Striker II Formula

Nope, I got a record Vista 3DMARK Score of 15100 after getting anywhere from 7000-13000 and that was in a warm room temp with fans all at 50% and my CPU and GPU not overclocked as high as on the Striker Extreme and before I did what Asus told me to the Heatpipes.

I also get GPU corruption and artifacts in Bios screen and Windows Boot screen as if my GPU is faulty and if I overlcock to far it gets that Nvidia error where driver fail and recovers (think its called nvlddmkm).

This only happens on the Striker II, I can overclock the GPU further and not get that error on the Striker Extreme.

But after redoing Artic Ceramic on Heatpipes I hit 13000+ all the time but games still lag/stutter and I cant aim the Sniper Rifle in CoD4 (using this to do real testing as completed it a few times on Striker Exteme and know my FPS etc).

I have pointed very fast rpm fans at hotspots and got the NB and SB down to low 30c's and still dont improve Mobo stablitly but I cant get to the PCI-E Bridge Chip behind my Dual slot GPU, and there is no temp reading for that, only Mobo/NB/SB and CPU.

I just think the Mobo runs far too hot even at stock, they did away with ESATA to get more cooling up at I/O panel but its gains nothing and that small honeycombed plate hides half the area anyhow.

I am supposed to be stripping this Mobo out right now but aint in the mood, Im sick of it, swapping back to the Striker E and all these new issues are gone (did this multiple times all week).

So far I aint ran the E8500 in the Striker Extreme but have ran both CPU's in the Striker II and the Striker II could not OC my E6850 any more in MHZ or FSB than the Striker Extreme.
 
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Intel chipsets F T W lol, Its getting beyond a joke with Nvidia chipset now. Single card or Crossfire with Intel chipset seems a lot more temping than buggy half assed Nvidia chipsets. I just hope that Intel wakes up and refuses to licence nvidia next chipsets for the sake of peoples sanity :)
 
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Intel chipsets F T W lol, Its getting beyond a joke with Nvidia chipset now. Single card or Crossfire with Intel chipset seems a lot more temping than buggy half assed Nvidia chipsets. I just hope that Intel wakes up and refuses to licence nvidia next chipsets for the sake of peoples sanity :)
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I wish there was a "big brother" style tech channel with a permanent feed showing them trying to put the finishing touches on the 790, I could point and laugh all day.
 
Well, yet another curved ball.

Tried running 3dmark earlier, no stuttering to speak of, but very noticeable were large triangular artifacts on the Firefly test.

Assumed at first that one of my cards had gone south - which would certainly have explained away most of my problems - however, after testing each card separately, I found that they ALL displayed the same artifacts on the Firefly test!!!!!!!!!!

Following more tiresome BIOS tweakery, I found that I could eliminate these artifacts by setting the CPU multiplier to 11, manually adjusting the FSB to 1066 whilst leaving the memory on 800.

Whether I can now simply increase the FSB and take the CPU back up from 2.93ghz to 3ghz and beyond remains to be seen, but there is clearly some truth behind the claims that this board and the P5N-T don't take well to certain ratios, even if they are stock.
 
Hi everyone,

I have an update with my particular system, and that's that i haven't yet had a BSOD today! (I was getting BSOD - 124)

The only thing that is different is that I have removed the Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty and replaced it with the included "supreme FX II" that comes with the Striker II F.

So it appears there is now a problem with the sound card and either this mobo/vista!?

(Also it appears that one has to manually set the voltages for the memory and northbridge, the memory timings, and the memory speed if you don't want to get system hangs or some other BSODs).

BTW has anyone else experienced similar problems with the X-Fi?
Again, here is the link with some interesting info relating 8800, Creative, Vista - http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1451968&SiteID=17

Matt
 
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Hi everyone,

The only thing that is different is that I have removed the Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty and replaced it with the included "supreme FX II" that comes with the Striker II F.

So it appears there is now a problem with the sound card and either this mobo/vista!?

(Also it appears that one has to manually set the voltages for the memory and northbridge, the memory timings, and the memory speed if you don't want to get system hangs or some other BSODs).


Matt
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Good news!

The mem timings/voltage is indeed crucial for many boards, not least this one.

My problems are certainly not X-Fi Related, though one thing I can say for sure:

x9 multiplier/FSB 1333mhz=BSOD (IRQL not less equal) at random times aswell as artifacts in the 3dmark firefly test.

x11 multiplier/FSB 1066mhz=as yet no BSOD or artifacts.

Both of the above are irrespective of memory timings or any voltage setting.

There are some claims that changing the LDT frequency from x5 to x4 helps...didn't work for me

Optimal stability so far seems to be.

VCore-1.275000
NB-1.38 (needs additional cooling when set to this, preferably aimed at the copper behind and underneath the CPU socket)

Mem voltage-set manually according to spec (2.30 in my case)
Timings-set manually according to spec (3-4-3-8-2T in my case, if you're using looser timings or mem that requires less voltage than this then your NB may not have to be quite so high)

Multiplier x11
FSB-manually set to 1066
N/2 support "enabled" - this actually sets the multiplier to 11.5 and takes the CPU from 2.93 to 3.06ghz, ie. as close to its stock setting as possible without sacrificing performance. Haven't yet tested how far I can OC from here.

Whether this particular board is especially buggy I dont know, though I'll almost certainly be RMA'ing it to be absolutely sure.
 
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x9 multiplier/FSB 1333mhz=BSOD (IRQL not less equal) at random times aswell as artifacts in the 3dmark firefly test.

x11 multiplier/FSB 1066mhz=as yet no BSOD or artifacts.
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I haven't managed to get this IRQL not equal BSOD yet!

I am also having no problems running at 9x/1333MHz with 1000Mhz memory.
So to me, it sounds as though you have got issues with your board? You running 0902 BIOS revision?

I don't know whether it is worth RMA'ing my board now that it seems to be working fine, (but for how long!)...

You keep mentioning artifacts: What are these, because I think this is what I was getting before I removed my X-Fi card, (wierd orange lines everywhere).
 
Black/blue triangular flashes here and there! I only ever see them in the 3dmark06 Firefly test, sometimes have to run it a couple of times, but they're certainly there and it is NOT my video cards.

I've been thinking that this specific board has serious issues with the higher FSB (perhaps only of the qx9650) and that the issue is worse on some boards than others.

Tried BIOS 902 and the 1001 beta, no difference.

If you install 3dmark06 you can check for yourself, though I sincerely hope you don't see any!

Also, try running prime95 25.5 (4x blend) together with the RTHDRIBL demo and see if you can reach 10 hours. If you can, I'd say your safe.

With me, it ALWAYS results in a BSOD (irql not less equal).
 
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I only ever see them in the 3dmark06 Firefly test, sometimes have to run it a couple of times, but they're certainly there and it is NOT my video cards.
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I have run 3Dmark06 serveral times, and apart from getting a lowish score (10k):(, I don't seem to be getting any of these artifacts in the firefly test... therefore am thinking that there must be something else causing the problems for you?:confused:

Are you going to RMA the board? Cos this is probably the worst PC component to RMA isn't it! with all the cables, screws, cables,.... and the fact that everything is attached to it! :eek::eek::eek:
Good Luck!

Also, out of interest, what kind of 3DMark06 score are you getting with you're 3 x 8800 GTXs? - mental!!!:D
 
Still not tried my hand at overclocking and this thread has pretty much put me off for the time being. I have used the level up feature to put my Q6600 up to 2664mhz, the q6700 setting, but it will not post on any of the others.
I do not have any problems with instability on the boards stock settings and it happily chugs through 3dmark06 without problem. With the stock settings it scored 11500 and with the level-up feature at q6700 it scores 12010.

Using the nvidia control panel to up the gpu core bus to 626 and memory bus to 1000 took the 3dmark06 score to 12510 and the gfx card temp from 61c to 66c.
 
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Are you going to RMA the board? Cos this is probably the worst PC component to RMA isn't it! with all the cables, screws, cables,.... and the fact that everything is attached to it! :eek::eek::eek:
Good Luck!

Also, out of interest, what kind of 3DMark06 score are you getting with you're 3 x 8800 GTXs? - mental!!!:D
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Yes, I am, it's out and boxed up:(.

About the scores, I didn't have a chance to test at the higher resolutions, which is where you'd see the biggest difference. I was so distracted in getting the damn thing working that I didn't even take the result on board!!!:p

I think it was just under the 17000 mark, so barely any faster than SLI at 1280x1024. It's more useful for smoothness than speed.
 
My board has recently been stable after cooling the NB and SB with an Artic Spot Cooler.

I've run 3dMark03 numerous times on 9X multiplier and never got the BSOD but am getting scores of 11928.

I haven't changed any other settings so my RAM is runnung at 800mhz rather than 1066mhz.


Regards
Steve

Coolmaster Cosmos RC1000 with 1000W power supply.
Asus striker 2 Formula
Intel 2 Quad 2.4 with Akasa 925
BFG 8800 Ultra
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fa1tality Xtreme Gamer
Crucial Ballistix Tracer 4GB (4x1GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 1066MHz Dual Channel Kit
 
Thanks for that info.

The BSOD only ever happened with me when running Prime95 25.5 (4x blend) with RTHDRIBL for long periods, it varied in when it would happen, but eventually it ALWAYS did, unless I made the alterations mentioned. Also, I only ever tested extensively with 4 sticks of RAM installed, taking 2 out may have also helped though that is not an option for me. Many games ran with hardly any issues (including Crysis), so the artifcats in 3dmark06 are a complete mystery. The fact remains though, the system wasn't fully stable at stock which is quite simply unacceptable.

I'm giving this build one more shot with a new board, if there are any more problems, I'll be pulling the plug on Nforce chipsets for quite a while.
 
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BSOD - C5 after running SpeedFan with PC Probe! 3rd different BSOD!

Hi folks,

Another BSOD! C5 this time. God knows what this one is! :mad::mad:

The PC had been running fine all day yesterday and today, up until i installed SpeedFan, and then subsequently ran Asus PC Probe II. Then PC Probe went crazy and reported that the voltages were mentally high:eek:! I thought this was because I had speed fan open, so i shut this down, then reopened PC Probe. The voltages were still going crazy:eek:, and than BAM! BSOD - C5 whetever that means.:mad::confused::confused:

Therefore, am putting that experience down to running the two programs at once! Probably very stupid!:rolleyes:

Anyways, the PC wouldn't POST, (I also couldn't enter the BIOS config) afterwards, it was getting stuck after it had recognised that my memory was clocked to 1000MHz, and then going no further. I did several restarts which didn't do anything... The stupid LCD poster was completly blank during all of this, telling me nothing at all.

In the end, I had to resort to that button at the back which has been used too many times so far, the CMOS reset button!

This seemed to clear the problem, and then I was able to enter the BIOS set up, revert back to my saved BIOS profile, and now my PC is running as we speak...

Maybe by running both PC Probe II and SpeedFan I somehow corrupted the CMOS, which I wouldn't be suprised by.:p

Can people tell me whether I inflicted this, or whether the Striker II is really starting to ask for an RMA! :(

M
 
It could have been the two apps.

Though I would still recommend you try:

A: setting the multiplier to 11
B: changing fsb to 1066
c: enabling N/2 support (this will set the multiplier to 11.5 and the NB voltage to 1.3, so make sure you have as much airflow on the copper around the back and underneath the CPU as possible)

All your other settings - timings, mem voltage etc- can be set according to OCZ's guidelines. I simply cannot persuade myself that this board can run a qx9650 at it's default spec, regardless of additional BIOS tuning.
 
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Well I've had my PC (as in my sig) up and running for a week now.

Other than Vista 64 not initially recognising 4gb of ram I have had no issues at all.

I've been out of the overclocking game for a little while so I've been very slowly tinkering with the many bios settings and so far I am stable at
2.93GHz and happy (Q6800 setting)

My temperatures are great as well. After various torture tests the CPU has not been higher than 36C, idle is 24/25C. Mobo is a little warmer but not much.

I will try and push it a little further when I have more time later this week.
 
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