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.Originally Posted by webwilli
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.
Donīt forget: iīm completely nvidia-n00b... only use intel-boards before. I must learn a lot.
Next week i get two 9800GTX i hope. No E8500 is availableShould i buy the E8200? I donīt know...
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...
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!
cheers tony!
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