Problem!

[cheesegrater]

Those are costumer opinions, not comprehensive reviews. There are so many terrible ones too, at least half are one liners, have no regard for grammar, or spelling, and don't quantify their results. They just say "this board is awesome" or "this board sucks", yet they all say they have high tech understanding.

However, no matter what board you pick there is a few people that have a problem with it. What to look for is how many people experience that exact problem. Is it a freak accident, or a fault with the board?

Back to the Striker. According to Asus it is a BIOS problem. This pretty much sums up the situation:

"My time with the ASUS Striker Extreme was exceptionally pleasant. The bundle is excellent, the features are nice, the layout is nearly perfect, and the board is stable as any i975x chipset based board. That

[yf]

Thanks so much! now i feel i can go sleep... (but it still bothers me the fact that the striker backorderd anywere, and I need a board "right now" so I wont have that crazy good heat pipes, and my sotom logo screen and the easy to undestand bios and the asus overckloking software, and the most the "board layout" wich is so far the best,     yah....it heatrs...

Thanks again for you support, as the new rulles in this forum, "you now what you talking, man, your advice is goooooood"

good night.

[KDSM]

and I will get rid of the 2 stupid ATI 1950XTX

I'll take those off your hands for FREE!

[yf]

I mean it.., name a price for it  that should make senst for both of us (more for you) and its yours!

[cheesegrater]

I'm not the biggest fan of Abit.

I like Abit. I think they got the best Northbridge/Southbridge cooling system. Heatpipes get rid of the heat through the I/O panel. While Asus provides some weird northbridge cooler that just looks terrible, hardly cools anything, and just isn't practical. The boards usually overclock very well, and aren't overpriced like Asus and DFI. They use only Japanese capacitors, and their forums are great. They did come out with a few lemon boards like the KN9 SLI, and there are some bizzare layouts on some of the boards. I think they are one of the better manufacturers though.