EVGA 680i SLI board is killing ram.

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Originally Posted by cir108

For those who are mere chickens when it comes to talking straight, say what you mean and not learn to use or hide behind words like philosphical, religions, etc. This is what the mass media has slyly taught people, to talk bent as if their playing with words is so hip or worshipfully great. There are no shades of grey, only in the minds of chickens or budding ones. That is called politics. The fact is not how problems will be solved in the future [talking like a politician] but what are the problems now such that these problems can then be tracked and SEEN to be monitored. Ever heard of a place called Iraq or Greed….

Fashion is [usually] selling rubbish for fashion is about elevating perceived values to the heights that the dumbed-down can tolerate but usually gives little but dreams in return. Ever heard the politicos talking about this fact? No? So, even the dumb ones have some sense left, inspite of talking [or learning to talk] like a politician. For those defiant bent talkers, know that stealing is taking others property and giving little or nothing in return. This is called black or white not black & white for the latter uses fashion [whaterever the fashion may be] to cloud issues and all the science of gymnastic talking will not change anything other than exposing those who talk bent. Just because this is a techie forum [really?] doesn’t mean common sense should be abandoned or latent pimps be allowed to roam free.

When you buy something, there is no need to worship or praise for when the product satisfies, it has merely fulfilled it's asking price. Fashion is about worshipping, not common sense. If you chose to abaondon yours, don't drag others into it. Like those halleluja boys & gals. Drumming up support for madness [which mobo cost is spiraling towards] is manipulating idiots to convert the undecided masses. Comprehend fully that just because 99 patrons do not have a fly in their soup doesn't mean the one who had should be undermined. Especially when the soup is the Great Golden Variety and cost accordingly.

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Put simply I think he means that ExtremeIce shouldn't be lampooned for what he has found.

It isn't the fact that he stated the mobo is killing ram its the fact he is generalising a rather serious and potentially slanderous comment referring to the EVGA 680i boards as a whole rather than a few. I'm inclined to agree with a few others here that it was either user error or a dodgy board but I certainly feel for anyone who has hardware problems...had enough of them myself to know.

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Originally Posted by Ic3man

Put simply I think he means that ExtremeIce shouldn't be lampooned for what he has found.

It isn't the fact that he stated the mobo is killing ram its the fact he is generalising a rather serious and potentially slanderous comment referring to the EVGA 680i boards as a whole rather than a few. I'm inclined to agree with a few others here that it was either user error or a dodgy board but I certainly feel for anyone who has hardware problems...had enough of them myself to know.

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slander is when you lie about the truth. well i have not lied, lets see how many more reports come in about this.

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Originally Posted by Super Nade

I'm not sure if this was mentioned before, but one of the OCZ techs did mention that removing DDR2 modues from the slots with the power to the mainboard ON, MAY kill it. Probably the OP did this a number of times to swing the probabilities towards death.

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I have never done that at all. i have psu unplugged before i do any hardware changes.

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Originally Posted by Ic3man

Good on ya for reporting that the 680i is killing ram ExtremeIce but maybe you should consider changing the title to My EVGA 680i is killing MY ram rather than announcing a false statement.

Many here (inc myself) have had no such problems, dare I say the vast majority of people havn't had the problems you suggest. As previously stated why keep throwing good money after bad. It could be the 680 thats killing your ram, it could be a faulty voltage regulator on your board it could be a number of things but the first port of call would be to RMA the board imo rather than posting a misleading thread.

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This thread is not miss leading at all. It is the truth and nothing but the truth. I notice about 2 reports every day about ram dieing or getting damaged by the 680i chipset, if that is only %5 of report! do the math.

Just wanted to throw my 2c in and say I had 0 problems with this board. I've been a lurker here forever, and made an account just to say how much I love this mobo. It didnt eat my RAM, it was fun to OC, and aside from the PS2 keyboard being buggy as hell, it works perfectly. I'd honestly recommend it to my friends.

Here's a good one for you guys here. This is what he posted over at the EVGA forums. Enjoy his math!!!

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out of all the people that report problems would equate to about %5 of people. so if 2 people that report their ram getting damaged,killed,fried. so 2 x 20 = upto 40 people per day getting their ram killed. There is a possibility that the caps on the back of the boards are the problem.

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According to xtreme ice, we supposedly now have up to 40 people per day reporting that the EVGA 680i has "killed" their ram. Man, it's worse that I thought...(can you taste the sarcasm?)

Shawn

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Originally Posted by shawn1998

Here's a good one for you guys here. This is what he posted over at the EVGA forums. Enjoy his math!!!



According to xtreme ice, we supposedly now have up to 40 people per day reporting that the EVGA 680i has "killed" their ram. Man, it's worse that I thought...(can you taste the sarcasm?)

Shawn

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well as you know that can't be confirmed, but i would say only about %5 of people would report it as they don't all know where to report errors other than there local Computer shop.


I haven't seen any reports today. so all i have heard of is about 10-15 people so far.

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Originally Posted by shawn1998

Here's a good one for you guys here. This is what he posted over at the EVGA forums. Enjoy his math!!!



According to xtreme ice, we supposedly now have up to 40 people per day reporting that the EVGA 680i has "killed" their ram. Man, it's worse that I thought...(can you taste the sarcasm?)

Shawn

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I did not say there is 40 people per day reporting bad ram. please get your facts straight next time.

I really feel sorry for you Xtreme Ice, but to say the truth, the only problem I have with this mobo is the Raid access failure whenever I'm overclocked to 3.6 or above. I'm even currently running my Ram @ 1300mhz and still havn't killed my ram. Maybe you got a dodgy board... but would'nt you have stopped after the second pair of Ram was killed?

Its 5 pages long with rams killed lol:D...Its getting old.
I really can feel the pain of losing hardware either from user error or hardware nalfunction.....

So what is the solution?
Heres...dump this board if its killing your ram or any components then buy a different board. Easy:)

man 680i sounds scary lol

kunauk killed his board by falshing bios the right way, people's RAM got killed ...

i am gonna wait, maybe i will get RD600 with R600 and not 8800 GTS SLI with 680i boards

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Originally Posted by theteamaqua

man 680i sounds scary lol

kunauk killed his board by falshing bios the right way, people's RAM got killed ...

i am gonna wait, maybe i will get RD600 with R600 and not 8800 GTS SLI with 680i boards

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Evga will just say user error.

i am gonan wait it out, again maybe ill get R600 + RD600 instead of GTS SLI

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Originally Posted by theteamaqua

i am gonan wait it out, again maybe ill get R600 + RD600 instead of GTS SLI

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I will give the 680i a second chance when my refund comes back i might get the Striker or the BFG, striker sounds like a better idea.

Nvidia must fabricate ONLY videocard chipsets no motherboard chipsets...:slapass:
Let the chipsets on INTEL manufacturers do produce it.
Again troubles with nvidia chipsets, (like always)...:mad:

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Originally Posted by X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE

I will give the 680i a second chance when my refund comes back i might get the Striker or the BFG, striker sounds like a better idea.

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cuz if i get GTS SLI i have to get 680i boards...

btw how s P5N32-E SLI?? another 680i board from Asus? is taht one good besides flashing bios kills board??

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I did not say there is 40 people per day reporting bad ram. please get your facts straight next time.

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Umm, here is your post that I quoted:

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so 2 x 20 = upto 40 people per day getting their ram killed.

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I do have my facts stright. I think it's you who needs to get your facts straight. Don't post complete BS if you don't want to be called on it.

Just saying...

Shawn

I'm 99.9% sure this problem is associated with a faulty board/s. I also heard a similiar thing about the Badaxe eating memory again I never had any issues and I played with 4 Badaxes and currently still use one in my MCE Box. Over the pond on the OcUK forums I have not heard of any such problem.

Lets face it if the board did eat ram then it would be BIG news.

theteamaqua your missing out on a great board.

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Originally Posted by shawn1998

Umm, here is your post that I quoted:


I do have my facts stright. I think it's you who needs to get your facts straight. Don't post complete BS if you don't want to be called on it.

Just saying...

Shawn

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I didn't say 40 people per day reporting, i said.
''upto 40 people per day getting their ram killed'' I didn't say that was how many reported i said that is how many there might be!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by DjLeco

Nvidia must fabricate ONLY videocard chipsets no motherboard chipsets...:slapass:
Let the chipsets on INTEL manufacturers do produce it.
Again troubles with nvidia chipsets, (like always)...:mad:

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LOL if it was so bad people wouldn't buy them...............BUT they are that good and people are buying for that reason

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Originally Posted by X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE

I didn't say 40 people per day reporting, i said.
''upto 40 people per day getting their ram killed'' I didn't say that was how many reported i said that is how many there might be!!!!!!

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Might be? Don't post complete BS like that, it's mis-leading and straight out wrong. Since your post is based on your own crack-cooked theory, maybe it should be labeled as such. I "might" win the lottery. I "might" be a brain surgeon. I "might" be John Holmes himself (not really).

Get it yet?

Well, as far as I am concerned I would rather purchase the striker over this board.

Still going to wait for a better non nvidia solution when ATI/AMD releases the RD600 as well.

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Originally Posted by Think

Well, as far as I am concerned I would rather purchase the striker over this board.

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Why?
The Asus is overated and VERY overpriced.

and where are these 15 people, I frequent the evga forums, and I have counted only 2 people blaming the board for bad ram, where are the other 13, and why have they not posted on evga's forums to complain about their problem?

The 2 people mojom@n a.k.a. x.t.r.e.m.e. i.c.e.
and dayofpain

no one else in that thread you posted their, INCLUDING me has blamed the board for damaging their ram.

You misunderstood me when I posted there, I lost my gskill on a p5wdg2 ws pro mobo, and I posted that I attempted to use it on the 680i to see if my other board was faulty, but it did not work in either. So the ram was bad, and needs an rma.

you stated you had a gskill problem and all I did was say I had a problem with some same model gskill as well.

this thread has gotten out of hand, I don't think bashing the board on forums is going to help you in getting your products replaced, which they should be anyway through an rma. It sucks you lost your ram, but I think you are blowing it way out of proportion, I have no doubt your board is probably faulty, and you got screwed because of it. This happens, bad boards are shipped, and as many of us saw, the quality of manufacture of this board is not what i would call top notch, foxconn is just pumping them out willy nilly, so there are bound to be a few bad boards, you just got unlucky.

lol...wow... BS i say! :)

It's the DFI Expert crap all over again. :-P

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Originally Posted by The Asgard

Why?
The Asus is overated and VERY overpriced.

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I don't trust this board Asgard. Be it as it may, neither board satisfies what I would like to see in a board anyway so I'll just wait for awhile.

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Originally Posted by Reinvented

lol...wow... BS i say! :)

It's the DFI Expert crap all over again. :-P

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I couldn't agree more, The expert killed three cpu's on me and since then I will not be the first to try any new Tech. The 680i boards on the market today are all reference boards and the top tier board makers are just getting ready to release their designs. The early adopters are the beta testers at their own risk, the manufactures will remain mute and the fan boys will insist that it is always the users fault. Welcome to high tech

Here are the ram related reports, and that is only from 2 forums all reports woere within 48 hours of each other i think.








1. mojom@n

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I have 2 kits of G.Skill 6400HZ and i have lost 1 stick from each kit. 1 of the sticks that died has never been overvolted.

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2. Dayofpain

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Originally posted by Dayofpain
[br]heres a nice piece of ****.

4x DOMINATOR PC8888 FRIED
4X DOMINATOR PC8500 FRIED
2X OCZ TITIANIUM PC8000 FRIED.

Im going to return this pos to newegg. (the mobo)

First mobo.

http://www.evga.com/community/messag...erms=dayofpain


Second mobo.

Installed last night.

Have to remove power and use cmos jumper to boot EVERY SINGLE TIME. beta bios flashed. Too bad everysingle resistor on the board needed to be straightened. 2 were bent all the way to the ram slots. gfg.

cant boot cant maintain voltage. and this is one that they handpicked for an advanced rma.

later evga. 2 strikes ur out.

2 thousand dollars in ram. Thanks.

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3. palese

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Originally posted by palese
[br]just lost a stick of Corsair 6400C3DF in black slot, the default volt for this ram is 2.4

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4. linflas

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Originally posted by linflas

and I have 2 GB of Gskill sitting on my desk waiting for an RMA number because one stick I know for sure has gone to the ******per, and another that I do not trust now, back to corsair for me, as soon as I get new one's back from RMA the gskill goes on ebay, and I get some better corsair stuff

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5. sadcat1*

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Originally Posted by sadcat1

I can tell you in my case no sticks work in the right slots, all sticks work in the left slots and when a stick is put in either right slot,I get C1 and a long beep.

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6. lopri*

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Originally Posted by lopri

Absolutely no. :) I had the same C1 problem with one of my sticks. I first thought my stick was defective because I didn't have a problem booting with my other pair. (Both pairs are exact same model, same batch)

After playing a bit with the working pair, I used canned air to blow any dirt away from the sticks and the slots. I also configured the BIOS settings to what I wanted (including Vdimm). Shut down the machine and inserted the problematic sticks, then it worked flawlessly ever since.

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7. Grinch

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Originally Posted by Grinch

well it seems like my mobo don't like my HZ's anymore...now no matter what voltage I set all I get is a looooooooooooooooooong beep then a pause and then again a long beep...maybe memory went bad dunno but have to get this $hit figured out fast...

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8. Futuremark2

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Originally posted by Futuremark2
[br]my ram wont even run stable at 1.9 even tho thats what its rated at... try 2.025V

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just a plain simple good luck..........and bad luck

I have washed the pins on my dead stick just like Grinch, here hoping that my dead stick actually works. I have never had to wash my ram sticks before.

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Originally Posted by X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE

Here are the ram related reports, and that is only from 2 forums all reports woere within 48 hours of each other i think.

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There is a big difference between people who have had modules that died, and those who are having trouble getting their RAM to run stable. Lumping them all together does not prove anything. Do you know how many boards have had memory-related issues over the past several years? Lots.

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Originally Posted by lopri
Absolutely no. I had the same C1 problem with one of my sticks. I first thought my stick was defective because I didn't have a problem booting with my other pair. (Both pairs are exact same model, same batch)

After playing a bit with the working pair, I used canned air to blow any dirt away from the sticks and the slots. I also configured the BIOS settings to what I wanted (including Vdimm). Shut down the machine and inserted the problematic sticks, then it worked flawlessly ever since.

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His ram didn't die. You need to learn how to read. Next...

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Originally Posted by sadcat1
I can tell you in my case no sticks work in the right slots, all sticks work in the left slots and when a stick is put in either right slot,I get C1 and a long beep.

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Again, his ram didn't die. Again, learn how to read. Next...

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Originally posted by linflas

and I have 2 GB of Gskill sitting on my desk waiting for an RMA number because one stick I know for sure has gone to the ******per, and another that I do not trust now, back to corsair for me, as soon as I get new one's back from RMA the gskill goes on ebay, and I get some better corsair stuff

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He posted in post #122 of this very thread that you misunderstood him! For the third time, RIF!!!! (In case you can't read acronyms, it stands for Reading is Fundamental) Next...

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Originally posted by Futuremark2
[br]my ram wont even run stable at 1.9 even tho thats what its rated at... try 2.025V

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His ram hasn't died either. RIF.

Should I count all of the Gigabyte DS3 motherboard threads and posts from the first two months of that boards release? Maybe try make a case that the board is a "ram killer" just because it took a few bios releases for it to initially boot from ram that was rated above 1.8volts? According to you line of thinking, that board is a "ram killer" too, simply because there was ram-related posts about it and believe this, there were more posts about it than there are about the 680i (and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the DS3).

RIF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i killed one stick of corsair 6400 C3 one week ago i decided to put my P5W64 back and no, the stick didn't work anymore! I change to 8500 C5D on the p5W64 and now i really afraid to give the nf680i another try...

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Originally Posted by pinto

now i really afraid to give the nf680i another try...

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is your board the Evga one also?

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Originally Posted by shawn1998

His ram didn't die. You need to learn how to read. Next...



Again, his ram didn't die. Again, learn how to read. Next...



He posted in post #122 of this very thread that you misunderstood him! For the third time, RIF!!!! (In case you can't read acronyms, it stands for Reading is Fundamental) Next...



His ram hasn't died either. RIF.

Should I count all of the Gigabyte DS3 motherboard threads and posts from the first two months of that boards release? Maybe try make a case that the board is a "ram killer" just because it took a few bios releases for it to initially boot from ram that was rated above 1.8volts? According to you line of thinking, that board is a "ram killer" too, simply because there was ram-related posts about it and believe this, there were more posts about it than there are about the 680i (and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the DS3).

RIF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Mate are you blind i didn't say all of the above people had dead ram:slapass: :slapass: I suggest you stop trolling.

Here i will quote myself LOL

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Here are the ram related reports, and that is only from 2 forums all reports woere within 48 hours of each other i think.

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Update:
I cleaned the dead stick and no worky.


Here is what i have found so far

1 dead stick
1 stick needs 2.3v to run stable at stock speeds.
4 sticks need 2.2v to run stable at stock speeds.

So 4 sticks are bad, I am using my third kit now but in my DQ6 i bought 2 days ago.

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Originally Posted by pinto

i killed one stick of corsair 6400 C3 one week ago i decided to put my P5W64 back and no, the stick didn't work anymore! I change to 8500 C5D on the p5W64 and now i really afraid to give the nf680i another try...

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so you lost a stick of ram to the 680i? as people here say it is your fault not 680i.

yes my board is an evga. the fact is that the stick is dead and i think not to be a noob in overclocking...

You are actually telling me to stop trolling? I think you need to rethink your posts. You are trying to create panick about a board because you had some ram go bad. At this point, boohoo to you, RMA it and move on. EVGA has already addressed this issue to you, as well as many many people here, but you just can't see beyond your own nose.

Nobody here said it was your fault, or would say it was pinto's fault his ram went bad. Get a clue and move on. If you think your board made your go bad, then RMA it, get a different one, move on and quit posting BS.

My posts are not trolling, they are simply an attempt to counteract your constant BS, mis-information and false assumptioms.

edit - I see you finally went to another motherboard. I'm suprised by your choice, since the DS3 and DS6's had some ram issues when they first came out. Oh lord, RUN! It might kill your ram!!! There were a bunch of posts about!!! (awhile ago)


Disclaimer - I own a Gigabyte DS3 and use it in my second rig. I like it and am not talking bad about it. After a few bios releases, the ram issues went away.
End of disclaimer.

my post is just a statment.

I understand that, pinto. My post was in no way directed at you.

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Originally Posted by shawn1998

You are actually telling me to stop trolling? I think you need to rethink your posts. You are trying to create panick about a board because you had some ram go bad. At this point, boohoo to you, RMA it and move on. EVGA has already addressed this issue to you, as well as many many people here, but you just can't see beyond your own nose.

Nobody here said it was your fault, or would say it was pinto's fault his ram went bad. Get a clue and move on. If you think your board made your go bad, then RMA it, get a different one, move on and quit posting BS.

My posts are not trolling, they are simply an attempt to counteract your constant BS, mis-information and false assumptioms.

edit - I see you finally went to another motherboard. I'm suprised by your choice, since the DS3 and DS6's had some ram issues when they first came out. Oh lord, RUN! It might kill your ram!!! There were a bunch of posts about!!! (awhile ago)


Disclaimer - I own a Gigabyte DS3 and use it in my second rig. I like it and am not talking bad about it. After a few bios releases, the ram issues went away.
End of disclaimer.

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what do you call this pointless post you just did.


I am just making it clear to the public that it is quite possible that there ram is getting damaged by the evga motherboard. DQ6 is a great mother board i had 1 before i went to p5B dlx. I am good at overclocking and have been doing it for almost 10 years now. I have never had ram die from running at stock volts before. You just like to argue with people for no reason at all.


! question for any 1.

The Kit i have to RMA should i take it back to the shop or send it ti G.Skill?

I figured it's worth mentioning my findings here. While it may not be enough to kill sticks, this board heavily overvolts memory. (more than any other board I've personally experienced) I've measured vCore, vSPP, and vDIMM with a DMM today and below is my finding:

vCore: 0.40~0.60V undervolted
vSPP: 0.07~0.08V overvolted (but @1.55V the board undervolted it by 0.09V, resulting vSPP 1.46V)
vDIMM: 0.05~0.06V overvolted under milde voltage selected (in the BIOS), 0.08~0.10V overvolted at high voltage selected

Setting 2.325V in the BIOS gave a DMM reading of 2.420V. :eek:

Again, none of my DIMMs died because of this board, but I would suggest anyone to measure their own if possible.

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Originally Posted by lopri

I figured it's worth mentioning my findings here. While it may not be enough to kill sticks, this board heavily overvolts memory. (more than any other board I've personally experienced) I've measured vCore, vSPP, and vDIMM with a DMM today and below is my finding:

vCore: 0.40~0.60V undervolted
vSPP: 0.07~0.08V overvolted (but @1.55V the board undervolted it by 0.09V, resulting vSPP 1.46V)
vDIMM: 0.05~0.06V overvolted under milde voltage selected (in the BIOS), 0.08~0.10V overvolted at high voltage selected

Setting 2.325V in the BIOS gave a DMM reading of 2.420V. :eek:

Again, none of my DIMMs died because of this board, but I would suggest anyone to measure their own if possible.

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That would explain why some of my memory is voltage hungry now LOL. I think if that is true to every board then you are looking at 2.632v instead of the 2.5V setting. there uis no way i would ever pump that much volts through my ram willingly. when i get my 680i replacement i will check voltages to see if i have that problem.

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Originally Posted by X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE

That would explain why some of my memory is voltage hungry now LOL. I think if that is true to every board then you are looking at 2.65v instead of the 2.5V setting. there uis no way i would ever pump that much volts through my ram willingly. when i get my 680i replacement i will check voltages to see if i have that problem.

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Man, you REALLY need to work on your math skills. By his post, if a person has a board with the exact same voltage issues, then if said user set the vDimm to 2.5, it could possibly be as high as 2.60, not 2.65. You really need to stop exagerating in your posts to try and make claims that the 680i is killing ram. Besides, all these people with said "killed ram" were supposedly not overclocking at all, which means the vDimm was maybe .05 to .06 volts higher than stock? This could not even possibly have the type of catastophic failures you suggest "might" be happening.

As another side note, the Corsair memory rep on their forums has stated that they have seen zero issues with the 680i in their testing.

Quote from the Corsair rep (aka Ram Guy)

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We did not have any issues with the EVGA motherboard.

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Link to the thread: http://www.houseofhelp.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=55136

Again, not trolling, but calling you out on yet even MORE mis-information. The data that lopri posted is a good data point and something to look at, but in no way could that cause ram instabilities or failures of people are running everything at stock when their ram failed.

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Originally Posted by shawn1998

Man, you REALLY need to work on your math skills. By his post, if a person has a board with the exact same voltage issues, then if said user set the vDimm to 2.5, it could possibly be as high as 2.60, not 2.65. You really need to stop exagerating in your posts to try and make claims that the 680i is killing ram. Besides, all these people with said "killed ram" were supposedly not overclocking at all, which means the vDimm was maybe .05 to .06 volts higher than stock? This could not even possibly have the type of catastophic failures you suggest "might" be happening.

As another side note, the Corsair memory rep on their forums has stated that they have seen zero issues with the 680i in their testing.

Quote from the Corsair rep (aka Ram Guy)


Link to the thread: http://www.houseofhelp.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=55136

Again, not trolling, but calling you out on yet even MORE mis-information. The data that lopri posted is a good data point and something to look at, but in no way could that cause ram instabilities or failures of people are running everything at stock when their ram failed.

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that was a guess not calculated, Troll somewhere else please.

ugggh, please stop quoting me

4. linflas

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and I have 2 GB of Gskill sitting on my desk waiting for an RMA number because one stick I know for sure has gone to the ******per, and another that I do not trust now, back to corsair for me, as soon as I get new one's back from RMA the gskill goes on ebay, and I get some better corsair stuff


I have said this before, it was not the 680i that killed the ram, it died on a p5wdg2 ws pro mobo, the ram died, nothing else, was commenting on your gskill kits, and that I had some gskill go bad also, it had nothing to do with the 680i.

sheesh, how many times do I have to post that.

I remained quiet on this topic the last few days to see what shakes out. After sitting back and skimming numerous hardware forums (including the evga site) for the last few days I have to conclude there is absolutely nothing out there that supports the theory that the mobo is killing any ram.

I'm with the other guys on this thread that only count 2 reports so far. ExtremeIce and that total bonehead dayofpain on the evga site that has ruined just about every peice of hardware he has touched.

Sorry, but there is just no credibility to this theory at all now. Simply not enough reports of dead ram. I see reports on lots of other issues (some ram compatibility stuff and other various issues) but not dead ram. The trend is clear at this point.

I'm off this thread permanently as there is no longer any value to it.

ExtremeIce, I simply suggest you RMA the components you feel comfortable RMAing, get another mobo, and get yourself squared away. Good luck.


EDIT - And, by the way everyone else, cut the bickering. No need for it here. Stay on topic and be civil. Thanks.

Do you guys remember i told you about how easy it is to kill DDR2 if you do not power off the board when removing it...especially on NV chipset boards ?

2 cases is not grounds for a full on panic saying the boards are killing memory...fact is users kill more ram than boards do and especially with DDR2.

I have contacts at NV, I will allert them to a "possible" issue here and have them take a look, for now please except 2 cases out of hundreds of boards is not grounds to say do not buy a product.

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Do you guys remember i told you about how easy it is to kill DDR2 if you do not power off the board when removing it...especially on NV chipset boards ?

2 cases is not grounds for a full on panic saying the boards are killing memory...fact is users kill more ram than boards do and especially with DDR2.

I have contacts at NV, I will allert them to a "possible" issue here and have them take a look, for now please except 2 cases out of hundreds of boards is not grounds to say do not buy a product.

T

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i told these yahoo's this earlier, but once again does anyone listen to me ?

im gunna start spouting and toating a sign for who i work for then maybe people will listen.

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4x DOMINATOR PC8888 FRIED
4X DOMINATOR PC8500 FRIED
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this is the most retarded kid i have ever seen, how many thousands of dollars is that and he just kept pumping freakin ram into it ? wtf kinda retard does that. omfg!

regardless if the ram isnt technically dead who the !@#%#%^ keeps pumping that ooober expensive ram into a baord that might be killing the ram.
who the hell does that.. who i ask..

if half these guys paid attention to how the baord treats voltages and ram they would notice that many ram's take less voltage to run at higher clocks, now is that ram overvolting ? maybe maybe not, i havent seen where to check for ram voltage yet so i can t say for 100% certian its overvolting but all i know is all it takes is 2.25v to run 1150mhz 5-4-4-12 on my board and 2.4v to run 1200 5-5-5-15.

if i were doing any type of testing i would be finding out what the motherboard is doing with votlages above 2.2v to see if its voltage control is suspect.

i am truly amazed at what those people do to test ram,, truly amazed and not until they waste thousands to they blame the baord when after the 2nd stick died they should have been rma'ing the baord.

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and where are these 15 people, I frequent the evga forums, and I have counted only 2 people blaming the board for bad ram, where are the other 13, and why have they not posted on evga's forums to complain about their problem?

The 2 people mojom@n a.k.a. x.t.r.e.m.e. i.c.e.
and dayofpain

no one else in that thread you posted their, INCLUDING me has blamed the board for damaging their ram.

You misunderstood me when I posted there, I lost my gskill on a p5wdg2 ws pro mobo, and I posted that I attempted to use it on the 680i to see if my other board was faulty, but it did not work in either. So the ram was bad, and needs an rma.

you stated you had a gskill problem and all I did was say I had a problem with some same model gskill as well.

this thread has gotten out of hand, I don't think bashing the board on forums is going to help you in getting your products replaced, which they should be anyway through an rma. It sucks you lost your ram, but I think you are blowing it way out of proportion, I have no doubt your board is probably faulty, and you got screwed because of it. This happens, bad boards are shipped, and as many of us saw, the quality of manufacture of this board is not what i would call top notch, foxconn is just pumping them out willy nilly, so there are bound to be a few bad boards, you just got unlucky.

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Yeah same thing I found mdzcpa and posted earlier, but he still insists, dunno

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If the same board killed all these dimms then the end user is pretty inexperienced. By the second kit the board here would have been in a box ready for shipping back to the manufacturer.

Micron again hit an all time price high a short while ago, im just glad we only probably stood the cost on 1 kit and not corsairs 4 kits.

Guys as overclockers you need to get used to monitoring voltages accurately on the boards you are testing, don't trust what you see in bios as its often a mile off.

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2cents worth,thought u lot might be interested

i found the following info here

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=124709

"I don't know why, but none of the other sites on the web have had ANY issues with the EVGA board. It's getting rave reviews and our experiences have been quite the opposite. I've had three different EVGA nForce 680i SLI boards from three different batches and I'm still waiting for one that works as advertised.

The boards have munched their way through about £1500 hardware thus far - three video cards are dead/dying and worked perfectly fine before plugging them into the EVGA board(s), along with some Corsair Dominator 9136C5D that's now dead too.

In the three boards I've had, I've used ten different pairs of DDR2 DIMMs, five different LGA775 CPUs, at least ten different video cards, four power supplies, and three different hard drives and the boards are so far from stable that I wouldn't even consider using them as doorstops, nevermind in a PC designed for an enthusiast.

I've also had one of the three boards hard-lock in AwdFLASH (i.e. in DOS) during a BIOS flash. I had to hotflash the corrupt BIOS to get the board to work again after that. Both myself and Rich have spent countless hours trying to get one of our three boards stable enough to use and I've even had an NVIDIA employee try and get one of the boards stable (in a random selection process).

Thankfully, I don't have to pay for the hardware that the boards have killed... many end users do, though. Don't get me wrong, things just die occasionally, but for two 7950 GX2s (one being practically new, and the other having over 200 hours of 3D use) to now be unusable in games, as a result of being in the same board at different times is a bit of a coincidence. There's also a bit of a weird thing going on if NVIDIA can't pick a board for me that's tested as working (that's what happened with the third board).

I'm not the only person having issues either, a good friend of mine has another two boards that he paid money for and he says it's quite possibly the worst "early adoption" he's ever done. I wouldn't put my own hardware anywhere near EVGA's board; in fact, I'd stay well away from it for the time being..."

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2cents worth,thought u lot might be interested

i found the following info here

http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=124709

"I don't know why, but none of the other sites on the web have had ANY issues with the EVGA board. It's getting rave reviews and our experiences have been quite the opposite. I've had three different EVGA nForce 680i SLI boards from three different batches and I'm still waiting for one that works as advertised.

The boards have munched their way through about £1500 hardware thus far - three video cards are dead/dying and worked perfectly fine before plugging them into the EVGA board(s), along with some Corsair Dominator 9136C5D that's now dead too.

In the three boards I've had, I've used ten different pairs of DDR2 DIMMs, five different LGA775 CPUs, at least ten different video cards, four power supplies, and three different hard drives and the boards are so far from stable that I wouldn't even consider using them as doorstops, nevermind in a PC designed for an enthusiast.

I've also had one of the three boards hard-lock in AwdFLASH (i.e. in DOS) during a BIOS flash. I had to hotflash the corrupt BIOS to get the board to work again after that. Both myself and Rich have spent countless hours trying to get one of our three boards stable enough to use and I've even had an NVIDIA employee try and get one of the boards stable (in a random selection process).

Thankfully, I don't have to pay for the hardware that the boards have killed... many end users do, though. Don't get me wrong, things just die occasionally, but for two 7950 GX2s (one being practically new, and the other having over 200 hours of 3D use) to now be unusable in games, as a result of being in the same board at different times is a bit of a coincidence. There's also a bit of a weird thing going on if NVIDIA can't pick a board for me that's tested as working (that's what happened with the third board).

I'm not the only person having issues either, a good friend of mine has another two boards that he paid money for and he says it's quite possibly the worst "early adoption" he's ever done. I wouldn't put my own hardware anywhere near EVGA's board; in fact, I'd stay well away from it for the time being..."

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LOL. Sounds BS to me.

I'm RMA ing the RAM but I really don't want to go through this excersize again. I guess I should have bought ASUS, as was my instincts.

Has anyone sucessfully gotten their Corsair Dominator 9136C5D sticks to work in an eVGA 680i board? I also bought two 8800GTX watercooled, and from what I'm reading now I'm afraid to install them too.

I played with the 9136C5D in the 680i quite a bit and did not have any problems making to do whatever I wanted at or below its rated speed.

It should work fine.

Guys, those cases when one stick suddenly goes supposedly bad on eVGA 680i have to be ALWAYS investigated on a different motherboard.

I had one of those situations just last night. I wanted to load a saved profile, hit F10 and next thing I know, C1 on LCD diagnostic module and long annoying beep. Clearing CMOS, pulling battery, changing slots, hotflash BIOS, nothing. One stick would be fine, take it out, try the other, and C1 error again. So, I took RAM (8888C4DF) out and put a different pair, SuperTalent. Of course, boots like a charm!

Next, I took those 8888C4DF and put them in my AM2 system - booted fine and all well. So, took them out, did some switching around and plugged them into my P5B Deluxe. Result, boot and fine!

So, took them out P5B, put up my 680i rig again and replaced those SuperTalents. Result, no boot, same C1! WTF, right? What did I do? Well, took an hour break and shut the 680i down...

Guess, what? I fired it up after that one hour and it freaking booted!!! What happened and why it worked after that break, I have no idea but it's fine and dandy now :)

That's my story! Thanks for reading :D

it's safe to say this thread is obsolete

pretty much like the other poster said....DFI Expert BS all over again

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it's safe to say this thread is obsolete

pretty much like the other poster said....DFI Expert BS all over again

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QFT

so the evga seems to be overvolting and causing the ram to die. Tony has said that 2.5v is border line safe any higher will kill your ram in 1 week.

If you want to view the problems go to EVGA forums and you will read all the bad news starting to show up.


All i can say to the flamers is i told you so.

hardocp article on 680i

"We have been holding off a week or so on addressing this in hopes that we would have some solutions or answers for you, but those have not come forth. Some of the nForce 680i motherboards have some serious storage issues that can render a system build useless. Not all nForce 680i boards exhibit this problem. The problem does not seem to be confined to certain system configurations as some motherboards will work with a specific configuration while others will not. The problem also seems to spread across all 680i motherboards regardless of brand judging from feedback across Internet forums.

I hate to say this as my personal 680i experiences have been solid and left me with a good impression of the product, but I cannot suggest you buy a 680i board till this problem has been ironed out. If you have a 680i board now and are having data corruption problems, return it if you can and get your money back. If you have already purchased a board and it has issues, I suggest you RMA it and hope you get a motherboard that does not show the same issues."

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so the evga seems to be overvolting and causing the ram to die. Tony has said that 2.5v is border line safe any higher will kill your ram in 1 week.

If you want to view the problems go to EVGA forums and you will read all the bad news starting to show up.


All i can say to the flamers is i told you so.

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Ummmmm...I still don't see much in the way of "bad news starting to show up." All I see is the same 2 or 3 isolated reports. I scanned 3 days worth of posts and found 3 threads. :shrug:

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Ummmmm...I still don't see much in the way of "bad news starting to show up." All I see is the same 2 or 3 isolated reports. I scanned 3 days worth of posts and found 3 threads. :shrug:

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hey mdzcpa i reckon he just never frequented manufacturer based forums such as DFI street or ABIT USA to see how many people have problems with hardware in general

most of it user error i'm sure

Here is some info.

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Well I had a little spare time and I thought I'd check out a couple of sites where the 680i is being used by a representative sample of their membeship and see what they had to say.

Apparently some of these boards are experiencing some rather major memory problems and I'm not talking being picky about the brands either. There are several people who report these boards (by several different manufacturers) killing some high $$$ RAM ... I'm talking Corsair Dominator and other RAM of this quality level.

These individuals say that they were not overclocking or overvolting their RAM when it happened either. Apparently the initial claims were written off as being isolated incidents until some of those that were writing them off had the same thing happen.

I'm hoping this is maybe an isolated issue that is secondary to some components in some of the boards effected not being up to par and maybe causing a power spike through the memory circuitry...One poor guy reportedly lost more than one set of RAM because he thought the RAM was bad and replaced it only to have it happen again.

Hopefully the issues will be ironed out soon and this board will be realize its potential, until then and before you purchase you might want to do your homework.

There are other issues with the board, but none that are any different from any newly released product of this type.

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I saw a post on here recently talking about how the evga 680i might be killing ram. Unfortunatley, it seems that I am the next victim of this theory. I have the HZ's, and I have had the board for about 3 weeks. Every thing worked fine, so I didn't put too much thought into this issue, but I paid close attention to other user's feedback. Last night during a round of BF2, I start getting these odd freezes. At first I thought maybe it was my 8800 GTX, or the the MCP overheating. After hours of trouble shooting, it seems that one of my G.Skills is dead. It's not stable at stock speeds any more, and needs at least 2.3v to run at stock. I am getting random lockups with anything over stock. I'm even getting freezes in the bios (at stock). I'm going to RMA my GSkills as soon as their RMA department respond to my email. But the thing is now, I am nervous about putting my rma replacement back in this motherboard. Should I also seek an RMA for my 680i from EVGA? This is my first experience with this type of problem. I can't afford to have a board that is potentially frying $300 kits of ram.


And for the record, the RAM was a gem before I started having this problem. They ran at 1200 5-5-5-15 with just 2.35v, and 1000 4-4-4-12 with 2.3v.

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Interesting that the second slot is what killed off your sticks. I've noticed that my second slot is usually 3-4 degrees hotter than the 1 in the first slot.

I haven't paid enuff attention to the actual voltages on each DIMM to see if that is the reason why it runs hotter. If the voltage is indeed higher on the 2nd DIMM slot, it'd pretty much confirm what mojom is stating about voltage spikes. I'll double check on this and report back. I'll also swap the sticks and see if the temp remains the same on the second slot to make sure it's not just the memory module in that slot that's running hotter..

At any rate, 60 degrees is freaking hot! I'd think about some active cooling on my memory modules if I was encountering the problems you guys are having. For the record I'm running my sticks at 2.2V. I wonder what the heat tolerance of those sticks of RAM you have are.

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Ummmmm...I still don't see much in the way of "bad news starting to show up." All I see is the same 2 or 3 isolated reports. I scanned 3 days worth of posts and found 3 threads. :shrug:

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I find it weird that i have been waiting 4 weeks now for a reponse to this issue. I asked EVGA to help and they have yet to respond. It seems that the second blue slot is the trouble as it over volts. that is what fried my ram i think. I am starting to think that maybe the 15 or so people that had there ram fried might just be from a bad batch of motherboards.

I'm pretty sure this is not user error, it is just several unlucky boards. I bought my evga board the first day it went on sale at the egg and it was pretty troublesome. Less than a week later my gskill died, it was stable at 500fsb for a short while then soon it started dropping until it wouldnt even work at 533mhz anymore. Refunded and tried some teamgroup and it worked so it was probably ram died. Eventually I just RMAed the board and new one has no issues. MCP ran pretty hot so I tried old board again and not many freezing issues not seen on new board. My fsb is dropping quick and i fear for my memory.

I just did my third RMA on this board today with Newegg so no one can say I did not give it my best shot, my big problem on the 680i has been BSOD's and having to boot twice to get into windows. I did loose Dominator 6400C3DF on the first board but I do not know if it was DOA or the boards fault.

Aside from the Ram issues and if the 680i has any at all the 680i is a poor effort on Nvidia's part.

I think X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE needs to let it go and move on and put this board behind him as I will now.

It looks like there are some trouble free boards out there and some not so trouble free. I hit three bad ones in a row myself, hell I wanted it to work as I invested in an SLI solution.

From the story over on HardOCP it now looks like Nvidia is looking into the problems with the 680i now.

mdzcpa what a lame response, if your board had this issue and you loss ram you would be all up Nvidia's ass just as dinos22 is up yours.

Well I will get a new EVGA back from Newegg as they will not refund them anymore (I wonder why) so I will sell it brand new for 160.00 dollars, now lets see how fast everyone lines up for this MB:fact:

hmmm, I wouldn't wanna touch these boards if it's killing my memory.

I killed 1x1go Adata Pc 8500 EPP after 3 hours of test :mad: (i test 7 kits others marks for the article)

I could say the same type of witch hunt things about 2 certain MSI boards and how they cost me scads of components, but it seemed I was in the minority, much like Xtreme Ice is here.

This 680i is working like a champ for me. It seems to be working great for the vast majority. This board has done just fine for 2 types of RAM I have used. Im not really clear on how this is such a bad board Ice, when the reports are so few.


If someone says their RAM fried, and they say they weren't overvolting, 9 times out of 10 I'd call BS.

Bump, and first post here. Nice forum, lots of great info! I'm happy to be a member.

I don't know what the whole "DFI expert issue" was, and I can see how experienced overclockers could write this off as "n00bs blowing up their equipment" but EVGA has finally acknowledged that they are looking into this issue.

http://evga.com/community/messageboa...TOPIC_ID=26392

It appears to be happening with high-voltage spec'd memory. The best guesses are that the board is overvolting RAM but reporting lower voltages.

I lost my 8888 dominators to this board. They were running 1200 DDR2 at 2.4volts - the recommended and SPD/EPP/SLI programmed voltage spec. Was rock solid for 15 days, Orthos stable, no problems. I was absolutely loving the board and my new setup. I never changed the RAM voltage, only the CPU (1.45v, actual reported was 1.42v) and was running 3600 on an X6800 (B2). Then out of nowhere, it fried my RAM.

Either way, I am going to RMA the board in a few months when the problems are fixed. I should have stuck with an Asus board in the first place, as I have always done. I picked up a Commando and as soon as my new sticks arrive I won't be looking back at EVGA/680i for a long time.

it's been a few months and i can tell you right now that this IS just a n00b issue......you have to power down the mobo pull the plug and wait for at least a minute until all residual power has cleared before you do anything with the mobo :toast:

well dinos22, thanks for the wonderful take on the subject. I have had 3 EVGA boards, the third is in a box under my desk collecting dust. I lost a kit of ram when each board died.

Yes I tested the kits on my HTPC, and in each case one stick was done for, and would not even post to memtest.

Seeing how I lost both kits at about 3 weeks into use with the board, and had not been inside my rig since I put it together, my noobness must have flown from my noob fingers into my case and killed my RAM.

Look, I am sure some of the bad kits were fine and people did not trouble shoot, and I am also sure a few kits were lost from people not handling the system appropriately.

However, I have to say, my ram was at stock voltage, and was never touched from install date. 1.9V on the corsair PC6400C5, and 2.1V on my crucial PC8000.

I am by no means the most experienced guy around, but I do know how to handle electronics and electricity. So take your noob comment and shove it where the sun don't shine.

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well dinos22, thanks for the wonderful take on the subject. I have had 3 EVGA boards, the third is in a box under my desk collecting dust. I lost a kit of ram when each board died.

Yes I tested the kits on my HTPC, and in each case one stick was done for, and would not even post to memtest.

Seeing how I lost both kits at about 3 weeks into use with the board, and had not been inside my rig since I put it together, my noobness must have flown from my noob fingers into my case and killed my RAM.

Look, I am sure some of the bad kits were fine and people did not trouble shoot, and I am also sure a few kits were lost from people not handling the system appropriately.

However, I have to say, my ram was at stock voltage, and was never touched from install date. 1.9V on the corsair PC6400C5, and 2.1V on my crucial PC8000.

I am by no means the most experienced guy around, but I do know how to handle electronics and electricity. So take your noob comment and shove it where the sun don't shine.

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you killed 3 different boards and RAM eek (bad luck mate).........could it be something else that is contributing to it :confused:

thanks for the encouraging words in the last paragraph :) i love you too

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well dinos22, thanks for the wonderful take on the subject. I have had 3 EVGA boards, the third is in a box under my desk collecting dust. I lost a kit of ram when each board died.

Yes I tested the kits on my HTPC, and in each case one stick was done for, and would not even post to memtest.

Seeing how I lost both kits at about 3 weeks into use with the board, and had not been inside my rig since I put it together, my noobness must have flown from my noob fingers into my case and killed my RAM.

Look, I am sure some of the bad kits were fine and people did not trouble shoot, and I am also sure a few kits were lost from people not handling the system appropriately.

However, I have to say, my ram was at stock voltage, and was never touched from install date. 1.9V on the corsair PC6400C5, and 2.1V on my crucial PC8000.

I am by no means the most experienced guy around, but I do know how to handle electronics and electricity. So take your noob comment and shove it where the sun don't shine.

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So....why did you keep getting new evga boards? Glutton for punishment?

I burned through 23 P5WDG2 WS Pro boards myself. Figured I would just keep going because it was fun to spend the money. :horse:

RMA boards, it was out of my 14 day return window, the first was "--" post that would not recover through any method. Tried the whole pull power for 3 days thing, nothing.

Second board worked great for 3 weeks also, then DIMM slot 4 died and took a stick with it. Nothing would post in that slot, value ram, bargain basement ram, nothing would post in it. So RMA

Yes I thought the same thing, that something else may be amiss, so I swapped out power supplies on the second board, went with a PCP&C 1KW, just in case something in the old one was causing it. Nope still lost the board at 3 weeks.

My first board was a launch day board, second was 3 weeks into launch. So they were early, and EVGA has had foxconn clean up a few things in the manufacturing, removed some caps from the back of the board, and a few other things.

I assumed I just got unlucky, I also think the foxconn manufacturing played a part in it. I have the abit IN9 now, and am very happy so far, no squeel under load from the caps, this happened on both boards, with 2 different power supplies.

I agree with you guys, some of this was operator error, some however, I do not think was. I may have gotten unlucky is all.

I had an ASUS P5W DH that showed up with a dead sata controller at the launch of conroe, that was an OK board, I really liked my P5WDGS Pro, that lasted me until I decided on finally going dual graphics, and chose nvidia.

That is what brought me to the EVGA, I had never owned a reference board before, and seemed like a good idea at the time, a mistake I do not plan to ever make again.

I did not mean to be an ass, but the whole "it IS just a noob issue" ticked me off.

yeah i sounded harsh there i guess

my board wasn't from the first batch so i don't know....could be that i just have the "fixed" one i don't know.......it's good to know nvidia was late delivering me one of these boards then hahahahah :D

Guys, I know this isn't really current, but I thought I would put it up anyway.



Here is the important line from the P24 BIOS description;

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Now they don't specificly say if the BIOS was reporting voltages high or low, low of course being worst case and sounds correct. They also don't say exactly which voltages were being incorrectly reported in BIOS.

But, most here know that if you plan to push RAM hard then you need to find an accurate method to monitor the Vdim and not trust the BIOS.

My EVGA CLK-122-AR runs flawlessly with a minor 3Gig CPU OC. I am just not into pushing it these days.

Some of you are tremendous guys, Frugger comes to mind, and really know what you are doing.

Some of you are not the true technicians and follow along and essentially trusting in other's successes while doing your best to replicate them. There is nothing wrong with this, but by not actually testing methodically as guys like Frugger do, your successes are hit and miss.

And there are some who don't even have a clue what guys like Frugger and others go through while OC'ing a system. Some of you are really out there walking in the dark with no batterys in your flashlight. I don't mean this as an insult, I mean it as a wake up call.

There are too many people who come here thinking that overclocking is a simple, straightforward, trick, like entering a cheat code in a consol game so they can execute the hidden fatality move. Well, a simple OC like mine is sorta that easy, just a bump to the clock. But as soon as you start playing with the voltage then you are entering the dangerous zone and you should really know what you are doing. Yes, most guys can get away with small bumps to the voltages, but when you take a new and unproven motherboard and ramp up the voltages based on component specs and BIOS readings you are just begging for disaster.

In the end, it's your gear, your wallet, and your choice. I have learned alot about what makes computers work during my years of overclocking experience. I am NOT one of the overclocking gods. But I do know that they are running at a whole different level than I am willing to go to, and I see alot of guys in these and other forums who do not have this perception. They simply don't realize how little they really know and how carelessly they treat there equipment and I feel sorry for them.

I feel sorry for them because not only do they not have batterys in their flashlights. They don't even know the lights are out :eek:

I just want to know if these memory problems I have been reading about are still around? Has anyone figured out anything that is causing them?

I just purchased an EVGA 680I, along with 2 evga 7600gt vid cards for SLI along with a OCZ 680w psu sli certified. I will be using my e6600 from my p5b deluxe mb...

The P24 BIOS is supposed to have fixed the probelm so that the BIOS reads the voltages correctly, but that still doesn't mean that individual boards won't be a little out of spec.

That means if you are going to overvolt your RAM close to the limits, you better know how to test the voltage with a multimeter and your multimeter better not be a cheapy tool. Multimeters just like all measuring equipment have tolerances for accuracy some better then others. A cheap multimeter could be off by as much a .5V easily.

sorry to bump this age old thread, but it happened to me about 4 days ago .. right now im back to my old 975XBX ....

and luckily OCZ did replace my RAM for me ... also the board is dead , too

and no i was running at 2.1v .... 24/7 my OCZ 8500 SLI .. again thanks a lot OCZ for replacing it .. OCZ has the best warranty service ever .. certainly better than EVGA

@ linflas

yeah i am on the same boat as u .. at first i thought EVGA was good choice

true EVGA 680i A1 is the only 680 board that can get ketnsfield over 400fsb like P5B DLX,

right now i dont think i am gonna get their board ever again .. ill wait for DFI 680i LP i guess .. .

My board just killed my OCZ 8500SLI memory as well.

GAR did you also lose your memory running at low voltage like and the latest bios like theteamaqua?

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My board just killed my OCZ 8500SLI memory as well.

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No, the EVGA 680i does not kill ram, but what you set in bios isnt really accurate...

I didn't see this info in the thread, but according to the evga forums there is an issue.

"NVIDIA has investigated end user reports of high performance DIMM failures on the NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI-based platforms. During this process we have been in close contact with DIMM manufacturers and the DRAM manufacturers they rely on to understand the failure scenario. By working with our community, we believe that the observed failure is a breakdown of the silicon in the DRAM caused by the prolonged application of 2.4V on the voltage rails of the DIMMs.

NVIDIA’s own internal testing has observed this failure on multiple motherboards using different chipsets (both NVIDIA and non-NVIDIA chipsets). This issue is not directly related to motherboards using the NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI MCP or other chipsets.

If you are using this type of memory and are experiencing this issue, NVIDIA recommends contacting your memory manufacturer or system manufacturer for additional information and warranty information."

I was using 2.43 volts....back to my good old g.skill.

yeah it has some voltage prolbem .. and yes it killed my OCZ RAM as well

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Originally Posted by fhpchris

No, the EVGA 680i does not kill ram, but what you set in bios isnt really accurate...

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how long have you had your board and what vmem are you running your ram at?

what slots are you using?

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Originally Posted by Ace-a-Rue

how long have you had your board and what vmem are you running your ram at?

what slots are you using?

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all slots, 2.35-2.5v

I lost 2x1GB sticks of Patriot PC8500 RAM running at spec 2.3V on my EVGA 680i motherboard just a couple of days ago. I'm happy that Patriot has a lifetime warranty on their memory sticks. They approved my RMA and for now I am using my old Corsair xms2 PC6400.
I also RMA'd my board for the the A1 revision and will probably keep my voltages down to 2.1V when I get my RAM back.

I had ran this RAM in this board for a couple of weeks and had also used it in my DFI board at the same voltages. I'm wondering how much of the blame should fall on the shoulders of the RAM manufacturers. It just seems odd that the majority of the issues are comming from people running at higher voltages. I have used my Corsair PC6400's @ 2V off and on for a long time in two different EVGA boards and they are perfectly fine. I dunno.

it sounds like you need high voltage ram modules just to be sure the board doesn't kill it....hmmmmmm

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it sounds like you need high voltage ram modules just to be sure the board doesn't kill it....hmmmmmm

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I don't think its the board at all. I think its the DIMMs themselves not able to handle high voltages for long periods of time. I'm sure there are DIMMs that are better than others and they have survived the high voltages just fine but not every DIMM can be perfect.

boy, what a gamble to take with this board and some high priced memory.

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it sounds like you need high voltage ram modules just to be sure the board doesn't kill it....hmmmmmm

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There is no such thing as high voltage ddr2 memory. I killed 3 different setts of ram on 3 different motherboards. OCZ flex xlc pc9200 on a p5wdh stick that was in slot 3. OCZ alpha titanium pc 8000 on a intel BX2 mb slot3. Corsair pc 8500 c5 on a commando mb in slot3 also. And would u like to know how i managed this? By running the sticks over 2.2v for any length of time. Its funny when i here people say that they have to pull one stick out to boot. if i install any pair of high end d9 chips that are brand new into a motherboard It will boot everytime at stock voltage of 1.8v. BuT if i run that same memory over 2.2v for any length of time Those sticks will never boot again at 1.8v. I realize some memory specs say 2.3-2.4v But take it from a guy who learned the expensive way., Keep them under 2.2v.

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There is no such thing as high voltage ddr2 memory.

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REALLY!:confused: i looked at newegg and found at least one 2.4v module...so...never say, there is no such thing!:rolleyes:

Maybe nVidia will ditch Foxconn and get someone else to make their boards and graphics cards.

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Maybe nVidia will ditch Foxconn and get someone else to make their boards and graphics cards.

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why
these boards are pretty good

the fact that some people killed RAM and think everyone else will doesn't make it a bad board. We see this all the time. People going all hysterical about a problem they have..........if these boards are killing RAM we would have confirmation from many experienced guys and motherboard testers to get it fixed.....as things stand right now these boards are not killing more in more than average amount of cases

I just lost a stick of OCZ 8500 SLI RAM as well. I didn't even overclock it, ran on SPD timings and voltages since I got it, just less than a month ago. One is still working fine, though (knock on wood).

I am glad i got rid of this 680i i had. I haven't had 1 stick die on any of my boards since.

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I am glad i got rid of this 680i i had. I haven't had 1 stick die on any of my boards since.

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It is not the freaking board frying the RAM! It is the DIMMs inability to last at high voltages for long periods of time.

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There is no such thing as high voltage ddr2 memory. I killed 3 different setts of ram on 3 different motherboards. OCZ flex xlc pc9200 on a p5wdh stick that was in slot 3. OCZ alpha titanium pc 8000 on a intel BX2 mb slot3. Corsair pc 8500 c5 on a commando mb in slot3 also. And would u like to know how i managed this? By running the sticks over 2.2v for any length of time. Its funny when i here people say that they have to pull one stick out to boot. if i install any pair of high end d9 chips that are brand new into a motherboard It will boot everytime at stock voltage of 1.8v. BuT if i run that same memory over 2.2v for any length of time Those sticks will never boot again at 1.8v. I realize some memory specs say 2.3-2.4v But take it from a guy who learned the expensive way., Keep them under 2.2v.

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Interesting...crucial claims there 10th anniv and many ballistix are made to run at 2.2v.....so 2.2v even sounds boardline on these chips
Unfortunately, many of these boards will overvolt if you set 2.2v.....:slapass:

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It is not the freaking board frying the RAM! It is the DIMMs inability to last at high voltages for long periods of time.

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You're wrong - it's the board no matter what EVGA claims. I've had my OCZ 8500 dims damaged by the board - got rid of it and bought the Asus P5B deluxe, put in the OCZ replaced ram and am running them at 2.4 without a hiccup - the board sucks.

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It is not the freaking board frying the RAM! It is the DIMMs inability to last at high voltages for long periods of time.

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how long is long because i've certainly tested so many different kits without a hiccup