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

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Question to all

Since it has been shown that when the FSB goes over 450 on this board, ram bandwidth drops and latency increases considerably. Has anyone found any numbers above 450 where these numbers go back to normal?

Hi Horseman and all, have been following this thread for weeks and time to give credit to all of you in this post~

Brief system config is in my signature...
I reached 4.5G but failed to stress test/3DMark06. Thanks to Horseman for giving a hint (in the other S2F post) by increasing the 1.2v HT, vtt and -30 in NB_GTL, I am able to complete 3dMark06 with single 9800gtx (oc 800/2000/1200) achieving 15511 marks. I run Linked/Sync 1000MHz at ram but forgot to tighten the timings (5-5-5-18 CR2). I do need further directions from you guys in the following:

1. still got some blue screen after benchmarking, what aspects (NB/GTLs/vcore) should I try to increase to maintain stability?
2. if wanna get the system passing Orthos stress test, what aspects should I pay attention to?

Finally for a single 9800gtx, is 15511 a moderate result? Should I go further by tighten timings and oc more on VGA card? (I am so jealous at Horseman's 20K+ 3DMark06...)

Thank to all for your every great post!!!

P.S. about memory bandwidth issue, people in my country challenged me when I give the figure of Read:11050 when OC to 3.8G and Link/Sync ram 4-4-3-8-CR1. They said the Everest 1376beta got bugs in this memory benchmarking since they cannot even reach 11000 using DDR3-1600 or above. So Sandra XII is used instead and the "similar" memory read result is 8.6 @3.8G and 9.0 @4.5G. People using DDR3-highspeed got memory read of 9.4 and so they said this is a normal difference. I avoid the conflict with them. What do you think?