ASUS Striker II NSE motherboard review @ Elite Bastards

Poor Asus, first to the market and all alone at the top. 

Oh wait, ya that’s a good thing right

Elite Bastards took some time to review the new Striker 2 NSE board from Asus based on the 790i chipset.  The 790i only supports DDR3 which initially will cause a little heartache but in the long run will be extremely good for the enthusiast platform.

Memory support is the one and only difference between the nForce 790i SLI and Ultra SLI chipset - While the standard nForce 790i SLI officially supports memory speeds of up to 1333MHz, the 790i Ultra SLI can make use of speeds up to 2000MHz. In short then, while both boards support EPP 2.0, the nForce 790i SLI chipset is identical to its bigger brother aside from officially supporting memory clocks above 1333MHz, so if running insane memory clock speeds doesn't interest you, then this chipset will suit your needs without burning quite such a large hole in your wallet.

It would have been nice to see a dual memory option in the 790i but with the memory controller being the deciding performance factor on the Intel platform it makes sense that nVidia would spend so much time on making sure it was right.

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