Windows 10 - nForce 680i?

[RatmanGB]

Hi,

Not sure if this would be better in the motherboard section, but...

A friend of mine has an older Alienware PC with an nForce 680i SLI motherboard. He's currently running Windows Vista 32-bit, for which he has my sympathy. I know that Nvidia gave up writing drivers for nForce chipsets after Windows 7, but has anyone tried installing Windows 10 on 680i? If so, what happened?

Thanks!

 

[RatmanGB]

nForce you say?

Reminds me of my EPoX motherboard which had nForce. Had about 10+ upgrade since. lol.

I do say!

I was still using an nForce board myself until earlier this year - 780a chipset with a Phenom II. Had a lot of nForce boards over the years, I was sorry to see Nvidia pull out of that market.

Thanks for the replies, I do have an old HDD I could lend him to try the install, I might give that a go.

 

[RatmanGB]

Weren't the nForce boards from version 3 onwards not plagued with problems? Corruption?

I never had a 3 (1, 2, some variety of 4, 650i SLI and 780a SLI only) but the only major problem I ever had was with the Nvidia firewall, which for me at least prevented all communication with the Internet... so in terms of protection I guess it was the best firewall in the world!

I had more trouble with VIA chipset boards than nforce.

 

[RatmanGB]

I'm still using an AMD nForce 780a Chipset board for my HTPC... Seems pretty stable but has no chance in hell of overclocking a Phenom II, the settings just don't work lol

I had to disable Cool & Quiet in the BIOS of my 780a board (Asus M3N72-T Deluxe) to get any overclocking settings to work. After that I was able to run my 965 at 3.8 just by changing the multiplier and it was stable.

 

[RatmanGB]

In case anyone's interested, I got bored and dragged a load of old bits out of my loft and built another PC. I can confirm that Windows 10 will install on an nForce 780a chipset motherboard at least, without any NVidia drivers being required!