There is a new bios coming out in the next week, the P20 bios or P21......should fix the fsb problems and help OC.....also eVGA does not make this board, this is a referece design by nvidia made by FOXCON.
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There is a new bios coming out in the next week, the P20 bios or P21......should fix the fsb problems and help OC.....also eVGA does not make this board, this is a referece design by nvidia made by FOXCON.
Hey guys,
I have a QX6700 with the new eVGA 680i board but just got it up and running so haven't done much testing yet. I'm running air cooling (TT Big Typhoon) but would like to keep up with this thread for advice on voltages/FSB/multiplier settings as I'm not as experienced as most people are here. Interestingly, I tried setting the FSB to 1333 (333) and the multiplier to 8 (adds up to stock speed of 2.66 GHz) and Windows would not load without crashing. This worries me since people are posting ~450 FSB's.
Is there anything obvious that could be wrong here? I am using default voltages. I have an Enermax 620W (650W? I don't remember exactly...) power supply so I don't think power quality is a problem.
Keep posting your results here, I'm curious to see how everybody does and how much the new BIOS will help.
A few problems to note.
On some boards when overclocked the PS2 mouse port gets erratic, switch to USB to resolve.
Some people have had a problem opening control panels, hard crashing results. I have not seen this problem
If you use headphones with mic it will playback game audio through the mic. This will hold open audio channel in apps like teamspeak and ventrilo. I have seen this problem, use press key to speak to resolve for now.
Desparity with 32M pi, over 10 minutes too long when four threads are run.
hang on a secQuote:
Originally Posted by Kunaak
have you got results to confirm
the only results i've seen so far from coolaler's brief test indicate that the latency is looser on the 680i with slower 32M times by some 20 seconds or so
mm.. bios problem.. mm.. yep probable.. its just have been launch.. :D
Coolaler only test for the quocore.. can someone comfirm it is the case for Conroe chip too :(Quote:
Originally Posted by dinos22
With my 680i, cpu-z no longer reads memory and timings just SPD, is this because cpu-z does not yet support 680i chip set? :confused:
Thanks.
Thank God I finally waited to buy this time around.
I know, me too. I cannot count the times I've been paying big $$$ to be a "beta-hardware-tester" over the past 10-12 years. I'm just going to sit on my wallet for a while this time around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Speederlander
I do really hope they get whatever needs to be sorted.... well sorted.
Not too mean. You ever had a n Nf41 s939 board? Improved BIOSes promised for months... and then they just stopped caring and gave us nothing. never did solve the 2t timing or the horrible memory compatibility issues. Hope it doesn't happen to this board too.Quote:
Originally Posted by trans am
http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4215&s=11
Shows the 680i as faster opposed to the P5W-DH..
So far playing with 680i,I haven't managed a good pi time compared with 975x I had.The problem is that it can't run stable my memory on 1T from 730Mhz and up.With 2T I can go up to 1100Mhz+ on 4-4-4 but the resaults are also crap(about 1min slower 32M spi than 975x @3600Mhz).I also haven't managed a better than 440fsb with 8 or lower multi.I will also try soon with 9 multi when I install watercooling or my phase.I also have the problem that FUGGER says"when overclocked the PS2 mouse port gets erratic".
:cool: :cool: why is it that most reviewers for the 680i chipset only has reviewed the board with a kentsfield. Only independant peepz who went out bought the board retail report 400FSB max on the 680i. Im starting to get paranoid, whats the point of those boards all being reviewed with quad chips if the masses only have Core 2 duo's 6300 6400 6600 X6800.
same here. Not much other than ntune supports right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by palese
What is certain is the 680i has a great deal of bios entries to experiment with. It's quite different than the Asus 775x boards. I have mine set at the scree shot belkow for right now with a 6800 cpu in sync mode. I am running 4-3-4 mem timings but at 2T. I don't think 1T ram will clock as high as most of us are going to want to go. I haven't experimentd much with 9x over 450 yet. I really don't like raising mem timings much higher than they already are. I'm sure that will limit me . CPU's lower rated than 6800 should be able to get higher mem speeds as it already is with other boards. I think this board has a great deal of potential and asside from the caps sticking up behind the socket, making it a bit dicey to put backplates on, it is pretty solid. I have tried the nvidia reference beta bios (sorry, not allowed to share this bios. nda) and quite frankly I am not sure what it but everything seems very stable. At least 32M stable for now. One more thing, the board thankfully doesn't re-set after a restart like the asus did so it makes working with vapochill control much easier. (try installing Vista with a vapo and a 775x asus. what a pain sitting there at every restart)
If anyone finds a mem tweaker or any other updated utility that works on the 680i, please let us know. Only ntune seems to work right now, and not even that works correctly.
Thanks xgman:)Quote:
Originally Posted by xgman
another thing, you see the core voltage set at 1.375 in the pic above, well the board undervolts so it reads really 1.58-9 in the bios and other read programs.
Hmmmm...
I can get my QX6700 CPU up to 3.3 GHz no problem by raising the multiplier, but no matter what multiplier I use, my eVGA 680i refuses to boot windows even at 1333MHz (which it is supposed to do out of the box, "non-overclocked"). I am using Mushkin XP2-5300 Xtreme Performance Black Series RAM (2x1GB) but it's unlinked from the FSB. It's running at DDR2-700MHz at 3-3-3-10-1 at 2.2V. These settings worked perfectly on my old ASUS P5WD2E-Premium board, so I doubt this would be the problem unless there is some strange compatibility issue.
Any thoughts on why I can't even get spec FSB?
ok, here is the deal. It will only go as high as 468-470 tops with my X6800 being the probable bottleneck from there. Even at 5-6-6 no difference. It runs fine at 4-3-4 at 468x9, so I'll leave it at 452x10 and be happy.
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Originally Posted by TyCanadian
It's generally going to be some combination of settings that does the trick. The options in the 680i bios are far more variable than on the 775x chipset it seems. A new bios should be out by wed I hear that may help you in any case. Try 4-4-4.
it's been a while since nvidia made a good intel chipset, thats why probably
Thanks for the suggestions xgman. I have tried my RAM at one of its SPD modes (666 at 5-5-5-15) and the results do not change at all. It's frustrating seeing people getting close to 450 at Auto voltage settings and I can't even get 333. Hopefully something will identify itself as the problem, or hopefully the new BIOS will fix it.
I'll chime in here. I just got my egva 680i up and running along with a pair of 8800GTS cards in SLI. Updating the platform and vid card drivers from the box versions smoothed everything out. No specific results yet, but I like this board alot. Very easy to OC and many settings to try. First impressions are good.
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Originally Posted by TyCanadian
Up the voltage on the cpu. The board undervolts considerably. Use sync mode until you get the new bios and try skiping ahead much hier. The curremt release bios has some gaps in where you think it topos out and then it picks back up higher ok. Try one setting at a time till you figure it out.
you have the board undervolts several times please explain.
and does it only happen at higher voltages. ?
is 1.5v in the bios 1.45v via windows ? and have you checked with a DMM on the baord itself.?