ASUS Striker II Extreme

[nuclearjock]

My initial impression of 0601 was very good. Several fsb holes have been filled or made smaller, and low multi/high fsb clocks seemed much easier to achieve and were even prime stable.

But upon further review, I noticed instability issues in games as well as Flight Simulator (which I don't consider a game) in the form of freezes and reboots.

This really seemed like a forceware issue, so I re-installed drivers, tried different drivers to no avail.

Since this was not an issue with 0511, I flashed back to 0511 and all's good.

So the fsb holes have been improved in 0601, and low multi/high fsb clocks are easier to achieve, but apparent instabilities arise. This is in spite of verifying the 0601 oc's with prime, memtest, orthos, you name it.


Edit::

Low and behold. Just after writing this, 0601 appears on their ftp site...
I'm surprised that I can achieve benchmark stability and still see issues in games/simulators..

So I'm back on 0511 for now, holes and all, but at least it's stable. 0601 shows some activity and improvement on Asus's part which is encouraging and should be expected after dropping $469 us for a motherboard!!!

Hopefully the next release will get it all right, (how many times have we said this before).