eVGA 680i: Different A1 sub-revisions?

[jeeka]

I know that there are the older AR and TR revisions that had lost of problems.
I was wondering if there are "sub-revisions" of the newer A1 and T1 boards, and how to tell them apart? (i.e. A1.5 for example...)

It would be like saying "I have an e6600 B2, but it's a week 28, etc, etc..."

I am tempted to get one, but want to make sure I can cherry pick the exact board I want.

Thanks!
jeeka.

[illuminati-hwt]

No sub-revision :)

There are some reports of the newer T1's being with 570 mcp chip instead of 590. It should not affect oc-capabilities or ram/cpu performance.

[jeeka]

Oh, that's right, I read about that in some posts....
What would be the advantage of using the 570 chip (older?) over the 590 chip?

I'm guessing SATA stability that people have been posting about?

Was the 570 chip used in the nForce 5 chipsets? What about the 590's? Were they always used in the 680 chipset(s), or were those ported over as well. The '5' in the 590 is what is confusing me on that... My weak logic tells me that it would be the '690'.....

I wonder if there is a way to tell without prying off Heatsinks, like in the serial or model number on a box, etc...

Thanks!
jeeka.

[pumbertot]

Oh, that's right, I read about that in some posts....
What would be the advantage of using the 570 chip (older?) over the 590 chip?

I'm guessing SATA stability that people have been posting about?

Was the 570 chip used in the nForce 5 chipsets? What about the 590's? Were they always used in the 680 chipset(s), or were those ported over as well. The '5' in the 590 is what is confusing me on that... My weak logic tells me that it would be the '690'.....

I wonder if there is a way to tell without prying off Heatsinks, like in the serial or model number on a box, etc...

Thanks!
jeeka.


never had any sata instability here with A1 and 590MCP.maybe n00bs get it but those that know what they are doing dont. im not saying it wasnt present on older revs though.......;)

[jeeka]

WOW, seems like some guys on the eVGA forums are crying foul about the 590-->570MCP Swap on 680i boards. They are claiming that it's uses an
"inferior" chip, therefore they're USB and Hard Disk throughput are affected greatly (link (http://www.evga.com/community/messageboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=31932&whichpage=1))

Also, some stuff about it not being "true" 2x16 PCE-E lanes for the SLI stuff).

I'm not to up to date on this as I am currently a P5WDH owner/tweaker.

I want the clocks that the stronger evga 680i can bring, but I don't want to sacrifice disk performance (quote from page 3 of this post "If the 570 MCP has the same performance characteristics, does it still have the abyssmal 110-120MB/sec bottleneck on disk throughput as the 590?"

Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Thanks!
jeeka.

[nugzo]

No sub-revision :)

There are some reports of the newer T1's being with 570 mcp chip instead of 590. It should not affect oc-capabilities or ram/cpu performance.

Also newer A1's as well. I have A1 and T1 both with 570.

[jeeka]

Ah, OK, what about Hard Drive throughput (in RAID)? as well as USB 2.0 Performance. Some were whining about how slow USB 2.0 was....something to do with using certain SATA ports causing a conflict, bla bla bla...

Since that is the area that the 570 would control (logically)?

Are these old enough that I would have a good chance at picking on up off of Newegg, if I ordered blindly? Or am I better off cherry picking (a A1 570MCP)from Fry's, etc? In the past, Fry's has had older revisions of boards since they stay on the shelf for about 9 years before anyone picks them up (that's what you get for charging retail) :) :)


Also, nugzo, out of curiosity, why did you pick a 3070 Xeon @2.66Ghz (your sigg) instead of an e6700? Better chip since it is technically a 'server' chip? I can see that you have 3.6Ghz at 1.45v, NIIIIIICE.


Thanks.
jeeka.

Man, I am so tempted.

[pumbertot]

dont know about the slow usb 2.0, as normal devices wouldnt show this, maybe a usb hdd would but nothing wrong with raid0. iirc there was a thread where a certain setting in windows was enabled to get rid of the problem with slow RAID performance for some people. im seeing raid equal to my p5b-d here so no such issue on this A1 with 590MCP.

[shimmishim]

I also just realized that eVGA now has the 680i LT A1 and T1 versions out as well.

Geez, now there are 6 versions of this board lol.

680i AR
680i A1
680i TR
680i T1
680i LT A1
680i LT T1

so the only difference between non-LT and LT is the LT version doesn't have linkboost.

[Ace-a-Rue]

AND...according andre yang, linkboost has no affect on performance.