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

[The0men]

I am almost sure I could get the same bandwith with my QX6850 too(at least after using the 9650 on the board).
Right now with my second board I have only the 6850 and I am getting horrible bandwith no matter what I am setting on trd.
The thing is that both chips have a native fsb of 333,so it can't be something related with fsb

hmm maybe...


I am definatly not the only one with this issue, and to be honest its a huge pain in the 4$$....

Ive tried everything, and like I said, even the timings same as I had on my 680i board (which as normal I always manually set) I get double the latency, and terrible bandwidth...

This is extremely frustrating.

Even more frustrating is that some people are able to get the good memory latancies and bandwidth we loved about the 680i, and this is the only reason I bought the damned thing.

I tried decreasing FSB to see if it would change strap or something at least, and maybe sacrifice some bandwidth to get rid of that horrible latency, but no joy.

*sigh*

[Nits]

is anyone running 4GB (2x2GB) 1066 corsair dominator sticks successfully with this board?

8GB installed and working great! You should have no problems with 4GB I guess.

One thing I'm confused about, and perhaps someone can explain, is why to get it to run @ 1066MHz, "unlinked" mode has to be set? Leaving on auto it'll only run @ 800MHz!

Anyway, now that I have everything, time to try a little OCing

[Leeghoofd]

hmm maybe...


I am definatly not the only one with this issue, and to be honest its a huge pain in the 4$$....

Ive tried everything, and like I said, even the timings same as I had on my 680i board (which as normal I always manually set) I get double the latency, and terrible bandwidth... *sigh*

Just await a new bios release, Benchzowner is experiencing the same issues, bios seems to ignore TRD setting... Asus has to do something with this mobo fast

[Nits]

Spoke too soon... Memtest86 is giving me a bunch of errors

Someone advised me that I should look for an "EPP" setting and change that (or play with the timings), but I can't find anything like that in the BIOS

Any ideas?

[pmp]

BIOS 1302 is out. Any daredevils want to try ?

[Nits]

Got a link? I'm not seeing it on the ASUS web site!?

[Guacamole]

Where is the new bios?? I'lll try it no problem.. Hey does anyone know what the best montior for the CPU voltage in CPUZ it says my volt is really low compared to everest and PC probe just wondering what the best program is to use there..

[WeStSiDePLaYa]

BIOS 1302 is out. Any daredevils want to try ?

im not seeing it, and a search shows up nothing.

[Guacamole]

Okay here is 1202 there is also 1302 and 1402 but I can't for the life of me find either.. I will say that I have only been using this bios for a few hours but I am very pleased with my results.. Also I am getting much improved read, write, and copy and latency.. The best yet by far so give it a shot..http://rapidshare.com/files/10705734...a1202.zip.html

[WeStSiDePLaYa]

Okay here is 1202 there is also 1302 and 1402 but I can't for the life of me find either.. I will say that I have only been using this bios for a few hours but I am very pleased with my results.. Also I am getting much improved read, write, and copy and latency.. The best yet by far so give it a shot..http://rapidshare.com/files/10705734...a1202.zip.html

thanks.

[The0men]

On rapidshare, not on any official site, or any reliable site. Not sure I'm willing to use it yet lol.


EDIT: May just try it anyway... Got little to lose.

[Nits]

Thanks for the new bios

Can anyone suggest what I can try to get this memory working properly?

[The0men]

Whats not working properly????

But you could start buy changing timings from top to bottem

5
5
5
15
22

That is the standard for most PC8500 or 1066 RAM.

Those default timings are way to relaxed.

Although I did just realise your using 8GB's of Ram, which is why the board by default relaxes your timings.


Also.... How can you ask someone to help make it work properly, without describing the problem?

[Nits]

Spoke too soon... Memtest86 is giving me a bunch of errors

Someone advised me that I should look for an "EPP" setting and change that (or play with the timings), but I can't find anything like that in the BIOS

Any ideas?

^^^

Also:

One thing I'm confused about, and perhaps someone can explain, is why to get it to run @ 1066MHz, "unlinked" mode has to be set? Leaving on auto it'll only run @ 800MHz!

Thanks.

[liberator]

has anyone tested 1202 ? It seems to me that its more unstable. I am back to 1001. I am getting bluescreens with the settings I used in 1001.

[Hor$eman]

I'm waiting for a post to a link for 1301.

[Phil The Greek]

Just loaded 1202 and nothing seems to has changed about memory bandwith.System booted just fine with the same settings.

[Nits]

Think I've figured out what the problem is... I'm testing each stick on it's own, and the first passed without error. So it looks like at least one stick is bad and will have to be returned

Edit: Confirmed! 4 sticks tested - 3 error free and one full of errors! Glad that's sorted. For a while there I was afraid the S2F would not support 4 sticks of 1066MHz ram!

[Guacamole]

Just loaded 1202 and nothing seems to has changed about memory bandwith.System booted just fine with the same settings.

Probably for me I am running a Quad a QX9650 (bios 1202) and before I was running a Q6600 (bios 1101) and with the exact same settings I am getting about 1800-2000mb/s better read 8600 to 10400, my latency went from the best on 1101 say 66-74 range to 50.4 on 1202, and my write and copy are up at least a 1000 each. Also I don't think the bios is unstable just different I always start over with a new bios and bring my system up bit by bit and so far things are going pretty well.. I heard on the ASUS sight that 1302 and 1402 negate PC Probe and AI tool so they must be substantially different then what we have been using and 1202 is related to these bios as well..

Another subject I was wondering if anyone can confirm the most accurate tool for voltage readings with this board?? Is everest reporting the right voltage or is CPUZ or what are some recommendations to make sure I understand what I am doing to my chip before I go crazy... Thanks...

[Phil The Greek]

Probably for me I am running a Quad a QX9650 (bios 1202) and before I was running a Q6600 (bios 1101) and with the exact same settings I am getting about 1800-2000mb/s better read 8600 to 10400, my latency went from the best on 1101 say 66-74 range to 50.4 on 1202, and my write and copy are up at least a 1000 each. Also I don't think the bios is unstable just different I always start over with a new bios and bring my system up bit by bit and so far things are going pretty well.. I heard on the ASUS sight that 1302 and 1402 negate PC Probe and AI tool so they must be substantially different then what we have been using and 1202 is related to these bios as well..

Another subject I was wondering if anyone can confirm the most accurate tool for voltage readings with this board?? Is everest reporting the right voltage or is CPUZ or what are some recommendations to make sure I understand what I am doing to my chip before I go crazy... Thanks...

You mean that you changed the bios at he same time you changed cpu
As for the voltages,I have measured with DMM and I can tell you for sure that vcore reading in bios is ok.Also measured vmem and I have found that the real is a bit lower(~0.05v)than set in bios.

[The0men]

Guacomole - If you changed your CPU at the same time as BIOS (which is kind ahow I read it) then it may be somehting to do with strap change like me earlier theory.

If you did change, can you please just try the q6600 in so we can see if that changes anything?

[Guacamole]

Okay I will switch back to the Q6600 and let you know my results ASAP...

[Nits]

Question about cpuz and the screen shot I posted above:

It says "dual" and DRAM freq. "533.4"... is that as it should be? Ie. its 533.4MHz x2 = 1066MHz yeah?

[Nits]

I'm experimenting with my timings/voltages while I wait for my replacement 2x 2GB, using this thread as a guide: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us

I've set over voltage to:

NB - 1.36
Memory - 1.96

Does that sound right for 2x 2GB or should I try lower? I'm running Memtest 86+ overnight with these settings.

[clip]

you need to understad the CPU ratio to Mobo/MEM strap, read some of the early post's by Tony, no link sorry.

CPU
MEM
Volts