The reference design 680i boards as used by evga, bfg were pretty poor. Ok for clocking dual core chips but rubbish with quads. I had the updated a1 revision of the evga 680i. Supposedly better with quads. But still couldnt get much of an oc out of a q6600. Same chip hit 3.8ghz pretty easily in an intel p45 chipset board. North bridge chipset also ran very hot on the 680. Was very common to see people replacing the paste that came on them as it was quite poor and very badly applied.
What happened to Nforce?
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Yeah I loved the DFI boards cant remember which one I had other than it was orange.
Weren't they the first to use garish colours like bright green, orange and purple?
Strange thing about mine was it had nforce chipset, intel cpu, but just refused to work with nvidia cards. I could only get it to boot with ATI !
Wow, I'd totally forgotten about DFI. Did they go the same way as Abit?
I had an Asus A7N8X-E with the nForce2 chipset way back when, with a Barton XP2500. I remember some of those boards had pretty good on-board audio too, MCP-T or something?
I had an Asus A7N8X-E with the nForce2 chipset way back when, with a Barton XP2500. I remember some of those boards had pretty good on-board audio too, MCP-T or something?
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Absolutely false!
Nvidia pulled out of market because of legal actions over Nvidia chipset license with Intel after Intel sued and terminated 5 years chipset license then Nvidia undersue and won $1.5bn settlement in 2011.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4121/the-license-agreement-intel-to-pay-nvidia-15-billion
Abit ceased in 2009 and I think DFI did the same year, or a bit earlier.
Their LAN Party line was one of the first (not sure about first) to use garish colours - I used to buy the Infinity line - usually very solid boards without quite the markup of the LAN Party ones.
NForce4 was buggy. Wouldn't play nice with my SoundBlaster X-Fi. Had to limit RAM to 3.5GB in Windows 7 otherwise all I would get is pops and crackles. I gave it to my flatmate and he is still using it though to play games on along with a 8800 GTS.
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Nforce 2 ultra 400
2 sticks of 256mb BH-5
Mobile athlon xp 2500
250mhz FSB at 1:1 with 2-2-2-5
4GBps memory bandwidth
Radeon 9800 pro naturally and a wd raptor if you could afford it.
Those were the days!
Nforce 2 ultra 400
2 sticks of 256mb BH-5
Mobile athlon xp 2500
250mhz FSB at 1:1 with 2-2-2-5
4GBps memory bandwidth
Radeon 9800 pro naturally and a wd raptor if you could afford it.
Those were the days!
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I believe I was the first person on here to buy the awesome Epox EP-8NPA SLI which gave us SLI on socket 754. I had a 3700+ clocked to the dizzy height of 2.74ghz and a pair of 6800gt's in it. The 24 and 4 pin power connectors were in a terrible place but what a cracking reasonably priced (£75) board that was.
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nforce2 boards were awesome, they allowed overclocking of the memory without it affecting the PCI/AGP bus
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...and Soundstorm was just damn awesome!
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The issue was that AMD had fallen behind, and then bought ATI, nVidia's biggest competitor, so nVidia didn't really want to support/promote their products anymore.
Intel had granted nVidia a license to make chipsets based on their AGTL FSB, but dumped that with Nehalem in favour of QPI and an integrated memory controller. They then went further with Clarkdale and integrated PCIe etc to the CPU and used DMI to link to the PCH, which was little more than a "southbridge" in the old terminology.
nVidia didn't have a license to QPI or DMI, so they couldn't make chipsets for the new CPUs.
nVidia sued Intel, as their crosslicense had been GPU assets for chipset rights, they settled, Intel to this day pay nVidia a regular chunk of cash although it ends soon.
Intel had granted nVidia a license to make chipsets based on their AGTL FSB, but dumped that with Nehalem in favour of QPI and an integrated memory controller. They then went further with Clarkdale and integrated PCIe etc to the CPU and used DMI to link to the PCH, which was little more than a "southbridge" in the old terminology.
nVidia didn't have a license to QPI or DMI, so they couldn't make chipsets for the new CPUs.
nVidia sued Intel, as their crosslicense had been GPU assets for chipset rights, they settled, Intel to this day pay nVidia a regular chunk of cash although it ends soon.
Yea Soundstorm was good. Even modern onboard sound is poor in comparison.