EVGA nForce 680i or new 780i

MumboJumbo · 9 Feb 2008 at 21:36

The 680i is limited by its cpu selection and many problems with things like raid and i beleive even the memory controller burning out? Silly things which plague it.

The 780i doesn't follow in its foot steps down it? been out the loop, trying to catch up on all the info lol.

marscay · 9 Feb 2008 at 21:40

8igdave said:
The 680i is limited by its cpu selection and many problems with things like raid and i beleive even the memory controller burning out? Silly things which plague it.

The 780i doesn't follow in its foot steps down it? been out the loop, trying to catch up on all the info lol.

marscay said:
poor vreg and nb cooling is the killer on 680i.

you improve that and generally the board is a lot more reliable.

imho 780i is a rip off, unless you need 3 way SLI get 680i and save 100quid

w3bbo · 9 Feb 2008 at 22:20

The 680i was the best board I had for dual core - even better than the highly regarded P5Bdlx. 4ghz P95 stable on an E6600 is nothing to scoff at! Shame it couldn't clocks quads for squat tho, even the A1 revision which had the GTL reference modification (the only difference afaik) which was supposed to help with quad core overclocking.

They are buggy sure, show me a mobo that has no problems. The memory overvolts, the vcore drops and droops (easily fixed with a pencil mod). The major problem with the boards reputation is that a lot of novice overclockers bought it in the hope for an easy overclock, regardless of what cpu/memory/cooling they had and when they couldn't reach the hoped for levels it was all too easy to brush it off as a poor board by jumping on the 'I hate 680i' bandwagon. Half the forums who give it a bad name also use Ntune as the primary means of overclocking which just goes to show the level of enthusiast we are dealing with here tbh.

I know I would happily use one again for dual core but would deffo give it a miss for quad core.

Rroff · 10 Feb 2008 at 05:57

680i are horrendous boards... if you get lucky and get a good clocking stable board they are amazing - very featured, very fast... however for 9/10 people they will be unstable, prone to bricking themselves with various random errors and very fiddly to get working...

I have owned and had 1 or more replacements for both the P5N32-E SLI and the Striker version of that board - I've also had hands on experience with the EVGA 680i - more than one of my friends have bought them and regretted it.

The only 6 series board that seems any good is the Gigabyte N650i SLI DS4L and unfortunatly thats only dual x8 PCI-e in SLI mode and support for new 45nm CPUs is undecided...