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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6 Motherboards?

    When my computer boots up it says X48-DQ6 Rev F7f So I would say it's safe to say that it's for X48 ;)
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    Motherboard/Ram advice question

    There's a heat problem with the X38/X48 series boards? I did some pretty thorough reading on the X48 series and never found mention of any problems related to this. My X48, while "only" running at a mild overclock of 20% (E8400 @ 3.6GHz, 1.25Vcore), has no heat "problems" whatsoever. Temps...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6 Motherboards?

    I saw this too, and did peel it back! :) Underneath it did indeed say EX38-DQ6, no fear though, as bigsnyder said, the X48 NB is a drop in replacement for the X38 NB. Lucky X38 owners that got a X48 quality mobo, or poor X48 owners that "only" got a X38 quality mobo? The "markup" for the...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Hey Eklock, Last page I posted a link to the XS forums post about this board. http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=163168 You can either go back a page and see my post of read the above thread and you will find the links.
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Hey Eklock... What bios are you using. I'm using the F7f I posted earlier, and haven't seen any issues like that at all. As far as OC'ing. I didn't have a lot of time, but I upped Vcore to 1.25, and set my FSB to 400 for my E8400, set my RAM to run 2.2V 1066MHz @ 5-5-5-15. Fired right up...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Posting for what should be the last time in this old thread... My 680i SLI board is gone, and my new X48-DQ6 is up and running.... Farewell friends, and see you in the X48 thread! Good luck to those of you that chose to stick with this board, I fully believe Colin, Chuck, and Leo will...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Install went flawlessly, yay! Up and running XP32 here... No real time to OC it yet, but running an E8400 / Xigmatek HDT-S1283 / 2x 1Gb Corsair Dominator 8500C5DF and so far it's humming merrily along. More to come later after I get some work done. /cheers
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6 Motherboards?

    It will be waiting for me tomorrow afternoon when I get home from work! Just confirmed it via UPS tracking website. Very excited now to get my computer back together, unfortunately any OC tinkering will have to wait until I get unfinished work done for my customers.
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6 Motherboards?

    As a (hopefully) soon to be owner, I found this helpful page that seems to be regularly updated http://www.station-drivers.com...igabyte/ga-x48-dq6.htm Shows F7d version of bios availabe. I've also seen F7f running around too, will try and find links. Edit: Found it...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Well.. Chuck contacted me yesterday afternoon to let me know my X48-DQ6 would be shipped out 3 Day, so I inquired as to whether I could foot the bill for an upgrade to 2 day to be able to get my board on Friday. He immediately repsonded for a nominal fee they could and would do that. Very...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Morning everyone.... "Your item was delivered at 11:29 AM on April 28, 2008 in LA PUENTE, CA 91747. The item was signed for by W TANDRA. " Well Gb has my board, hopefully I'll be hearing from Chuck or Leo soon, would be terrific (esp. for my work) if they get my new board back to me by Fri...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Board shipped off as of 11:30AM EST Fri the 25th of April. Should be in Chuck's hands no later than Tuesday in Cali. With a fast turn around I can hopefully have my "new" mobo back next Friday, stuck on the wifes laptop until then!
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Hi jaggerwild, I'm actually going to send it back on my own dime, with the USPS priority mail. I have a lot more faith in them than I do in UPS/FedEx (my brother is a UPS package handler at the hub in my area) and for anything fragile / delicate I use USPS. Sending it out tomorrow at lunch...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Great news to see that the replacements are filtering back to us now. I will be sending my board back to them tomorrow insured and registered. Hopefully they can get it back to me before next weekend. Cheers to Chuck, Leo and Colin.
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Leo contacted me the day after I sent him and email, and when I missed sending him something that I had told him I would, he contacted me the next day wondering if I had sent it. Chuck contacted me pretty much within an hour of me providing Leo with my mobo s/n which means they are on the...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Smitty/Blazer... Did they give you a timeline on how long you will be out of a computer... Colin, any info you can provide on this? I do a lot of my work at home and really can't afford 2 weeks downtime.
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Email sent today, will be interesting to see if this goes through. Being without my computer for 3 weeks is *not* an option. Especially after shelling out $350USD. I'm mildly pleased they are moving forward on doing *something*. However, I really hope that they don't put us out while...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Anyone tried these bios' yet... Not a knock on Colin and his wonderful attempt to help us with this situation... I'm just a little nervous to try these considering my rig is *mostly* working at the moment (minus the aforementioned "Building DMI data pool" bs). After some of the early bios...
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    When Is Anandtech Going To Expose Gigabyte's Failure To Support Its Products?

    Thanks Gary... nice to know you're out there on our side. I (and am sure all of use stuck with this board) appreciate your efforts on our behalf.
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    When Is Anandtech Going To Expose Gigabyte's Failure To Support Its Products?

    I bought mine from the first batch that Gigabyte released to NewEgg. Pretty much day one of widespread availability. If you need a date, I can search through my order history at the 'Egg.
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    When Is Anandtech Going To Expose Gigabyte's Failure To Support Its Products?

    You are completely missing the point. The box / website / manual all state clearly that the mobo will support said processors. A lot of us bought the mobo based on that information. How is any of this our fault for not doing our research? Every review stated the same information that was given...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Hey Gary, Any word from Giga on either a bios update/fix or the reason for the rev 2 mobo's?
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Hi Riddler... Back somewhere in the page 20's I think a few of us posted many of the important bios settings, to compare, so I'd start to look there. My first quest is, do you have adequate cooling, you didn't list an "aftermarket" CPU hsf so that would tell me that you are running stock...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    MSI ? I think you mean Gigabyte?
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    I played around with 1T timings, I have 4x 1Gb Corsair Dominator 8500C5D's. I was playing around early on with just 2 DIMMs (2Gb) and was able to run 1T up to around 850-900MHz (if I recall correctly). 1T is far less lenient of OC'ing than 2T is, and if you are gonna run your RAM up in...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Without seeming like I'm trying to be rude, but, have you read the entire thread? There is a TON of useful information about OC'ing with this motherboard in it. For you to come along and ask for "any information" about it, seems, lazy. Also, your question is incredibly vague, and will likely...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Ack, still haven't fixed that? I'm glad I resisted the urge to update and stuck with the F4e. I've been able to hit 487x7 up to 389x9 (both at 1.5Vcore) on my E6600 with unlinked memory the same as TheBeagle, so I'm not too terribly excited by "more headroom", I'm currently running 24/7 at 385x9...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    For the teaming, under nVidia, see below! (Learn something new everyday!) For bridging of the LAN ports, just enable LAN and LAN1 in bios, plug in 2 CAT-5's from your mobo to the router, then go into networking from the control panel, highlight both active lan ports, right click and select...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    In regards to bridging two of the lan ports to be seen as one, has for me, one very significant advantage. I play a lot of online games, and seed/download lots of p2p stuff, and before if I'd wanted to game, BF2, WoW, EQ, etc. I would have to pause all my running ul/dl so I wouldn't lag so...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Looks like Kyle & Co. got around to reviewing our DQ6's over at HardOCP.com... check it out! I won't spoil the surprise, but let's just say the results of the review won't be very shocking to us :)
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Good morning sleeprae, I'm curious, could you please list you bios settings for NB, SB, HT, and FSB voltages? How much did you have to adjust them to reach 1040MHz @ 5-5-5-15? Did you test it with Orthos / Prime in Windows? Was it "stable" enough for you? Regarding the better performance...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Hello MrAK, I guess that depends on your definition of "can't hack". I am definitely having issues running it at rated speeds AND timings. I can run it at one or the other, however. I can run 4Gb of memory all day long at 2.2V 1066MHz 5-7-7-24-2T or 2.2V 800MHz 4-4-4-12-2T but I bought...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    I'd be interested in hearing from the folks who've populated DQ6 with four 1Gb sticks of memory. I have four 1Gb Corsair Dominator 8500C5DF's and have been having issues for a while (BSOD's, CTD during games, etc). Win XP Pro x32, running the F4e bios. The memory is rated for 2.2V 1066MHz...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Good morning Mr AK, I have an original BFG 8800GTX, I ordered it on release day. It runs pretty fine at 625/2050 (when I'm stable!). I'm currently using the 158.19 drivers, but haven't been stable in a couple days to test them (damn NVENETFD.SYS BSODs). I was using the last Forceware release...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    I dumped EasyTune, it hangs a lot and doesn't bring anything useful to the table for me, and I really never got a good feeling from it. I use CoreTemp, Everest, Speedfan, CPU-Z for all my informational needs. I definitely suggest doing all your OC'ing from bios, as I've never found Windows...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Hello Beacon147, I noticed you have 1 hard drive, and it sounds like you aren't using RAID, did you by chance install both the NV SATA RAID drivers and the NV SATA drivers when you were at the "F6" step? Also, have you disabled the NV SATA RAID channels (but not the controller) in the bios...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    I agree 100% with TheBeagle, the first "hiccups" I saw were around 380MHz FSB. I started with 333MHz for a couple hours, then 350MHz, and then 375MHz, finally stepping by 2-3MHz increments until it was unstable. Then I started playing with NB, FSB, HT, SB and Vcore. I can benchmark "stable" at...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Thanks for the update Gary, I know what I'll be doing tonight! And great job Smitty1705, I was seriously wondering if something was up with the "revision" rumor, glad to know people are really after our great motherboard!
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    Good morning XB3, I have always had good luck in ordering from www.frozencpu.com, and use them and the 'Egg for just about everything. I have never had any issues from FrozenCPU and would highly recommend them for fans, cables, coolers, and other things that the 'Egg might not have. In fact...
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    Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

    He most likely wouldn't have been able to install XP in RAID if he didn't ! ;)