Official Asus P5N-T Deluxe nForce 780i Review/Overclock/Guide Thread

There's clearly something amiss with those scores though.

Three cards apparently offer a relatively small advantage over two in Crysis ,at present that is, but they should not run at half the speed of two in any scenario, except perhaps at lower resolutions.

Are you only seeing this anomaly in Crysis, or is the pattern repeated with other games?

What resolution are you at, what AA/AF?

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2007/12/13/nvidia_3-way_sli_on_nforce_680i_preview/5

http://pcper.com/article.php?aid=495&type=expert&pid=12 (they only tested at 1280x1024 and also found 2 cards faster than 3)

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3183&p=4


Only the last of the three reviews above used a 780i motherboard (the other two a 680i), though it appears they all used the 169.18 beta drivers, you could give them a try.
 
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Just to report, I got an XFX 780i mobo, installed all my components, no problems at all :)

This mobo is really good, overclocks are easy and very stable. TriSLI up and running without issues, got 18k on 3dmark. Gonna do some tweaking tonight and hopefully push for the 20k barrier.
 
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Just to report, I got an XFX 780i mobo, installed all my components, no problems at all :)

This mobo is really good, overclocks are easy and very stable. TriSLI up and running without issues, got 18k on 3dmark. Gonna do some tweaking tonight and hopefully push for the 20k barrier.
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Nice! Keep us posted! :)
 
Now I know you meant that, I can tell you Asus never ever use the Nvidia Ref, they even go agaisnt them at times. (Thanks Asus for giving you a AMD 939 NF4 with 2x 16SLI, it was supposed to only be for Intel), Abit and DFI followed suit AFAIR.

The Asus 680i and 780i are deff not Nvidia layouts.
 
Nice one :) Hmm yeah i'm hoping nothng else is wrong with my asus apart from that PCIe slot not detecting the mobo lol.. .hmm but i decded not to RMA now, not going to go Tri Sli just yet anyway :P just got 1 card atm as it is.
 
Well our tech team are still fiddling in their spare time...

with the new beta bios they have the QX9650 running @ 4ghz on air prime stable and they think they can get more... :cool:
 
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:eek::eek:
 
Nice work!

Going to be building mine this weekend (also with a QX9650) - do you have a link for the 0602 BIOS? Latest I can find on the asus site is 0502.

First Intel system I'll have built for over 4 years, should be interesting
 
Nice one andy.. Some impressive scores and clocks.. Managed to get the QX9650 at work on the P5E WSPro to 4hz on air prime stable for 35 hours.. :) Bit hot tho.. lol... New coolers on order...

Cya later... :)
 
thinking if i want to get this or not

i want to get an sli board, a 8400 and some 1066 DDR2 to replace what i got now. But with the probs iv been reading, im not too sure..
 
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