nForce 790i SLI/Ultra chipset mobos - Reviews/OC/Guides

[TheHardCase]

Man, is anybody having great experiences with the Striker II Extreme boards?

all this negative feedback is killin me.

Answer this? can you find a Striker II Extreme 790i?
I'll answer for you, there all SOLD OUT lol...
There selling like hot cakes, I got mine today & man I must say OMG Striker II Extreme FTW 100%.
What a difference night & day...

[canislupy]

Answer this? can you find a Striker II Extreme 790i?
I'll answer for you, there all SOLD OUT lol...
There selling like hot cakes, I got mine today & man I must say OMG Striker II Extreme FTW 100%.
What a difference night & day...

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[Big Myke]

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131274

Newegg doesn't ship to his location

[TheHardCase]

Newegg doesn't ship to his location

Yeah whats up with that place, I've tried everything to get product from them. Sure lost alot of sales from Canada...

[canislupy]

Newegg doesn't ship to his location

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec....4&RSKU=BA24814
http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-STKR2EX (in stock?)
http://www.excaliberpc.com/ASUS_MB_C...id-585384.html

And so on and so forth....

Anyway... update on my 4x1GB Cellshock 1800 DIMMs in the EVGA 790i.

I just went for hours with Orthos and Super PI runs, then raiding in WoW (which was failing miserably last night) with no issues on 4 sticks with the following settings.

E3110 1.3v @ 4050MHz (450x9)
4x1GB Cellshock @ 2.0v 1800MHz 8-7-7-21-2t
CPU FSB 1.35v
SPP 1.45v
MCP 1.65v

Basically upped some voltages vs. auto settings I was using last night and seems solid so far. I am going to try getting the RAM timings tighter next.

[saaya]

Anyway... update on my 4x1GB Cellshock 1800 DIMMs in the EVGA 790i.

I just went for hours with Orthos and Super PI runs, then raiding in WoW (which was failing miserably last night) with no issues on 4 sticks with the following settings.

E3110 1.3v @ 4050MHz (450x9)
4x1GB Cellshock @ 2.0v 1800MHz 8-7-7-21-2t
CPU FSB 1.35v
SPP 1.45v
MCP 1.65v

Basically upped some voltages vs. auto settings I was using last night and seems solid so far. I am going to try getting the RAM timings tighter next.

congrats, 4gb at that speed and timing at only 2v is really nice!
yeah, i think with 4 sticks your most likely frequency limited and less timing limited. what PL are you running?
could you post all the timings you set to get 4gb working at those speeds?

those guys are all having a good time enjoying the system lol
no time to online

i dont think so man... the only guy i know who likes his striker 2 xtreme is webwilli, and he said there ARE bios problems and fsb holes, and he hasnt tried an evga or other reference board.

i know 3 people who tried the asus and the ref boards and they all say the ref boards are definately better. one of them had 3 asus boards and 2 ref boards and he said the asus boards all had the typical striker xtreme issues of some settings working and then suddenly not working and then working again without actually changing anything but just rebooting.

i havent tried any 790 board yet, so this is all hear say... but after all the "not so good" things i heard about the asus board i will just get an evga i think.

[webwilli]

...i dont think so man... the only guy i know who likes his striker 2 xtreme is webwilli, and he said there ARE bios problems and fsb holes, and he hasnt tried an evga or other reference board...

I still like my STRIIEX

I found two FSB Holes (400 + 475) thats right. No other issues yet. My cellshock RAM works very well on the STRIIEX. No Problems.

But i still have only a crap E6600 and no SLI.
Don´t forget: i´m completely nvidia-n00b... only use intel-boards before. I must learn a lot.

Next week i get two 9800GTX i hope. No E8500 is available Should i buy the E8200? I don´t know...

[saaya]

I still like my STRIIEX

I found two FSB Holes (400 + 475) thats right. No other issues yet. My cellshock RAM works very well on the STRIIEX. No Problems.

But i still have only a crap E6600 and no SLI.
Don´t forget: i´m completely nvidia-n00b... only use intel-boards before. I must learn a lot.

Next week i get two 9800GTX i hope. No E8500 is available Should i buy the E8200? I don´t know...

i wouldnt get an 8200, some people received duds that didnt really clock well at all, plus the low multi... id say go for an 8400 or 8500.

do did you manage to get the striker2 extreme stable?
completely stable at an oced speed? if yes, at what speed.
cause thats what i heard as negative about the S2E, just like the earlier striker boards its crashing randomly, for 2 days something is stable, then it wont even boot, then it boots again but crashes after a few hours, then works fine for a day again etc...

Thanks man. So I am not crazy, EVGA just doesn't have these settings exposed in the BIOS yet.

well, trd/performance level seems to have no impact on performance for nvidia chipsets... either that or its not really trd...
id say use baredit from felix88 and make register dumps at different fsb speeds and when the perf drops big time, check what registers changed and try to set one register after the other to what they were like at the lower fsb that performed better.

its annoying work, but it does work usually to improve perf notably

and actually, people with both ref and S2E, you could make dumps of both boards at the same configurations and compare them. im sure you can set the same registry settings as on S2E and gain all the perf back that the ref boards seem to be lacking compared to the S2E

thx for the infos sonofander!
so whats the max speed you got your S2E completely stable at?
if its not too bad i might give it a try as well...
but what you said is what i heard about the previous striker boards too, new bios releases and tweaking will make them stable... but i never ever managed to get any of the 3 striker boards i had entirely stable... one day it was stable for a week, then just rebooting without changing anything didnt work. after several attempts i gave up and reduced the ocs and it worked semi stable, then could oc higher again and it seemed stable again, after a few reboots, same thing again...

my conclusion was that for benching its a great board, but its too much of a pita to maintain an oc on this board... id rather have a slower slightly worse ocing board that works stable at a high oc than a slightly higher slightly faster oc that requires me to play with the settings again every few days to get it to work stable or to get it to at least boot!

P03r2? you may need a better version of awdflash and the correct command line.
AWDFLASH BIOSNAME.BIN /F/PROT

cheers tony!

[safan80]

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