680i confusion

[HeXploiT]

please see posts below...

 

[DerwenArtos12]

Do you mean the southbridge, down between the PCIe x16 slots?

 

[HeXploiT]

Originally posted by: DerwenArtos12
Do you mean the southbridge, down between the PCIe x16 slots?

That is actually the northbridge.
One of the most amazing motherboards overclockers have seen to date and they put the sb & nb chipsets bass ackwards.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

Originally posted by: Perry404

Originally posted by: DerwenArtos12
Do you mean the southbridge, down between the PCIe x16 slots?

That is actually the northbridge.
One of the most amazing motherboards overclockers have seen to date and they put the sb & nb chipsets bass ackwards.

you're not kidding are you?

 

[HeXploiT]

Originally posted by: DerwenArtos12

Originally posted by: Perry404

Originally posted by: DerwenArtos12
Do you mean the southbridge, down between the PCIe x16 slots?

That is actually the northbridge.
One of the most amazing motherboards overclockers have seen to date and they put the sb & nb chipsets bass ackwards.

you're not kidding are you?

You know what I feel like an idiot. I have no idea where I received that information but it was wrong.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

Originally posted by: Perry404

Originally posted by: DerwenArtos12

Originally posted by: Perry404

Originally posted by: DerwenArtos12
Do you mean the southbridge, down between the PCIe x16 slots?

That is actually the northbridge.
One of the most amazing motherboards overclockers have seen to date and they put the sb & nb chipsets bass ackwards.

you're not kidding are you?

You know what I feel like an idiot. I have no idea where I received that information but it was wrong.

Ok, I was literally e-mailing eVga about this. From an Electrical Engineering standpoint it would have been nearly miraculous to do that flip.

Back to the original question, I know the 680i uses some odd hole placments but, Any good chipset block like the swiftech MCW60 could be make to work with a custom mount, if one isn't available.

 

[HeXploiT]

Originally posted by: DerwenArtos12

Originally posted by: Perry404

Originally posted by: DerwenArtos12

Originally posted by: Perry404

Originally posted by: DerwenArtos12
Do you mean the southbridge, down between the PCIe x16 slots?

That is actually the northbridge.
One of the most amazing motherboards overclockers have seen to date and they put the sb & nb chipsets bass ackwards.

you're not kidding are you?

You know what I feel like an idiot. I have no idea where I received that information but it was wrong.

Ok, I was literally e-mailing eVga about this. From an Electrical Engineering standpoint it would have been nearly miraculous to do that flip.

Back to the original question, I know the 680i uses some odd hole placments but, Any good chipset block like the swiftech MCW60 could be make to work with a custom mount, if one isn't available.

Alright now something screwy is going on here. When I researched it last night I found some threads like this one where they refer to the one under the pciex16 slot as the spp/southbridge yet in the manual they say it's the mcp/northbridge. No freaking wonder I was confused!

 

[BassBomb]

you mistakenly thought SPP means Southbridge, which it doesn't

 

[HeXploiT]

Originally posted by: BassBomb
you mistakenly thought SPP means Southbridge, which it doesn't

So spp is northbridge and mcp is southbridge?

 

[PCTC2]

Originally posted by: Perry404

Originally posted by: BassBomb
you mistakenly thought SPP means Southbridge, which it doesn't

So spp is northbridge and mcp is southbridge?

Yes. I got that confused too and almost killed my motherboard. It's easy to mistake since for Intel chipsets MCH = Northbridge, bur for nVIDIA, SPP=Northbridge.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

Originally posted by: PCTC2

Originally posted by: Perry404

Originally posted by: BassBomb
you mistakenly thought SPP means Southbridge, which it doesn't

So spp is northbridge and mcp is southbridge?

Yes. I got that confused too and almost killed my motherboard. It's easy to mistake since for Intel chipsets MCH = Northbridge, bur for nVIDIA, SPP=Northbridge.

Can someone explain this to me since it was my understanding that MCH was memory controler hub and the northbridge on both chipsets is in fact the memory controller hub.