Nvidia 680i Boards

Farore

Farore

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Hi Guys,

Is it me or do Nvidia boards constantly give problems and have horrible little glitches in them? My 680i is pathetic at overclocking my Q6600... Even a few hertz over a working value...it totaly refuses to boot up. What on earth is going on?

Are intel boards better for overclocking?

I think my next board will be the X58 if others confirm my fears...

Thanks

Farore
 
yes intel chipsets are better for overclocking

do not buy the x58 unless you're wanting to buy some ddr3 ram and a corei7 cpu as well. your q6600 will not work with x58
 
680i chipset is awful, definitely stick to intel. P35, X38, X48 and P45 are all significantly better, especially for overclocking. SLI is the only saving grace for nvidia chipsets.
 
In the hands of peple who know what they are doing, 680i boards are almost uniformly superb at overclockIng 1066MHz dual-core CPU's. Only the revised EVGA was any real cop with Quads though. It's unfair to compare the 680i to anything other than P875 or P965 as those were the competitor chipsets when it was launched almost 2 years ago.

A decent P45 would currently be the way to go if you want good overclocking although the older P35 boards are also excellent clockers. Avoid X48 unless you need the extra graphics bandwidth as the overclocking isn't as good in my experience.
 
RichL said:
680i chipset is awful, definitely stick to intel. P35, X38, X48 and P45 are all significantly better, especially for overclocking. SLI is the only saving grace for nvidia chipsets.
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Agreeed!

I have a 680i at the mo and its nothing but problems.

Andy
 
For some reason, the first 2 slots for memory are now giving me problems! :(

When do we see the X58's released? Im gona buy some DDR3 and i7 for sure! :D
 
mahn, i must have got a good 680i, mine is great. got my q6600 at 3.4ghz stable (8x multi, so 425fsb) (only at 1.35v's in the bios :O:O), my only limitation is my tempertures.
Never had any problems really to be honest, RAID controller is fine etc. My only complaint is i get a lot of squeeling under load of the mobo, lol.

If you are looking for a new mobo, and are only planning on running single slot cards, i'd recommend a p45 board, probably the ASUS p5q
 
Got 4ghz Prime stable with my old E6600 on a 680i. Great boards for dual core tbh. Agree they suck at quads though - for that gimme a 790i;).
 
Found mine to be a great dual core board, e6600 to 3.7ghz on air, sadly things werent so good with the q6600, and mine was the quad revised evga 680i a1 revision. got just under a years use from it before the memory controller died:(
 
I think the memory controler is dieing on this board...and its just come back from an RMA!
This is getting expencive. The ram works in the 3rd and 4th channel but not in the first or second one!!
 
In my experience, the 680i is great - rock solid stable e6600 @ 3.2 (not the highest clock, but noise is important to me), and no other glitches. The 680i has been great at dual-core... I've not tried quads on it, mostly because of the known issues with clocking quads higher than stock. Definitely not a bad chipset, especially for their time.
 
The only thing going for it is Intel cannot touch Nvidia's Memory Controller (hope that do better once its on the CPU).

The 680I has a name for clocking DDR2 very far even 1333mhz. (only really read/learned how much so the other day on XS, apparently its well known).
 
I have an Asus P5N32-E with the 680i chipset, and in the beginning it was a complete ******* of a board - I had nothing but problems. After a replaced board (original one was defective and killed the RAM) it's been much better. I can get a 100% stable 2.67GHz from my E6600 without touching the voltages.
 
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