Asus Extreme Striker 680i ...OR... Asus P5N-T 780i

o0naw0o · 4 Feb 2008 at 17:36

I have 2 motherboards available for my PC build.

Asus Extreme Striker 680i ...OR... Asus P5N-T 780i

I will not be running 3 video cards anytime soon so 780i does not really worry me

Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of these boards.

I would also welcome so advice on video cards.

2 x BFG OC 8800GTS 640MB ...OR... 1 x BFG OC 8800GTX

Thanks

ovia · 4 Feb 2008 at 18:18

Cant advise on the graphics cards much but for the motherboards i would go with the 780i. Ive not tried the 680 but do have the 780 and have to say that so far i am very happy with it.

square_imp · 4 Feb 2008 at 20:55

My only experience of Asus Striker Extreme's have been bad, my housemate has his in a box right now waiting for an RMA. Seems like a lot of people have had similar problems.

helmutcheese · 4 Feb 2008 at 21:35

Ya, do not buy the 680, and keep eye on threads about the 780.

I have both.

Wizardskills · 5 Feb 2008 at 00:34

Dont get the 680....it is rubbish, i have got to rma my one this week

TheMagic1an · 5 Feb 2008 at 02:35

The 680i isn't that bad as people make it out to be. My EVGA 680I has be good, but i must admit i have had a few problems with it that were really annoying.

Anyway i don't own the 780i yet so i can't tell you if the Asus P5N-T 780i is any good, but that board seems to be very picky about what memory you use.
As for the graphics cards i would just get the GTX, but if you really want SLI then you could SLi 2x8800gt's or the new GTS.

helmutcheese · 5 Feb 2008 at 03:37

Ofcoarse it is, only peeps who aint had issues are not complaining, most will not be overclockers.

Overclocking aside its still a buggy POS esp the Asus ones.

o0naw0o · 5 Feb 2008 at 09:03

Thanks everyone.

I have both boards but have only used the extreme so far and hav eto sell one.

Looks like I will stick with the 780i

Meridian · 5 Feb 2008 at 16:21

Does the 780 northbridge get red hot, like the 680 does?

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helmutcheese · 6 Feb 2008 at 15:27

Reality|Bites · 6 Feb 2008 at 15:51

My 680i board has only got better with the new wolfdales

FSB @ 503Mhz

Had it up to 511Mhz for 4.6Ghz but not stable enough to do anything with it.

Still to try a lower Multiplier(tomorrow)

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9330487

With my E6600 my FSB limit was 430Mhz

helmutcheese · 6 Feb 2008 at 16:41

I found the FSB was lower with my E6850 than my E8500.

GunRunner · 7 Feb 2008 at 00:16

I have had to RMA 2 EVGA 680i motherboards because of intermittent BIOS problems, so I decided to go to the 780i Asus P5N-T Deluxe m/board. So far I am happy with it after nearly 2 weeks. I have upgraded the BIOS to 0801 and am running a e6600 at just 3.2Ghz with voltage at 1.5v. I am also running a single BFG 8800GT OC2. The game I run (IL2 forgotten battles) gives me far better performance than the 680i and feel sure this is down to PCI-2. It is nice and stable, but I get the BSOD in windows XP if I go higher. I find a discrepancy with the BIOS cpu voltage set at 1.5v when the probe and cpu-z only show it as 1.46v, so I am unsure if I need to or can safely go higher to get 3.4ghz or even 3.6Ghz. The board and the core temperatures are really quite low at 45 degrees (m/board), and I rarely see much over 49 degrees core temp (using latest core temp). I will be going SLI with another BFG 8800GT OC2 tomorrow.

setter · 7 Feb 2008 at 00:47

ive been pretty lucky with my 680i, my e6600 sits quite happilly at 3.6ghz,(1.252 vcore set in bios) my cpu likes a lot of volts, a mate let me try one of his earlier revision e6600 cpu) it was 14 hrs stable on my board with 1.475 vcore @ 3.6ghz, thank god im going 780i and e8400 soon