB - 1.6
SB - auto
1.2v - auto
Bridge - auto

Also, I noticed your vmem was 2.22.. you sure you got that with 'auto' for setting?

sorry, I say auto for memory as you will need to set it for your type of ram, with my 4G I can set it to auto as it does 500mhz at 1.9V but the d9 needs 2.2-3V.

The +30mv is under the GTL settings. The manual shows .63 down but my bios shows +10 and up.

[Wiinter]

(fordf250) Oh, I just realized - you may be talking about the Maximus Formula.. or did you get the Striker II Formula as well?

[fordf250]

just got the striker 2 days ago, maximus in jan.

[Thakkerson]

As usual, memory bandwidth on nVidia chipset rawks \m/.. (Asus P5E3 Premium (X48) and yung Asus Maximus Extreme (X38) is DDR3 version)

not bad.. not bad indeed!

Max OC on Q6600 G0



Ok.. its time to ditch this POS and go EXTREME! ^_^

[Psycho_eddie]

One thing you have to realised is that origonal test was done with immature bios etc... so could expect slightly weak OC

Ford250

If using 9x400 to get my 3600Mhz

Would be wise to get latest 1101 bios?

What are you running?

[fordf250]

Bios 902. I tried 1101 and it would not change the multi for 475x8.

What are your settings at 400fsb?

400fsb needs +30mv northbridge GTL and 450fsb needs +40mv. I still do not know what is safe for this option, I have posted everywhere but nobody responded even after seeing posts of people wanting Asus to put better gtl control for quads.

[Marios]

1101 bios solved the ethernet not working problem after wake up from suspend to ram.
On the other hand, after turning off and then on the PSU power, there is a beep on boot.
In case of overclocking, IDE DVDs make strange sounds each time I save BIOS settings, save and reboot.
There is definitely something wrong with 1101 BIOS.

[Thakkerson]

One thing you have to realised is that origonal test was done with immature bios etc... so could expect slightly weak OC

Ford250

If using 9x400 to get my 3600Mhz

Would be wise to get latest 1101 bios?

What are you running?

And one thing you have to realize also is that that is just an initial Bios for the 790i Striker 2 Extreme.. that is why I smirk at those who got the board recently. *including me. because theyve been robbed. lolx