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

[Leeghoofd]

Not sure what my correct Vcore is. Everest and CPUz seem to show different values.

Screen shot:

Temp you see there in Everest corresponds to the VID of the cpu... not the voltage given in windows, you need to watch the sensor tab for that...

See my screenie VID on coretemp and Everest then Vcore in windows and CPU-Z :

[Hor$eman]

Leeghoofd

What monitoring program is that that is running int he top right of your screen, that shows nb and sb temps?

[Nits]

Thanks Leeghoofd. Seems theres quite a range in reported values between programs. Any idea which is more accurate?

I'd like to know what program you are using to show NB/SB temps also!

Just testing Vcore 1.325 now - so far so good... this could be the one.

[mashakos]

Anybody try this board with a 2x 2GB ram kit? G.skill perhaps?

I want to buy a set but don't want to end up regretting it... and the Striker II has reduced my confidence in the 780i considerably.

[Nits]

Anybody try this board with a 2x 2GB ram kit? G.skill perhaps?

I want to buy a set but don't want to end up regretting it... and the Striker II has reduced my confidence in the 780i considerably.

Yes - just got 2x 2GB stable... see posts above!

Going to get another 4GB in there soon too.

[Nits]

3.2GHz stable at last (1.325V to the core set in bios)

Edit: Is it worth trying for 3.4GHz? I don't have much Vcore head room

[MadDog]

What monitoring program is that that is running int he top right of your screen, that shows nb and sb temps?

Thats Everest with a OSD, very handy program

[Nits]

I couldn't find a FSB that gave me ~3.4GHz and integer value of 1066 RAM freq, so I set the RAM to 1000MHz, and found an integer @ 3.5GHz which seems stable after 1Hr+ OCCT, but with loose RAM timings. I've tightened up the timings and will run OCCT overnight to test stability.

[mashakos]

Yes - just got 2x 2GB stable... see posts above!

Going to get another 4GB in there soon too.

I just checked the past 2 pages and they're all about 2x 2gb kits.
LMAO!


The one time I don't read the latest posts, I phail :P

[Nits]

Sods law innit


I keep getting "code 4" fails in OCCT whilst trying to get 3.5GHz stable. I tried loosening the RAM timings from 5-5-5-15 to 6-6-6-18 and lowered Vcore a notch or two (was @ 1.3625 which is max recommended for the CPU), but that hasn't helped

Is there anything else I could try

[Hor$eman]

Did you lower tha actual Vcore, or the numbers in the bios? The numbers in the 1101 bios have to be approx 0.25 to 0.3 v higher than actual to attain it.

[Nits]

I've been going by the values in bios. So that means I have some extra headroom?

I was thinking the monitoring apps (Everest etc.)were showing wrong/misleading values!

I'll try a bit more Vcore then, and see what happens!

[holystarlight]

BIOS 1302 is out. Any daredevils want to try ?

Yo pmp gimme the link to that bios! wanna see if it fixes my ram problem

[UnSeenSVK]

hallo i bought mosfets passivs thermalright HR09U and HR09S type 2 does anybody have these two passives?..cause i don t know where i have to instal HR09U and HR09S
one is for mosfet on right side and one is on north mosfets from processor...sorry for english....i saw somewhere post in XS but i can t find it...please for help

[Nits]

Think I have 3.5GHz stable, using 1.368 Vcore (set in bios). Runs 3Dmark03/06 fine. Trying some Prime95 now. Very close to max. safe temps though. Gonna be touch n go during Summer unless I do something I think!

[Leeghoofd]

hallo i bought mosfets passivs thermalright HR09U and HR09S type 2 does anybody have these two passives?..cause i don t know where i have to instal HR09U and HR09S
one is for mosfet on right side and one is on north mosfets from processor...sorry for english....i saw somewhere post in XS but i can t find it...please for help

Think U type is for near the backplate and the S type above the CPU...

HR-09 has two types. How do I choose which one to install on my motherboard?

If your motherboard is by ASUS and its single MOSFET is near the I/O port, HR-09U would be the ideal version to install since HR-09S would more than likely get interfered by the surrounding components. But if your motherboard is of Gigabyte, You can purchase two HR-09S, or one HR-09S and one HR-09U depending on the size of your CPU heatsink


But for my case it worked best other way around lol :

Mobo Asus Striker I :

[Hor$eman]

Yo pmp gimme the link to that bios! wanna see if it fixes my ram problem

Ditto, please

[The0men]

Well sadly Leeghoofd, never got to test that BIOS.

Board popped a mosfet not last night but the night before, took it into
place of purchase, hopefully they will get back to me soon
if I can RMA the board or something.

Seriously irritating, I had not had the NB/mosfet etc heap pipe cooler
off, it was all original, obviously it had bad contact and wasn't touching
all of the mosfets, because theres a nice melted area there.

So system down, very dissapointing... Good thing I just bought a 500GB
and external enclosure and had just backed everything up...

[Nits]

Well I think I can safely say 3.5GHz is stable (see attachment).

The only thing that baffles me, is I installed the extra 4GB of RAM which I got today (so now I've got 8GB instead of the 4GB that I had before in there), and my 3Dmark03 benchmark score has gone from 43153 to 25168!?

Is this normal? What gives?

[Hor$eman]

If you look at all the top 3DMark06 scores, they only use 2 x 1g ram. More ram actually equals lesser benchmarks, something you now know, hehe.

If you can get it stable higher, the max CPU FSB you can go to on this board, is 450, prior to a huge latency increase and bandwidth drop (strap change). From all my reading, this occurs on the 790i too, so we've saved ourselves some money not buying the SIIE...

[Hor$eman]

Note to all:

I've flashed to 1201 bios, as the 1301 seems to be vapor. I can't tell any difference.

[Nits]

If you look at all the top 3DMark06 scores, they only use 2 x 1g ram. More ram actually equals lesser benchmarks, something you now know, hehe.

I was aware that there might be be some drop in benchmark, but not that it would almost be cut in half!

I don't suppose anyone has a link on the subject handy?

If you can get it stable higher, the max CPU FSB you can go to on this board, is 450, prior to a huge latency increase and bandwidth drop (strap change). From all my reading, this occurs on the 790i too, so we've saved ourselves some money not buying the SIIE...

Might explain why whatever I tried I could not get it to post @ 500 FSB

I did also try for 450 FSB last night, but I didn't want to push the volts too high, so I gave up before I could get it stable.

I think I'll probably stick with 3.5 GHz as this seems to be a sweet-spot for me, and should make for a good 24/7 setup as long as I can bring core temps down by a few degrees. I just picked up some sandpaper to lap the CPU/heat sink with

Also bought a few small fans so I can cool the NB/SB, but after looking at my setup, I can't see an easy way to attach one to the SB, as my sound card is in the way, and it's on the only slot I can put it on right now

I'm with you on the part about not buying the 790i Hor$eman. The savings in not having to max out that board with RAM alone were attractive enough. Then there's always the 790i corruption issue!

[Nits]

Is there a switch in bios to disable ram slots, so I could switch between 4GB/gaming system and 8GB/work system without having to physically remove modules?

If not, there should be!!!

[Hor$eman]

Was the bench drop due to CPU or GPU? If CPU, thien it's the ram. If GPU, then I'd suggest uninstalling and re-installing the video drivers. What are you using? 6.14.11.7474?

[Nits]

Not sure what the drop was due to. I'll run again later (just doing a 24hr stress test @3.5 +8GB) and see if I can find any details. I'll have to check what driver too, but that might have something to do with it I think. I could also switch back to an earlier image of my C:\ drive if that might sort out the problem... which ever, I'l probably need to download and install the latest drivers, which is something I've neglected to do so far!

Going to look for them now...