ASUS STRIKER EXTREME
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11. Doom 3 & Quake 4
12. Halo, Jedi Knight & UT2K4
13. Overclocking
14. RMMA OC Results
15. SiSoft Sandra OC Results
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I don't like those Doom 3 figures. But, at least the Quake 4 figures are pretty close. Still, it looks like Intel does have a superior chipset.
XII. HALO, JEDI KNIGHT & UT2K4
Average.
Great!
Average.
Okay, I can say with all honesty that I wasn't terribly impressed with the stock performance of the ASUS Striker Extreme edition motherboard. Sure, it held its own, but couldn't keep up with the likes of the Intel chipsets.
Perhaps the Striker will make a better overclocker than it does a stocker.
For our overclocking portion of the ASUS Striker Extreme, we will be testing against the same motherboards at a variety of memory settings and CPU multiplier/FSB speeds. A brief detailing of those settings.
2.6925 GHz (1795 MHz FSB (448.75 x 6) 1050 MHz 4-4-4-12/2T Memory)
314125 GHz (1795 MHz FSB (448.75 x 7) 1050 MHz 4-4-4-12/2T Memory)
3.560 GHz (1780 MHz FSB (445 x 8) 1050 MHz 4-4-4-12/2T Memory)
Now in the case of the final overclock of 3.560 GHz, I did have to bump the VCore by an 1/8th of a volt. I also had to dim down the FSB ever so slightly to eliminate the crashing issues I had with Doom 3. I had also used POV-Ray to see what kind of temperatures I was getting during full load. Initially, I was crashing POV-Ray at about 60 Degrees Celsius. So, I did something desperate, or perhaps a little silly.
It looks ridiculous, balancing an oscilation fan atop the motherboard, but it was the best method I could find to help keep the chipset cool. Honestly, a person could burn themselves on the Strikers chipset heatsinks and heatpipes they are that hot. I has me thinking that most (if not all) NVIDIA 680i chipset owners and overclockers will probably leave the side door off their case, pointing a big fan inside, kinda like I have done.
The Striker was still running pretty hot, but at least it wasn't on fire. ;-)
So, once more, this was an act of desperation. But, it did allow for some pretty nice overclockinfg results.
One further point of interest, I elected to forgo any testing with the memory SPD timings set to 5-5-5-15/2T. Yes, it could have yielded some interesting figures, but 4-4-4-12/2T is a far better choice for performance computing.
Let the overclocking begin!
Okay, these are some pretty big graphs, but with some very obvious answers. Both of the Intel chipset based boards have far better bandwidth than the Striker. In simplest of terms, the Intel family of P965 and P935 chipsets boast superior bandwidth when compared to the NVIDIA 680i chipset for sheer memory throughput performance.
Again, we can see that Intel chipsets do have far better throughput when it comes to synthetic memory benchmark tests. But we shouldn't be too disappointed. The ASUS Striker Extreme has preformed quite well in the OC tests thus far, and we still have a couple tests to go.
NEXT: XVI. WINRAR, DOOM 3, QUAKE 4 OC RESULTS