Striker Extreme - worth it or not
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Thats interesting what about fitting 2 gts 8800 640mb cards?ADV4NCED wrote:YesCesarePlay wrote:One thing I have a sata 2 400gig harddrive. Does the P5N32-E SLI support sata2?
Taken from a P5N32-E Sli OC guide:
Important to note is if you mount an aftermarket cooler on your SB, you will limit the length of card you can mount in the center PCI slot (The only one you can use for a sound card if you have SLI’d anything.) With the Thermaltake, mounted as far away from the slot as possible while still allowing space for a pair of 8800GTX, I have exactly 150mm of clearance length. That is not long enough to fit any of the X-FI cards from Creative. An excellent alternative recommended to me is the Bluegears B-Enspirer Sound Card. It has sound comparable or better than the S-FI gamer and is only 146mm long. Its coming soon so I’ll update with it’s performance.
Thanks again to Alex. The Creative X-FI Gamer is 157mm long and will create clearance issues with SB cooling
Dunno, I just quoted that.
The GTX is a bit longer than the GTS though.
IMO dont buy two cards now and SLI later, buy 1 really good card now (or later when you have the money). As then you wont have trouble with the X-Fi sound card.
SLi sounds nice and all the rest but its got a couple problems and buying one GTX is more future proof than 2x GTS's.
The GTX is a bit longer than the GTS though.
IMO dont buy two cards now and SLI later, buy 1 really good card now (or later when you have the money). As then you wont have trouble with the X-Fi sound card.
SLi sounds nice and all the rest but its got a couple problems and buying one GTX is more future proof than 2x GTS's.
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the striker is a really good board, but i cant justify the price unless you have some CRAZY overclocking planned! (as we all know the striker is the best!) grapjics card wise you would get pretty much the same performance out of diffrent mobo's with the same card.
so unless you got some crazy overclocking coming your way id say go for the P5N32-E Sli or the gigabyte. the nice thing with having an sli mobo is if you get a REALLY good card now (e.g. 8800GTX) and in a year or two's time when you want more performance you can buy another of the same card for MUCH cheaper (maybe even 2nd hand if you want) and sli them for more performance without buying a new card
so unless you got some crazy overclocking coming your way id say go for the P5N32-E Sli or the gigabyte. the nice thing with having an sli mobo is if you get a REALLY good card now (e.g. 8800GTX) and in a year or two's time when you want more performance you can buy another of the same card for MUCH cheaper (maybe even 2nd hand if you want) and sli them for more performance without buying a new card
Ermm... the board you/we have all been discussing?
The Asus P5N32-E sli (in my opinion anyway)
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Both mobo's are greate but i like the Striker the most.Got 2 Striker mobo's and one P5N32-E sli.ADV4NCED wrote:
Ermm... the board you/we have all been discussing?
The Asus P5N32-E sli (in my opinion anyway)
I used it for about 6 months more or less.
Cooler Master CM830
Enermax Galaxy 1000 Watt PSU
Asus Striker Extreme
Intel Quad-Core QX6700 Extreme
2 X 1Gig Team Xtreem DDR2 1000MHz
2 X 500 Gig Seagate SATA 2 Hdd
2 X Asus 8800 GTX in SLi
ViewSonic VX922 2ms 19\" LCD
Asus SATA DVD Writer
Enermax Galaxy 1000 Watt PSU
Asus Striker Extreme
Intel Quad-Core QX6700 Extreme
2 X 1Gig Team Xtreem DDR2 1000MHz
2 X 500 Gig Seagate SATA 2 Hdd
2 X Asus 8800 GTX in SLi
ViewSonic VX922 2ms 19\" LCD
Asus SATA DVD Writer
No just work my *** off to get the money.psYChowIt wrote:holy crud minoss ur rich!!!!!
Cooler Master CM830
Enermax Galaxy 1000 Watt PSU
Asus Striker Extreme
Intel Quad-Core QX6700 Extreme
2 X 1Gig Team Xtreem DDR2 1000MHz
2 X 500 Gig Seagate SATA 2 Hdd
2 X Asus 8800 GTX in SLi
ViewSonic VX922 2ms 19\" LCD
Asus SATA DVD Writer
Enermax Galaxy 1000 Watt PSU
Asus Striker Extreme
Intel Quad-Core QX6700 Extreme
2 X 1Gig Team Xtreem DDR2 1000MHz
2 X 500 Gig Seagate SATA 2 Hdd
2 X Asus 8800 GTX in SLi
ViewSonic VX922 2ms 19\" LCD
Asus SATA DVD Writer
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From what i read the plus handles mem slightly better but fsb oc is not as high.CesarePlay wrote:Hi. I seen lots of reviews now one thing which is better the Asus P5N32-E sli or the Asus P5N32-E sli plus? Also what is the performance difference between the two?
On topic, I dont know if this has been said. ( If you peel back the sticker just above the 3de PCI-e slot on the P5n32-e sli board. It actually has the words Striker-Extreme printed on the pcb.
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My asus P975 platinum board broke so I Bought myself the Asus Striker Extreme. Its got more features but its overclocking isnt as good as the intel 965 and 975 boards, with the striker extreme when you OC your Ram a bit it somtimes doesn't boot at all even when you clear your CMOS you still have to take out the battrey for over a 2 -3 hours
Hmm... I've only had to move the cmos jumper 3 times on my board. Never taken out the battery. The auto-reboot function that the board has is brilliant, works just about 95% of the time.Druggs wrote:My asus P975 platinum board broke so I Bought myself the Asus Striker Extreme. Its got more features but its overclocking isnt as good as the intel 965 and 975 boards, with the striker extreme when you OC your Ram a bit it somtimes doesn't boot at all even when you clear your CMOS you still have to take out the battrey for over a 2 -3 hours
I think its the ratio's you're using (cpu : ram speed) which is why you cannot boot your pc sometimes. I've noticed that if you using a good ratio and your ram runs at say 880 instead of 881.5 or something, you have more chance of booting up stabily.
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The p5n32 e sli is a great mobo the only thing to remember is if you won't to be doing serious overclocking add cooling to the north brdige.
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I saw it does get hot there. Will have to check air cooling at http://www.prophecy.co.za.