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3 Way SLI Revived: Asus Striker II Extreme NVIDIA 790i Motherboard

BIOS Options

Written by yantronic and filed under Reviews > Chipsets & Motherboards
Published on March 14, 2008, 12:26 pm

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Over the years, configuring PC hardware has shifted from inherent jumper settings to software controls in the BIOS. Today, we even have on-the-fly frequency and memory adjustment within the OS. For enthusiasts, the BIOS layout plays a role in the user friendliness of the motherboard. The Striker II Extreme engineers have kept this in mind, and our 0504 BIOS revision is overwhelming with options.

Asus Striker II Extreme DDR3 790i Ultra Triple/3-Way SLI

RoG greetings!

Asus Striker II Extreme DDR3 790i Ultra Triple/3-Way SLI

Overclocking options on the first page. very handy!

Asus Striker II Extreme DDR3 790i Ultra Triple/3-Way SLI

Memory timings.

Asus Striker II Extreme DDR3 790i Ultra Triple/3-Way SLI

CPU Configuration.

Asus Striker II Extreme DDR3 790i Ultra Triple/3-Way SLI

Spread Spectrum controls.

Asus Striker II Extreme DDR3 790i Ultra Triple/3-Way SLI

Basic options.

Asus Striker II Extreme DDR3 790i Ultra Triple/3-Way SLI

Save that Fluke! LAN cable checker onboard.

Asus Striker II Extreme DDR3 790i Ultra Triple/3-Way SLI

Asus Striker II Extreme DDR3 790i Ultra Triple/3-Way SLI

Device Configuration page.

Asus Striker II Extreme DDR3 790i Ultra Triple/3-Way SLI

RAID page.

Asus Striker II Extreme DDR3 790i Ultra Triple/3-Way SLI

"Advanced" controls for simple functions.

Asus Striker II Extreme DDR3 790i Ultra Triple/3-Way SLI

Temperature monitoring page. No monitoring of individual cores, however.

Asus Striker II Extreme DDR3 790i Ultra Triple/3-Way SLI

Comprehensive fan controllers.

Asus Striker II Extreme DDR3 790i Ultra Triple/3-Way SLI

BIOS settings can be saved, well suited to testing out settings side-by-side and optimising presets for different memory pairs.

Asus Striker II Extreme DDR3 790i Ultra Triple/3-Way SLI

Preset-overclocks are available for those lazy to overclock their CPU. Yes, it can clock your chip to QX9770 speeds.

Asus Striker II Extreme DDR3 790i Ultra Triple/3-Way SLI

Up to 200MHz PCIe bus. Perfect for the extreme benchmarker on a SLIing Spree.

Asus Striker II Extreme DDR3 790i Ultra Triple/3-Way SLI

Rather kinky, I found, was the logo watermark that immediately brainwashes users into RoGs when they use the BIOS.