790i Mobo, which one is best, and which DDR3 module is best too?

skippo · 21 Apr 2008 at 19:18

Hi,

This is following off from another post in which I explain that my POS Striker II Formula has finally died – probably for the best!

I am thinking that if I want a decent, reliable, quick, SLI, QX9650 CPU supporting motherboard, then I need to consider the 790i chipset mobos.
I have my eye on the Striker II Extreme.
Are there any owners out there that can advise me of my choice?

Also what memory is compatible with this, because I know it will pretty much accept any DDR3 module, but I know that some modules work better than others? I am looking for 2GB at this time due to the mental price of 4GB.

Finally I am aware of the outrageous price and the SATA corruption issues; the latter is going to be fixed apparently.

thanks,

skippo · 21 Apr 2008 at 23:36

thegoonden said:
Had a bit of a time overclocking my 6600 with it, seems to be a bit of an FSB no-go-zone between 350 and 400 or so.

Apart from that it's been good as gold with Corsair DDR3 1600 2x1GB.

However, if you look on the overclocking and cooling forum, for my post about OCing it, you will see that another chap is still have tremendous bother getting it to play nice.

This doesn't sound too good.

I have been getting all sorts of trouble with BSOD with my S2F, and overclocking - haha - can't even go there are these BSOD occur about 100000% more often.

Are these BSOD and overclocking troubles mainly down to Asus though, or is it the nForce chipsets?

skippo · 22 Apr 2008 at 09:08

thegoonden said:
well it's running like a dream now, for me.

no more BSOD, freezing etc?

and what Mult and FSB/Mem clocks are you running?

cheers

skippo · 22 Apr 2008 at 13:28

interesting remarks - it appears people are having more luck with this board than people running the Striker II Formula.

Has anyone had any trouble running any of the Creative Audio cards with this - as with my S2F and vista, i get popping when listening to any sound at random times, and also the crysis sound goes mentally crazy!? Maybe the latter problem was my Vista/crysis build though I don't know??

Would anyone out there know how this board runs with a QX9650 (45nm cpus), both at stock and OC'd. Couldn't OC my QX9650 at all with my S2F - just BSOD all the time no matter what I did in the BIOS setup.

thanks again for everyone's comments.

skippo · 22 Apr 2008 at 15:31

interesting again...
sounds like i should give this board a shot then!

btw what kind of memory bandwidth are you achieving with your corsair sticks? Also how is 2GB with vista, as I had 4GB (or 3GB), and this I thought was the right size required.

skippo · 22 Apr 2008 at 16:52

don't worry with the bandwidth thing - usually not that indicative of performance anyways. If its off the scale in sandra -

When you say that it's OK, can you tell when playing games like crysis for instance, you are running out of physical memory, and then using the painfully crippling page file??