ASUS Striker II Extreme

[slim142]

I also hate that overvoltage problem. Seriously, you only need 2.0 to squeeze that last Mhz of the RAM and then you realize you are actually giving the RAM 2.04 and so degrading the ram.

[ceevee]

Sad to hear NVDA is exiting the chipset business. Does anyone know if this board is being discontinued? Will it still be supported?

Mine has become very stable after the RMA and 0901. I have only had one freeze in like 3 weeks now.

Still I think I would actually look forward to an Intel Nehalem chipset that has SLI enabled on it.

[razzer]

yea I just read this article....

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...-pulled-makers

Guess we will see what we see..

[slim142]

Finally get it stable and now this....
It better get supported for at least two more years. I would love new nForce drivers as well as a 6001 BIOS xD

[vladimir]

I really think it has all been blown out of proportion!

PC Perspective takes a look at the rumor mill...
UPDATE: NVIDIA sent along their official response to the Digitimes news:

1. The story on Digitimes is completely groundless. We have no intention of getting out of the chipset business.
2. In fact, our MCP business is as strong as it ever has been for both AMD and Intel platforms:
1. Mercury Research has reported that the NVIDIA market share of AMD platforms in Q2 08 was 60%. We have been steady in this range for over two years.
2. SLI is still the preferred multi-GPU platform thanks to its stellar scaling, game compatibility and driver stability.
3. nForce 790i SLI is the recommended choice by editors worldwide due to its compelling combination of memory performance, overclocking, and support for SLI. In fact, a recent article on Tom’s Hardware recently came to the same conclusion: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...I,1977-29.html
3. We're looking forward to bring new and very exciting MCP products to the market for both AMD and Intel platforms.

That could be damage control on nVidia's part, but personally I don't think so.

[jcool]

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.

Ya I noticed OCZ sticks sometimes don't like too high voltage. Set Vdimm to 1.84V in bios which is around 1,9V real.
400x10 with the QX9650 rig was with OCZ Reaper 1333 CL6 4GB kit, that one's working very good. Even got 1T to run stable with enough vNB.

Well, I finally got FSB 1700 to work ok, now trying mem unlinked again. Found a divider for ~1500 mem that seems to work, 1h prime blend and so far no sign of freezing. Giving ~1,55V vNB tho which is way too much for that speed, lol.

Bios 0902 seems to be really buggy, for example if I reduce the E8500's mult down to 9x it says 9x at post and in bios, but in reality it's still 9.5
Wondered why prime failed after 2 mins, then saw the CPU was at close to 4,3Ghz instead of 4,05
Good CPU that is tho, 2min prime at 4,3ghz and 1,35V is great

[Tyke]

I really think it has all been blown out of proportion!

PC Perspective takes a look at the rumor mill...
UPDATE: NVIDIA sent along their official response to the Digitimes news:

1. The story on Digitimes is completely groundless. We have no intention of getting out of the chipset business.
2. In fact, our MCP business is as strong as it ever has been for both AMD and Intel platforms:
1. Mercury Research has reported that the NVIDIA market share of AMD platforms in Q2 08 was 60%. We have been steady in this range for over two years.
2. SLI is still the preferred multi-GPU platform thanks to its stellar scaling, game compatibility and driver stability.
3. nForce 790i SLI is the recommended choice by editors worldwide due to its compelling combination of memory performance, overclocking, and support for SLI. In fact, a recent article on Tom’s Hardware recently came to the same conclusion: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...I,1977-29.html
3. We're looking forward to bring new and very exciting MCP products to the market for both AMD and Intel platforms.

That could be damage control on nVidia's part, but personally I don't think so.

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

[HurinThalion]

I too have noticed some sort of "hole" around 400/1600fsb. At least for my board. If I can get into Windows, everything seems good and stable. However, once every five restarts or so, I just get a blank screen and no POST. Hitting the reset button brings it back at fail-safe speeds via OC crash recovery mode.

Intel E8500 w/ Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme (no OC yet - Stability Testing)
GTX 280 SLi (eVGA)
4GB Mushkin 1600 DDR3 7-7-6-18-2T (WinXP 64-bit)
Asus Striker II Extreme BIOS 0901
300GB Velociraptor
Creative X-fi Titanium PCI-E
Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W

[Tyke]

I too have noticed some sort of "hole" around 400/1600fsb. At least for my board. If I can get into Windows, everything seems good and stable. However, once every five restarts or so, I just get a blank screen and no POST. Hitting the reset button brings it back at fail-safe speeds via OC crash recovery mode.

Intel E8500 w/ Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme (no OC yet - Stability Testing)
GTX 280 SLi (eVGA)
4GB Mushkin 1600 DDR3 7-7-6-18-2T (WinXP 64-bit)
Asus Striker II Extreme BIOS 0901
300GB Velociraptor
Creative X-fi Titanium PCI-E
Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W

I had this problem with the early bios versions, but not recently. I also remember that changing to the QX9770 which has a native 400FSB solved my problems, over a QX9650.

[skinnee]

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

[CCC]

Hey guys to chime in on things a bit. I recently did a custom build flashed to bios 0901 out the box '0402 default' and using some GTS ic 2x2gig kits we found local the board just flew
8-7-6@ddr1800
7-6-6@ddr1770 both at 1.92v in the bios and even ddr1900 for dual 32m at 8-7-6
so just something to try and look for on 4gig kits
even had some fun with 8-7-6 with 8gigs installed at ddr1800 so bascialy find the right ram for the build and It helps alot with this chipset/board



GL
Clint

[tekjunkie]

Yep this board is extremely picky about the RAM(read the IC chips on 'em)

[realcyberghost]

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

I have the same problem, however, that is when running at 1815 mhz linked and synced when trying to use lower voltages and different GTL values.

So to me it seems more like an undervolt problem or too high GTL change then a problem with the Bios ...

But I could be mistaken.

Do you run SLI? Because at 1st I thought it might had to do something with the SLI, since I just recently put my second 8800GTS back in the rig.

Greetz

[realcyberghost]

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.

Yah there is still a FSB hole at 1600, 1605 works ...

I find 0901 and 1002 fine bioses, and better then all the rest.

About the RAM, I had alot of memory issues, 1st with Corsair RAM then with OCZ 1600 7-6-6-24 RAM ( the ones from my sig ). However, after testing and trying I came to the simple conclusion the RAM was faulty.
I tested everything with MEMTEST86 and it would not give any errors, but once I tested with Memtest for Windows it found the errors.
I bought a second pair of the same OCZ RAM and no problems at all.
So I returned my 1st pair to the shop and got a replacement set.

So my 1st advice would be to try memtest for windows and let it run at least 300% ( it is 32 bit, so if you have 4GB of RAM you will need several instances to cover all the RAM, and you need to keep some RAM free for the OS :p )
Here is a link for the memtest : http://hcidesign.com/memtest/


greetz

[realcyberghost]

Ya I noticed OCZ sticks sometimes don't like too high voltage. Set Vdimm to 1.84V in bios which is around 1,9V real.
400x10 with the QX9650 rig was with OCZ Reaper 1333 CL6 4GB kit, that one's working very good. Even got 1T to run stable with enough vNB.

Well, I finally got FSB 1700 to work ok, now trying mem unlinked again. Found a divider for ~1500 mem that seems to work, 1h prime blend and so far no sign of freezing. Giving ~1,55V vNB tho which is way too much for that speed, lol.

Bios 0902 seems to be really buggy, for example if I reduce the E8500's mult down to 9x it says 9x at post and in bios, but in reality it's still 9.5
Wondered why prime failed after 2 mins, then saw the CPU was at close to 4,3Ghz instead of 4,05
Good CPU that is tho, 2min prime at 4,3ghz and 1,35V is great

Uhm, you mention Bios 0902 ... I never seen a Bios 0902 ... I suppose that is just a typo?

And yes, OCZ does not like overvoltage, that means beyond the allowed overvoltage ...

My OCZ RAM is default rated 1,9v but the warranty supports 1,95v I put in the BIOS 1,94v and that results in 1,96v average ( it goes from 1,95v to 1,97v ) if I got any higher then that I will get problems.

greetz

[sargatanas]

Do you run SLI? Because at 1st I thought it might had to do something with the SLI, since I just recently put my second 8800GTS back in the rig.

running 2 9800gx @ quad. haven't tested it but it always happened during gaming. the funny thing is, winamp keeps playing but the rest freezes.
cpu runs at stock.

could be a voltage prob, don't know atm

[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!

[jcy0001]

Hi been lurking thru this thread for a bit now while waiting for one RMA after another finally got my setup running enough to load windows. Before this it was either a bad bios flash or bad RAM both took quite a while to RMA since i had to send them back to the US.
Slim was just wondering where i could get 15.17+177.40 drivers you mentiond?

[Fusion2002]

Very sad to hear about the board. I hope they figure something out before they kill SLI.

[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.

[skinnee]

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

Yup! Finally!!

Now I can move on to my bench setup project and actually start testing and reviewing products again.

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

to XS!!

[slim142]

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.

Like always, we would all love to see your settings

Yup! Finally!!

Now I can move on to my bench setup project and actually start testing and reviewing products again.

I want to see your loop done asap!