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Tim S · 25th Jan 2008, 07:52

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...r_ii_formula/1

The original Striker was arguably the most popular motherboard in the Asus RoG series and now it gets a brother - the Striker II. It's based on the new Nvidia nForce 780i SLI chipset and has many tweaked features - we check it out to see what's changed.

rhuitron · 25th Jan 2008, 09:06

I Really Want one now!

FaSMaN · 25th Jan 2008, 09:12

I just hope that this board doesnt end up like the striker extreme did,asus seemed to have stoped further development for the striker extreme 1 even though the current bios is extremely ustable and have tuns of stability related problems...

Bindibadgi · 25th Jan 2008, 09:17

We never really had stability problems with the original Striker - Tim has used the original in every high end graphics review for the last year. True, we've been through at least 3 of them in that time but mostly because we had engineering samples.

FaSMaN · 25th Jan 2008, 09:43

The things that I experience the most is fsb holes(some fsb setting ranges just dont post,even though there low enough and stable on the same processor on a different board),and the fact that with some brands of memory you cant have more than 2x 1gb matched paires simply becouse if you had more it causes instability and wont allow you to overclock,or simply wont post

.

But I have to admit Im a bit baised against the striker extreme 1 simply becouse my first striker lasted less than a day and afterwards failed to post,had to wait two weeks for a replacment,and went trough 3 different ram manufacturers to get the correct ram for the board,ended up with kingston(ocz and corsor,arent easily accisible in south africa)

I guess the board isnt that bad if you have the correct setup....

Edit: Remove some typos

Naberius · 25th Jan 2008, 09:44

Its a shame you can't hook this board upto your watercooling, but other than that it looks promising, much rather have the optionof 3 8800's than 4 ATI cards.

Bindibadgi · 25th Jan 2008, 09:48

Quote:

Originally Posted by FaSMaN

The things that I experience the most is fsb holes(some fsb setting ranges just dont post,even though there low enough and stable on the same processor on a different board),and the fact that with some brands of memory you cant have more than 2x 1gb matched paires simply becouse if you had more it causes instability and wont allow you to overclock,or simply wont post

.

But I have to admit Im a bit baised against the striker extreme 1 simply becouse my first striker lasted less than a day and afterwards failed to post,had to wait two weeks for a replacment,and went trough 3 different ram manufacturers to get the correct ram for the board,ended up with kingston(osz and cursor,arent easily accisible in south africa)

I guess the board isnt that bad if you have the correct setup....

Well I'm sure our resident memory expert, Ryan Leng, will testify how much the brand of memory is also key to stability as much as the BIOS. The Striker II does seem a little picky as well in this regard. As for FSB holes - that's on every board and you have to work around them unfortunately. Some boards offer the option to adjust the speed of the northbridge manually but mostly this isn't the case.

FaSMaN · 25th Jan 2008, 10:28

I guess it then just biols down to personal preferance :P

Bindibadgi · 25th Jan 2008, 10:51

Well without a doubt the general life-span of the nForce 680i SLI was pretty crap - no matter who you bought it from. So far I've not heard the same about the 780i thankfully.

samkiller42 · 25th Jan 2008, 11:29

I've not had any problems with either of my 680i boards, one of which is the EVGA, and the other is the Striker Extreme, which then actually surprises me, the Extreme supplied temp probes for the board, seems odd how Asus didn't with the S2F.
This board does look good on the outside, maybe for those who want SLI and didn't go to NF6 can go straight to this, however its still early days for NF7 and i suppose we should wait and see whats comming around the corner.

Sam

mrb_no1 · 25th Jan 2008, 11:52

I couldnt afford the striker at my time of upgrade, so i got the p5n32-e sli, and am happy with it, overclocked nicely after the first board i received failed to post after its first boot, but this new striker does nothing to make me want to upgrade to it, strikes me as a space filler to use the 780i that might appeal to alienware and such for offering the 'most extreme' systems to date...i'd imagine it to be a relatively cheap design move for asus too, so win win for them. There's my 10 C's worth.

Oh Rich, you mentioned new chipsets coming out, i like to think i follow things on bit-tech news but i must have missed something, what are we expecting, from whom and when might we be expecting it?

cheers

peace

marscay · 25th Jan 2008, 11:59

memory manufacturers must be having a hard time sleeping with this board just being released.

will this board be stick killer v2?

Tim S · 25th Jan 2008, 12:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrb_no1

I couldnt afford the striker at my time of upgrade, so i got the p5n32-e sli, and am happy with it, overclocked nicely after the first board i received failed to post after its first boot, but this new striker does nothing to make me want to upgrade to it, strikes me as a space filler to use the 780i that might appeal to alienware and such for offering the 'most extreme' systems to date...i'd imagine it to be a relatively cheap design move for asus too, so win win for them. There's my 10 C's worth.

Oh Rich, you mentioned new chipsets coming out, i like to think i follow things on bit-tech news but i must have missed something, what are we expecting, from whom and when might we be expecting it?

cheers

peace

Check the two Hybrid SLI articles out - there's a bunch of info in there about new chipsets supporting SLI on Intel platforms.

[USRF]Obiwan · 25th Jan 2008, 12:40

I'm not impressed. Looks the same as the old one, does the same things as the old one, costs the same as the old one, gets hot(ter) like the old one.

So whats actualy new besided a chipset number..

widmod · 25th Jan 2008, 15:28

it looks nice

shame that it lacks e-sata
no triple-sli testing atm?
i wish i could see a picture of the sound board
looks like watercooling could be conectet to the central (heatsink) block?

zr_ox · 25th Jan 2008, 15:40

Quote:

just be wary of what's coming out in the next few months: you won't be waiting another year for a chipset update like before.

hint hint, nudge nudge.....So what exactly should we be waiting on (without breaking any NDA's).

As for water cooling, it will just be a matter of time before someone builds a monster block for it.

Bindibadgi · 25th Jan 2008, 16:58

Sorry, I completely forgot - I ran out of space for a few pictures.

We are obviously under NDA for a few bits but there's no point in talking since we don't have hardware either. What we can say about future products is in Tim's Hybrid SLI article.

Sparrowhawk · 25th Jan 2008, 20:27

Is it a photography/optical illusion, or is that board considerably warped in that picture?

Tim S · 25th Jan 2008, 20:30

it's under tension because the heatsink is installed (was taken while I was in the middle of using the board for some graphics testing)

Sparrowhawk · 25th Jan 2008, 20:38

Oh, okay. I don't believe I've ever seen one quite like that before. But that heatsink, that does give it quite a bit of flair.

25th Jan 2008, 07:52	#1
Tim S Pewlius Caesar bit-tech Staff Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Ascot, Berks Posts: 18,021	Asus Striker II Formula http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200...r_ii_formula/1 The original Striker was arguably the most popular motherboard in the Asus RoG series and now it gets a brother - the Striker II. It's based on the new Nvidia nForce 780i SLI chipset and has many tweaked features - we check it out to see what's changed. __________________ Tim on Twitter \| Tim's Blog \| Tim's Flickr The bit-tech Blog \| bit-tech on Twitter \| Join the bit-tech & Custom PC folding team (#35947)

25th Jan 2008, 09:06	#2
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25th Jan 2008, 09:17	#4
Bindibadgi Richard Swinburne bit-tech Staff Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Omnipwntent Posts: 28,284	We never really had stability problems with the original Striker - Tim has used the original in every high end graphics review for the last year. True, we've been through at least 3 of them in that time but mostly because we had engineering samples. __________________ Made you look, made you stare, made you clicked this in your underwear! Den of Geek!

25th Jan 2008, 09:43	#5
FaSMaN Minimodder Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 27	The things that I experience the most is fsb holes(some fsb setting ranges just dont post,even though there low enough and stable on the same processor on a different board),and the fact that with some brands of memory you cant have more than 2x 1gb matched paires simply becouse if you had more it causes instability and wont allow you to overclock,or simply wont post . But I have to admit Im a bit baised against the striker extreme 1 simply becouse my first striker lasted less than a day and afterwards failed to post,had to wait two weeks for a replacment,and went trough 3 different ram manufacturers to get the correct ram for the board,ended up with kingston(ocz and corsor,arent easily accisible in south africa) I guess the board isnt that bad if you have the correct setup.... Edit: Remove some typos Last edited by FaSMaN; 25th Jan 2008 at 10:05.

25th Jan 2008, 10:51	#9
Bindibadgi Richard Swinburne bit-tech Staff Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Omnipwntent Posts: 28,284	Well without a doubt the general life-span of the nForce 680i SLI was pretty crap - no matter who you bought it from. So far I've not heard the same about the 780i thankfully. __________________ Made you look, made you stare, made you clicked this in your underwear! Den of Geek!

25th Jan 2008, 09:12	#3
FaSMaN Minimodder Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 27	I just hope that this board doesnt end up like the striker extreme did,asus seemed to have stoped further development for the striker extreme 1 even though the current bios is extremely ustable and have tuns of stability related problems...

25th Jan 2008, 09:44	#6
Naberius Multimodder Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Posts: 193	Its a shame you can't hook this board upto your watercooling, but other than that it looks promising, much rather have the optionof 3 8800's than 4 ATI cards.

25th Jan 2008, 10:28	#8
FaSMaN Minimodder Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 27	I guess it then just biols down to personal preferance :P

25th Jan 2008, 11:29	#10
samkiller42 KEEP IT CLEAN! Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Havant, Hampshire, England Posts: 3,189	I've not had any problems with either of my 680i boards, one of which is the EVGA, and the other is the Striker Extreme, which then actually surprises me, the Extreme supplied temp probes for the board, seems odd how Asus didn't with the S2F. This board does look good on the outside, maybe for those who want SLI and didn't go to NF6 can go straight to this, however its still early days for NF7 and i suppose we should wait and see whats comming around the corner. Sam __________________ The Rig: i7 920 D0, Gigabyte EX58-UD5, 12GB DDR3 1600mhz, BFG GTX295, Samsung 64gb SSD, WD 640gb Black, Samsung F2 Eco 1TB, Dell 3007WFP, Windows 7 RC. The Netbook: Samsung NC10 Black, Intel Atom, 2gb DDR2 The Mac: Awaiting Delivery

25th Jan 2008, 11:52	#11
mrb_no1 Pie Eater Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Pyrford, England Posts: 365	I couldnt afford the striker at my time of upgrade, so i got the p5n32-e sli, and am happy with it, overclocked nicely after the first board i received failed to post after its first boot, but this new striker does nothing to make me want to upgrade to it, strikes me as a space filler to use the 780i that might appeal to alienware and such for offering the 'most extreme' systems to date...i'd imagine it to be a relatively cheap design move for asus too, so win win for them. There's my 10 C's worth. Oh Rich, you mentioned new chipsets coming out, i like to think i follow things on bit-tech news but i must have missed something, what are we expecting, from whom and when might we be expecting it? cheers peace __________________ Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3600Mhz ¦ Asus Maximus II Formula ¦ ATI Radeon 4890 (1000Mhz Core + 1200Mhz Mem OC) ¦ 2x2G Corsair Dom. PC 8500 @ 1080Mhz ¦ Aquacomputer WC ¦ Creative X-Fi Fatal1ty ¦ 150G Raptor, 2x1500 + 1x750 + 2x500 Seagate (SATA2) ¦ Pioneer DVD burner ¦ Lian Li - PC 73SL Aluminium Silent Server Case ¦ Dell 2007WFP 20" Widescreen ¦ Logitech Z-5500 5.1 Speakers ¦ Sennheiser HD270

25th Jan 2008, 11:59	#12
marscay What's a Dremel? Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 8	memory manufacturers must be having a hard time sleeping with this board just being released. will this board be stick killer v2?

25th Jan 2008, 12:40	#14
[USRF]Obiwan Ultramodder Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Netherlands Posts: 1,220	I'm not impressed. Looks the same as the old one, does the same things as the old one, costs the same as the old one, gets hot(ter) like the old one. So whats actualy new besided a chipset number.. __________________ Mascleta: "The most accurate simulation of thunder, humans can simulate..." The answer is 42, so... whats the question again? If you know what 'Peek' and 'Poke' represents, then you are probably as old as me.

25th Jan 2008, 15:28	#15
widmod Stopp the Relix guy Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: AUSTRIA Posts: 382	it looks nice shame that it lacks e-sata no triple-sli testing atm? i wish i could see a picture of the sound board looks like watercooling could be conectet to the central (heatsink) block? __________________ Gaffa-Tape is a very simple modding device <sings>I'm from AUSTRIA</sings>and NO we have no kangaroos Microsoft NEVER stopped the beta phase of any of its operating systems i will not apologize for my language skills

25th Jan 2008, 16:58	#17
Bindibadgi Richard Swinburne bit-tech Staff Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Omnipwntent Posts: 28,284	Sorry, I completely forgot - I ran out of space for a few pictures. We are obviously under NDA for a few bits but there's no point in talking since we don't have hardware either. What we can say about future products is in Tim's Hybrid SLI article. __________________ Made you look, made you stare, made you clicked this in your underwear! Den of Geek!

25th Jan 2008, 20:27	#18
Sparrowhawk Wetsander Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kentucky Posts: 546	Is it a photography/optical illusion, or is that board considerably warped in that picture?

25th Jan 2008, 20:30	#19
Tim S Pewlius Caesar bit-tech Staff Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Ascot, Berks Posts: 18,021	it's under tension because the heatsink is installed (was taken while I was in the middle of using the board for some graphics testing) __________________ Tim on Twitter \| Tim's Blog \| Tim's Flickr The bit-tech Blog \| bit-tech on Twitter \| Join the bit-tech & Custom PC folding team (#35947)

25th Jan 2008, 20:38	#20
Sparrowhawk Wetsander Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kentucky Posts: 546	Oh, okay. I don't believe I've ever seen one quite like that before. But that heatsink, that does give it quite a bit of flair.