ASUS P5N32-E SLI or Striker Extreme - Advice please!

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Hi guys

So I'm fed up waiting around for my Striker Extreme to come in stock (I live in Australia!), so in the meantime I've discovered the P5N32-E. Is there really much difference between these two boards apart from the price? If I plump for the P5N32 will I be wishing for the Extreme 6 months down the line...

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http://uk.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=397&model=1459&modelmenu=1

http://uk.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=117&l3=0&model=1439&modelmenu=1

One point, I know these are enthusiasts boards and I have never overclocked in my life but it is something I am looking at dabbling with. And I will be sticking a 8800GTX and Core 2 Duo in there as well.

So what would you advise....

cheers
 
Almost the same, same layout, same BIOS, different cooling more bling.

I would advice a P5N32-E over a striker
 
Good luck finding a P5N32-E SLI. I wanted to get this mobo but it is just as hard to find as the Striker. Word has it from CES that ASUS discontinued this model for the P5N32-E SLI Plus. But they haven't sent that one out to market yet. Supposed changes are few but aparantly a more stable board than the original was.

I'm now looking at either the eVGA 680i option, or a Striker if one shows up somewhere.
 
Yeah, these things are like gold dust! But the P5N32 is basically $200 cheaper than the Striker. I'll probablt wait for that one.
 
good point on the P5N32-E Sli Plus , you should wait for those to show up. Still the P5N32-E is a wiser choice then the striker.
 
The Striker is more for everybdoy, unexperienced and experienced overclockers. Has LCD screen etc comes with many extras as you can see if you already inspected this boards.

Also, the P5N32-E has reported to have several problems with IDE hard drives so I think thats a critical problem.
 
Taco what the hell are you doing here :twisted:

I like the striker, it just has a premium price because ASUS knows people is willing to pay for them, and actually people do 😛 you can see newegg as an example.
 
Very true, the same way that the 965 presler is still more than the x6800, just check out some of the reviews on that thing

And I'm here because there wasn't anywhere else I could give people free tacos :lol: But don't worry, I'll wait until your done rofl from this
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7648826760854938877&q=fresh+prince+of+bel+air+apache&hl=en
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Haha thats a nice video 😉 Fresh Prince is in my Lenguage Arts class, he makes the hold class laugh.

BTW, this is the funniest review I ever read

... And remember this is not a Pentium 4 this is a pentium extreme edition 965 presler
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hahahaha
 
crazy people

well I was just kidding with the fresh prince, is just that this guy is very very very similar, they look alike!, he is a funny guy and makes me remind myself of fresh prince 😛
 
100% for p5n32 e sli plus,its the best.i bought today,and a 6600 conroe,ddr800 kingmax 2 giga,its good choice,trust me.
 
My problem with the 'Plus' is they are advertising it as a 680i board in a 'plus' edition, whereas those who have them have found that it is NOT using the 680i chipset.

So shop around. the vendor i'm working with is expecting to get more Strikers in tomorrow. I have my fingers crossed. If they don't then I'll probably get the ABIT 680i board as it seems to be of similar caliber.
 
Recon is correct. I read a few reports that mention that the "plus" edition of the P5N32-E SLI doesnt use the 680i NB, but the 650i. Looking for that link......

Anywho...

Ive been using the P5N32-E SLi for about 2 1/2 weeks problems free, with a moderate overclock on....well....everything. The only complaint i have is that the NB runs VERY hot on the provided heatsink even after replacing the stock "thermal goop" with arctic silver. I give it my seal of approval.
 
Well I've given up waiting for the Striker. Every place I call is not expecting stock until mid feb. or mar. And many have their stock already taken in back orders.

As such, I've gone with my second option the Abit IN9 32X-MAX board. It is pretty wet behind the ears, but everyone has been satisfied with its performance thus far.
 
Yes I saw that. I refuse to pay over MRSP for a motherboard. There are vendors out there selling it for $100 less than newegg but are out of stock.

Most reviews of the abit board have been positive so far. They have been agressive at getting beta bios updates out and the only complaint so far is that the bios is young. Many have felt that it is just as stable as the eVGA, and can overclock well..and expect it to do even better once the bios is a bit more mature.
 
man,p5n32 e sli plus its a 680i sli not 650i sli,driver for 650i not function on this mobo,the bios its identical with striker and p5n32 e sli non plus.
conclusion :this mobo is 680i sli,650 i have 2 pciex 16x,this have 3 pciex 16x.
 
i think if you spend on the asus forums they both have issues - it seems both have new bios and the x-fi is fixed it appears.

the gtx's in sli still cause problems basically the same mobo - i have the striker only since i bought an open box at new egg for $256 - if i have issues i send it back to asus.

i think really unless looks count the p5n32-e sli si basically the same board with a few less heat pipes. if you running your fsb really high you might want get the striker since its cooling system is larger - raid and sound is the same.
 
I just purchased the P5N32-E SLI for my build. I should be getting it tomorrow so ill get back to you once i get everything up and running. (ps this is gonna be my first build) Feel free to pm me if u want to know how it goes.
 
check out wusy's core2 overclocking guide, that's very detailed on how to overclock the chip, but burn it in before doing much overclocking. And congrats
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=weblog&u=wusy
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Good stuff thanks!

Once you get up into say 30%+ OC'ed do you really notice the computer is faster in overall performance?
 
no problem, wusy did an excellent job with that, and so I think it should help a lot. And it depends on what you're doing, for most things, you probably will notice a slight increase, but most likely your hard drive is bottlenecking you, I actually tried underclocking my cpu and then overclocking it 50%, and I didn't notice much of a difference at all because I have a slow hard drive, but for gaming and perhaps photoshop, you will definitely recieve a big boost
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Thanks
My hard drive is as quick as i could find....is there a better option?
 
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