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

[nakata24]

ive check in the bios, CPU= 39C NB = 70C SB = 55, after it hit 70c it freeze

ADD 60MM FAN TO NB

but is that temp normal on this board? or should i just rma it.

[holystarlight]

but is that temp normal on this board? or should i just rma it.

Tbh it would be quicker to resit the heatsink and add a fan to it, safe temps for the nb range from 55-62c, haven't seen anything lower than 55c so if you can get it lower, that would be great. But if you can keep the temps lower than 62c you shouldn't have any problems, reason its freezing is because the temperatures are getting to high and the motherboard cant take it, but if you do RMA it, it would still be best when you get a new board to resit the heatsink and remove the asus thermal paste and add your own thermal paste but make sure it isn't conductive(I use Ocz freeze and it isn't conductive) and also if your airflow isn't so great put a fan on the heatsink, that should help.

Edit: also a quick way of getting a new motherboard is to buy the same motherboard again and put your old one in the box and return it, but make sure yours looks new! xD
p.s very sleepy so hope it reads well

[nakata24]

Hahah sounds good. Thanks for the help guys, im gonna rma it for sure. Ill
let u guys kno if i receive the new board.

[Hor$eman]

1) 30 minutes to pull the heatsink assembly, clean and apply AS5, and remount it
2) 6+ weeks for RMA

[Delta-][]

but is that temp normal on this board? or should i just rma it.

Temperatures of 70+ on a passive cooled northbridge are "normal" on this board. If possible, try cooling it with a fan.
I had to cool mine with a 80mm fan in order to get up to 450 or 500 FSB, if I'd run it passive it would just shutdown after a couple of minutes (hitting the 90+ protection on the NB isn't funny).
As already suggested; replacing the original white paste on the board with some better quality thermal paste (Like AS5) will usually drop the temperatures a bit as well.
I'm about to watercool one of my boards, simply because I have the feeling that it's not going to enjoy the high temperatures this summer.

About your CPU problem:
Have you tried bumping up the CPU PPL Voltage to 1.6V and the CPU VTT voltage to 1.30-1.40 yet?
(you might want to try and give the NB a bit more as well, but active cooling will definately be needed if you do)
I've got a Q9550 on my second striker II and the damn thing refused to boot or crash somewhere along the POST/BIOS or the OS load until I bumped up the voltages to 1.58V / 1.34V
It kind of annoys me that my quadcore needs the same PLL/VTT voltages to run @stock as my Dualcore needs to run at 500FSB.

Bios 1303 should work just fine for your CPU.
I can't recommend flashing your BIOS when your system is unstable, the last thing you want to do is kill the board by corrupting the BIOS at a possible crash.

[Marios]

but is that temp normal on this board? or should i just rma it.

RMA takes a long time and you will probably end up with a same system.
I do not believe that your mobo is defective.
Either ask for a refund or try to make it work.
You just need to put a 5cm fan on the northbridge.
Install only 1GB dimm, enter BIOS, set NB volts at 1.36 and Dimm volts at 2.1. Install Windows, with all updates and the latest service pack.
Shut down. Now you may connect everything else.
I think this is going to work for you.

[nugzo]

My NB idles at 68-70 with AS5 and a small fan. I havent had any issues. Not sure what it is under load but i can play any game for hours with no freezes/lockups or any issues to speak of. This is my most problem free gaming rig as of yet. Now that i took my ram fans off, i have a little more room to put a better fan on the NB. My point is....... 70c on the NB shouldn't be locking it up.

[janjan]

My NB idles at 68-70 with AS5 and a small fan. I havent had any issues. Not sure what it is under load but i can play any game for hours with no freezes/lockups or any issues to speak of. This is my most problem free gaming rig as of yet. Now that i took my ram fans off, i have a little more room to put a better fan on the NB. My point is....... 70c on the NB shouldn't be locking it up.

nb temperature can be stressed up to 105 C not recommended (harming it is ineluctable)
and there is no need to be worried until the nb temp hits over 80. Below 80 is good

[Kevin1970]

nb temperature can be stressed up to 105 C not recommended (harming it is ineluctable)
and there is no need to be worried until the nb temp hits over 80. Below 80 is good

If this is true, then my board isn't overheating and causeing frezzing. So if not overheating then what is my problem.

My prior coments are in the last 2-3 pages.

[MadDog]

So those guys who tested the 1305 bios, did you test at default clock speeds or OCed?

Because if there was no video issues when the chip is OCed, then GREAT

Hopefully next week ill be updating my bios

[janjan]

If this is true, then my board isn't overheating and causeing frezzing. So if not overheating then what is my problem.

My prior coments are in the last 2-3 pages.

my nb is 69 idle and my e8400 @3.6ghz, rams also overclocked that never caused me problem. anything i use about cooling is stock.so the heat isnt a problem with a stock cooling setup
i read the post about your problem
did you test your machine with windows xp 'cause ı had exactly the same problem with vista 64. then changed it to xp 32 (no headaches up to date)