Not necissarily without hesitation. And you linked two mobos with two different chipsets. If you are a pasionate overclocker get the mobo with the p35 chipset. If you want to SLI two nvidia video card get the 680i chipset board. Just be warned the Striker is nice on paper, but has had ALOT of very well documented issues. Moreso than most boards.
we just checked it in real life man that’s why i’m suggesting it
asus striker extreme and msi x38 diamond were the guests of my cousin striker is his, diamond is another friend’s
what we found out is the same cpus (e6850) and same gpus (leadtek 8800gts) performed much better in striker’s machine no cooling problems, ram cas latencies and frequencies were the same
for unreal tournament 3, striker was 11fps better among diamond at 1280x1024 with 4xaa and 8xaf
for crysis they were close to each other but striker was 4fps faster again
and as i know he haven’t seen any problems yet with the striker extreme