ASUS Striker II Extreme

[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/

[Trigger5521]

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/

This must be a different NEC than the one I checked out 6 months ago. The article does say scaler..but it's very vague. There are no additional inputs other that DVI so the scaler would only be useful for off res DVI. I sometimes hookup my xbox360 for system link when the some friends drop by, you need component or HDMI video for this and the scaler does a wicked job there.

Regardless it's a beautiful monitor, if you can afford it and have the horsepower to drive it 30' is the only way to fly IMO. I could never go back now.

[slim142]

Great to see the S2E wiping the floor with the other 790i boards in that article!

Yes I also liked that a lot!
Even the Mysterious motherboard (Dreadnought DUH) wasnt at the performance of the ASUS
But is true, only eVGA, XFX and ASUS are currently offering 790i boards.....

Mobo is on its way back to me from RMA!!

Nice to hear, so you will finally get that system done?

[St!nG]

Hello all,

im kinda new on this forum, im Bob 20 years old and 3 months ago i had a new beast of a computer

my set up is this

XQ9650
ASUS Striker II Extreme
Asus 8800GT
OCZ PC3-10666 ReaperX HPC Enhanced Bandwidth
tagan 700 watt
150 gb raptor
750 gb f1
cosmos S

its all cooled by a watercoolin set
XSPC DELTA block
XSPC 360 radiator
swiftech res,
liang pump
and i connected the waterblock standart mounted on the mobo,
it's not the best WC on the market atm but it only cooles my xq9650 so its fine.


i overclocked and and watercoolin back in the athlon XP days so some things are quite new for me

a long time i had was kinda busy and i didnt get the 0402 bios up to a new one but yesterday i tried it with that asus upgrade and it worked

i have a few questions,

with speedfan and asus probe my processor is iddle 21(now atm while typin this) degrees, and with coretemp it says : 35 50 50 42.
if coretemp is right there is a big gap between the cores, wich do i have to beleave?

Question 2, there are in a qaudcore 3 kind of voltages u can change

CPU vcore
CPU PPL
CPU VTT

does someone has a guide/link/can tell me what does stand for and what are safe value's for 24/7 use
i would like to als know the safe value's of the mobo

yesterday i tried a little of overclocking, trhowed all the voltage's a little up tied 3.46ghz and when i start prime @ the same moment it starts it fails

are there any must have tweaks in the striker 2 extreme bios?


this all is writhn by a dyslectic dutchmen,so pls read along as though the faults are not there.


ty!

[tekjunkie]

Hello all,

im kinda new on this forum, im Bob 20 years old and 3 months ago i had a new beast of a computer

my set up is this

XQ9650
ASUS Striker II Extreme
Asus 8800GT
OCZ PC3-10666 ReaperX HPC Enhanced Bandwidth
tagan 700 watt
150 gb raptor
750 gb f1
cosmos S

its all cooled by a watercoolin set
XSPC DELTA block
XSPC 360 radiator
swiftech res,
liang pump
and i connected the waterblock standart mounted on the mobo,
it's not the best WC on the market atm but it only cooles my xq9650 so its fine.


i overclocked and and watercoolin back in the athlon XP days so some things are quite new for me

a long time i had was kinda busy and i didnt get the 0402 bios up to a new one but yesterday i tried it with that asus upgrade and it worked

i have a few questions,

with speedfan and asus probe my processor is iddle 21(now atm while typin this) degrees, and with coretemp it says : 35 50 50 42.
if coretemp is right there is a big gap between the cores, wich do i have to beleave?

Question 2, there are in a qaudcore 3 kind of voltages u can change

CPU vcore
CPU PPL
CPU VTT

does someone has a guide/link/can tell me what does stand for and what are safe value's for 24/7 use
i would like to als know the safe value's of the mobo

yesterday i tried a little of overclocking, trhowed all the voltage's a little up tied 3.46ghz and when i start prime @ the same moment it starts it fails

are there any must have tweaks in the striker 2 extreme bios?


this all is writhn by a dyslectic dutchmen,so pls read along as though the faults are not there.


ty!

Read the article about Striker II extreme @ Anandtech.

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3283


This is a good place to start

[TheRoyalty]

Finally...100% stable @4.05GHhz. 19540 3DMark06 score, not bad for a pair of old 1 1/2 year old GPU's. It surely involved lots of patience and tweaking, but at least I didn't have to go through the ever so popular RMA process..phew. Ram upgrade did help as per Fusion2000's suggestion, gotta say I like the new kit.

Cheers.