ASUS Striker II Extreme

[Trigger5521]

Its not your cpu, it definitly your ram, i know its made for nvidia boards, but im wondering if this board dont like your ram, i mean come on i put i7 memory 1600 and was able to 2050mgz linked and synced, and you cant even get 2000, something aint right, its not the quad holding you back, its that memory.

Im at a loss, 4gb at 2000 should be no sweat, im going to buy 2 more crucial sticks and run 4x1 and see if my settings will just boot right up. Have you tried the 4 gb in the black slots ? or only white ? maybe switch em. Just something you might try to, is try 2000, with p1 p2 disabled, see if that has affect, and try 8 gigs with p1 p2 off. I would have to say at this point 8gigs aint going to go, just to much memory to overclock, you should work on 4gigs. I will try 4x1 and see what happens.

Remember 2GB RAM and dual core is a heck of alot less stress on the system. Believe me, oc'ing quads is harder. Most of those massive quad overclocks are on a p45 chipset with DDR2 ram. Nvidia has not exactly been known for making highly overclockable chipsets in the past.

When one of my cores fails prime95 with 8GB's it reduces the system stress just enoguh to let the other cores run for hours. It's a very fine line here.

I have tried P1&P2 off with 8GB no improvement. Even tried crazy relaxed ram timings, still NFG. I know there is a magic combo somewhere to get 8GB stable at 1800FSB I just haven't hit it yet. It's very time consuming because I have to reboot to test, more testing tonight.

[Rodriguez]

Remember 2GB RAM and dual core is a heck of alot less stress on the system. Believe me, oc'ing quads is harder. Most of those massive quad overclocks are on a p45 chipset with DDR2 ram. Nvidia has not exactly been known for making highly overclockable chipsets in the past.

When one of my cores fails prime95 with 8GB's it reduces the system stress just enoguh to let the other cores run for hours. It's a very fine line here.

I have tried P1&P2 off with 8GB no improvement. Even tried crazy relaxed ram timings, still NFG. I know there is a magic combo somewhere to get 8GB stable at 1800FSB I just haven't hit it yet. It's very time consuming because I have to reboot to test, more testing tonight.

Hi, I just happened to read this post as I have been running this board previously with a QX9770 & 8Gb of RAM linked at 1800

I've used 4x 1GB Crucial Ballistix 2000 D9GTS, 8Gb Patriot Viper 2000 SLi Samsung HFC0 & 8Gb CSX Diablo 2000 D9GTR.

All were able to run UNLINKED at 2000 & higher but to run them linked I had to lower to 1800 as the QX9770 refused to do 500FSB (2000).

8Gb Patriot Viper at 2000 9-8-8-28 2.0V NB 1.60 NBGTL -0.08mV
8Gb Patriot Viper at 1800 8-8-8-22 1.90v NB 1.60 NBGTL -0.08mV
8Gb CSX Diablo at 2000 8-7-6-19 2.10v NB 1.62
8Gb CSX Diablo at 1800 8-7-6-19 1.95v NB 1.60

always with P1/P2 enabled

The most crucial part is NB voltage, it needs a LOT of it for 8Gb at high speed

loosen tRC: 50-63 & tRFC: 100-110 to test

Hope it helps, I had mixed feelings with this board, many joys & some letdowns, but what is sure is that it is a challenging board

[Trigger5521]

Hi, I just happened to read this post as I have been running this board previously with a QX9770 & 8Gb of RAM linked at 1800

I've used 4x 1GB Crucial Ballistix 2000 D9GTS, 8Gb Patriot Viper 2000 SLi Samsung HFC0 & 8Gb CSX Diablo 2000 D9GTR.

All were able to run UNLINKED at 2000 & higher but to run them linked I had to lower to 1800 as the QX9770 refused to do 500FSB (2000).

8Gb Patriot Viper at 2000 9-8-8-28 2.0V NB 1.60 NBGTL -0.08mV
8Gb Patriot Viper at 1800 8-8-8-22 1.90v NB 1.60 NBGTL -0.08mV
8Gb CSX Diablo at 2000 8-7-6-19 2.10v NB 1.62
8Gb CSX Diablo at 1800 8-7-6-19 1.95v NB 1.60

always with P1/P2 enabled

The most crucial part is NB voltage, it needs a LOT of it for 8Gb at high speed

loosen tRC: 50-63 & tRFC: 100-110 to test

Hope it helps, I had mixed feelings with this board, many joys & some letdowns, but what is sure is that it is a challenging board

WOW 1.60 on the NB, thanks for posting this info I'll try it for sure. -0.08mV is interesting. I've always been +mV for the NB

[neo mike]

Well it takes 1.56 nbv to run my 2000mgz crucials, and thats with a e8500.

[Trigger5521]

Well it takes 1.56 nbv to run my 2000mgz crucials, and thats with a e8500.

Sangrak is super luckly to have 8GB stable at 1.42 NB it seems.

Neo, I used your 2000 settings for some new 8GB tests @ 1780 linked and Synced and I actually found a decent increase in stability. Prime95 blend held on for 4 tests passed before failing on one core. That's pretty good considering all previous attemps fail before test 1 can complete. I still feel it's possible to get 8GB stable just a question of how much volts is it going to take and where.

[Sangrak]

Sangrak is super luckly to have 8GB stable at 1.42 NB it seems.

Neo, I used your 2000 settings for some new 8GB tests @ 1780 linked and Synced and I actually found a decent increase in stability. Prime95 blend held on for 4 tests passed before failing on one core. That's pretty good considering all previous attemps fail before test 1 can complete. I still feel it's possible to get 8GB stable just a question of how much volts is it going to take and where.

I have a hard time believing that luck is the main factor of getting 8GB to link and sync with 1.42-44v. Must have something to do with having your RAID array, since that's the main difference between our set up.

[Rodriguez]

Sangrak is super luckly to have 8GB stable at 1.42 NB it seems.

Neo, I used your 2000 settings for some new 8GB tests @ 1780 linked and Synced and I actually found a decent increase in stability. Prime95 blend held on for 4 tests passed before failing on one core. That's pretty good considering all previous attemps fail before test 1 can complete. I still feel it's possible to get 8GB stable just a question of how much volts is it going to take and where.

Please try setting loose tRFC & tRC

[Trigger5521]

Please try setting loose tRFC & tRC

Q9650 L&S 1780FSB 4.0mhz

I tried 8-8-8-22 2T 63 tRC and 110 tRFC with vMEM 1.96 NB 1.60 and 1.62 -0.08mv Prime95 blend failed in at test 3.

I'll post the other settings when I get home, I feel like it's close, you might be able to get me there Rodriguez. You have given me more hope that's for sure.

[Rodriguez]

Well it takes 1.56 nbv to run my 2000mgz crucials, and thats with a e8500.

Yeah, with 4x1Gb Crucial I only needed 1.44Nb at 2000, It's only 4Gb.

8Gb at 2000 is a bit more difficult but very possible