In the previous pages, we've mentioned that the Striker II Extreme has a well-furnished BIOS with overclocking appeal. Asus however, had let us down in their previous flagship (the Maximus Extreme) which sported some non-responsive "phantoms" within the BIOS pages. While the rest of the hardware sites were busy throwing out exclusive reviews of 790i motherboards, the VR-Zone Team had been busy tweaking our overclocks. We don't believe in giving half-assed 400x11MHz Yorkfield CPU-Z shots - it's as obscene as a baboon's backside to the discerning reader.

With so many options on hand, where do we start? Auto of course! With Vdimm bumped up to 2.22V, Vpll at 1.66V, and Vfsb at 1.48V, FSB was gradually pumped up.

With ease, we reached a stable 453MHz on FSB. This is whoppin' cool considering that the same CPU hit a FSB "wall" of just 441MHz on the X38 Maximus Extreme. Think about it, no messing with blazing soldering irons or freezing Nitrogen! The VRM took on our 1.625V CPU Vcore without much complaint to allow a 4.3GHz Yorkfield to run the Show.

"The Show?" you ask. That's the show!

Of course, more work was in place for this promising motherboard. How could we let the array of options go to waste?