ASUS Striker II Extreme

[Fusion2002]

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.

Very nice to see some good results. How much Vcore did it take to get stable? I'm struggling.... 1.5 volts and I still cant pass Prime 95. I have a feeling I have a bit of a dud as far as a processor goes. I've kind of just decided to be content with the fact that prime 95 isnt stable.

[TheRoyalty]

Sorry lads, should have posted them up earlier. Voltages are currently being fine tuned but so far here's how it stands as we speak:

FSB:1800Mhz 9x450 - Linked & Synced
Vcore:1.4875V (Bios) 1.456V (CPUz)
PLL:1.60V
VTT:1.30V
MEM:2.00V
NB:1.58V
SB:1.60V
LLC: Enabled
GTL REF 0: -.29V
GTL REF 1: -.32V
GTL REF 2: -.32V
GTL REF 3: -.29V
Memory: P1 & P2 - Enabled 7-7-7-20 2T (Rest on auto)
Temps: CPU Idle 32C CPU Load 65C GPU1 Idle 35C GPU2 Idle 36C GPU1 Load 46C GPU2 Load 47C NB Idle: 48C NB Load: 55C SB Idle: 46C SB Load: 54C
CPU Config: All Disabled except for the following - CPU Temp Control [Auto] All cores [Enabled]
Spread Spectrum: All Disabled.

As always the rule of thumb, these settings may or may not work for all so use them as reference only. Every other setting that I haven't mentioned above is on AUTO. So far for now everything is smooth, no SLI lockups or corruption issues, OCCT, Mem tests & Prime stable. Gonna sit back and enjoy the ride...for now.

[Fusion2002]

I think I'm going to give your voltages a shot tonight.... Also noticed your core temps are quite a bit lower than mine, quite possible that my water block isnt mounted tight enough. My core temps are around 60C full load.

[tekjunkie]

Sorry lads, should have posted them up earlier. Voltages are currently being fine tuned but so far here's how it stands as we speak:

FSB:1800Mhz 9x450 - Linked & Synced
Vcore:1.4875V (Bios) 1.456V (CPUz)
PLL:1.60V
VTT:1.30V
MEM:2.00V
NB:1.58V
SB:1.60V
LLC: Enabled
GTL REF 0: -.29V
GTL REF 1: -.32V
GTL REF 2: -.32V
GTL REF 3: -.29V
Memory: P1 & P2 - Enabled 7-7-7-20 2T (Rest on auto)
Temps: CPU Idle 32C CPU Load 65C GPU1 Idle 35C GPU2 Idle 36C GPU1 Load 46C GPU2 Load 47C NB Idle: 48C NB Load: 55C SB Idle: 46C SB Load: 54C
CPU Config: All Disabled except for the following - CPU Temp Control [Auto] All cores [Enabled]
Spread Spectrum: All Disabled.

As always the rule of thumb, these settings may or may not work for all so use them as reference only. Every other setting that I haven't mentioned above is on AUTO. So far for now everything is smooth, no SLI lockups or corruption issues, OCCT, Mem tests & Prime stable. Gonna sit back and enjoy the ride...for now.

Wow, 1.4875 vcore with LLC . I guess I have a pretty decent Qx9650 here which can do 4GHZ @ 1.375 vcore with LLC enabled, would be interesting after I put in on water. If only I could decide going Rampage extreme or P5N64 PRO... ARGH. Also, it looks pretty stable after going 2 hours of gaming(FEAR). I had a lockup but I guess it was due to the GFX card OC. I brought it down to stock and so far so good.

[TheRoyalty]

Wow, 1.4875 vcore with LLC . I guess I have a pretty decent Qx9650 here which can do 4GHZ @ 1.375 vcore with LLC enabled, would be interesting after I put in on water. If only I could decide going Rampage extreme or P5N64 PRO... ARGH. Also, it looks pretty stable after going 2 hours of gaming(FEAR). I had a lockup but I guess it was due to the GFX card OC. I brought it down to stock and so far so good.

Yes it seems yours is pretty Vcore friendly, so far I've backed it down to 1.475 and it's pretty stable there as well. Not much of a power cut by any means but even on 1.450 it fails Prime.
Either way the temps aren't alarming me and there are no hiccups so I gotta keep on trucking with these settings for now. It's usually a lottery when it comes to what requirements these CPUs need that's for sure.

P.S. NB dropped to down 1.56V as well, rest are as is.

[Fusion2002]

Yeah your lucky... I always worry that I'm on the verge of frying my CPU using 1.5v 24/7

Just out of curiosity, have you tried those settings with 9.5 or 10 multi? In my perfect world I'd like to see 4500mhz stable

[tekjunkie]

Just ordered an E8600. Can't wait to get it so that I can see how far I can take the wolfy and the board FSB wise.

[Fusion2002]

I looked over your settings and the only thing I noticed way different from my voltages were the GTL ref's and the PLL. I tried your settings and Its appearing I'm able to start bringing down my Vcore. It seems stable so far at 1.475. I'm going to run Prime 95 a little longer to make sure. This would be awesome.

[TheRoyalty]

Yeah your lucky... I always worry that I'm on the verge of frying my CPU using 1.5v 24/7

Just out of curiosity, have you tried those settings with 9.5 or 10 multi? In my perfect world I'd like to see 4500mhz stable

Yes tried 9.5 but it was a no go, but it seems like it's off by only a small margin. Might try for more but at the moment I'm on a tweaking haitus.

[Tyke]

Just ordered an E8600. Can't wait to get it so that I can see how far I can take the wolfy and the board FSB wise.

I've been thinking of trying an E8600 as well. I will be looking forward to seeing what FSB and speed you get, and whether it gives better performance than a lower clocked quad core.

[realcyberghost]

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

Nothing to be sad about, they arent going to kill SLI.

n790i is going well and Asus, XFX, Evga, etc will keep supporting it ...

Greetz

[realcyberghost]

An important notice, reseating the heatsink city WILL void your warranty. ( officially )

But if your carefull and dont break anything you will be fine.

I already RMA'd a board with reseated heatsink and got a new one np.

greetz

[realcyberghost]

So now an update on my OC :

1815 synced isnt stable after all, that means after 4 hours prime 95 small FTT will fail. I am pretty sure it is a CPU issue, but I am high on volts as it is ( CPU @ 1,45v / VTT @ 1,38v / PLL @ 1,64 ), so I left it at that and went back to 8GB RAM testing.

I finally got a breakthru, I have a glimpse of stability at 1707 synced with 9-9-9-26-2T with P1 and P2 on Auto, as soon as I Enable P1 and P2 I crash before being able to boot in windows.
I have CPU @ 1,40v / PLL @ 1,62v / VTT @ 1,40v
Note that I havent touched GTL yet in this config, so I hope to bring down that VTT still.

As soon as I get Prime95 stable for a few hours I will report back :p

Greetz

[Tyke]

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.

Those are good figures, but there must be a bit more to get out of the memory. Using my Corsair XMS 1600MHz memory overclocked to 1800MHz at CAS8 I get 12085 read, 9558 write and 9436 copy. At CAS 7 you should be getting better than me.

[TheRoyalty]

Those are good figures, but there must be a bit more to get out of the memory. Using my Corsair XMS 1600MHz memory overclocked to 1800MHz at CAS8 I get 12085 read, 9558 write and 9436 copy. At CAS 7 you should be getting better than me.

Figured it should be higher as well but I'm not sure what else I could do to boost it unless there are adjustments to be made in the Advanced timing section. What mem settings are you using in the BIOS?

[Justifire]

Yes it seems yours is pretty Vcore friendly, so far I've backed it down to 1.475 and it's pretty stable there as well. Not much of a power cut by any means but even on 1.450 it fails Prime.
Either way the temps aren't alarming me and there are no hiccups so I gotta keep on trucking with these settings for now. It's usually a lottery when it comes to what requirements these CPUs need that's for sure.

P.S. NB dropped to down 1.56V as well, rest are as is.

The sweet spot for my QX9650 is 1.475 as well.
You use almost exact the same settings as me, except i didnt tweak GTL-REF voltages.

[Tyke]

Figured it should be higher as well but I'm not sure what else I could do to boost it unless there are adjustments to be made in the Advanced timing section. What mem settings are you using in the BIOS?

I basically followed the suggestions in the memory tweaking section of the review on the Anandtech site for the sub-timings...it's well worth a read. Let me know if it improves things. Which slots do you have the memory in BTW?

[TheRoyalty]

I basically followed the suggestions in the memory tweaking section of the review on the Anandtech site for the sub-timings...it's well worth a read. Let me know if it improves things. Which slots do you have the memory in BTW?

It's like I read your mind, went to Anand right after the first post and went back into the settings for some more tweakage. Both sticks are in the white slots, reduced the clocks to 1T and tightened up the timings as per an article I read where they achieved stability with more aggressive timings, followed by a few adjustments in the advanced settings and now we're getting somewhere:

[Fusion2002]

I'll have to do some everest checking, I followed anandtech as well, I hope I'm somewhere in that ballpark. I have started putting up some decent numbers on HWbot, so I cant be too far off.

[Tyke]

It's like I read your mind, went to Anand right after the first post and went back into the settings for some more tweakage. Both sticks are in the white slots, reduced the clocks to 1T and tightened up the timings as per an article I read where they achieved stability with more aggressive timings, followed by a few adjustments in the advanced settings and now we're getting somewhere:

Wow!

That's a really big jump. Amazing what a bit of tweaking can do. I have had four S2E boards and not one of them has run memory at 1800MHz in the blue slots with the same timings as I can get in the white slots.

[Tyke]

I'll have to do some everest checking, I followed anandtech as well, I hope I'm somewhere in that ballpark. I have started putting up some decent numbers on HWbot, so I cant be too far off.

I've seen reviews where 4 X 1GB gives better results than the equivalent speed 2 X 2GB. I am really tempted to pick up 4 sticks of the memory you have, and try it in 4 slots. I tried this with 4 X 1GB of OCZ 2000MHz memory and it was a disaster, but the Corsair seems to love this board.

I still go back to that Anandtech review: 4GB of OCZ at 2000MHz!!! I know the 1800MHz Dominator can reach 2000MHz, so is it worth a try with four sticks? Has anyone already tried it?

[TheRoyalty]

I am almost tempted to snag another set as well . But I think I'm going to hold out for now until I hear of some results. After a few hours of stress testing it seems these particular sticks are more stable at 7-6-6-18 rather than 7-6-5-18. Would get lockups otherwise. Still reads @ 12300+ so I think I'm pretty content for now.

Goin' on a tweak break so I can get back to life, this stuff sucks up ALOT of time and it's fun so you don't even feel it, glitches & all.

Thank you for the heads up as well Tyke, cheers.

[Fusion2002]

I tried going to 2000, but It seemed that my everest scores went down rather than up. I think I need to get a new version of everest though. There is a nice writeup of the Corsair Dominator 1800 RAM on Anandtech. I believe it is in their roundup. When I tried their timings/frequency I really didnt notice a difference on Superpi. Fastest Superpi scores were set at 1800 7-7-7-20 1T

[tekjunkie]

I have the 4GB DDR3-2000 OCZ kit and I got like 12.5K read(I think) when I ran it with my E3110.I think I posted the results like 2 pages back in this thread. I can also do 2000 with my QX9650 but unliked and the performance is worse than lined/synced @ 1780.I also passed memtest and booted into windows @ 1900 linked/synced, but as soon as I enable P1/P2, it's not booting. Currently I am trying to test the my 8800GTX SLI and 8800GT SLI.

EDIT: Woot they just shipped my E8600, should be here by thrusday

[Fusion2002]

Here is my memory benchmark, with TRRD1, trc 29 twr 10, tfaw 29 under the advanced memory timings