Asus Striker Extreme

[TrECeNTeRs]

I need directed to some kinda stable ram for this board... I have some crucial ballistix 1066 and it makes programs close randomly.

Then when I had all 4 sticks of it in it was even worse giving me blue screens.

I am guessing i need a 2gb x 2 set of .... something

Nothing seems stable on this board. I am guessing I cant use anything over a 800fsb ram for one.

Most ram I look at I check the bad comments and everyone with a striker board has problems with the ram.

Does anyone have any ideas on what would let this board run stable with 4gb?

 

[abast]

Don't have an answer, but I'd suggest giving details on your Proc, any OC your doing, and OS your running.
guessing you've checked Asus for recommended sticks already?

 

[TrECeNTeRs]

1 PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad - Copper EPS12V 750W Continuous @ 40°C (825W Peak) Power Supply - Retail



1 Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler - Retail




1 Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Kentsfield 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80562Q6600 - Retail




1 Creative 70SB046A00003 7.1 Channels PCI Interface Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series Sound Card - Retail



2 Scythe S-FLEX SFF21E 120mm Case Fan - Retail



1 Western Digital Raptor X WD1500AHFD 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM


1 EVGA 768-P2-N881-AR GeForce 8800Ultra 768MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card - Retail


1 ASUS Striker Extreme LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX The Ultimate Gaming Motherboard - Retail



1 Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound - OEM




1 Thermaltake Armor Series VA8003BWS Black Full Tower Case w/ 25CM Fan - Retail



1 LG 18X DVD±R DVD Burner with 12X DVD-RAM Write Black E-IDE/ATAPI Model GSA-H54NK - OEM





2 Crucial Ballistix 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model BL2KIT12864AA1065 - Retail



This ram blue screened the hell out of me been though 3 sets. I want 4 gig of something ... Some people say the board sucks so bad you cant use all 4 slots.... So I was looking for a pair of 2gb sticks that may work.

 

[abast]

I don't see any 1066 memory listed in Asus's QVL for memory http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/AS...triker_Extreme_QVL.pdf
So that doesn't help. Assuming this board supports 1066 (It's a kick ass board so I'd say so) Even though the site doesn't mention it "Dual-channel DDR2 800/667/533"
Does this review from "5ir 3ntropy" help?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813131074

Forgot to mention. From your specs it looks like a nice rig. I've got the same case, and looking at getting some of the same parts. Hope you get it working.

 

[TrECeNTeRs]

Thanks bro, Its such a shame the pc of my dreams i finnaly had the money to get has issues with parts that should be working,

Surprised no one else has this board and memory that works on it to give me a tip Lol

 

[vlad4]

I purchased my Striker back in December, and opted for these Dominators, I also picked up the Corsair fan. There's faster RAM out now, but so far the 8500s have been really good to me. At the price, they're kinda hard to beat if Corsair is still using the Micron ICs.

 

[BlueScreenVW]

I recently bought an Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus (same as Striker except southbridge) as a replacement to a faulty Gigabyte P35-DS4. At first I had trouble running my Mushkin 996535 1Gbx2 kit at its specified rating of 5-5-4-12-2T @ 1066 MHz, but then I saw that there are some differences between the blue and white memory slots. Apparently the A1 and B1 slots should be used with 1T memory and A2 and B2 with 2T memory, which is of course the most common setting at higher speeds. I couldn't even get my memory sticks (which use Micron D9 chips) stable at 5-5-5-15-2T in slots A1 + B1, but after switching to slots A2+B2 they are completely stable at the specified 5-5-4-12-2T setting. All other memory subtimings are at "auto". The chips are Nvidia EPP capable so I use the "Nvidia SLI Ready" bios setting at Expert to allow me to set FSB manually. Worth a try, maybe?

See faq topic "Memory overclocking capability on different memory slot"

 

[Arctucas]

@TrECeNTeRs,

Off topic but,

The blades on my side panel fan (Tt VA8003SWA) hit the tops of the heatpipes on my Ultra-120 eXtreme mounted on my Striker Extreme. Don't yours?

 

[TrECeNTeRs]

Originally posted by: Arctucas
@TrECeNTeRs,

Off topic but,

The blades on my side panel fan (Tt VA8003SWA) hit the tops of the heatpipes on my Ultra-120 eXtreme mounted on my Striker Extreme. Don't yours?

Not really they don't hit itthe blades ... it keeps the door a lil budged out but not an eye sore plus the latches still latch. nothing hits the blades runs very smooth.


Do you think

Mushkin 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820146691

Will do a good job on this board .. the other ram just has a leak or some crap ...

 

[McCartney]

shameless bum pbut I think it's the striker's actual issue. check out hte 680i chipset info it DOES support 1066 ram

 

[D1gger]

I have this config and it works very well:

Enermax Galaxy DXX 1000W ATX 12V Ver 2.2 Power Supply (Retail Box)
Intel® Core?2 Extreme QX6700, 2.66-GHz @ 1066Mhz w/ 8Mb Quad Core (Socket 775) (Retail Box) w/ Heat Sink & Fan
Asus® C2D Striker Extreme, Socket 775, nVidia Nforce 680 SLI Chipset w/ PCI Express x16 (ATX)
OCZ 4Gb PC2-6400 DDR2 Dual Channel Vista permaince Gold Series
Pioneer DVR-107 DVD-RW & CD-RW Drive
Liteon 52/32/52 CD-RW Drive
Logitech® Cordless MX? Duo
2 x 74 GB Western Digital® Raptor? SATA-150 10,000RPM 8Mb OEM
160GB Seagate Barracuda V SATA-150 7200RPM 8Mb 9ms OEM
ASUS? Exteme EN8800GTX/HTDP/768M - Geforce 8800GTX w.768Mb DDR3 & PCI Express x16 Retail Box
ASUS? Exteme EN8800GTX/HTDP/768M - Geforce 8800GTX w.768Mb DDR3 & PCI Express x16 Retail Box
SoundBlaster® Audigy? 2 ZS Platinum Pro