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Had an old Q6850 extreme sitting on a "striker extreme" mobo ( yes ancient stuff) 4x 2gig Corsair DDR2 and a 560ti and to be honest at the res I work/play at it was fine with most stuff on medium settings.
Recently put in a SSD and the system was flying. Went to bed Friday night and woke up Sat and thought "Humm time for a bit of WOT" lets fire her up, Powered up and nothing "Sheet" I though, stripped the thing down (luckily enough its my job) give everything a good clean and put back together. Nope still dead.
Well I know the Striker Extreme were flaky at best and to be honest I've had 6 years out of it so I wasn't too miffed.
So time to work at getting this tested and working.
Things that were knackered:
Graphics card = Dead.
2 sticks of memory = Dead
Mobo =dead.
Holy crap I was thinking what the hell happened last night... anyway found an old HP workstation mobo fitted that and dropped in a spare 780ti and booted it up. Everything working saved myself 500 quid for a new cpu combo and still can play everything at ultra now instead of medium.
Strangely weird though as this little story is more of a testimony of a mobo I actually miss because buying it at the time was a big deal (lot of cash for me at the time) and it's been a solid reliable piece of kit which in the long run has saved me money.
ASUS Striker Extreme I shall miss you old friend and salute your reliability of being used nearly every day for over 6 years and not failing me once until unfortunately you gave up the ghost
Recently put in a SSD and the system was flying. Went to bed Friday night and woke up Sat and thought "Humm time for a bit of WOT" lets fire her up, Powered up and nothing "Sheet" I though, stripped the thing down (luckily enough its my job) give everything a good clean and put back together. Nope still dead.
Well I know the Striker Extreme were flaky at best and to be honest I've had 6 years out of it so I wasn't too miffed.
So time to work at getting this tested and working.
Things that were knackered:
Graphics card = Dead.
2 sticks of memory = Dead
Mobo =dead.
Holy crap I was thinking what the hell happened last night... anyway found an old HP workstation mobo fitted that and dropped in a spare 780ti and booted it up. Everything working saved myself 500 quid for a new cpu combo and still can play everything at ultra now instead of medium.
Strangely weird though as this little story is more of a testimony of a mobo I actually miss because buying it at the time was a big deal (lot of cash for me at the time) and it's been a solid reliable piece of kit which in the long run has saved me money.
ASUS Striker Extreme I shall miss you old friend and salute your reliability of being used nearly every day for over 6 years and not failing me once until unfortunately you gave up the ghost
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