Review: Asus Striker Extreme
This is a short one, very short.
I had this Motherboard one day – and one day only. I never even got to use it, i opened the box and installed it. I was excited to use really use the power and features. I never got to use those features.
The board was faulty. Shame, look at the reviews on any site and you’ll see “Excellent, and great value!”. I never found a bad one so thats why i purchased it. I later found out to my mistake that it was a bad purchase. Seems like everyone that is purchasing it is having the same issue or at least a similar one. Its known as “CPU INIT” and all you need to do is a quick google to find hundreds of results leading to sites and forums all trying to work out a fix for it. It seems to me to be the ram, but its standard Corsair (2×2GB, 800MHz, 6400) RAM. But you can’t even attempt to get into the bios because it won’t boot and i haven’t got any other ram. For that reason alone i returned it – thanks eBuyer! – When i speaking to ebuyer on the phone, and the great chap on the phone told me that they have lots of problems with this board and if you get one that doesn’t do this, then you’ve got a good one.
I’ve now gone for Intel’s new X48 board, The Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6. I’ve been seeing some great reviews coming from sites and the X38 was very successful so I’m hoping its going to be a great experience.