Looking at EVGA and Striker Extreme Mboard anyone got these? Are they good?

geordie56 · 7 Jan 2009 at 22:03

Hi there I am choosing a new mboard and would like to know peoples experiences of the 2, I know they will be varied but is the striker 2 extreme or the EVGA the better board and are they both more stable than the original? Also would the bios on them need updating and would OCZs 1800mhz ddr3 SLI ready ram be a good choice? thanks guys.

Just a quick one aswell been on asus website and there are quite a few mboard updates, would i just install the latest one and that includes all the previous fixes or would i need to install all of them oldest first up to the newest?

geordie56 · 8 Jan 2009 at 00:59

Does anyone have any idea on this please? cheers.

jimmyt1988 · 8 Jan 2009 at 16:25

what cpu you gonna put in it ?

Smirnoff · 8 Jan 2009 at 20:45

EVGA board is much much better Nvidia Asus board are pretty much fail. These board only work well with 45nm chips in my experience.

geordie56 · 8 Jan 2009 at 21:16

Sorry for the delayed response guys i have a 6850 quad core extreme, what board would yous reccomend and if its the evga what advantages does it have? I was liking the idea of cooling my north and southbridge with the fusion setup on the striker.

Smirnoff · 8 Jan 2009 at 21:26

Depends are you running SLI ? If not I'd recommend a X48 or P45 chipset board.

TheCenturion · 8 Jan 2009 at 21:35

yeah, there's no point in an nvidia motherboard if you're not running sli, what gpu will you have?

geordie56 · 8 Jan 2009 at 21:38

Yes i have sli at the min and they are BFG 8800gtx Overclocked and watercooled. Core is650Mhz on Shader is 1500Mhz and Memory is 2000Mhz on each card.

Smirnoff · 8 Jan 2009 at 21:38

What memory have you got DDR2 or DDR3 ?

geordie56 · 8 Jan 2009 at 21:41

If i go with one of these boards they are both ddr3 so i will be upgrading to OCZs SLI ready 4GB 2000mbz ram.

Smirnoff · 8 Jan 2009 at 21:46

I would just go for a EVGA 780i F T W version, I've got one running a QX9650 @ 4.2Ghz with 3 280's in TriSLI and its rock solid

geordie56 · 8 Jan 2009 at 21:49

And would it need any bios updates? are you using vista? and what ram do you use? thanks for your help mate. I was gonna go with the 790 version aswell.

TheCenturion · 8 Jan 2009 at 21:56

geordie56 said:
And would it need any bios updates? are you using vista? and what ram do you use? thanks for your help mate. I was gonna go with the 790 version aswell.

well if you currently have ddr2, then save yourself some cash!

Smirnoff · 8 Jan 2009 at 21:58

geordie56 said:
And would it need any bios updates? are you using vista? and what ram do you use? thanks for your help mate. I was gonna go with the 790 version aswell.

There is only one bios out for the board currently, I am using Vista 64 and I am using 8gb of this @ 800MHz 5 5 5 15

geordie56 · 8 Jan 2009 at 22:00

i have problems now and again and my cpu and gpus are only 10 months old and spot on just wanna go forward as my existing board is only 800mhz max for the ram i want faster, also the full potential of the cpu isnt unvealed either. I have a ABIT IN9 32X-MAX.

geordie56 · 8 Jan 2009 at 22:03

Smirnoff see i wont be to use ddr2 with going for the 790i chipset. Thats why i want to go ddr3 and ill benefit with the faster ram and it will release my CPUs performance aswell.

geordie56 · 8 Jan 2009 at 22:45

Has anyone else got any input here or experience with either of these boards? cheers.

rjk · 9 Jan 2009 at 00:22

geordie56 said:
Smirnoff see i wont be to use ddr2 with going for the 790i chipset. Thats why i want to go ddr3 and ill benefit with the faster ram and it will release my CPUs performance aswell.

dual channel ddr3 is dead now i7 is out - i would go with smirnoffs advice

you wont see much of an improvement with ddr3 tbh

geordie56 · 9 Jan 2009 at 00:56

RJK i dont really want to upgrade everything though to move over to an i7 board if you know what i mean its a lot of expense

geordie56 · 9 Jan 2009 at 01:29

Ive also heard that i7 is slower for gaming, is this true?