just replaced my reference board with the SIIE... thought I'd throw up some impressions and observations.

The reference board is definately easier to oc. DEFINATELY! lol
while the Striker is taking a bit more work, I've noticed some performance improvements. Seems like clock for clock, the STriker has better mem performance as well as 3D performance.

My mem read/write/copy are all up by at least 1000 (per everest) and latency is down by 30ns or so

3D benches are up by about 400 points or so

this is a great board... lots of nice touches tha the ref board doesn't have and increased performance from my experience. Again, it is definaely harder to work with, but it seems to me that the time spent in really figuring out your overclock is time well spent

sending my ref board back this afternoon