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halcyon
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n°1765900
04-14-2008 at 01:50:08 AM

Is that possible? Asus' website seems to indicate that the SE only supports Wolfdales, not the 45nm Yorkfields. Does anyone know/seen/heard otherwise...that the Striker Extreme may indeed support the 45nm Q9450?

I just NewEgg'd a Rampage Formula to support a Q9450...and if that wasn't necessary because the Q9450 would work on my Striker Extreme it'd be a big $300 dolt! I think I was safe to buy the RF but I just thought I'd check.

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n°1765903
04-14-2008 at 02:14:47 AM

There was an issue with the 680i chipset that caused it not to be compadible with the Yorkfields. Late last year it was on the forums alot. I was personally told by Nvidia that it would work but then it came out that due to how all of the motherboards were designed around the 680i chipset no bios update could make the Yorkfields work. My understanding was that if Nvidia knew of the design criteria sooner they could have helped their OEMs out. That is why if you want a Yorkfield on an Nvidia chipset you have to buy a 780i. The rumor is Intel punished Nvidia because Nvidia wrote drivers to SLI would not work on Intel chipsets. In the end the consumer ends up paying for the industry wars. People have hacked the Nvidia drivers and made SLI work on the Intel boards but not may people can do that.


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n°1765952
04-14-2008 at 04:50:36 AM

Cool, thanks for the insight. :)


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n°1777979
07-14-2008 at 01:43:29 AM

This is why you don't listen to people on forums. They have no idea what they're talking about most of the time.

I have a Striker Extreme, running a Q9450 and 4GB Crucial Ballistix. In fact, I'm typing this on it. People should zip it when they don't have any experience.

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n°1777980
07-14-2008 at 01:53:23 AM

Passerby, wish I had know that, I got a Rampage Formula and gave my Striker Extreme to my stepfather. Oh well, its only money.


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n°1777988
07-14-2008 at 03:03:25 AM

The rampage is good choice, overclocks past 450 fsb easily with q9450 :).

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n°1778051
07-14-2008 at 11:59:20 AM

I have been quite happy with the Rampage...another nice Asus board.


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n°1779366
07-22-2008 at 10:26:30 PM

passerby wrote :

This is why you don't listen to people on forums. They have no idea what they're talking about most of the time.

I have a Striker Extreme, running a Q9450 and 4GB Crucial Ballistix. In fact, I'm typing this on it. People should zip it when they don't have any experience.




I was asking about this earlier with regards to a non-extreme striker. Can I ask what BIOS you are using, and what if any settings you had to make to get the CPU working?

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n°1782483
08-12-2008 at 09:03:03 AM

passerby wrote :

This is why you don't listen to people on forums. They have no idea what they're talking about most of the time.

I have a Striker Extreme, running a Q9450 and 4GB Crucial Ballistix. In fact, I'm typing this on it. People should zip it when they don't have any experience.




Which BIOS are you using to get it to work?

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n°1782511
08-12-2008 at 01:19:06 PM

Perhaps passerby has realized he/she was mistaken and its either not a Striker Extreme or its not a Q9X50 running on it. FUD?


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