Should I upgrade from Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe?

[voodoodrul]

Thinking about switching to the Evga 680i board.. Does anyone think it's worth it?

 

[voodoodrul]

Nobody?

 

[gamer12]

why not the ASUS 680i boards??

 

[voodoodrul]

Either way.. any 680i board. Is the move from nForce4 SLI X16 to 680i worth it? I do not plan to overclock.

 

[SLM Crew Chief]

If you aren't planning on OC'ing and have your board stable, I don't think you'll really see any big improvement by moving to a 680i board. The big issues with 590 are the almost total lack of OC'ing and some memory incompatability issues. BTW, what memory are you running?

 

[voodoodrul]

Originally posted by: SLM Crew Chief
If you aren't planning on OC'ing and have your board stable, I don't think you'll really see any big improvement by moving to a 680i board. The big issues with 590 are the almost total lack of OC'ing and some memory incompatability issues. BTW, what memory are you running?

Well, just to clarify, my board is an Nforce4 board, not 590. I am running 2 x 1gb TwinX Corsair XMS2 667 CAS4. Stable as a rock and much faster.

 

[SLM Crew Chief]

Sorry. I was thinking of the P5N32-SLI Premium, but in any case if you aren't planning to OC I'd stick with it. Like you said, it's fast and it's stable. A friend of mine had one with two BFG 7900 GTX OC's in it and was smokin' with x16 x16 SLI. He said that a fresh XP install took all of 5 minutes with two 80 gig Seagate 7200.9's set up in Raid 0 too. If I had that instead of my P5NSLI, I'd keep it.