ASUS Striker II Extreme

[slim142]

Wow, my score was 8200MB/s reading with 9-11-11-24 2T all rest on auto @ 1600Mhz with P1 and P2 on Auto.
Now I have it at default 7-7-7-18 1600Mhz with P1 and P2 on auto with Custom Advanced Settings and this is how it increased



Now is time to enable P1 and P2 and see how high this goes (+11k for sure)

Thx Tyke, I really missed the Anandtech memory part that explains advanced settings, with some little changes, it can help you boost that score!

[Tyke]

Wow, my score was 8200MB/s reading with 9-11-11-24 2T all rest on auto @ 1600Mhz with P1 and P2 on Auto.
Now I have it at default 7-7-7-18 1600Mhz with P1 and P2 on auto with Custom Advanced Settings and this is how it increased



Now is time to enable P1 and P2 and see how high this goes (+11k for sure)

Thx Tyke, I really missed the Anandtech memory part that explains advanced settings, with some little changes, it can help you boost that score!

Hi Slim, its really good when you get something like that which gives you a nice performance boost. I have just ordered 4Gb (2X2GB) of CSX Diablo 2000MHz Ram with the extreme cooler. Should be here in a couple of days. I have just tried my memory at 1800MHz in the blue slots at the same timings, and I get errors in Memtest. This is the fourth board I have had and so far no go with 1800MHz in the blue slots, I will see if all four slots work when the Diablo arrives.

I am about to say something amazing about the PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 1200W, but I am just going to test a bit more...

See you soon.

[M@G!C]

What will be the MAX safe voltage for NB on this board? .. I´m on air and reaplied TIM (TX-2) ...

[Tyke]

What will be the MAX safe voltage for NB on this board? .. I´m on air and reaplied TIM (TX-2) ...

The general rule is 1.6V maximum for the NB, but watch those temps!!

[realcyberghost]

The general rule is 1.6V maximum for the NB, but watch those temps!!

I can go to 1,64v , with 62c temperature at full load

Going above 1,64v will degrade performance for me

I used to have around 70c with 1,56v at full load before reseating heatsink city and applying good thermal paste and without Antec Spotcoolers.

So I think 62c is still pretty good on Air.

Just sharing my experience, I am trying to get my voltages down now, because I don't wanna run at 1,64v 24/7


Greetz

[slim142]

Hi Slim, its really good when you get something like that which gives you a nice performance boost. I have just ordered 4Gb (2X2GB) of CSX Diablo 2000MHz Ram with the extreme cooler. Should be here in a couple of days. I have just tried my memory at 1800MHz in the blue slots at the same timings, and I get errors in Memtest. This is the fourth board I have had and so far no go with 1800MHz in the blue slots, I will see if all four slots work when the Diablo arrives.

I am about to say something amazing about the PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 1200W, but I am just going to test a bit more...

See you soon.

Man, that is really good memory, I wish I could have those available.
Remember you have a Quad and with 4Gbs, you are stressing the heck out of the NB, maybe thats the highest you will be able to go. Prob a dual-core will get you higher memory speeds, or increasing more the NB voltage?

Please report your results with that memory

What will be the MAX safe voltage for NB on this board? .. I´m on air and reaplied TIM (TX-2) ...

I wouldnt go higher than 1.60v (REAL) so that would be 1.56-1.58 in BIOS.

[TheRoyalty]

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

Good to see our kits are VERY close in specs. Nice job.

[Fusion2002]

What other adjustments did you make to get your memory to run at 7-6-5-18?

[TheRoyalty]

What other adjustments did you make to get your memory to run at 7-6-5-18?

Other than adjusting the trc and tfaw not much else was changed. System didn't seem to like it after a little while, (ie; would get sporadic lockups) so I put them back to what I was using previously and all was well. Besides the speeds are pretty good regardless so I didn't bother trying to tweak it more, still happy even at 7-7-7-20.

Might try it again but I need a break otherwise I'll get sucked back in again.

Here's a link you can browse, it's where I got the idea of trying out those timings:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mem...r3-1800_3.html

P.S. These were the Adv. settings at that time: TRRD - 1 TRC - 27 TRW - 10 TFAW - 27 Rest on [Auto]

[Fusion2002]

Thanks for the link, I'll check it out after work. Any of you guys put this board under L2N or D-ice? I'm thinking I might want to take the plunge soon.

[TheRoyalty]

Finally cracked 20K...by a sliver. Not huge but it's about time this board's inner demons woke up. Gaming has been real smooth as of late too.

Cheers.

[otisthecat]

can anyone help with some setting for the bios to oc q6600 to 3.6ghz please

[tekjunkie]

Something I want to share that was driving me nuts until I figured it out. Whenever you use the NV control panel to OC you gfx card and when you save the settings, it prompts whether to apply the settings whenever windows starts, after you close the control panel.When you say yes, it also saves all of your other settings too(like FSB, memory timings all that stuff). So when you modify your FSB or timings in the BIOS and when you boot into windows to see that you BIOS settings are taking effect, you know who the culprit is(The stupid NV control panel reverts back to your previous saved settings through the drivers). It took me half an hour of scratching my head and going bonkers to figure it out. I got so frustrated that I was about to format and reinstall XP, lol. Silly me.

[FatboyHK]

Something I want to share that was driving me nuts until I figured it out. Whenever you use the NV control panel to OC you gfx card and when you save the settings, it prompts whether to apply the settings whenever windows starts, after you close the control panel.When you say yes, it also saves all of your other settings too(like FSB, memory timings all that stuff). So when you modify your FSB or timings in the BIOS and when you boot into windows to see that you BIOS settings are taking effect, you know who the culprit is(The stupid NV control panel reverts back to your previous saved settings through the drivers). It took me half an hour of scratching my head and going bonkers to figure it out. I got so frustrated that I was about to format and reinstall XP, lol. Silly me.

oh yes i have the same experience 2 weeks ago I went back to default BIOS setting to do some testing, but I was greeted with hard lock right after windows login. I scratched my head with hairs all over my desk! Then I went back to the original overclock setting and all was fine, then I knew there must be something insanely stupid.

Went back to Rivatuner and never looked back.

[Fusion2002]

I really like the EVGA tuner, I dont have some of the problems with the fan going back to default speed that I had with rivatuner and ntune

[tekjunkie]

This is what I could do with my Gskills. Unfortunately they dont work @ 1T at any speeds

[Fusion2002]

anyone had problems with the new Nvidia 177.79 Drivers? I installed them but my screen just keeps on flashing black. I reverted to 175.19 and everything seems fine.

[nuclearjock]

anyone had problems with the new Nvidia 177.79 Drivers? I installed them but my screen just keeps on flashing black. I reverted to 175.19 and everything seems fine.

I have them installed in both XP 32 as well as Vista 64 along with the newly released Physx driver for the G80 series and they actually work very well.

3DMark Vantage overall score with E8500@4.0:

Physx off: ~11500
Physx on: ~16000

Kinda cool.

[TheRoyalty]

Just installed the 177.79 drivers from Guru3D and they are working fine here as well. PhysX driver also installed and seems to be enabled too.

nuclearjock how the heck did you score 16000, what settings are you using in your control panel and was that score obtained in XP or Vista? Almost a similar setup so I'm just curious.

[Fusion2002]

hmm ill reinstall vista tonight and give those drivers another shot. He would have had to get that in Vista if its Vantage

[jcool]

After finally getting the S2E to work properly by using CSX Diablo mems (Micron FTW), I got P20200 Vantage score. E8500@4Ghz using two GTX 260 cards at 700/1512/1150 (not maxed out but enough)
Driver 177.41 PhysX enabled, really neat.

[TheRoyalty]

After finally getting the S2E to work properly by using CSX Diablo mems (Micron FTW), I got P20200 Vantage score. E8500@4Ghz using two GTX 260 cards at 700/1512/1150 (not maxed out but enough)
Driver 177.41 PhysX enabled, really neat.

Nice score Now I'm really getting that itch to upgrade to a 280...

[tekjunkie]

Nice score Now I'm really getting that itch to upgrade to a 280...

Lol, tell me about it. I have been having that itch for a long long time. I am waiting for 4870x2 to come out and see how it matches up.

[Trigger5521]

Just installed the 177.79 drivers from Guru3D and they are working fine here as well. PhysX driver also installed and seems to be enabled too.

nuclearjock how the heck did you score 16000, what settings are you using in your control panel and was that score obtained in XP or Vista? Almost a similar setup so I'm just curious.

How do you check if the physX driver is enabled?

[Fusion2002]

on vantage you can tell just by watching the physics test, but you should have a nvidia program in your start menu that shows the physx pannel. You do have to manually install the driver, so you probibly dont have it unless you intentionally installed it.