ATI RD600 or Nvidia 680i - What would u get and why?

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Hi,

I am so confused lol over motherboards. First it was the tough decision between a badaxe 2 and the 680i mobos, I am pretty firm now on 680i. But now the ATI RD600 DFI board is out and am not sure which to go for.

One thing that disapoints me with the DFI RD600 is it only supports 4gb of memory, seeing as people are saying with the arrival of Vista 4gb is gonna become the norm this worries me as the 680i supports 8gb.

The only other thing that worries me is the PCI Express slots. On the DFI 600 there x8 and on the 680i boards its x16. Also I would have to choose between SLI and Crossfire. Would the x8 slots slow down the new crossfire cards or are they so fast that its not going to be a problem.

I would like your opinions on which board you would choose and why?
 
Have bought the 680i, as it looks a decent clocker mainly. Might use the SLi in the future, only (!) 1 GTS at the moment though.

Few people seem to have had problems with the BIOS, seemed the one to go for. RD600 looks good though. If they were both out right now it might be a harder choice.
 
I want to get the most out of my E6600, I had a special P5WDH motherboard at first which let me clock around the 4Ghz mark but unfortunalty it had a dead PCI-E slot so i RMA'd and endded up with a normal P5WDH which gets me 3.6GHz 24/7. Ive been looking for a motherboard to take my back near the 4Ghz mark and Ive tried a few with no luck.

I have been watching the 680i and I havent seen any amazing result to make me think it would do better than what I have now, I also dont need SLI , if i did it would be the only choice. Ive also seen numerous people with data corruption and heat problems which have put me off somewhat.

Ive ordered the RD600 mainly because im itching to try something new, the reviews so far have been mixed but It was always the board I was going to get last june when i got my E6600, its just taken a while to come :rolleyes:

I dont think the 8x PCI_E slots will make much difference really, espeically if i can run 4GHz stable 24/7. If the board ends up being rubbish I thing the badaxe 2 looks nice.
 
Unless you're going to use SLi or Crossfire, then you may as well just go for the cheaper of the two, they're both amazing boards.
 
Yes the DFI RD600 only supporting 4GB is pretty poor i think.

Why does it worry you that the DFI board only takes 8GB most boards at the moment only take 8GB thats more than enough that you need at the moment.

Do you know how powerful your machine will be with 4GB of RAM nevemind 8GB (blown away).

And personally motherboards that default to say 2x 8x PCI-Express in SLI/Crossifre no it wont be much slower not enough to justify it but if you are a Gamer i would try and get a board that supports 2x 16x PCI-Express just mainly for future reasons.

But make sure if your going for 2 x 16x PCI-Express you get exactly that, check the manufactures website first before purchasing and reviews of course.
 
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RD600 for me.

Less power consumption, better raid from the SB600SB, DFI follow base for modded bios.

The best bios for DFI LP NF4 was the 704-2BTA by Bigtoe from OCZ who works closely with Mr Wuu :).
 
I spent all my extra time readign about mobos istead of studying haha. I decided on E6600 tho for CPU! Lets see how the mobo war goes.
 
Dont forget 650i too. It has most of the features but is half the price. 8x sli doesnt interfere with even the best cards afiak but 4gb cap :confused: Why I wonder, no problem now but in a couple of years maybe
 
I'm interested what the RD600 clocks the quad cores like.

As the 680i doesn't allow anything above 312FSB :mad:

The only way to get the clocks are with the multi.
 
The Foxconn 680i board (EVGA, BFG etc) are limited to about 312MHz when overclocking quad cores only, if it's just a dual core then it'll clock fine. This limitation may or may not also apply to the other 680i boards, but there's no specific reason it should as it's not a chipset fault, but a voltage issue.

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That's only the Foxconn boards as far as I'm aware, the boards manufactured by other companies may not be affected.

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ASUS striker certainly is apprantly.

In fact over on XS its widly reported problem with most 680i mobos and the quad core cpu's :(
 
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Yeah forgot about one thing, I think I remember reading the 680i's have future support for intel cpu's, does this just mean Quad Cores or the next gen of CPU's after Conroe?

Think i'll wait till some people have the DFI RD600 and see what they say, also would hope by then that the DFI 680i might be out as that sounds like a very nice board.
 
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Think i'll wait till some people have the DFI RD600 and see what they say, also would hope by then that the DFI 680i might be out as that sounds like a very nice board.
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Yes, if the quad cpu issue has been addressed.
 
Got my 680i sitting under my desk, in its box, waiting to take home and install. I'm sure this quad-core overclock issue will be fixed soon, but it isn't an immediate issue for me. Isn't the dual core x6800 chip running as fast (if not faster) than the quad core Q6700? Please le me know what apps are using these 4 cores...
 
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