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Vince P.

Vince P.

Joined on 02/26/05

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Most Favorable Review

Smooth

ASUS Striker II Extreme LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
ASUS Striker II Extreme LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: I had absolutely NO problems with this board. I have a Zalman Reserator XT water -cooling system hooked up to the cpu, the block on the motherboard and 2 8800 GTX's. Running Vista 64 SP1. Ram - though I didn'd see it on Asus's list of supported memory, I bought 4 gigs of OCZ NVIDIA SLI-Ready 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2000 (PC3 16000) Dual Channel Kit. I have the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 Yorkfield 3.2GHz LGA 775 running smoothly at 3.8 ghz. No leaking, and a very stable fast setup.

Cons: None really.

Overall Review: Its actually one of the least problematic setups I've ever gone through. Cabling/power cord locations seem well thought out.

Most Critical Review

Be careful

ZALMAN ZM-GWB8800 Ultra/GTX GPU Water Block
ZALMAN ZM-GWB8800 Ultra/GTX GPU Water Block

Pros: It works as intended, keeps my GTX's cool and silent.

Cons: I have a complete Zalman WC set up with the Reserator XT. I connected the Zalman tubing and supplied hose clamps as instructed, but after 2 hours of playing Crysis the hose popped off and voided coolent over the bottom of my case and left a nice blue puddle on my floor. I was lucky the hose spurted the coolant away from the MB. So...after quickly unplugging my machine, I disconnected everthing below the "wet-line" in the case and let it dry over night. The next day I re-connected everything, re-filled the Reserator with coolant AND double-clamped the tubes onto the nozzles using the supplied metal clamps AND plastic "snap-clamps". I was greatly relieved that no damage occurred to my computer. Everything has held together since I installed the plastic snap clamps.

Overall Review: The supplied metal clamps didn't hold the tubes onto the nozzle, you may want to use something that doesn't expand when heated like metal and use plastic snap clamps, or both (the nozzle is long enough for 2 clamps).