I have this board, and although my sig says 3.4ghz or whatever I cant get anything stable over 3Ghz, currently running Q6600 @ 2.8Ghz, hardly the overclock you want for that kinda money. The plus side is you can SLi, my 2 8800GTs are still quite high up in the food chain and cheap as chips.
Striker Extreme nForce 680
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My last advise, DO not buy a 680 or 780 I have had them and they are crap.
I ain't even going to bother coming back with why as most peeps know and so do most reviews that they are crap.
If you MUST have SLI buy the 790I.
I ain't even going to bother coming back with why as most peeps know and so do most reviews that they are crap.
If you MUST have SLI buy the 790I.
My 680i EVGA Rev A1 gave up the ghost recently, from build it was causing problems.
Sata controller and data corruption were the first, lost everything
Then recently it started progressive freezing and wouldn't boot, kept shutting off after 2 seconds, had to hold power button in and then it'd boot into BIOS safe mode adamant my cpu/memory settings were faulty (they were stock from day 1).
Bought my P5Q Deluxe, put all my gear onto it... first boot-up, bang badaboom all problems gone, miracle perhaps?
In all fairness, ive had mobos from ASUS, Abit, Gigabyte and now EVGA fail on me. I will however never venture down nvidia chipset route again...
(I know i seem anti nvidia but i wish i had the same response (warning signals) when i spec-checked then i'd have went for an intel chipset board.)
Sata controller and data corruption were the first, lost everything
Then recently it started progressive freezing and wouldn't boot, kept shutting off after 2 seconds, had to hold power button in and then it'd boot into BIOS safe mode adamant my cpu/memory settings were faulty (they were stock from day 1).Bought my P5Q Deluxe, put all my gear onto it... first boot-up, bang badaboom all problems gone, miracle perhaps?
In all fairness, ive had mobos from ASUS, Abit, Gigabyte and now EVGA fail on me. I will however never venture down nvidia chipset route again...
(I know i seem anti nvidia but i wish i had the same response (warning signals) when i spec-checked then i'd have went for an intel chipset board.)
The 780i is just a bodged up 680i, the 790i is a whole new chipset.
So, yet another post full of people whining about the striker
Don't blame the board folks:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17864540
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=10863530#post10863530
And my Striker II Extreme results:
Don't blame the board folks:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17864540
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=10863530#post10863530
And my Striker II Extreme results:
No I mean... why should I - I already know from a wide experience with the 680 boards that the problems with them are in most cases NOT user error - anyone who thinks otherwise either doesn't have a very broad experience with them or is stupid.
The 790 is a whole different case.
The 790 is a whole different case.
I think otherwise. Built probably a hundred systems using them when I worked at OcUK - clocked them all no problem. So I must be stupid then?
Biggot/ Pillock.
Delete as appropriate.
While I'm really refering to the asus 680 boards from the OP as they were the worst of the worst - you can build a system running on a 680 board and even get some good initial results - but the boards don't seem to last very long and take a lot of fiddling to get anything other than a conservative overclock.
Down the line the memory controller on these boards degrades, often with the CPU init errors, the odd LAN port or memory slot will stop functioning, you'll get random instability even freezes in the BIOS sometimes with stock settings. None of this is down to user error.
Down the line the memory controller on these boards degrades, often with the CPU init errors, the odd LAN port or memory slot will stop functioning, you'll get random instability even freezes in the BIOS sometimes with stock settings. None of this is down to user error.
Cobblers - ran mine for almost a year.
Q6600 (G0) @ 3.8GHz. Hardly a conservative overclock. They are a lot of fiddling because they are an extreme board. The BIOS has many more options than a simple voltage tweak here and there. It was exactly the same when DFi released the Nforce 4 Expert board. Another clue in the title there. Had loads of them RMA'd as faulty when I worked at OcUK and most went back as no fault found.
The problem was people simply didn't know what they were doing or couldn't be bothered to experiment with settings for long enough.
I have a Asus Strike Extreme and IMO it was ok at the time. Now i am seem to be having endless problems with it. I seem to have lost the NICs on the board now and the RAID seems iffy even after BIOS updates and a few fresh installs.
As soon as the i7, X58 & X25 drop in price ill be getting these.
Andy
As soon as the i7, X58 & X25 drop in price ill be getting these.
Andy
If you had an asus 680 board that ran stable over 1333FSB without a lot of balancing the voltages against heat (on air cooling) you got lucky - thats not to say its not possible but I always needed a 60mm delta pointed at the NB on any P5N32-E or striker boards I've tried overclocking to get above ~1333 stable - and I guarantee I know my overclocking atleast almost as well as you do.
Anyhow thats not really my point - my point is (and why I reccomend people avoid these boards) these boards degrade badly over time and that is NOT down to user error. Eventually on most of them the memory controller at the very least is going to meltdown and the onboard ethernet and memory slots are notorious for going faulty.
Anyhow thats not really my point - my point is (and why I reccomend people avoid these boards) these boards degrade badly over time and that is NOT down to user error. Eventually on most of them the memory controller at the very least is going to meltdown and the onboard ethernet and memory slots are notorious for going faulty.
