?The Un-Official NVIDIA 680i Owners are Screwed Thread?

[JustaGeek]

Originally posted by: MegaWorks

Originally posted by: JustaGeek

Originally posted by: MegaWorks1
I don't see why people buy the 680i or any nVidia chipsets for that matters. I know if you want to go SLI it's the only way. Then why are you buying nForce 680i if you're not doing SLI?

Let me quote a part of my previous post:

"The easiness of overclocking with NVidia chipsets, and practically unlimited number of memory dividers/multipliers with the unlinked FSB/RAM settings will probably never be available on Intel platform."

Well I prefer stability over memory dividers!

I love stability too!

Been for about 1 year now.

 

[JustaGeek]

Hey, did they send you your old password...?

"I'm not new to anandtech I just forgot my password from my previous account!"

 

[manimal]

I understand the concern from the 680i buyers, I bought one because of the bios options and not the fact that I could go SLI, I buy and sell my graphics cards and rarely lose money on them, The 680i boards were being touted by the enthusiast sites and nvidia as upper tier solutions that would be quad core ready when they came out, Sure you could plug in a B1 or a G0 quad into a 680i and with much work get stable at 3.2-3.4 but you have to redo the NB and SB thermal pastes because they come completely screwed, second most people have to pencil mod because V-droop is twice what a p-35 or even a 965 board will give you and the amount of volts you have to use is generally more than you have to use for the same OC on a P35 board. I had 3 bad RMA 680i boards that died within days of recieveing them.

I was stable with a E6600 but the second I went quad everything went downhill. With the IP-35-E that I replaced them with I was able to get 3.6 stable at the same voltage that I needed to get 3.0-3.2 on all of my evga 680i boards. I know that the P35 is much newer chipset and has had the benefit of greater lead time and engineering support from Intel. What juices most of us is that we payed 250+ bucks for a motherboard that was labeled as an "Enthusiast" board-it said so on the box lol-


Buyers remorse is what this is all about honestly-

 

[Blazer7]

Well put manimal. One of the reasons I got my Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 was because it was advertised to support ?Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad cpus with 1333/1066/800/533 FSB? and that's on the box. Guess what, it does not. This is false advertising no matter how you cut it and there is no excuse for that. This was totally misleading for me and many others out there.

 

[MegaWorks]

Originally posted by: JustaGeek
Hey, did they send you your old password...?

"I'm not new to anandtech I just forgot my password from my previous account!"

Yes they did!

 

[MegaWorks]

Originally posted by: Blazer7
Well put manimal. One of the reasons I got my Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 was because it was advertised to support ?Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad cpus with 1333/1066/800/533 FSB? and that's on the box. Guess what, it does not. This is false advertising no matter how you cut it and there is no excuse for that. This was totally misleading for me and many others out there.

That really suck! Well instead of buying a new board for the 1333FSB Quad I would suggest buying a Kentsfield core. It's still better than Duel core.

 

[nippyjun]

EVGA has announced a 680i to 780i upgrade program. Check out their site/forums.



Here is the EVGA forum post...

 

[Mr Fox]

Originally posted by: nippyjun
EVGA has announced a 680i to 780i upgrade program. Check out their site/forums.



Here is the EVGA forum post...

This is a very good thing !! It says alot about EVGA ... They are selling you the board at or below cost....


It will be interesting to see if the other partners are so wise..

 

[postmortemIA]

This thread sucks without mention how nvidia shafted nForce3 users with Vista support, especially ones with doual core and ATi GPUs.

 

[Mr Fox]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
This thread sucks without mention how nvidia shafted nForce3 users with Vista support, especially ones with doual core and ATi GPUs.

I have my old SK8N NF-3 150 running Vista 32.... I'm not sure what you are referring to.. but most Vista Issues go back to the Operator.....

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: Mr Fox

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
This thread sucks without mention how nvidia shafted nForce3 users with Vista support, especially ones with doual core and ATi GPUs.

I have my old SK8N NF-3 150 running Vista 32.... I'm not sure what you are referring to.. but most Vista Issues go back to the Operator.....

not this one.
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