ASUS Striker II Extreme

[slim142]

Well I actually got some good news, I was finally able to increase FSB speed beyond 1333Mhz (finally)! I'm not exactly sure what the problem was but I started using odd numbers with the FSB instead of even numbers. For example I was initially trying FSB speeds like 1400Mhz, 1500Mhz, and 1600Mhz with no luck what-so-ever. For some reason I decided to try a FSB speed of 1605Mhz and bingo, everything is working perfectly! I can use unlocked or locked & synced and they both work fine now! I haven't had time to do any stability testing but I'm going to fire up Orthos (Blend or Large-FFT's) overnight (fingers crossed)! At the moment I'm only using my E8400 but once I get this chip stable at a few decent settings I'll install my QX9770 and really start to push it!

Up until a just a few hours ago I was very disappointed and was seriously considering the sale of this board (at a huge loss I'm sure cause nobody wants this board with all the bad results going around). Like a few others here I was sure I wanted to pick up a newer DDR3 X48 motherboard but given this small victory I just had I'm going to stick with it a bit longer, now I'm actually hopeful! Heck I'm even optimistic, sooner or later this stuff will get worked out (either through some BIOS updates or a hardware revision). Then again maybe not but if that is the case there will be many pi**ed off customers, lol! After reading this last page of posts it doesn't look like many people will be posting here anymore, lol!

The things the board does right? But have you tried FSBs like 1650, 1750 and so?
It seems like in the close future there will be a little group of people that will end up with their boards working good (hopefully)

I should also add that I just gamed for about an hour (first time playing a game since getting this motherboard) and I had zero problems. No freezing or glitching (Yet anyway)! Being able to game without issues is another plus in favor of this board for me (going from wanting to sell to being pretty impressed is awesome)! To be honest however I'm just waiting for things to start going downhill again anytime, I have a feeling that even though I'm running pretty stable now (able to game, browse internet, run some 2d benchies, etc..) as soon as I fire up Orthose (Prime) its going to fail right off (that would suck)! I will update thread later tonight before I hit the sack about stability. Good luck guys, just keep at it!

Please report your results as soon as possible. Give us some good news!

I am now using 0603. The stablity is getting better from 0511 to 0603. Sometimes with 0511, I don't even get a POST with some specific BIOS settings, which used to boot into windows. It sometimes happens with 0603 but very rare, where it gets stuck on "PCI Init". Also, I was loosing my LAN connection in windows in 0511 and 0512. 0601 fixed it. 0601 was where it started getting better. But 0603 gave back the memory performance like 0511without P1 and P2, which 0512 and 0601 were missing.

So right now your P1 and P2 settings are in auto right?