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=sw=warlord
July 28th, 2009, 05:30 PM
I've recently purchased a brand new motherboard after my old one pretty much bit the dust and now im curious what i can expect from it.
I now have a Asus Striker Extreme which so far other than a slight glitch with a memory issue which has been fixed seems pretty good so far.

Specs are:
Intel core2duo@2.66ghz
2Gb OCZ sli DDR2-800
320mb 8800GTS
Asus Striker Extreme
And windows vista home premium 32bit incase you wanted to know which OS.
I've noticed a feature in the bios about Ex enabled nvidia graphics cards but im not sure what exactly that is all about so if anyone can enlighten me on this i would be more than gratefull.

NullZero
July 28th, 2009, 05:39 PM
Ok...I still don't know what your main question is? What do you need? Overclocking? New components? Or are you showing off your system

=sw=warlord
July 28th, 2009, 05:46 PM
Ok...I still don't know what your main question is? What do you need? Overclocking? New components? Or are you showing off your system
overclocking ideas i have the faintest idea on how to max the performance of this thing and from what i gather this board was designed with overclocking in mind.

Warsaw
July 28th, 2009, 06:32 PM
Trial and error dude.

Pretty much, just tweak the CPU, GPU, and RAM settings until you find the highest possible stable settings. Use 3DMark or something to give you a numerical value to compare each setting against. Only tweak one thing at a time if you can help it between each test to limit variables (though RAM will need to be tweaked with CPU past a certain point).