digital-daily.com Updated: 2013-11-01 04:00:16
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Last year, the Striker model (nForce 680i SLI) was ASUS top-end model based on the NVIDIA chipset. Using the same PCB, the company released a couple more motherboards with similar specifications. At their capabilities, the boards were among the leader...
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As SLI is only available on NVIDIA chipsets, users who are inclined to adopt multi-GPU systems are always intrigued to find out just what they can expect from NVIDIAs chipset when its teamed up with a couple of their midrange or top-end graphics card...
Initial BIOS releases from ASUS were certainly a little rough around the edges, with each release completely changing how the board operates. The 1101 BIOS release is pretty much dead-on for dual-core CPU overclocking and general day-to-day use. Durin...
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When ASUS unveiled their Republic of Gamers (ROG) series of products, they stated their mission clearly: "deliver the most innovative and best performing PC solutions to enhance the usage experience for power users". Theres a lot in that statement t...
The performance of the ASUS Striker II Formula board was in line with the last 780i-based board we looked at. Thats not necessarily a bad thing, as it improved upon the numbers from a 680i board that we used for comparison, yet fell a few points shy...
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Three PCIe 16x slots for SLI enthusiasts! Asus designed the Striker II Formula to be part of its "Republic of Gamers" line of motherboards - desgined for gamers who want to overclock and run SLI graphics configurations. The board is choke full of featu...
There are a lot of things to like about the Striker II Formula: Three PCIe x16 slots Excellent memory performance Working asynchronous memory speed design CMOS clear button on the back I/O panel Flexible BIOS settings for tweaking There are also some...
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elitebastards.com Updated: 2013-11-01 04:13:40
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At its core, the Striker II Formula offers exactly what anyone who has experience with previous offerings in ASUS Republic of Gamers series would expect - A solid and well thought out enthusiast-centric feature set with plenty of nice little touches...
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While the Republic of Gamer series is very popular for Asus, the original Striker Extreme is still the most popular of all sold to date, even despite its £200+ price tag at launch. The Striker II Formula hopes to follow in its tracks, although tha...
Despite the fact it offers absolutely no extra performance and a few iffy bits, we really like this board and it offers good value for the genuine features it delivers. If you really want the latest SLI solution, the Striker II Formula should certainly...
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Feel The Force Half a decade ago, when you wanted a high performance system on the cheap, you would grab an nForce board with an AMD CPU. Those were the days when single-threaded computing was the only option (lets not call up SMP fans here). Not too...
Stability & Functionality During the course of benchmarking, the Striker II Formula did not exhibit any quirks detrimental to system stability. That said, all the benchmarks ran normally without glitches. There was, however, a major issue regarding the...
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The original Asus Striker Extreme used the nForce 680i SLI chipset so it seems fitting that the Striker II Formula uses the new Nvidia 780i SLI chipset. The main feature of 680i SLI was support for SLI with a full 16 lanes of the PCI Express bus for eac...
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& Specifications Back in August 2006, Asus unleashed their "Republic of Gamers" range of motherboards to the market. Designed to appeal to gamers and overclockers alike, the Nvidia 590 and 680i based "Crosshair" and "Striker Extreme" motherboards came...
As we've come to expect from motherboards in Asus' "Republic of Gamers" series, the Striker II Formula has an excellent list of features combined with extreme yet uncomplicated looks. Right from the extensive range BIOS options and selectable voltages do...
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amdzone.com Updated: 2013-11-01 04:19:58
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For some time now Asus has tried to widen their market space targeting almost all possible markets with cheaper motherboards from AsRock to hitting the middle, high-end, and elite market space. The top of the line motherboards were released for the...
Overall the Asus Striker II Formula is an excellent motherboard for overclockers and also for people who are looking for Penryn support in addition to SLI. This motherboard definitely goes above and beyond the norm in every single way with a multitude...
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