**Official ASUS Striker II Formula Discussion/Review/Overclock/Guide/BIOS Thread**

[Hor$eman]

There's plenty of options for WC the NB and SB/NS200

Here's a link to one of them

EK Waterblocks

If you looked back through this thread, you would see plenty of pictures of WC NB/SB/NS200s

[EvoCarlos]

LOL water cool the sb and nb tis just a waist of cash slap a fan on the nb job done

[The0men]

LOL water cool the sb and nb tis just a waist of cash slap a fan on the nb job done

I wish it were that easy, these things produce more heat than 12 nuclear reactors

[Sunsetgt]

OK i have this board it's an upgrade from my striker that i rma'd. i geuss i can call it an upgrade however my ram from my old striker will not even post.
Thats why i am here i have 4 gigs of crucial ballistix tracer(4x1).
My system is a e6600,8800 gts and the x-fi card.

I have tried to set the time in the bios on this cheap ram then reset and swap the sticks however thats a no go, my bios is fully updated.

once i install any of the sticks and try to boot i get codeini on the lcd poster, but the lights on the ram are flashing if that counts for anything ha

any help would be nice, and last but not least will the OCZ Flex EX 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1200 (PC2 9600) work on this board?
i am watercooled as well.

[EvoCarlos]

I wish it were that easy, these things produce more heat than 12 nuclear reactors

well i think its only 11 nuclear reactors

mine work great with an 80mm fan on the nb for 8 months
but that was untill the pmw pop'd sending for rma soon

[The0men]

well i think its only 11 nuclear reactors

mine work great with an 80mm fan on the nb for 8 months
but that was untill the pmw pop'd sending for rma soon

Exactly what happened to mine, took 5 months to get it back though.
Now I'm just waiting again for more parts to get it back together.

[KMB1970]

So i got me a gtx 295. installed it and installed the drivers and shortly after pc crashed. then on reboot it wouldnt make it to windows it would get a bootmgr is missing. i reserched on my laptop and there seems to be no idea what can or does cause this. others have had it in the past but not related to this card or motherboard or anything of the sort. so odd thing is apon having to reinstall windows to make the issue go away. the issue came back once i installed the card again. i tried many differerent drivers from nvidia. being that not many support the card. of a few. only the 181.20 drivers dont cause the issue. i tried 181.22 & 182.05 and both still give me issues. i havent tried 182.06 and 182.08 cause i am tired of reinstalling my OS.

Now for the strange part. even the driver that works gives me problems. a problem i solved. When running windows vista basic desktop them i have odd behavior when i open some programs. screen gets all messed up. issue would not go away untill i turned on windows aero. for some reason it doesnt act up when asked to do more work. sounds dumb but it's true.

What i need to know is what is going on. The card performs like a monster on crack. it's so fast i just cant believe it. and the card stays cool. so it's not anything easy. i might have a bad card but i just dont know.

I should point out when i remove the nvidia drivers and windows is supplying the drivers i get no problems of any kind. so it has to be in my mind a driver issue.