DFI 680i LT lanparty UT

[voltaire2030]

THE 680i LT board to get !!!!

DFI LANPARTY UT NF680i LT SLI-T2R
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/1227/680iltslit2r1ra2.jpg

http://us.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_product_spec_details_r_us.jsp?PRODUCT_ID=5277&CATEGORY_TYPE=MB&SITE=US

[perkam]

Nice !!! 0_0

Mystery Of the PCI-E Slots Solved:


- SLI technology - 2 x16 slots both operate at full-bandwidth 16 lanes
- 3rd x16 slot for Physics card operates at x8 bandwidth
Perkam

[Revv23]

available in ten short months

[voltaire2030]

Much better ! Thx Perkam !

* It's finally out !

[K404]

Nice, but late. Strange mix of caps, and the D-PWM cooling doesnt look amazing. I hope the price reflects the competition and late arrival to market (ie...good price!)

[Vapor]

Anybody know where to get a different angle pic of that NB heatsink? Looks....interesting.

[Eldonko]

available in ten short monthsLol yup. Boards that work properly in 1 year...

[Revv23]

^on a beta bios no doubt. :p:

[Sumanji]

Anybody know where to get a different angle pic of that NB heatsink? Looks....interesting.

See here (http://csd.dficlub.org/forum/showpost.php?p=18072&postcount=136) :)

[Starscream]

Anybody know where to get a different angle pic of that NB heatsink? Looks....interesting.

here you go
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2099507&postcount=96



nice layout.

wish more companies would do the SATA ports the way DFI does them on the highend boards.

@Sumanji
Wtf i could swear ur post wasnt there a minut ago.

[mascaras]

this DFI have more features than all the others 680i LT boards ,for example 3 pci-e slots :D


http://aycu39.webshots.com/image/14838/2001017677730168433_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2001017677730168433)
http://aycu21.webshots.com/image/12220/2001099716441882392_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2001099716441882392)
http://aycu21.webshots.com/image/12220/2001056970520109558_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2001056970520109558)
http://aycu19.webshots.com/image/12258/2001014770788647462_rs.jpg (http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2001014770788647462)



its almost a 680i SLi

should be also + expensive than the others 680i Lt boards


regards

[LuckyNV]

I'm assuming that the 1st two slots are 16x while the bottom one is 8x, otherwise how are you going to fit a two slot cooler GFX at the bottom unless you have a case that has room underneath like a stacker or similar

[voltaire2030]

We have reviews of the 965 but not the 680 ? Strange... I like the design of the board and , I must admit, I'm kind of a big sucker for DFI Lan party's series ! But I will wait until I see more reviews before making the jump...

[-Acid-]

and we hope it comes out sometime this year !!!!!

[irev210]

glad someone is innovating for a decent factory nb cooler instead a bunch of copper pipes running everywhere.

Copper pipes running from NB to MOSFETS to more MOSFETS to SB back to NB needs to end.

[J-Mag]

I'm assuming that the 1st two slots are 16x while the bottom one is 8x, otherwise how are you going to fit a two slot cooler GFX at the bottom unless you have a case that has room underneath like a stacker or similar

A GPU dedicated towards physics won't need to be ultra high end. Anyway there is nothing close to being established by either GPU house to create a physics solution, so the slot will only be useful for RAID cards or the like for probably a year or more.

[virtualrain]

So can someone clarify, did they use the southbridge from the full fledged 680i package with the northbridge from the LT set?

[Sumanji]

So can someone clarify, did they use the southbridge from the full fledged 680i package with the northbridge from the LT set?

Looks like it... and then sneaky BIOS tweaks to enable the higher memory clocks on the NB I assume :devil:

[zakelwe]

glad someone is innovating for a decent factory nb cooler instead a bunch of copper pipes running everywhere.

Copper pipes running from NB to MOSFETS to more MOSFETS to SB back to NB needs to end.

QOTM ( quote of the month )

I could never work out those when they had a heat pipe between two items both of which was a heatsource, shouldn't a heatpipe go from a heat source away to a cool set of fins ? Linking two hot items with a heatpipe, how does that work?

This looks a lot better with a decent passive 680i northbridge heatsink and a nice active MCP55P to fit under the graphics cards.Lets hope the northbridge has a small amount of some good thermal paste under there and fits snuggly.

The LT should be cheaper than the pure 680, this could be a keeper.

Well, they've had enough time after all.....

Regards

Andy

[Metroid]

this DFI have more features than all the others 680i LT boards ,for example 3 pci-e slots :D

its almost a 680i SLi

should be also + expensive than the others 680i Lt boards


regards


Sorry but also my board has 3 PCI- Express slots as stated in the website.

I doubt any other board beats the price, features and performance of the P5N32-E SLI Plus.


The P5N32-E SLI Plus is the best Quad-SLI™ ready motherboard with excellent gaming performance. But what we care is not only performance, it's also about realistic. Extreme HD gaming with the highest resolution that feels like the enemy jump out of the screen, the supreme audio with a stand-alone card-SupremeFX, induce a better Signal-to-Noise Ratio, features with DTS surround sound, sounds like the enemy is just around. The unique 3 PCIex16 slot, reserved one additional slot for GPU Physics card when running Quad-SLI™, the experience can't be more real. This board is also of AI Lifestyle descent, quiet thermal solutions increase the stability and reliability when running resource demanding games or applications, EZ DIY features enhance the DIY experience and make PC much more interesting.

[virtualrain]

I've been following the development of this board for a long time, probably as many of you have...

The interesting thing is that back around Christmas, Oskar reported that he was not happy with the overclocking consistency of the full-fledged 680i NB. Further to this, Tony reported that the LT silicon is actually a new rev. He implied that nVidia may have done some tweaking to improve the overclockability and consistency of the LT NB.

Combining the better OC'ing NB with the full-featured SB, might be a stroke of genius on DFI's part.

We shall see.

This has a lot of promise, hopefully it's actually going to appear soon!

[theteamaqua]

quad core overclocking ... i want 400fsb on 9x multi

and yeah if this doesnt oc quad core well .. its no better than the normal 680i board

[DeDaL]

Cool NB cooler.

[cantankerous]

Is this the only board coming from the DFI camp based on the 680i or will there be a board based on the full fledged 680i SLI?

The layout does look impressive however and should perform very well if all bugs are ironed out and the bios is up to par.

[virtualrain]

Is this the only board coming from the DFI camp based on the 680i or will there be a board based on the full fledged 680i SLI?

The layout does look impressive however and should perform very well if all bugs are ironed out and the bios is up to par.

I'm sure it will be their only offering... see my post a few up for possible reasons why they went with the LT and won't do a full-fledge 680 product.

[EnJoY]

Is this the only board coming from the DFI camp based on the 680i or will there be a board based on the full fledged 680i SLI?

The 680LT is a superior choice over the 680i.

[Jodiuh]

Why? More mature/fixes?

[SunFlowerSeeds]

DFI LanParty Series is the only reason I might consider switching from X2 to C2D X2. I love the red & yellow colour scheme and it reminded me on the legendary DFI LanParty Ultra-D. :slobber:

[dinos22]

The 680LT is a superior choice over the 680i.

how so?

the chipset is inferior according to Nvidia unless you know something they don't :fact:

[irev210]

it is tempting to buy this :)

[Metroid]

how so?

the chipset is inferior according to Nvidia unless you know something they don't :fact:

Probably he is referring to the price.

[EnJoY]

how so?

the chipset is inferior according to Nvidia unless you know something they don't :fact:


Why? More mature/fixes?

Well the 680LT is a newer chipset. It's removed some of the overclocking limitations of the 680i and squashed some bugs. The biggest benefit will be seen in it's lack of RAID or SATA issues that plagued the 680i boards. Because the 680LT will be combined with an nForce 570MCP as opposed to an nForce 590, all the problems with RAID should be gone. Overall, it's going to be a more mature platform that's had more thought put into it. You can credit most of this boards delay to Oskar's awareness of the immanent arrival of this newer chipset.

[dinos22]

Well the 680LT is a newer chipset. It's removed some of the overclocking limitations of the 680i and squashed some bugs. The biggest benefit will be seen in it's lack of RAID or SATA issues that plagued the 680i boards. Because the 680LT will be combined with an nForce 570MCP as opposed to an nForce 590, all the problems with RAID should be gone. Overall, it's going to be a more mature platform that's had more thought put into it. You can credit most of this boards delay to Oskar's awareness of the immanent arrival of this newer chipset.

those issues have been fixed already.................if you are talking about write/read performance in HD tech that means jack :banana::banana::banana::banana: in real world anyways

they are roughly the same age but full 680i supports higher speed RAM natively...i haven't looked into other specs but one thing is for sure C55XE is top of the range chip and this motherboard isn't using that.....whether it makes any difference we probably won't know >>>> one thing this board has is Oscar factor which is a big plus in my book and i know he will take this bios to places no nvidia engineer or other manufacturers can :toast:

[Jodiuh]

That's really my only question now. Does anyone have a nice little real world comparo link between the 965/975 and 680i chips w/ regards to a striped hdd config? Again...real world as in raring, file moving, maybe even some game benchies.

[DeathReborn]

Now all I need is DFI to make a LP UT eATX 680i/LT with at least 3 usable PCI slots while running G80 SLI. Might also help with finding the best possible layout & spacings.

Why don't they make some enthusiast boards (1 CPU) in eATX? Lord knows there's plenty of cases that support eATX.

[virtualrain]

That's really my only question now. Does anyone have a nice little real world comparo link between the 965/975 and 680i chips w/ regards to a striped hdd config? Again...real world as in raring, file moving, maybe even some game benchies.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=128803&highlight=bunged (Not real world, but provactive, never the less!)

[Sumanji]

It looks like this DFI board is not a true 680i LT nor a true 680i SLI... it's like some sort of Frankenstein hybrid monster!!

[OBR]

Ok looks good, but where is DFI full 680i SLI? I have eVGA 680i LT SLI and that mobo is tragedy ...

About SATA/HD fixes - SB 570SLI is worst and pretty older then SB 590SLI, it cannot to fix some SATA/HD problems ....

[Jodiuh]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=128803&highlight=bunged (Not real world, but provactive, never the less!)

I did see that one, thanks. Towards the end there's a suggestion to change some options in the controller dev mgr panel, but yeah...real world would be nice. I played some C&C3 w/ a bud last night and even tho the level loads aren't long, the stripe finishes 2x faster than his single drive...just wanna know if 680 can keep up that level of perf.

[Roger_D25]

I have been trying to track down an actual release date for this board but it's been very difficult to do? From the DFI Power Point slides it looked like an April release for both 680i and P965 but some are saying it's close to 10months to a year before we actually see them for sale. Well does anyone have a more concrete answer regarding release date on these boards, or at least a more accurate ball-park date? Thanks

[EnJoY]

About SATA/HD fixes - SB 570SLI is worst and pretty older then SB 590SLI, it cannot to fix some SATA/HD problems ....

570 is the same age as 590 and when combined with 650/680 chipset DOES NOT have the same HD controller problems.

[G.Foyle]

The biggest benefit will be seen in it's lack of RAID or SATA issues that plagued the 680i boards.
ASUS 680i boards don't have those issues, but they have lots of others to replace those...

[Roger_D25]

I have heard the same thing from more people than just EnJoY about the 680iLT/570 combo being better than the 680i/590. Plus why would Oskar choose this combo over the more mainstream/enthusiast 680i/590? I for one would happily run this board despite using the 680iLT chipset!

[metro.cl]

here is a pic from the heatsink on another angle

http://img358.imageshack.us/img358/2057/hsnf680ihz0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[G.Foyle]

It's a mini HR-05... quite good

[Roger_D25]

Although it probably won't be enough for higher clockspeeds and higher voltages it's great to see it's not connected to all the other heatsinks via a heatpipe! This should make it much easier to replace with another cooler! Heck I even like eVGA's 680iLT cooling better than the stock 680i heatpipe cooling.

[erwinz]

waaaa... hope the NDA is lifted on this board.. :)

[Roger_D25]

Although this is a bit off topic guys I still think it's relavent to the discussion here? There has been some discussion in this thread about what southbridge (MCP) was going to be used on the DFI 680i motherboard and what MCP would be better. It looks like it's going to ship with the 570MCP instead of the 590MCP that most high-end 680i boards have been using. Well I'm currenlty on my 4th eVGA 680i AR/A1 motherboard. My first two boards were AR revisions and my last two boards have been A1 revisions. My first A1 revision was delivered a couple weeks ago when eVGA was sending out replacments for better C2Q overclocking (GTL mods) and was recenlty RMA'ed due to some major problems. Well my 2nd A1 revision just arrived a few days ago and after removing the stock heatpipe coolers to mount my chipset waterblocks I noticed something very intersting!

Unlike my first three eVGA 680i boards this one came with a 570MCP instead of the 590MCP which was a bit suprise to me as I hadn't heard anything about eVGA replacing the MCP from anyone! With that said this has been my best 680i board yet, no problems and very stable overclocker so far! Anyway I just thought I'd let you guys know since I image we'll start to see this on many of the 680i boards? I'm gonna try getting in touch with eVGA to ask about this but I'm not holding my breath, lol!

[cantankerous]

Thanks for sharing your experience Roger_D25. That is surprising for sure and could be very relevant.

[lionel57000]

only us and canadian customers are well treated with evga ...

i am french, i have a board with ps2 problem and impossible to have a rma ...
the international rma dept seems to have no new board ....

i m happy dfi release this board , i ll order it and sell my :banana::banana::banana::banana: mobo !!

i have a dfi venus and dfi has a good support ... i will never buy evga any more!!! i love dfi ...

[erwinz]

Although this is a bit off topic guys I still think it's relavent to the discussion here? There has been some discussion in this thread about what southbridge (MCP) was going to be used on the DFI 680i motherboard and what MCP would be better. It looks like it's going to ship with the 570MCP instead of the 590MCP that most high-end 680i boards have been using. Well I'm currenlty on my 4th eVGA 680i AR/A1 motherboard. My first two boards were AR revisions and my last two boards have been A1 revisions. My first A1 revision was delivered a couple weeks ago when eVGA was sending out replacments for better C2Q overclocking (GTL mods) and was recenlty RMA'ed due to some major problems. Well my 2nd A1 revision just arrived a few days ago and after removing the stock heatpipe coolers to mount my chipset waterblocks I noticed something very intersting!

Unlike my first three eVGA 680i boards this one came with a 570MCP instead of the 590MCP which was a bit suprise to me as I hadn't heard anything about eVGA replacing the MCP from anyone! With that said this has been my best 680i board yet, no problems and very stable overclocker so far! Anyway I just thought I'd let you guys know since I image we'll start to see this on many of the 680i boards? I'm gonna try getting in touch with eVGA to ask about this but I'm not holding my breath, lol!


hey do you have any pics of it.. :) it is really interesting.. :) Oskar really chooses well.. :)