OC3D Review: Asus Striker II Formula 780i Socket 775 Motherboard

[JN]

"Armed with Nvidia's 780i chipset the latest addition to Asus' ROG series looks like it could well hit the spot. But can it keep up with the beastly Intel P35 and X38 chipsets?"

Asus Striker II Formula Review

 

[Brooksie]

Ownage

Great review

mmm Triple SLI connector

 

[ali_james]

Nice review, shame it doesn't oc well. And the chipset coolers don't look pretty.. Kind of last minute job?

 

[FarFarAway]

Awesome review as usual Jim.

780i = a bit of a disappointment :S

 

[JN]

Cheers guys. Yeah the cooling isn't the best looking or performing tbh.

I hear there's an Extreme version on the way tho (DDR3). So it'll be interesting to see if anything changes.

 

[!TIMMY!]

oooohhh a pci-e 2.0 with ddr3, sounds good.

Great review Jim as always!

 

[Bungral]

Yeah quality review mate...

I'm pretty disappointed with this too to be honest. For £220 and to fall behind the Maximus I know which board I'd choose.

 

[Toxcity]

Most useful review ever read!

I have to have hats off to Jim because early monday morning the day I was going to order myself the Striker II he PMed me with a little infomation on the board.

I am thankful that he did because I nearly wasted 200quid.

My new fave motherboard is the Maximus and will be with me by the end of the week!

Amazing review and you're great guy, JImbo!

 

[JN]

Most useful review ever read!

I have to have hats off to Jim because early monday morning the day I was going to order myself the Striker II he PMed me with a little infomation on the board.

I am thankful that he did because I nearly wasted 200quid.

My new fave motherboard is the Maximus and will be with me by the end of the week!

Amazing review and you're great guy, JImbo!

No worries fella I've been using the Maximus for a few weeks now and its a stellar board. I'm sure it'll make ya happy

 

[mrapoc]

Hell £200 is a lot of money for a mobo!

I thought my p5b dlx was expensive xD

 

[chillinjim]

What about Dual core?

I want to run this board with an intel E8400 insted of the quad and im thinking that it will do better accross the board with overclocking performance. Also will an intel x38 chipset board run two 8800GT's in SLI or Crossfire format.

Wanting to run

striker 2 board

E8400

4gig balistix ram

asus 8800GT TOP 512 vid maybe 2.

WD Raptor

please let me know what you think thanks.

 

[dwarry]

Hi mate, Asus 8800 Gt's (or any Nvidia cards for that matter) wont run in crossfire it is only ATI cards and I believe that is hit and miss from the research I have done (could be wrong though...!) If you want SLI then you have to use an Nvidia based MoBo. I have been told that SLI only benefits in resolutions over 1600 x 1050 but I used it at 1280 x 1024 and saw substantial benefits.....I think....!

Striker II Formula looks like a cool MoBo for SLI and is the latest technology at the moment, but it is hard to find (at the moment!)

I think SLI Rocks, but that is just my humble opinion...!

Cheers, DW

 

[Hatman]

SLI is indeed very good its just the people who buy it for low res and then moan about it that puts it down.

High res for SLI is the best

 

[chillinjim]

Thanks Plus overclocking info

Hey thanks for the info decided to go with this mobo and a 8800 GTS from EVGA I think it will do the job for awhile since im building this system for a friend I dont know if he'll do SLI right now since you cant run dual monitors in SLI or so I've heard (Please let me know if this is correct).

Thanks again

I am interested in overclocking software other than what comes with the mobo to overclock vid card. I've read that you can do 4ghz on the 8400 easy with air cooling since Im running water cooling mabe I could push it even more let me know what you think thanks.

 

[Mullet]

Nice write up Jim.

Shame about the OC results...no shock tbh tho.

 

[ali_james]

I am interested in overclocking software other than what comes with the mobo to overclock vid card. I've read that you can do 4ghz on the 8400 easy with air cooling since Im running water cooling mabe I could push it even more let me know what you think thanks.

For the graphics card I would suggest:

Rivatuner

and

ATI Tool

For the cpu, no overclock is guaranteed so you just have to try it and see. From what I've seen, people are getting 4ghz on that chip, as you've got a 9 times multiplier it seems pretty obtainable.

Hope thats some help.

Cheers!

 

[sinephase]

I like the reviews, but I'm just curious: why would you benchmark an nvidia chipset using an ATI card? I can think of arguments which make sense for using the same card for every test, but it also makes sense to me to use an Nvidia card with similar specs to the ATI one. Also, because it's a PCIe 2.0 supporting board, why not use a GeForce with the same specs but with 2.0 enabled, so we can see what the actual difference is?

Anyway, just my two cents.

 

[chillinjim]

Problems with Striker 2

Well i got everything put together and started her up and the north bridge fried its self before i could instal an OS anyone else have this problem because I've read reviews that it's been happening on 1 out of 6 boards. Should get new board tomorrow guess I'll have to get all of my 7 fans running before I start up.

Let me know if anyones had the same problems.

should of waited for the 790I oh well its only money.

thanks

 

[Hatman]

If it fried itself you can RMA, just contact your retailer.

 

[chillinjim]

Yeah I sent it back

Yeah I sent it back I guess I was wondering if I should check anything before I start it up for the first time. A buddy of mine said that the heat sink could have poped off the chipset. Who knows.