Hi all, I am looking at getting a new computer very soon, and I have heard some excellent things about both of these mobos. Now comes the part where I have to choose between them. I currently have an Abit AN8 and it's been pretty good to me for 2 years now, but that alone won't make me pick the IN9 over the Striker. To make it easy, I'll categorize my pros and cons. Abit IN9 Pros: Good overclocking support Abit have been good to me before Cooling setup Flash looking boot screen (LOL) Wi-Fi Cons: Immature BIOS Various bugs become apparent when tweaking FSB at certain multiples (memory bandwidth decrease etc.) 680i chipset on NB only, 590(i think) on SB Asus Striker Extreme Pros: Has lots more BIOS revisions than the Abit User friendly POST error indicator 680i chipset on NB and SB Good cooling setup too Cons: Extremely picky with RAM!!!!!!! Which brings me to my big problem. The RAM I want is G.SKILL 2x1gig CL4 DDR2 800Mhz (PC2-6400) Model: F2-6400CL4D-2GBHK Good latency 4-4-3-5 when compared to say, some Corsair (same price) with 5-5-5-12. Anyway, the G.Skill is NOT on the Striker Extreme qualified vendor list that Asus engineers have released Does this mean that I will CERTAINLY have problems, or that it is just not recommended for me to use such RAM? I'm fine with un-recommended stuff, hey, what's overclocking for? If ANYONE can find a review comparing these two boards (I've read HEAPS of reviews but NONE have these boards together), PLEASE post the link here My decision won't be based on the RAM alone, because I can always just get different stuff I guess, but I'm looking for anything that could swing me one way or the other instead of just being stuck in the middle. Thanks heaps, Rubix
I have aw9d-max and its amazing i was reading allot reviews of these 2 mobos and these are great mobos i suggest abit becose that digital pwm and uguru chip allot users say that is better for overclocking but asus is really buggy and crashes allot whn overclocking read some reviews and test between them and good luck with chosing i will wait for dd3 before new mobo
yeah i've googled them both and read every review on the first two pages, but nothing is helping me swing one way or the other. PLease help!
