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OK. Nobody wants to hear about my Striker Extreme 680i board anymore. It's last year's board. It had shortcomings. But I've still been pretty happy with it.
The Striker went through a spate of BIOS updates. In the early versions, you could set the VCORE to 1.5V, but the monitored result would only be 1.44. You could then set it to 1.55, but it would STILL show 1.44. So I watched the forums and waited to see how many BIOS revisions were posted over the next several months, and was satisfied initially with version 1004 when I finally purchased the motherboard. The VCORE "set vs monitored" problem had been fixed..
Since then, I've probably flashed the BIOS twice, through version 1303. Version 1303 appeared briefly at ASUS in July 07. In August, 1305 appeared, and ASUS pulled 1303 off their web-site. [This was never standard practice -- they usually leave earlier BIOS versions available for download.]
I finally decided to upgrade to version 1305. Now, I find that whereas a VCORE of 1.4188V under version 1303 would show in Everest as 1.41V, I have to set the voltage to 1.43V just to show 1.40V now under version 1305.
Put it another way -- if you compulsively over-clock your system, BIOS updates probably create a new situation requiring a whole repetition of PRIME95 testing.
P-I-T-A. To say it's a "pity" is a limp understatement.
The Striker went through a spate of BIOS updates. In the early versions, you could set the VCORE to 1.5V, but the monitored result would only be 1.44. You could then set it to 1.55, but it would STILL show 1.44. So I watched the forums and waited to see how many BIOS revisions were posted over the next several months, and was satisfied initially with version 1004 when I finally purchased the motherboard. The VCORE "set vs monitored" problem had been fixed..
Since then, I've probably flashed the BIOS twice, through version 1303. Version 1303 appeared briefly at ASUS in July 07. In August, 1305 appeared, and ASUS pulled 1303 off their web-site. [This was never standard practice -- they usually leave earlier BIOS versions available for download.]
I finally decided to upgrade to version 1305. Now, I find that whereas a VCORE of 1.4188V under version 1303 would show in Everest as 1.41V, I have to set the voltage to 1.43V just to show 1.40V now under version 1305.
Put it another way -- if you compulsively over-clock your system, BIOS updates probably create a new situation requiring a whole repetition of PRIME95 testing.
P-I-T-A. To say it's a "pity" is a limp understatement.
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