Striker II Extreme, QX9650, 4GB OCZ Platinum 1333 problems

skippo · 3 May 2008 at 15:02

helmutcheese said:
The Reviews show the 790I Mobo does not like CAS 7, and advises CAS 8.

you just can't stop helping! thanks!

So do I just change the 7-7-7-20 to 8-7-7-20?

thanks.

helmutcheese · 3 May 2008 at 17:19

skippo said:
you just can't stop helping! thanks!

So do I just change the 7-7-7-20 to 8-7-7-20?

thanks.

1 review was Corsair 7:7:7:20, the other was 8:8:8:24.

Urban Reflex · 3 May 2008 at 17:48

I'm running an S2E with 2GB OCZ Platinum 1333Mhz DDR3 7-7-7-20 and have no problems whatsoever. Have you run memtest yet?

chaparral · 3 May 2008 at 20:56

Locky · 4 May 2008 at 10:15

Get rid of the Striker II board, its a POS, like all of the Nfail intel range of boards.

Smirnoff · 4 May 2008 at 10:48

I'd ask the place you bought it from for a upgrade

to a EVGA 790i

skippo · 4 May 2008 at 10:48

Urban Reflex said:
I'm running an S2E with 2GB OCZ Platinum 1333Mhz DDR3 7-7-7-20 and have no problems whatsoever. Have you run memtest yet?

Ran memtest with just slot 1 occupied - no errors

Ran memtest with slots 1 and 3 occupied - 93 errors.

Will try the module that was in slot 3 on its own in slot 1 later today, and if I get errors then i know its the memory

what would you guys say?

skippo · 4 May 2008 at 10:49

Smirnoff said:
I'd ask the place you bought it from for a upgrade to a EVGA 790i

the board's fine, its just the memory! all the 790i's are pretty much the same, apart from Asus' shoddy tech support!

skippo · 4 May 2008 at 15:42

Just ran memtest on the 1 stick of ram which i thought was faulty, and it returned over 1000 errors. Therefore I think I can say I need to RMA it?

Good, glad it was faulty RAM, cos I was begining to think that the motherboard was a POS like the S2F

Smirnoff · 4 May 2008 at 20:46

skippo said:
the board's fine, its just the memory! all the 790i's are pretty much the same, apart from Asus' shoddy tech support!

Err there not, The Asus is there own design and uses there own BIOS, The other versons (EVGA, XFX, Ect ) are the reference design with Nvidia BIOS's and they seem to work better over any of the Asus boards.

thegoonden · 4 May 2008 at 20:59

helmutcheese said:
The Reviews show the 790I Mobo does not like CAS 7, and advises CAS 8.

Which might explain why mine sets at 7 7 7 20
and runs as 8 7 7 20

thegoonden · 4 May 2008 at 21:00

TiZoR said:
Get rid of the Striker II board, its a POS, like all of the Nfail intel range of boards.

And you would guatantee me what improvements on my current setup with another board then?

leqin · 5 May 2008 at 23:08

Oh now I don't feel so bad now, in fact thanks for making my day skippo.

Having spent this past weekend trying to persuade the first version of this board to boot up, with no success because it just doesn't want to stop telling me 'CPU INIT' and I'm sick of clearing the CMOS only to see the same message the instant power connects. Now if I had only thought to type into Google 'ASUS Striker Extreme problems' or did a bit more research and goog'ed 'CPU INIT' instead... my wallet would be a whole lot happier and I definatly wouldn't be thinking this thing is junk and not even any use as a door stop.