Hi ppl,
Today i went to Asus Site and saw a new MOBO to their arsenal. Again it is a Nforce 680i chipset and is named “STRIKER”
Now i compared this board with the “STRIKER EXTREME” and found no changes whatsoever. So anyone got any idea what is the difference between striker and striker extreme 
Please … I am asking this just curiosity sakes … let me know 
Thanks
Both names refer to the same board.
Rio are u sure ??? As on the Asus site, both the mother boards are listed separately under the LGA775 - Nvidia Chipset category.
I am even including the link
Please have a look.
Thanks
Actually both striker and striker extreme are waste of money. Barring the darn LCD on the back plate there is nothing that plain P5N32-E SLI cant do that striker can do.
Yup… Striker is a waste of cash… get p5n32-e sli. Its the same damn board minus unnecessary frills :P.
You’re right they are different, but not in functionality/performance. Looks like the “extreme” in Striker Extreme refers to EL I/O which helps you connect in the dark and onboard LEDs to help you set up without a flashlight. Really extreme lmao.
Like i said … I know striker is a waste of money …and i had never planned on buying it. I am gonna get a P6N Diamond or P5N32E SLI … I had just asked this to update my knowledge
Thanks … I think RIO gave me the answer i was looking for…thanks
I bought the Asus Striker Extreme before I replaced it with the one I have, it is very very very buggy. Although many people do not have problems with this board… tons of people do, check out the Asus forums and see for yourself. I have been a very long time Asus supporter and have purchased at least my last 4 boards from them, and have never had any problems. This board was so problematic, and the fancy digital post was useless. This is designed to give you a digital readout of the post errors, except there is no list of what the digital post errors actually mean. I was never able to get this to boot properly more than once or twice, and I would not consider myself a newbie with this. Their tech support (which I have never had the need to call before) was very weak, and I finally got so fed up with dealing with Asus and the Striker board, that I returned it, and replaced it with the EVGA board I have now. It was probably the worst motherboard experience I have ever had.
That said, I did have a problem with the evga board too, but only very small and totally easy to figure out.. evga rma’d it immediately and sent me a new one.
Striker and P5N32-E SLI were both very rough boards to start with. It was typical ASUS launch. Great board with fked up bios.
It took the 0903 bios to fix all the vcore issues of P5N32-E SLI board and made is soo good that it actually seems to oc better than Striker.
Latest 2 bios updates seems to have stabilized the ASUS 680i lineup.
Just update bios and you are fine.
Btw that evga has soo many issues that many people hate that as well 
Btw that evga has soo many issues that many people hate that as well
Also has updated BIOS but it had far less problems out of the box, and was $100.00 cheaper.