ASUS Striker II Extreme

[slim142]

Hey guys, got my SIIE installed today, and just done some preliminary testing with SLI GTX 280's.

So far, no video freezing (only tried 3 or 4 vids, but so far so good) and i havnt been using it long enough to confirm the corruption issue. Using 0701 bios. Got this board 2nd hand from a guy I know who know's his stuff. He had tried various different sets of mem/CPU's etc and had no probs, but not tested with SLI.

Anyhow, the one problem I do have is popping and cracking with my X-fi. Ive been browsing this thread a while, and I remember a couple of you posted some fixes, but ive just had a quick look and cant seem to find the page with them all on. Anyone post some tips to solve it?

This sometimes dont work for all

Use latest BIOS
Use lastest Beta drivers
enable Plug & play in BIOS
change the slot of the sound card

[MikeMK]

Thanks for the reply slim. Ive just installed the latest BETA drivers from creative - makes no difference. Plug & Play is enabled (i made sure of that - think i read it in one of your previous posts) and I cant change the slot for the sound card due to the 2nd GTX getting in the way. Im gonna update the bios in a bit, so will see if that works.

[MikeMK]

Well, just flashed to 0804, and it solved the problem! So far so good... will start some overclocking soon

[RasCas]

Rascas mcp is the southbridge chip.

just thought id post some results of what i managed to accomplish with this board, finally got the rest of my parts and was able to complete my project. Using 2x1gb supertalent projectx 2000mhz, evga 9800 GX2 and a Q9450. its not stable yet as it takes to many volts to get it to boot into windows but with some tweaking might be possible to stabilize it.

They are some pretty good results there, those temps are pretty good. Im hoping to get mine up to 500 FSB also, im just waiting for some watercooling.

Im still trying to decide whether to use the standard water cooling for northbridge or buy an aftermarket cooler.

[slim142]

Well, just flashed to 0804, and it solved the problem! So far so good... will start some overclocking soon

Nice to heat that it worked
Now that you say it, I havent see yet if BIOS 0804 fixed sound cracking in COD4, will check that later.

[skinnee]

Rascas mcp is the southbridge chip.

just thought id post some results of what i managed to accomplish with this board, finally got the rest of my parts and was able to complete my project. Using 2x1gb supertalent projectx 2000mhz, evga 9800 GX2 and a Q9450. its not stable yet as it takes to many volts to get it to boot into windows but with some tweaking might be possible to stabilize it.

Woohoo! 500MHz FSB is possible with a Yorkie Quad!!

[TheHardCase]

2 Main problems that may help.

Nvidia nforce_winvista64_15.17_international drivers cause frezzing under COD4.
Nvidia nforce_winvista64_9.64_english_whql drivers work 100% For My Setup.


BFG 9800GX2 174.74 Video drivers work 100%
BFG 9800GX2 17x.XX Video drivers cause frezzing or driver has stopped working & has recovered.

Hope this helps maybe a few people....

[tekjunkie]

Rascas mcp is the southbridge chip.

just thought id post some results of what i managed to accomplish with this board, finally got the rest of my parts and was able to complete my project. Using 2x1gb supertalent projectx 2000mhz, evga 9800 GX2 and a Q9450. its not stable yet as it takes to many volts to get it to boot into windows but with some tweaking might be possible to stabilize it.

Can I ask which BIOS version??

[Coupa]

BFG 9800GX2 17x.XX Video drivers cause frezzing or driver has stopped working & has recovered.

Is that the nvlddmkm.sys problem? You can fix that by unpacking the file from the nvidia install folder again. Least its worked for me twice now.

[TheHardCase]

Is that the nvlddmkm.sys problem? You can fix that by unpacking the file from the nvidia install folder again. Least its worked for me twice now.

Coupa, could it also happen with clean install?

[andymg350]

sorry i didnt really post much information about those screenies, im using bios 0704 and i had my voltages set to

Vcore - 1.50000
LLC - enabled
Ram - 1.86 (overvolts to 1.90)
NB - 1.70
SB - 1.65
PLL - Auto

(All GTLREF Settings are set to AUTO)

the settings werent 100% stable but i never did any tweaking on the gtlrefs or the pll so im hoping that it might be possible to bring some of those voltages down and get it stable too but i think it might need to much voltage for that kind of constant fsb.

i have my cpu, nb and mosfets under watercooling on seperate loops. cpu is on EK Supreme and 120.3 thermochill rad and the motherboard is on EK blocks and a 120.3 both have push/pull fans and shrouds. i have an HR05 SLI on the SB

whats a good program to find the NB temps? can only see the MCP in everest but at 3.8ghz idle its at 39c which aint bad really.

[Justifire]

Hey guys, got my SIIE installed today, and just done some preliminary testing with SLI GTX 280's.

So far, no video freezing (only tried 3 or 4 vids, but so far so good) and i havnt been using it long enough to confirm the corruption issue. Using 0701 bios. Got this board 2nd hand from a guy I know who know's his stuff. He had tried various different sets of mem/CPU's etc and had no probs, but not tested with SLI.

Anyhow, the one problem I do have is popping and cracking with my X-fi. Ive been browsing this thread a while, and I remember a couple of you posted some fixes, but ive just had a quick look and cant seem to find the page with them all on. Anyone post some tips to solve it?

Theres an issue with X-Fi and 4GB memory, as far as i see, you have 2 GB so I don't think thats the case.
Altough you could download and try the latest driver from Creative wich has this issue solved.
Another thing to try is to swap the X-Fi to the other PCI slot.

edit: OOPS didn't see the last page

[ceevee]

Can someone provide a working link to a safe 0804 download?

I shipped my S2E back today for a replacement, the only thing I can think of is that maybe the 0804 that I had downloaded was corrupted or something to begin with because I had used EZflash twice before with no problems.

Went from stock to 0704 with no problems and then to 0801 with no problems either.

[ceevee]

Theres an issue with X-Fi and 4GB memory, as far as i see, you have 2 GB so I don't think thats the case.
Altough you could download and try the latest driver from Creative wich has this issue solved.
Another thing to try is to swap the X-Fi to the other PCI slot.

edit: OOPS didn't see the last page

Have you had any of the freezing issues under SLI? If so are they resolved now?

[slim142]

Finally got my system stable (20 hours)
thought SLI issues were fixed with videos (hills have eyes played with no problems)
Played X-men 3 (1080p matroska) and after 1 hour, everything was fine while I was surfing the net and then

BSoD
Machine_Check_Exception

[extremis]

So, I am happy to see that all the EK waterblocks needed for the S2E are the same as the Rampage. I spent alot of time watercooling the Rampage, and now I am thinking of moving those blocks over to the S2E.

However, I was curious if anyone knew what Thermalright mosfet coolers work on the S2E. I tried the HR-09U-TYPE2 on the Rampage, but discovered that they don't completely cover all the mosfets. Half of one mosfet, and 1/4 of another were exposed to air.

If not Thermalright for the mosfet cooling, then what would everyone recommend? I don't want to watercool both of my boxes. I want to aircool one and watercool the other.

Also, does the EK-NB/SB ASUS 1 (southbridge block) interfere with the installation of 2 GTX280s?

[MikeMK]

ok guys, looking for some pointers again. I cant get this board to clock my CPU at all. Ive had this CPU in both a rampage formula and DFI P35 UT T2R and it does 4ghz @ 1.31v in both - 12hrs prime stable. This board wont even boot into windows @ 1.375v. I got the ram linked + synced @ 1600mhz (CPU is 10x400). NB ive had up to 1.6v, SB 1.55v. Ive seriously loosened all memory timings. LOL!

Any ideas?

[Warboy]

Well lately, I ran prime95 again, the Small FPU tests ran fine, But if I use Blend, The system falls flat on its face and whines like a baby, But OCCT passes fine too. So I don't get it. Is there something wrong with my memory or motherboard?

[HurinThalion]

Okay, I'm going to ask the dreaded question. . .

Do the reference 790i boards have the "SLi game freeze" issue? Cuz I'm running out of my 30-day exchange window. . . and I'm starting to lose hope that this will be resolved within that time-frame. The fact that others have resolved it but I have not been able to do so given nearly identical hardware and the same BIOS, drivers, and settings leads me to believe that I might need to start considering other alternatives.

So, basically, is the "SLi Game Freeze" issue isolated to the Striker II Extreme or am I just as likely to experience it on other 790 Ultra boards?

I really want to like this board. But at this point, I'm about ready to return/sell my motherboard, CPU, and RAM, and just go back to the ones in my sig.

[Tyke]

So, I am happy to see that all the EK waterblocks needed for the S2E are the same as the Rampage. I spent alot of time watercooling the Rampage, and now I am thinking of moving those blocks over to the S2E.

However, I was curious if anyone knew what Thermalright mosfet coolers work on the S2E. I tried the HR-09U-TYPE2 on the Rampage, but discovered that they don't completely cover all the mosfets. Half of one mosfet, and 1/4 of another were exposed to air.

If not Thermalright for the mosfet cooling, then what would everyone recommend? I don't want to watercool both of my boxes. I want to aircool one and watercool the other.

Also, does the EK-NB/SB ASUS 1 (southbridge block) interfere with the installation of 2 GTX280s?

I have two GTX 280s running fine with the EK block on the SB.

[MikeMK]

Tyke... would be good to see some pics of that if you can post any?

As to my CPU overclock problem... I have something to run past you guys. Are the vcore sensors accurate on this board? Only I know exactly what this CPU takes to do 4ghz on 2 or 3 other boards (around the same). Anyway in in a fit of frustration I pumped 1.38v through the CPU. Bam... much more stable.

Just by chance I happened to load CPU-Z up at that point, and it reported the voltage at 1.296v (not the 1.38v everest/bios was reporting). This seemed a little bit of a co-incidence as it was very near my old stable voltage, and the CPU was much better behaved. Anyhow, being a bit skeptical I installed speedfan... and guess wot... it reported 1.30v! LOL! Anyway, i upped the voltage so that both speedfan & CPUZ report 1.32v, and guess wot... its looking pretty stable!

To me this indicates bios is reading the voltage massively inaccurately as is everest. If I hadnt used this CPU on other motherboards I probably wouldnt have even questioned it. Here is a screen grab to show u guys:



Does seem very strange, and im wondering if anyone else has come accross it. I dont have access to a DMM right now so i cant confirm it that way just yet.

[extremis]

Anyone know if the ASUS 4 works on the S2E's SB? I have the ASUS 4 for my Rampage, and didn't want to have to buy the ASUS 1 unless absolutely necessary.

[skinnee]

Anyone know if the ASUS 4 works on the S2E's SB? I have the ASUS 4 for my Rampage, and didn't want to have to buy the ASUS 1 unless absolutely necessary.

For all your EK block questions...

EK Compatibility List

[ceevee]

Okay, I'm going to ask the dreaded question. . .

Do the reference 790i boards have the "SLi game freeze" issue? Cuz I'm running out of my 30-day exchange window. . . and I'm starting to lose hope that this will be resolved within that time-frame. The fact that others have resolved it but I have not been able to do so given nearly identical hardware and the same BIOS, drivers, and settings leads me to believe that I might need to start considering other alternatives.

So, basically, is the "SLi Game Freeze" issue isolated to the Striker II Extreme or am I just as likely to experience it on other 790 Ultra boards?

I really want to like this board. But at this point, I'm about ready to return/sell my motherboard, CPU, and RAM, and just go back to the ones in my sig.

I am pretty sure that the SLI freezing issue is on all the 790is.

I had this problem on S2E. Anyway Ive got another new S2E on the way so I hope that one will be better.

[Erikz]

Okay, I'm going to ask the dreaded question. . .

Do the reference 790i boards have the "SLi game freeze" issue? Cuz I'm running out of my 30-day exchange window. . . and I'm starting to lose hope that this will be resolved within that time-frame. The fact that others have resolved it but I have not been able to do so given nearly identical hardware and the same BIOS, drivers, and settings leads me to believe that I might need to start considering other alternatives.

So, basically, is the "SLi Game Freeze" issue isolated to the Striker II Extreme or am I just as likely to experience it on other 790 Ultra boards?

I really want to like this board. But at this point, I'm about ready to return/sell my motherboard, CPU, and RAM, and just go back to the ones in my sig.

We need some more info from you, what vid drivers and what bios?

From what I've seen, all the 790's have the SLI lockup issues but I fixed my problem with new Nvidia drivers.

Erik