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

[polar bear]

Finally a striker II review over at anandtech.com

[QX9650, 8GB, and Vista 64-bit]
"It seems that FSBs in the region of 400MHz have marginal stability with the quad-core processors when stressed with actual application benchmarks"

"We tried everything we could to get 3D stability but no amount of memory timing adjustments or component voltages brought us to the promised land of 3D stability"

"In the end we found that 3.5GHz with an FSB of 1400QFSB (350MHz) was the highest we could achieve and still pass PCMark Vantage"

[Initial Thoughts]
"The 1101 BIOS release is pretty much dead-on for dual-core CPU overclocking and general day-to-day use"

"NVIDIA's 780i is on a par with the Intel X38/X48 DDR2 boards when it comes to dual-core CPU overclocking in the performance zone"

"For the quad-core CPUs, we see the 780i coping with the 45nm Penryns in the same way we experienced when the 680i was first introduced to 65nm quad-core processors"

"The stable FSB limits of the 780i boards are still lower than we'd like - especially compared to Intel boards"


Anyway the article makes for a very interesting read.