ASUS Republic of Gamers Striker Extreme Motherboard Review

Once in a proverbial blue moon, a piece of hardware comes along that promises to be within a league all its own. Such is the case with the ASUS Striker Extreme Edition motherboard. I’ve read a lot about the ASUS Striker Extreme motherboard lately, and I’ve been rubbing my hands together in eager anticipation of this. I have the chance to review what many regard to be the fastest mother board on the planet. Built upon the new NVIDIA 680i chipset, the Striker is a member of ASUS’ new Military-themed motherboards. That’s not to say ASUS has switched to a camouflage PCB, but names like ‘Striker’ and ‘Commando’ serve to suggest that these new boards are performers.

..The ASUS Striker Extreme is one hell of a beautiful motherboard. It’s built like a brick house, near perfectly designed, and boasts a number of unique features. ASUS also bundled more hardware/software with the Striker than most motherboard manufacturers would ever consider. You certainly get your dollars worth with the Striker.

At about $330 bucks USD on-line, it is quite the investment. But considering that it will handle SLI with the dual 16x PIC-e slots, that’s a big selling point. The third PCI-e 8x slot for physics calculations is another benefit. And the bundle alone is almost all the excuse you need to buy the Striker. It may not have the brute strength bandwidth of an Intel chipset based board, but data compression and memory throughput isn’t everything.

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ASUS Republic of Gamers Striker Extreme Motherboard