ASUS Striker II Extreme

[slim142]

now thats sucks you cant see your cpu speed, what is up with that. I did manage a small overclock, anymore and wont go, i guess the gtl voltage need to come into play, i have no idea what they do, i got my cpu ok, need to push the ram higher.

Thats a nice bandwidth. If you get into deep inestability, try setting your command rate to 2T.

[neo mike]

Well the i have sli ready memory, its crucial 2000 kit, so i dont know if thats good or not, but this stuff will run 2000 1t. Oh yeah, i guess your right about the OVER VOLTAGE, MY GOD, I SET 1.35 cpu IN BIOS, and in everest its 1.40 wow.

[BenchZowner]

now thats sucks you cant see your cpu speed

Use your brain and the following one of the following formulas:

CPU Frequency = FSB x (CPU Ratio/2)

or

CPU Frequency = (FSB/4) x CPU Ratio

[neo mike]

Im using my brain, but i really shouldnt have to, never seen a bios that dont show you the speed of the processor, major flaw on asus part period.

[BenchZowner]

Im using my brain, but i really shouldnt have to, never seen a bios that dont show you the speed of the processor, major flaw on asus part period.

Actually most of the boards that I've tested/used didn't show the target CPU frequency in the BIOS apart from the Abit IP35 Pro, the Gigabyte GA-EP45T-DS5R and the Foxconn BloodRage.
Sure it's inconvenient but to be honest, I don't really care about that, as calculators are cheap nowadays
I'd rather have other BIOS stuff working properly than having a target CPU frequency indicator and a bunch of malfunctioning BIOS options.

p.s. By the way I meant no offense

[neo mike]

Yeah not to big of a deal, much rather have a solid bios, and i have a sweet calculator. This board is alot of fun trying to overclock when you been in a gigabyte bios for a long time. No offense taken. These dividers are really weird, gona take time on this board, but its sure fun.

[slim142]

Good luck mike

[neo mike]

Yeah i will need it, from just overclocking a little, i got major hard drive corruption, had to reinstall vista. I find this board very hard to overclock. I do see a guy in the early part of the thread, that had 550fsb going, hoping he will answer my pm, i need settings, just to much time to figure this board out, i need somebodys settings as a starting point.

[neo mike]

Well after playing with this board, i find its very hard to run linked, synced in combo, as i read from anadtech, thats what gives you the best performance, i cant stand the dividers on this board, very very limited on dividers, The read scores are great on everest, but there a huge drop on the write and copy, should be within 1000 points of eachother, there like 2000 points lower. Just not my cup of tea this board, i thought i would try it, and i really dont like this board at all. Thanks slim for your help, this is the worst overclocking board i have ever seen, i guess what i heard is correct a evga ultra sli 790i smokes this board, good luck guys.

[DaMulta]

Im using my brain, but i really shouldnt have to, never seen a bios that dont show you the speed of the processor, major flaw on asus part period.

It does too show you the speed in the bios.....I think your looking in the wrong places......

[neo mike]

Where would that be ? i dont see it in the extreme tweaker ??????? it aint there. Dont matter, this board is fine if you want to run 450fsb, 1800mgz ram, thats about it, anything over that, extremely tough to get, im using my crucial 2000 kit, for the life of me, cant get it to run 2000. Now i have seen good results with the evga ultra sli 790i, but i went thru this whole thread, there is one guy who got decent fsb. You need a ton of patience, and to be a magician to get over 460 fsb.

[slim142]

Hey Mike
I hope you got P1 and P2 enabled, maybe that will improve your writing speeds.
Also, for high speeds, like 2000Mhz RAM and 1800Mhz FSB, you might need a good amount of NB voltage, maybe 1.56-1.58.

[neo mike]

I have p1 p2 enabled. I didnt try that much nb volts, this board runs really hot i have noticed. This board has corrupted my hd 3 times i have had to reload vista, im sick of it, im selling and moving on, i dont know what prompted me to buy this board in the first place, oh yeah the anadtech article, then i read the thread here, and was to late, i had hopes of just getting 515fsb stable i cant even get 500fsb period, there are just so many better boards for the same price, RAMPAGE EXTREME KICK BUTT BOARD. Thanks slim for your help, i just dont have the time nor patience to deal with this board.

[neo mike]

Ok can somebody exsplain this one, making some progress with fsb, look at this everest run, why am i only getting 8k ?????? yes p1 p2 are enabled ????? i dont get it ? should be 13k, i just cant figure this board out. Look at the latency, its excellent, whats up ?

[BenchZowner]

Ok can somebody exsplain this one, making some progress with fsb, look at this everest run, why am i only getting 8k ?????? yes p1 p2 are enabled ????? i dont get it ? should be 13k, i just cant figure this board out. Look at the latency, its excellent, whats up ?

475 FSB and the ram at 1900 8-7-6-21 would never give you 13k bandwidth.
First and main issue is the low FSB and it's restrictions.

The board ain't cr*p neither perfect.
And to clock it high you need a lot of patience and trial and error, and you might never hit a decent frequency if you're not a very experienced overclocker.

There are several people ( who know what do to and how ) hitting 550+ FSB with Dual-Cores and 440 to 475 with Quad-Cores on the Striker II Extreme.
If you can't that doesn't mean that somebody else can't

No offense

I told you guys plenty of times, if you can't clock this mobo or you don't have lots of overclocking experience with the Core 2's, DO NOT buy a nFORCE 680i/780i/790i motherboard.

[DaMulta]

Where would that be ? i dont see it in the extreme tweaker ??????? it aint there. Dont matter, this board is fine if you want to run 450fsb, 1800mgz ram, thats about it, anything over that, extremely tough to get, im using my crucial 2000 kit, for the life of me, cant get it to run 2000. Now i have seen good results with the evga ultra sli 790i, but i went thru this whole thread, there is one guy who got decent fsb. You need a ton of patience, and to be a magician to get over 460 fsb.

Are you in the white or blue slots?

crucial told me to run them in the white slots for 2000, and they do pick up the settings right in them.

I'll take a pic it's one of the tabs where you set your FSB at you go into one and it tells you your CPU speed.

I'm on a Intel Stock cooler ATM but I have ran 2000 FSB before on this board.


IDK if this was vista(I think so)


1.478 CPU
1.54 PLL
1.40 VTT
Ram 2.1

rest are set on auto.

There are a ton of settings on this board. A lot of settings.


Also I don't have a fan or anything on the waterblocks.......it's just running in the open.

[neo mike]

I know Bench this board is very hard to overclock, i can overclock a gigabyte board well, this is a whole new level, but its a challenge, here is my latest clock, if i only understood what the different things in the bios meant, that would help. Im finding this board needs rather hi nbv im at 1.60, just to stay stable, that seems rather high for a low fsb like this. Acually DaMulta, i dont think there are alot of things in the bios, i find it rather short of tweaks, besides the usaual stuff. The thing i dont understand is the linked, and unlinked, when i run linked i get bad performance, and there are really no dividers, the 5:4 and 3:2 are useless, unless your running low memory speed, or a really high fsb, that dont leave much. I think the best performance is on unlinked, thats where i am now.

[Deathspine]

I know Bench this board is very hard to overclock, i can overclock a gigabyte board well, this is a whole new level, but its a challenge, here is my latest clock, if i only understood what the different things in the bios meant, that would help. Im finding this board needs rather hi nbv im at 1.60, just to stay stable, that seems rather high for a low fsb like this. Acually DaMulta, i dont think there are alot of things in the bios, i find it rather short of tweaks, besides the usaual stuff. The thing i dont understand is the linked, and unlinked, when i run linked i get bad performance, and there are really no dividers, the 5:4 and 3:2 are useless, unless your running low memory speed, or a really high fsb, that dont leave much. I think the best performance is on unlinked, thats where i am now.

495 FSB, that's great hang in there, your doing great with a nvidia chipset. Post your BIOS settings, share them and get Bench's suggestions, you may reach that 500 FSB and draw a few of us with you. If you still want to sell some of us might be tempted to get a motherboard capable of 500 FSB and SLI

[neo mike]

Well i reached 500fsb, and im going for more, my memory will do 2000, and my processor will do 4+ghz so only thing that can keep me from more is the board itself, keep pushing, im understanding this board a little at a time. Weird thing is my everest scrore is acually lower, with more fsb ????? very weird. I will try those white slots and see how my ram does, i havent really pushed the ram yet, just trying to get some fsb, and see how far it will go, its been alot of work, but fun. Side note, i did run some super pi 1m runs, 790i chipset is slower on super pi than intel thats for sure, from the test i have done.

[slim142]

Hey man

Just some quick tips, to get more reading speed, you might want to lower your TRC in BIOS, but watchout, you dont want it too low because it will be a no boot. Try decreasing 1-by-1.
Also, are you using water cooling? I would like detailed description on what cooling you using for CPU, RAM, NB, SB. Thanks

[neo mike]

Im using all stock cooling for now, until i decide if i want to keep this board or not. Here is my latest run, and im going for more, the only thing i dont like about this run, is its forced me to run a pl 10, i was hoping for 9, that kills some of your peformance, but i will keep pushing. Havent run any stable test, if i could get this stable for my 24/7 use, i would be a happy camper. For some reason when i try to put in 2000 in the memory block, it goes to 1968, but when i put 2050, then it goes 2050, it wont give me 2000 ??. Sorry slim, on the board is all stock cooling, on my cpu i have ohh i forgot the name, its a sweet cooler, something with a X 4 copper heat pipes with alu fins, and a fan on it, cpu is running 35c.

[neo mike]

Well did some more clocking, and got a little further, i think i can get some more out of this board, but heat is starting to become a issue, nb is hot, sb you can fry eggs on it, so i think this board to really go to much higher you need better cooling, either water or good air, need to remove all the heatsinks and put some good thermal compound sure would help. Finally got the memory up to 2000, i will keep pushing see how far it will go on stock cooling, i think im getting the hang of this bios, somewhat.

[slim142]

The reason why you dont get the RAM speed you want (2000 shows 1968) is because of dividers, you need to play with the FSB too when that happens so you can get the numbers right.
You have got a pretty nice overclock right there. Make sure you copy/paste the BIOS settings we have in this thread and post your numbers so other people can try

[Deathspine]

Well i reached 500fsb, and im going for more, my memory will do 2000, and my processor will do 4+ghz so only thing that can keep me from more is the board itself, keep pushing, im understanding this board a little at a time. Weird thing is my everest scrore is acually lower, with more fsb ????? very weird. I will try those white slots and see how my ram does, i havent really pushed the ram yet, just trying to get some fsb, and see how far it will go, its been alot of work, but fun. Side note, i did run some super pi 1m runs, 790i chipset is slower on super pi than intel thats for sure, from the test i have done.

500 FSB you got to like that board, if not you are a very serious overclocker. I am tempted to move my E8500 to a Striker II Extreme to see how it overclocks, currenlty have a QX9650 Quad core and do not think I could reach 500 FSB with that as it creates too much heat.

[neo mike]

Ok well im not sure how to copy and paste my bios settings, i dont have photoshop, so ? going see if i can hit 575 tonight. I bet you could get that quad to 500fsb. Well update, having a real problem getting the board to boot on anything over 550fsb, looks like could be tough to get anymore, keep trying.