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

[slim142]

this is loge Extreme

THIS is the logo for the Extreme

[seba84_2005]

THIS is the logo for the Extreme

ok, THX

new Striker II Formula




link:
http://img297.imageshack.us/my.php?i...ormulaneh6.jpg

Ha change the inscription Extreme to Formula.



Link:
http://img391.imageshack.us/my.php?i...formulacc1.gif

[slim142]

Good Job Seba
Now you will see everybody downloading that boot logo

But the old ROG G logo is cool though, I like it for my old Striker Extreme (680i)

[seba84_2005]

Animated logo does not work on Striker II Formula

only static:

[slim142]

Maybe is only for the Real Extreme Motherboards

[seba84_2005]

Maybe is only for the Real Extreme Motherboards

very funny haha

[Kevin1970]

Some may recall my recent issues. I am told most likely my memory is bad. Yet they pass memtest. Yet i am getting odd behavior like random bsod's and odd crashes of programs that are not even running. Vista reported windows media player crashed, superfetch and video snapshot, plus once i couldn't boot up cause of a bios checksum. i had a guy look at my minidump logs and he ran it thru a program that says it's all random memory corruption on all the dumps. So he tells me i need new ram. I'm more then happy to do that. The board seems fine and i've reinstalled the os many times. problem just comes back right away. BSOD's seem to happy mostly when playing games. the random program crashes happen several times a day even when the pc is idle. Anyone have similar issues b4?

[cstkl1]

Some may recall my recent issues. I am told most likely my memory is bad. Yet they pass memtest. Yet i am getting odd behavior like random bsod's and odd crashes of programs that are not even running. Vista reported windows media player crashed, superfetch and video snapshot, plus once i couldn't boot up cause of a bios checksum. i had a guy look at my minidump logs and he ran it thru a program that says it's all random memory corruption on all the dumps. So he tells me i need new ram. I'm more then happy to do that. The board seems fine and i've reinstalled the os many times. problem just comes back right away. BSOD's seem to happy mostly when playing games. the random program crashes happen several times a day even when the pc is idle. Anyone have similar issues b4?

my bet because of ure tRAS.. u should use 18 for 4gb kits

anyways here is my 24/7 setup.. i love the ReaperX pC2-8000 4gb kit

just increase the cpu voltage from 1.28v stable to 1.31stable
reasoning is because of loadline..
previous experience taught me that dont do exact voltage clocking if u want to use loadline.. if not bsod on idle instead of load
the cpu PLL.. 1.5v is stable.. but at 1.6v i get better constant ram bandwidth when i test with everest... this is debatable as i havent tested this throughly

[Marios]

Kevin
From your sig
Crucial Ballistix 4GB(1000Mhz)5-5-5-15-2 (2.0 Volts)? No way
This is only good for 800MHz, 5-5-5-18-auto (2.0 Volts) with a bit more tRFC than auto.
Well it's your money in case you think your mem is bad.

[Kevin1970]

Actually i am running the ram at 800mhz at 5-5-5-18-2, all settings are actually on auto right now. i havent updated my sig.

[Daark]

Started having issues with my setup of late, on power up im getting a blip of power and nothing. Resetting the PSU by hard turn on and off seems to resolve the issue.

Can be over loading a rail as my fans are on 1 rail and sata drives are on another.

All gfx cards are also on seperate rails (4x8pin and 4x6 pin with this psu)

Once the PC powers on it's running np at all, I'm beginning to think its the mobo tbh, ideas anyone?

[71 (Bryan)]

hey guys i have a few questions regarding fans and controlling them via the board, am i supposed to be able to control all fan through the mobo?, which program can i use to control it when in the os?(speedfan doesnt work)
one more thing, does anyone know how much amps the mobo can pump through a 3pin fan header?
thx guys

[RedneckHunter]

I have had my Striker 2 for a few months or so now and it seems to be running fine(knock on wood). I did a 20% Overclock to 3.0GHz with everything on Auto except the ram@1.96v(auto on 2.2v) . I'm running my ram at 4-4-4-12-1T everything on Auto.

I have been digging around but can't seem to find good overclocking voltages for a Q9300. I also have noticed in Everest that my CPU Clock and Multiplier fluctuates from 2400MHz@6x to the BIOS set 3000MHz @7.5x, is this that vdroop taking affect?

I'm also getting that nasty lockup when playing some videos on Vista x64, not all the time, really random.

Any help would be appreciated.

[xo4ox]

can you guys give general settings for e8500 @ 400fsb? :
cpugtl
nbgtl
nb
sb
cpuvtt
cpupll

[EvoCarlos]

I have had my Striker 2 for a few months or so now and it seems to be running fine(knock on wood). I did a 20% Overclock to 3.0GHz with everything on Auto except the Vram@1.96v(auto on 2.2v) . I'm running my ram at 4-4-4-12-1T everything on Auto.

I have been digging around but can't seem to find good overclocking voltages for a Q9300. I also have noticed in Everest that my CPU Clock and Multiplier fluctuates from 2400MHz@6x to the BIOS set 3000MHz @7x, is this that vdroop taking affect?

I'm also getting that nasty lockup when playing some videos on Vista x64, not all the time, really random.

Any help would be appreciated.

cpu clock and multy changing is the intel speed step coming into play in the overclocking tab in bios where it show's the cpu info you can disable c1e support and intel speed step this will lock it to the higher multy

[EvoCarlos]

hey guys i have a few questions regarding fans and controlling them via the board, am i supposed to be able to control all fan through the mobo?, which program can i use to control it when in the os?(speedfan doesnt work)
one more thing, does anyone know how much amps the mobo can pump through a 3pin fan header?
thx guys

there is software on the s2f disc but its a shat program mess's up the os i found that the only control i have over fans is to set them to 60% and not on q-fan as they just stop some bios issue. that remindes me next post is about that damn 1401 bios.

[EvoCarlos]

I've been playing with a MSI P7N diamond the past few days. Surprisingly i was able to reach the same settings as my Striker II F. 3dmark scores seem to be a little slower but all in all i'm very surprised and impressed. i was looking for a slolution to give me 3way SLI and room for a sound card.. I found it! this Asus Xonar D2X PCI-e Card sounds 100000 times better than the Striker sound. For those of you fed up with the striker you may want to check this diamond out. Heres a thread here at XS about it. Here are some of my numbers. I've been able to match the striker OC easily.

i saw this and rolf'd 3way gtxs and only 18k 3dm06 and you said it was a little lower its real low imo no affence

[EvoCarlos]

in a few days i'll have my sys back up and running and i'll try this bios if it works @ 4.5 and no gfx shat then i will be wanting to have e-sex with you pmp

ASUS Striker II Formula BIOS build 1401
Enjoy and report any bug!

well all i can say no e-sex for pmp 1401 is bad 4 me it wont even save settings i press save and exit the pc start to rog logo the it restarts again then "defaults loaded press f1 to continue"... had to go back to 907 still works ok for 3.6ghz need to get the vapo regass'd b4 i can go back to 4.4

[xo4ox]

ANYONE !!

can you guys give general settings for e8500 @ 400fsb? :
cpugtl
nbgtl
nb
sb
cpuvtt
cpupll

[molotov]

cpu clock and multy changing is the intel speed step coming into play in the overclocking tab in bios where it show's the cpu info you can disable c1e support and intel speed step this will lock it to the higher multy

Hi Carlos, how about the virtualization technology in bios? Should it be disabled or not?

[nugzo]

well all i can say no e-sex for pmp 1401 is bad 4 me it wont even save settings i press save and exit the pc start to rog logo the it restarts again then "defaults loaded press f1 to continue"... had to go back to 907 still works ok for 3.6ghz need to get the vapo regass'd b4 i can go back to 4.4

This board is sooo friendly to c2d's. I feel sorry for teh quad guys. It's about time for another bios. Maybe that'll be the one.

[nugzo]

i saw this and rolf'd 3way gtxs and only 18k 3dm06 and you said it was a little lower its real low imo no affence

at default there is no gain at all on 3way sli. i have 2 cards in atm and score the same thing as 3way on 3dmark 06. but turn up the resolution and the aa and af and the scores barely drop. If im not mistaken 1920x1200 8x aa and 16x af scored 16000. the gains r there as well in games, but only if you turn up the res and eye candy. If you have a 24+ monitor it may be worth it. Anything smaller than that and tri-sli is a waste of money. I have 3 gt280's on the way, i think i'll sell one and use the extra space for my xonar. I'm going to run some vantage passes now with the 2 cards and see how it compares to 3.



EDIT: 3 cards scale alot better in vantage. 13,500 2way SLI and 19,500 with 3-way default settings. Thats almost a 50% increase going from 2 cards to 3.

[EvoCarlos]

ANYONE !!

dude just try some random volts lol if you have a read in the therad the normals are about ish
cpu gtl +30
nb gtl +30
nb 1.48v ish
sb 1.5
vvt 1.4
pll 1.5
if you break it dont blame me just try some start low and work up do one setting at a time not all at once as you will never no what makes the diffrence if it boot and its not stable ether the cpu or nb need some juse hope this helps oh and take your time it took me over 2 weeks to get a stable 4.4 trial and error..... right now go away! im kidding really im kidding

Hi Carlos, how about the virtualization technology in bios? Should it be disabled or not?

ive left them both enabled never made and diffrence with any overclock they were still on @ 4.5 lol

at default there is no gain at all on 3way sli. i have 2 cards in atm and score the same thing as 3way on 3dmark 06. but turn up the resolution and the aa and af and the scores barely drop. If im not mistaken 1920x1200 8x aa and 16x af scored 16000. the gains r there as well in games, but only if you turn up the res and eye candy. If you have a 24+ monitor it may be worth it. Anything smaller than that and tri-sli is a waste of money. I have 3 gt280's on the way, i think i'll sell one and use the extra space for my xonar. I'm going to run some vantage passes now with the 2 cards and see how it compares to 3.



EDIT: 3 cards scale alot better in vantage. 13,500 2way SLI and 19,500 with 3-way default settings. Thats almost a 50% increase going from 2 cards to 3.

ahh i see the only resaon i bought it up was my 3dm06 is 21.5k with 2 8800gt's £130 each @ the time, of corse i cant do uber l33t hi rez but its good for my 22" @ 1680x1050 i just exspected alot more from thoses cards damn n blast shat nvid always did like ati rolf

[EvoCarlos]

i take back what i said about the 1401 bios its just a pain to get working flashed it 3 time and had to remove the cpu to eventually get it to work
but but 4.5 no gfx guff well done pmp when we haveing e-sex?
and after only 8 bsod's and it work'd
all voltages are shown in everest cpu temps good for my vapo rebiuld you can have a look at that in the phase change section in this forum

[slim142]

EvoCarlos is taking this seriously