ASUS Striker II Formula LGA775 Nvidia 780i DDR2-1066 ATX Motherboard

by Asus

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 13.8 x 11 x 3.9 inches ; 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0012MF4GU
• Item model number: Striker II Formula
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

Detail Specifications CPU - Intel Socket 775 Core2 Quad/Core2 Extreme/Core2 Duo/Pentium Extreme/Pentium D/Pentium 4 Processors - Front Side Bus: 1333/1066/800 MHz Chipset - NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI Memory - 4 x DIMM, Max. 8 GB, DDR2 1066/800/667 Non-ECC,Un-buffered Memory - Dual Channel memory architecture Expansion Slots - 2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 , support NVIDIA® SLI¿ technology, at full x16, x16 speed(blue) - 1 x PCIe x16 , at x16 speed(middle) - 2 x PCIe x1 ( the PCIEx1_1 (black) is compatible with audio slot) - 2 x PCI 2.2 Storage - 1 xUltraDMA 133/100/66/33 - 6 xSATA 3 Gb/s ports - NVIDIA MediaShield¿ RAID Support RAID 0,1,0+1,5,JBOD span cross Serial ATA drives LAN - Dual Gigabit LAN, both featuring AI NET2. Support Teaming Technology Audio - SupremeFX II Audio Card. ADI 1988B 8 -Channel High Definition Audio CODEC - Coaxial / Optical S/PDIF out ports at back I/O. ASUS Noise Filter IEEE 1394 - 2 x 1394a ports (1 port at back I/O, 1 port onboard) Back Panel I/O Ports - 1 x PS/2 Keyboard, 1 x IEEE 1394a, 2 x LAN(RJ45) port, 6 x USB 2.0/1.1 - 1 x Clr CMOS switch, 1 x Optical + 1 x Coaxial S/PDIF Output Internal I/O Connectors - 3 x USB connectors support additional 6 USB 2.0 ports, 1 x IEEE 1394a connector - 1 x Floppy disk drive connector, 1 x IDE connector, 6 x SATA connectors - 1 x CPU Fan connector, 3 x Chassis Fan connector, 1 x Power Fan connector, 3 x Optional Fan connector - 1 x S/PDIF Out connector, 1 x En/Dis-able Clr CMOS connector, 3 x thermal sensor connectors - 1 x8-pin ATX 12V Power connector, 24 -pin ATX Power connector - Chassis Intrusion connector, System Panel Connector BIOS - 8 Mb Flash ROM. - DMI 2.0, AMI BIOS, PnP, WfM 2.0, SM BIOS 2.4, ACPI 2.0a, Multi-language BIOS Form Factor - ATX Form Factor - 12 inch x 9.6 inch ( 30.5 cm x 24.5 cm )

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW - more than I expected !, June 15, 2008

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Joseph Castleberry "SensoryX" (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ASUS Striker II Formula LGA775 Nvidia 780i DDR2-1066 ATX Motherboard (Personal Computers)

I bought this origianlly knowing it would be good from the beginning - I have been using Asus boards in computers I have been building for the last 5 years now - and they keep getting better.

Quick history of me for a second. I own a small computer company hand building around 8-15 computers a month. I have tried all the brands out there - and the two I have always been proud to work with were Gigabyte , and Asus. Recently alot of my Asus machines have been dominating my Gigabyte built machines on all my performance benchmarks - so I have decided to go with Asus exclusivly - for now at least. I have worked with many MSI , Abit , Evga , Intel , Biostar boards ect. , but none of them lived up to the performance of the new Asus boards out there. I am a major overclocker and performance enthusiast - I test M-boards, CPU's, and video cards to thier absolute limits to see what they are capable of, and for how long - stability is very important. So with that being said - lets get back to the review.

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The motherboard installs nicely , comes with a beautifully designed heat sink for the north and south bridges - if you have a clear side case - the heat sink has a glowing ROP " republic of gamers " light attached to the heatsink glow beautifully all the time even when the board is off.

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Overclocking is amazing on this board - I had a Core2 6700 which is 2.66ghz upto 3.2 stable with a upgraded heatsink and fan on the CPU , had a Core2 6850 which is 3.0ghz upto 3.8 stable using the same heatsink which was a Zalman 9700 " about $50 ".

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I was running the toughest game in the PC world Crysis - and this board overclocked at 3.8, fan cooled ran the game stable for 2 hours no problems - and the CPU load during this game was between 75%-95% on both cores - it also stayed completly stable on the same overclock setting with a cpu benchmark running for 24 hours straight.

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The new nvidia 780 " chipset " drivers allow you to take both lan ports on the board and sort of " SLI " or double them up to give a more stable and high end bandwidth for online gaming, and downloading - I noticed at least a 25% increase on all my internet reaction/ping speed while in this double lan mode - my pings are usually around 20-26ms , and ended up around 8-12ms after the switch to dual mode - very nice addition.

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The PCIx audio card that comes with this motherboar is outstanding , I had it hooked up to a home reciever and watching blu-ray movies - and every sound was amazing - excitingly clear !!!!

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This board is Tri SLI certified - meaning 3 video cards can be hooked up simultaniously. It has 2 PCIx 2.0 ports and a PCIx 16x , which is about the same thing a 2.0 - but is what allows the chipset to respond accordingly to 3 cards installed - gives you a 2.8x or " 280% " performance increase over a single card - the PCIx 2.0 ports are the new big deal - good to have them for future proofing your system. The old SLI motherboards with 2 16x PCIx slots couldnt even handle running 2 video card at full mperformance - the second video card only gave you about a 50% increase in performance - the new 2.0 ports allow full bandwidth giving you a 90%+ increase with the only bottleneck being the CPU but if you have the top CPU you will get near 100% increase.

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This board also supports the new 45nm CPU's - so all the new CPU;s comming out are completly compatible.

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The free game "Company of heroes opposing fronts" is a really nice addtion with this board as well.

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Overall , I am very happy with this boards features and performance - not sure how the other reviewer had heating problems with his northbridge but mine are running very nicely - and I have 3 of them hooked up here.

Hope this review helps - good luck.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Striker was DOA, October 11, 2009

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Michael M. Bennett "Manta3" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ASUS Striker II Formula LGA775 Nvidia 780i DDR2-1066 ATX Motherboard (Personal Computers)

I gave this board 3 stars because I like ASUS products and I'm sure it would have been impressive if it had lived. Amazon should get 5 stars with the way they handled the return RMA. They even set up a UPS pick up at my house. Thanks Amazon.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Overclockers Dream, February 27, 2009

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Dallas2000 "Dallas" (York, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ASUS Striker II Formula LGA775 Nvidia 780i DDR2-1066 ATX Motherboard (Personal Computers)

CPU INIT error on start up...just hit the reset button on back edge of board, duh. Download latest bios from asus.com web site on to a flash drive. When the bios comes up you can upgrade off the flash drive without even starting windows. Excellent planning on Asus part. A bonanza for Overclockers. FSB, RAM, CPU, voltage, or any combination of overclock settings you are brave enough to try. OC directly with bios or through the easy to use software that comes with it. If you go too far it will reboot to a stable system when you restart the system. Plenty of LED's and an LCD poster to let you know whats going on. I have raised my bench marks trememdously just by switching to this MB.