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

[Marios]

X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro

doesnt look like it will fit the top pci-e 1x slot heatsink looks in the way

I do not think you can make it without an extra fan. At least you should be able to play crysis with default BIOS settings. If this is not the case with your mobo just return it to ASUS for a refund. All mobos have the same tricky BIOS and you won't get a better S2F after an RMA.

Check your stability with crysis. Prime95 is not enough. There are some stable BIOS settings that fit any CPU, but we have to find them ourselves. This shouldn't happen in case we are not overclocked and ASUS support won't help us..

In case you decide to keep this mobo and you are not stable at defaults, remember to increase the voltages for NB and VDimm, at least. This works in my case but you might consider increasing HT 1.2 and CPU gtlref as well. Try NB 1.36 and vdimm 2.1v. Leave the rest at auto. Good luck. If this doesn't work try Vdimm 2.1, HT 1.2 at 1.3, NB at 1.42 and CPU gtlref at +30.

I also got some problems with this board. I just received my q9450 and the striker 2 formula. I cant even boot it. I tried 1 ram, 2 rams almost everything but it wont start up. It freeze allready at the ROG screen.
the bios of this board is 1303 when i received it. I have test the board with an old 3.4 cpu and no problem with it. Then i test the q9450 on my maximus formula and no problem. What the problem here ? Its not the rams, cuz ive just test
it with memtest and its ok. please help me

Turn off your PSU, press the clear CMOS button, remove the battery and then try to boot to BIOS with only one dimm. Change dimms and memory slots and try again. You only need to enter the BIOS once. Just use a simple dimm (512 or 1GB).