EVGA 680i

[Victor]

Reviewer: Björn Endre

Date Published: 3/22/2007

Excerpt: "With the nForce6 NVIDIA went all out and released the chipset first for the Intel platform. After the less than stellar nForce590 for Intel a lot of people, including me, were a bit cautious and didn’t know what to expect. Has NVIDIA learned their lesson and delivered an Intel experience as solid as we used to expect from their AMD chipsets?"


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[Chakka]

This was a great review. I plan to upgrade after the Intel April price cuts and I keep looking at 2 mobos - the full 680i versus the cheaper 650i.

It seems you can overclock easier and higher with the full 680i than the 650i mobos...but it seems that a few users are getting close to 680i results with their 650i mobos but not everyone.

For the price/performance ratio and ease of use, which one?

[Bio-Hazard]

With the correct bios on either board, with like components, they both will clock the same. The 680i has a bit more mature bios, but still has bugs as well. Give the 650i boards a month or 2 more and they will be just about right for half the price.

[werty316]

Personally I wouldn't spend money on a 680i-SLi board when a 650i-SLi performs close if not on par with the 680i-SLi.

[sushrukh]

Personally I wouldn't spend money on a 680i-SLi board when a 650i-SLi performs close if not on par with the 680i-SLi.

You also wouldn't have to spend money in one of these.You r very lucky that you already won this superb Evga 680i.:lol:

And to the topic :- Anyone thinking that they will get better results from the9000/10000 series memories will go for 680i & the rest who know that DDR2 800 is still better performer & one of the best overclockers will go for the 650 way.They can easily overclock their system & get to the 680 level.So, why wasting money ?

Btw, nice review Victor.

[Kougar]

Btw, nice review Victor.

*coughs*

That was Big Buddy Björn's Brilliant Badass Review :icon_tiphat:

[Bio-Hazard]

I'd take a 680i board if it were given to me, but other than that, I'm to poor to buy one............:(

[Victor]

yep, it's bjorn's review (I dont' want take his credit:), I am just a thread starter:)).

[sushrukh]

O.k sorry.Nice review Bjorn then.

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[SwedBear]

Duh, you are absolutely right. I must have been sleeping when I wrote that. What I was thinking off was the fact that for some other motherboards I have had to go in and manually increase the voltage to get higher overclocks.

Thanks for noticing it. I'm going to go in and edit tonight to get it right.

/B

[SizzFlair]

I plan on getting this mobo as well. However, I'm a noob at the computer building and bios, etc. Is it hard/complicated to fix/update the bios and such?

[Victor]

nope, the bios update for this mobo is really easy. Download the file from EVGA's website and run it with floppy disk inserted in your system. The file will automatically create a floppy with the BIOS. Then boot your system with the floppy as the first boot device, then it will automatically flash the bios.

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