Have Dual 8800GTXs... not sure on MB..

[Ph8al0n3]

I recieved 2 8800 GTX vid cards as Birthday gifts (was very happy), but after reading these forums for the last 2 weeks I'm at a loss as to which mother board I should use. Seems that here and on other forum threads that there is "Love" or "Hate" for the Asus 680i boards and the EVGA 680i boards. Just looking for advice on what to do at this point.

 

[orion23]

I like the EVGA 680i board because of its lifetime warranty.

 

[Cutthroat]

I like the Asus ones because of the extra features, but I killed a P5N32-E SLI with a BIOS flash. I really liked the board though before it died.

There really isn't a great deal of difference in the boards overall other than superficial features, most 680i boards were very close to Nvidia's reference boards.

 

[Sylvanas]

Go for the cheapest

 

[Nickel020]

I don't think you can go wrong with either one...

No motherboard is perfect, that's why you'll always find people complainign about how bad a board is. Next tiem around they switch to a different manufacturer whose boards are in their opinion "much better than mine which only causes problems" and they still won't be happy, because of course there will be some problems. One board will be faster, but will have some compatability issues that some slightly slower board doesn't , and soemtiems you get unlucky and you get a board that you need to RMA....

 

[JustaGeek]

I think that if I were to choose today, it would be P5N32-E SLI Plus.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813131153

BTW, for BIOS updates use the AWDFLASH utility, and activate all the pertinent switches.

Make a bootable CD for that if you are not planning to use a floppy disk drive.

 

[Ph8al0n3]

Thanks for the input all. In my reading over the past couple of weeks I was kind of leary about the 680i/650i boards but, on the other hand it seems to be the best SLI solution out there atm. The last 3 PCs Ive put together all had ASUS boards and Ive always had very good results with them. So all of the complaints about them ive read recently made me wonder if some things had changed with that companies QC since my last build (early 2002).

 

[psychotix11]

I wouldn't get any asus 680i boards.

Currently the best 680i solution is the evga A1 board.

All the custom 680i solutions (asus, abit, gigabyte, dfi, msi) offer a few extras, and cost more. Furthermore, other then the abit and DFI they OC worse then the reference board.

ASUS get's crap because out of all the 680i boards the striker has by far the most problems. I used to stick with asus and abit (till abit had a bad run), but asus seems to be having problems lately and the striker is the most glaring example.

Their bios updates haven't really fixed any of the most glaring issues.

Stick with the evga. I upgradged my striker for the evga and it was a great decision.

The asus 680i debacle has been so great I'll be wary purchasing anything from them again.