ASUS Striker II Extreme

[slim142]

Got my RMA from G.Skill
Burned a DVD... Done! Perfectly Working! No problems whatsoever

[skinnee]

Man...you got that RMA back already, I'm still waiting on my mobo from Asus.

[slim142]

For a moment I thought they were not going to send me anything with the nice comment I left on newegg

[NEOKFIRE7]

Hi!..
Does anyone have enable the Sli-ready for memories, without disabling the FSB e.t.c. menu...?...

With 0901 bios..

[realcyberghost]

Hi!..
Does anyone have enable the Sli-ready for memories, without disabling the FSB e.t.c. menu...?...

With 0901 bios..

From Anandtech :

SLI-Ready Memory - [Disabled, CPUOC 0% ~ CPUOC 5%, CPUOC MAX] Leave this setting on Disabled when manually overclocking memory. Selecting any other option will set DDR3-2000 memory operation - we were unable to measure any difference between any of the "CPU OC x%" options. Make sure you either manually adjust your memory timings or leave them on "Auto" if you plan on overclocking your memory this way.

Basically any serious overclocker disables this.

Even if you don't want to overclock, I suggest setting your main timings and frequencies manually, same goes for your Memory voltage.


Greetz

[slim142]

I always hated that function, SLI memory. I have that disabled in my 680i.

[realcyberghost]

Got my RMA from G.Skill
Burned a DVD... Done! Perfectly Working! No problems whatsoever

Great :p

[sargatanas]

0901 + 1002 don't work for me...the screen starts flickering after some time of gaming and system freezes but winamp keeps playing

[slim142]

Well sorry I cant help for now, I cant overclock, I forgot to mount a fan on my Ultra120X LOOOOOOL! and Im too lazy to put it now that Im finally using my system after 2 weeks LOOOOOL!

I will just wait til I get my blocks,pump etc.

Btw, thx cyberghost

[HurinThalion]

However, having said that, it looks like --now that I've gotten this board stable and can do so in good conscience-- I'm going to be selling it and going X48. LotRO has some SLi issues that don't appear likely to be fixed. So I might as well give Crossfire a try when the 4870X2 comes out.

So of course. . . what happens after I write this and sell my second GTX 280? Of course! Turbine fixes the SLi issue with LotRO without a word after letting it sit unacknowledged for about a year.

Gah! I'm actually glad they fixed it. But what a hassle. I'm so dumb that I sold a perfectly good card and now had to buy a new second GTX 280.

This is what I get for my impatience and indecisiveness.

My P5E3 will be the one being sold now.

[Trigger5521]

0901 + 1002 don't work for me...the screen starts flickering after some time of gaming and system freezes but winamp keeps playing

0901 and 1002 are working fine for me. Same 1702 L&S settings I have been using since 7 series bios.

I tried to go to 1760 and 1780 with 0901 but failed. have not tried to OC beyond 1702 with 1002 yet.

Anyone experience netwrok problems after OC attempts...I have the network teaming setup and I connect to my computer from remote so I set the network cards to "allowed to wake computer" in device manager. Getting the computer to sleep and stay a sleep with these setting is the stuff of MAGIC. It seems some new driver installs...like new X-FI card drivers for example screw up the network setup in that the computer refusues to stay a sleep(it'll wake up after anywhere from 1min to 10mins). Usually I have to uninstall the network drivers again and reinstall(although that doesn't always work). Anyways back to my point I have my system all setup and working perfect with 175.19 video and 9.64 nforce + 15.17 nforce network drivers only. Sleeps eveytime..stays a sleeep no crashes etc. I decide to try attemping to get a higher OC than 1702 with the 0901 bios...so I put the memtest disc in reboot and start playing with the bios settings. I blow it up a few times with some bad combos..memtest goes green screen or just frezzes etc. Never once did I attempt to boot to Vista. Finally I give up as I can't get anything better than 1702..go back to my old settings a boot to OS. Now bam..computer won't stay a sleep again. What a PIA..is it even possible OC attempts can screw up the network drivers. I don't see how but it appears that's what happened. If not I have to look for another related cause.

[Tyke]

I'm back!!!
My Turbo Cool arrived this morning, and my tri-sli system is up and running at last.

My fourth S2E is up and running, and is as stable as the last two I have had. The EVGA board was a real disappointment and went back on a RMA.

Just about to do a reinstall of Vista to clean everything up!!

[slim142]

Thats great to hear Tyke
(you never answered me the turbo function lol)

Anyways, the striker II is such a great board when it works. Finally the dream of watching movies and burning DVDs with this board are finally real! (wow such basic things make you crazy)
Im pretty sure boards with SLI problems after 0901, 15.17 and 177.40 ARE DEFECTIVE so if anybody experiences that, please RMA to ASUS. It will take just 2 weeks

[Tyke]

Thats great to hear Tyke
(you never answered me the turbo function lol)

Anyways, the striker II is such a great board when it works. Finally the dream of watching movies and burning DVDs with this board are finally real! (wow such basic things make you crazy)
Im pretty sure boards with SLI problems after 0901, 15.17 and 177.40 ARE DEFECTIVE so if anybody experiences that, please RMA to ASUS. It will take just 2 weeks

You're exactly right. To top it all off look what I've just ordered for myself, delivery tomorrow, to replace my Dell24"!! Gaming heaven.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...0-widescreen/1

[TheRoyalty]

Thats great to hear Tyke
(you never answered me the turbo function lol)

Anyways, the striker II is such a great board when it works. Finally the dream of watching movies and burning DVDs with this board are finally real! (wow such basic things make you crazy)
Im pretty sure boards with SLI problems after 0901, 15.17 and 177.40 ARE DEFECTIVE so if anybody experiences that, please RMA to ASUS. It will take just 2 weeks

Congrats man, glad you sorted it out. Now play and play hard . Btw, when you set up your WC stuff, think of using teflon tape for all the barb threads, will help to prevent leakage from there big time.

Tyke thnx for the reply, will keep it in mind when I'm on the next GPU shopping spree. Use a 27" Samsung here as well and yes...bigger IS better.

[slim142]

You're exactly right. To top it all off look what I've just ordered for myself, delivery tomorrow, to replace my Dell24"!! Gaming heaven.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...0-widescreen/1

Wow nice!
Why your preference over the 3008?

Congrats man, glad you sorted it out. Now play and play hard .

Tyke thnx for the reply, will keep it in mind when I'm on the next GPU shopping spree. Use a 27" Samsung here as well and yes...bigger IS better.

Thanks man
Now Im waiting to get my other water cooling parts. Hopefully soon

[skinnee]

Asus RMA...HTFU!!!

[jcool]

Guys,

got a problem with a build here. Striker 2 Extreme with 2x2GB of OCZ Reaper DDR3-1600 CL7 mem.
I've done a few S2E builds the past months and never had any problems with them, but this one is really starting to piss me off.
Basically it just hates the mem, won't post half the time but hang at "memory testing" message. When it does start it freezes in Windows, during memtest and during any 3D app after 5-15 minutes.
With some settings the SATA controller seems to crap out too, e.g. when I want to run FSB 400 and mem unlinked it will say boot device failure without even searching for a boot record. If I set to 1600 linked sync it acts as if nothing happened, but still freezes. FSB 1333 linked sync seems stable but what good is that. Set timings manually to 7-7-7-24 2T, increaed vNB up to 1,6V (mobo is watercooled and I even replaced that crappy Asus pad under the northbridge with MX-2, so temps are good), set Vdimm to 1,9V, nothing.

Never seen the S2E crap around like that before, I guess I'm fighting incompatibility here. Already contacted OCZ for an SPD update, maybe that'll help.

Tried bioses 0902 and 0804 (latest 2 official ones), do they both suck by any chance?

System specs are E8500/S2E/2x GTX 260 SLI/WD Velociraptor/Amacrox (FSP) 750W PSU

[tekjunkie]

Guys,

got a problem with a build here. Striker 2 Extreme with 2x2GB of OCZ Reaper DDR3-1600 CL7 mem.
I've done a few S2E builds the past months and never had any problems with them, but this one is really starting to piss me off.
Basically it just hates the mem, won't post half the time but hang at "memory testing" message. When it does start it freezes in Windows, during memtest and during any 3D app after 5-15 minutes.
With some settings the SATA controller seems to crap out too, e.g. when I want to run FSB 400 and mem unlinked it will say boot device failure without even searching for a boot record. If I set to 1600 linked sync it acts as if nothing happened, but still freezes. FSB 1333 linked sync seems stable but what good is that. Set timings manually to 7-7-7-24 2T, increaed vNB up to 1,6V (mobo is watercooled and I even replaced that crappy Asus pad under the northbridge with MX-2, so temps are good), set Vdimm to 1,9V, nothing.

Never seen the S2E crap around like that before, I guess I'm fighting incompatibility here. Already contacted OCZ for an SPD update, maybe that'll help.

Tried bioses 0902 and 0804 (latest 2 official ones), do they both suck by any chance?

System specs are E8500/S2E/2x GTX 260 SLI/WD Velociraptor/Amacrox (FSP) 750W PSU

There was a known issue with 1600QDR/400FSB and I believe it still exists with even the recent BIOS versions. I for sure can't run my QX9650 stable @400x10 for 4GHZ, So I am currently @ 445x9 for 4GHZ with absolutely no issues so far(10 hours priming/10 hours OCCT and currently running F@H). So try increasing your FSB a tad like 402/1608. It used to work with the S2E that I bricked, but I haven't tried it with the replacement that I got.

[Tyke]

Wow nice!
Why your preference over the 3008?

Just based on the reviews, and what the guy in the shop said. The 3008 has only had so-so reviews & it blurs in gaming, the NEC is in a totally different league.

[Tyke]

Tyke thnx for the reply, will keep it in mind when I'm on the next GPU shopping spree. Use a 27" Samsung here as well and yes...bigger IS better.

Thx. Yes I am looking forward to gaming on this thing, the reviews are awesome. Only thing is I have just got Crysis playable a 1920 X 1200 on my tri-sli, hope it is OK at 2560 x 1600!!! My wife can't believe I've just dropped over £1500 on a monitor, so it better be good. I was never that impressed with my Dell Ultrasharp 24".

[jcool]

There was a known issue with 1600QDR/400FSB and I believe it still exists with even the recent BIOS versions. I for sure can't run my QX9650 stable @400x10 for 4GHZ, So I am currently @ 445x9 for 4GHZ with absolutely no issues so far(10 hours priming/10 hours OCCT and currently running F@H). So try increasing your FSB a tad like 402/1608. It used to work with the S2E that I bricked, but I haven't tried it with the replacement that I got.

Funny, I already built 2 rigs with a QX9650 and S2E that ran 400*10 perfectly

The issue here isn't just one of those darned FSB holes, as problems happen with all combinations of FSB/ramspeed I have tested so far, except the 1333/1333 linked sync stock setting. Bios defaults is even unstable lol. I wanted to run FSB 1700 (= 4Ghz on the E8500) and 1600 mem like it's rated, but like I said no go. Stock FSB and 1600 mem isn't possible either

[Trigger5521]

Thx. Yes I am looking forward to gaming on this thing, the reviews are awesome. Only thing is I have just got Crysis playable a 1920 X 1200 on my tri-sli, hope it is OK at 2560 x 1600!!! My wife can't believe I've just dropped over £1500 on a monitor, so it better be good. I was never that impressed with my Dell Ultrasharp 24".

The NEC 30' is sweet but the one thing it doesn't have is a built in scaler. The new Dell and the Gateway(I'm using) 30's have internal scalers. In the case of the gateway it uses the HQV realta scaler which is considered in home theater circles to be the best on the market. It's really not an issue if you can run everything at 2560x1600, but for lower res the scaler gives you a wicked picture at non native resolutions. I'll bet the picture on the NEC will kick the Dell and Gateways tho.

[Tyke]

The NEC 30' is sweet but the one thing it doesn't have is a built in scaler. The new Dell and the Gateway(I'm using) 30's have internal scalers. In the case of the gateway it uses the HQV realta scaler which is considered in home theater circles to be the best on the market. It's really not an issue if you can run everything at 2560x1600, but for lower res the scaler gives you a wicked picture at non native resolutions. I'll bet the picture on the NEC will kick the Dell and Gateways tho.

It looks great at 1920 X 1200, just been running Crysis at that resolution. In Windows the text is really sharp. Apart from Crysis everything else will be standard resolution anyway, which believe me is awesome!! Tried NVidia scaling and the picture looked worse when playing Crysis, so it must be scaling well. According to all the reviews and comments I have seen, the scaling is outstanding on this monitor.

Have a look at this review where he says the scaling is the best on the market:

http://nec3090wqxi-test.blogspot.com/

[my87csx481]

Funny, I already built 2 rigs with a QX9650 and S2E that ran 400*10 perfectly

The issue here isn't just one of those darned FSB holes, as problems happen with all combinations of FSB/ramspeed I have tested so far, except the 1333/1333 linked sync stock setting. Bios defaults is even unstable lol. I wanted to run FSB 1700 (= 4Ghz on the E8500) and 1600 mem like it's rated, but like I said no go. Stock FSB and 1600 mem isn't possible either

My board overvolts RAM and Vcore (and probably others). If I set RAM @ 1.86 in BIOS, I get 1.91 real. If I set 1.9 (trying to go to 1700FSB from 1600) I get hardware failures in Prime blend almost immediately. Drop it back to 1.86....so far so good for an hour or two. So, maybe try less voltage

I don't think OCZ and S2E play well together anyway....I've been through 4 kits and still fighting....1600EB 2 x 2, blue or white slots.

Which RAM did you use for QX9650 400 x 10 on S2E?

Good luck.