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Asus Striker Extreme - PAGE 6
J. Micah Grunert - Thursday, June 7th, 2007


To test the ASUS Striker Extreme Edition motherboard, we once again turn to our standard selection of motherboard testing hardware and software. Here's the list for you to ponder over briefly.

  • Intel Core 2 E6400 processor (Socket LGA775, 2.13 GHz, two cores) processor
  • Corsair TWIN2X1024 PC-8500 DDR2 memory (4-4-4-12/2T 800MHz)
  • XFX 7800 GT video card 
  • Corsair HX620W Modular power supply 
  • Noctua NH-U 12 CPU cooler 
  • Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 SATAII 80GB hard drive
  • Sony DDU1613 DVD-ROM optical drive 
  • Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP2
  • NVIDIA 93.71 graphics drivers
  • NVIDIA 9.53 chipset drivers
  • DirectX9.0c February 2007
  • DotNetFix2.0

    A very good selection of parts, and all of the most recent applicable driver packages. As for the motherboards the Striker will engage in combat with, I've picked some of our recent top preformers.

  • Gigabyte 6-Quad N680SLI-DQ6 (Nvidia 680i SLI chipset)
  • Abit IN9 32X-MAX (Nvidia 680i SLI chipset)
  • Gigabyte P35-DS3R (Intel P35 Express chipset)
  • Asus P5B-E (Intel P965 chipset)

    A good selection of competitors. Both the Gigabyte 6-Quad N680SLI-DQ6 and the Abit IN9 32X-MAX utilize the Nvidia 680i SLI chipset, so I thought it to be a fair comparison of different 680i chipset implementations. Both of these boards are pretty good performers too. The Gigabyte P35-DS3R is relatively fresh-faced, and just happens to be host to the latest Intel chipset, the P35 Express. The ASUS P5B-E, an Intel P965 chipset based board, is a very capable overclocker (and pretty sweet at stock too).

    A list of the benchmarks employed:

  • PC Magazine Business Winstone 2004
  • PC Magazine Multimedia Content Creation 2004
  • RightMark Memory Analyzer
  • SiSoft Sandra CPU and Memory
  • HDTach
  • WinRAR
  • TMPGEnc MPEG2 Video Encoding
  • XviD Video Encoding
  • LAME MP3 Audio Encoding
  • RightMark Audio Encoding
  • Call of Duty
  • Doom 3
  • Quake 4
  • Comanche 4
  • Halo
  • Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
  • Unreal Tournament 2004

    Time to start testing!

    • Article Index

    1.Introduction
    2.The Chipset
    3.Board Impressions
    4.Bundled Hardware
    5.The BIOS
    6.Test Setup & Benchmarks
    7.Business Winstone & Content Creation
    8.WinRAR & HDTach
    9.Lame MP3, TMPGEnc & Xvid
    10.Call of Duty & Comanche 4
    11.Doom 3 & Quake 4
    12.Halo, Jedi Knight & UT2K4
    13.Overclocking
    14.RMMA OC Results
    15.SiSoft Sandra OC Results
    16.WinRAR, Doom 3, & Quake 4 OC Results
    17.Conclusion
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