Asus Striker Extreme LGA 775 nVida nForce 680i SLI ATX - The Ultimate Gaming Motherboard
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Manufacturer: AsusModel: Striker Extreme
Product features:
- STRIKER_EXTREME MBD LGA775 NVIDIA SLI DDR2
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Summary: 1 Stars
The bottom line is that four of 10 ASUS boards could not post long enough to upgrade the bios to 1305 which is essential for a full configuration. Unfortunately the first boards I got for prototyping worked fine. The nightmare followed.
Buy something else. Here is my experience.
I chose the ASUS Striker Extreme because of past success with ASUS motherboards and a review at Tom's Hardware. It had what I was looking for, two full speed PCI-e X16 slots for a pair of BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC2 video cards and a PCI-e slot for an external RAID controller. The processor is an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600. RAM is 4 - 1GB Corsair PC6400 (C4). It said in the poop sheet that it was ready for those processors.
The first build was with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6700. It was a bit flaky so I flashed the bios to release 1305. No problems thereafter.
The second build was with a Quad Q6600. Same experience with the first build. So, I ordered another and then decided to order 4 more for a total of 7, one with the E6700 and six with the Q6600 processors.
The next build was a nightmare. It posted for about 15 seconds a couple of times and then locked up. Thereafter you couldn't see the monitor. I striped the system down to one DIMM, one video card, and still nothing so I sent it back.
In the meantime, the other four came in. Of those motherboards, two builds went OK with the striped down bios flash. The other two were just like the nightmare boards. So, I sent them back.
Of the three replacements, I had to pick up on old Pentium 4, an old 512M stick to get them to post long enough to flash to bios 1305. Even so, one of them never lasted longer than 15 seconds and after a couple of boots, it would no longer post with anything I had. I sent it back for a refund.
I figure that the Striker Extreme Boards wasted about 8 hours of my time. I think your odds of getting a good board are 50-50. I will say that after the board bios is upgraded it works fine. I did try to overclock a bit, but without success. Actually all I wanted was stability.
I may try another Striker Extreme simply because I hate to have a missmatch of systems in a lab. But, this is ridiculous. Without a doubt, the dumbest thing about the board is reseting the bios (doesn't work as advertised) and the difficulty of flashing the bios.
On a $300 board, why not put in a really simple bios flashing processor? Here is what I would do. Designate one of the USB ports for bios flashing. Include a 32MB or larger memory key. They are nearly free.
Your bios processor has a minimal Linux build that displays all of the bios images on the key. You pick which one to install. It backs up the current bios before installing the new one.
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Summary of Asus Striker Extreme LGA 775 nVida nForce 680i SLI ATX - The Ultimate Gaming Motherboard
Overclocking, performance, unique features, and rich software bundled are our 4 basic commitments to R.O.G(Republic of Gamers) members. Striker Extreme provide a detailed BIOS option for enthusiast tweaking, 8-phase capless power to ensure the SLI performance reliability, and the unique gaming features, such as LCD poster, EL I/O, Onboard LED, Onboard button,...etc. Once you use it, you would love it. And rich software bundled is a special characteristic, the hottest 3D game-Ghost Recon, 3dMark06 Advanced Edition, and a one-year license Kaspersky anti-virus software, its a total gaming solution as we committed.Motherboards
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