EVGA 680i SLI board is killing ram.

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shawn what you need to look at is the number of people who own this board but never spend time on forums, and if they have the issue you will never know about it To you it may sound like a lot of drama, but you do the math on the total of spent ram. When a motherboard is released with a beta bios and followed up by yet another beta bios it should tell you this board was not ready for prime time

Just because you see some extreme OCing on this MB on this forum by the overclocking legends does not make this board good. Sure maybe some boards are good and trouble free but at the price of good ram its not a good way to gamble

Im at 1500 dollars in ram, two sets being Dominator type, hell thats enough for another computer, so if extreme Ice brings this to the attention of forum members or even a nvidia Rep if they bother to read this forum, then my hats off to him

So bottom line, if your happy with your 680i and your high end ram is doing well then you should move on shawn.

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There is a difference between "bringing it to someone's attention" and declaring that the board is a ram killer. You are the one that wasted how many sticks of ram before realizing that your particular board might be bad? $1500 to figure out you might have a faultyl board? A fool and his money..., well, you know how it goes.
People that have issues are generally the ones posting. You prove the op wrong by even stating that. Their are hundreds upon hundreds of these boards in the wild, but only a few people here and there claiming the board killed their ram. I'm not the only person here saying this, read around. You have issues and I feel for you, but good lord, you should have figured out after the second set went. Common sense, that's all I'm saying.

As a side note, the EVGA rep stated over on the EVGA forums that they have not recieved complaints about ram being killed on this board, with the exception of the few people you have pointed out. So it HAS come to the attention of EVGA and it HAS been addressed. You should post his response here, wait, I'll do it for you:

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No need to worry as this board does not fry memory modules.

This thread is the only report I have seen of this, from the many boards that have been sold. As you can see the 680i is quite a popular board.

As for the original poster, I suspect either bad ram, or a possibly faulty board, also keep in mind that I believe he was overvolting his ram, running his ram at memory voltages higher than what they were intended for.

We have many different types of memory, and run them at different voltages. We run them for days, in various stress tests and have not come across any dead modules either.

Also, my personal memory in my sig has been running great for weeks, at 2.4v.

However, we will continue to test more memory modules for compatibility.

Thanks,

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As posted by EVGA tech JacobF over at EVGA.

Just saying.

i've tested about 10GB of ram in this board so far, ram is not an issue for me.

The ability to actually overclock ram is actually really great.


overclocking my kentfield on the other hand is a totally different story.

Hey what can I run to test my memory too. Im so wiped I had 2 BFG's 2 wouldn't boot the first had the capacitors/resistors all bent too. I asked my friend hey is this normal? should I even try to put it together, he said sure since I had it try so I did and my ram got melting hot too! It wouldn't boot etc. Got my second board from Cusa & noticed the similar resistor type but not so bad...so Ok I installed everything again & no go...then tech support (great by the waY bfg) said rma it but I am worried and wish to just get my MONEY back?? anyways sent it to ups today. Back on my p5b delux wifi pampered bios. After reading all those codes in the 680i handbook I can say that the asus is for a pampered princess for sure lol. It's like Lexus or TANK...well I wanted the power of the tank hmph.

ALSO I have photos of the second board and it has a missing Part number in comparison to the part numbers the EVGA boards had bleep bleep bleep?


Do any other 680 owners have missing part number next to the pcb number is blank!!!!! weird.

Anyway I am glad you did bring it to attention because I worried of my PSU & ram wondering why I couldn't get it to work.

Here is the story as I am too tired to write it over again will copy/paste
Exchanged the board tonight at CompUSA.. they allowed me to swap for another package.

booted with 2 sticks of memory.. and couldn't POST

took one out.. and booted with just 1 stick.. and got BIOS checksum error.

Since I'd seen that error before with the other board I was ready with a floppy disk to flash the BIOS .. I'd downloaded their flash program and new BIOS from bfgtech.com...

with that floppy in the A: drive.. when you get the BIOS checksum error.. it automagically goes to detect the a: drive and when it does tries to launch "AWDFLASH.EXE"

Which it can't find cause it isn't on that floppy I made.. the program on the floppy is NVFLSHSC.exe or something like that and it is called through a flash.bat file found at the bfg site.

So.. I called tech support at BFG.. and after getting the tech straight .. on why it wouldn't flash a new BIOS.. (trying to use AWDFLASH instead of the NVFLSHSC) he put me on hold for about 10-15 minutes... and came back and said RMA that sucker.

That is an error that we should not ever see.. He said it is like someone put a different BIOS on the chip because thier BIOS has an auto flash capability but doesn't use AWDFLASH. So the fact that it was looking for that program is just -wrong-. So he said to send it to him and he'll get me one back that -works-.

Better go back to 975X/p65 board:D ...Easy oc and less headache.

what with all the FREAKING out in this thread...........farking hell guys relax a tad.

it's funny to see Lestat on the NON-freaked out end hahahaha :D

hey Lestat is that the G.Skill HZ RAM that could not do DDR1000 before :)

looks like there a few n00bs about here that can't change components properly hehehehehehehe :p: :)

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Originally Posted by Dumo

Better go back to 975X/p65 board:D ...Easy oc and less headache.

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LOL where's the challenge then hahah

I hope Jacob or others enlighten us with the best memory or compatible memory for the mb then as I haven't found that on the BFG site yet. OCZ Platinum Revision 2 2GB (PC2 6400) ;Rated @ 4-4-4-15;
OCZ OCZ2P800R22GK was what I used and I am curious if anyone got it to run with that I would be ecstatic! :D

OCZ GameXStream OCZ700GXSSLI PSU Hopefully this psu is compatible too. ALthough I have read a review that the voltages aren't too stable but I don't have any tool to test this out yet.

LOL I haven't read all of the post but for sure I hope my 680i would be the i holy grail!

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Originally Posted by dinos22

LOL where's the challenge then hahah

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Not me:) I stay with N680i...Its fun.
Too many 975X boards for me, gotta change scenery..

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Originally Posted by Dumo

Not me:) I stay with N680i...Its fun.
Too many 975X boards for me, gotta change scenery..

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just as i thought :)

Run it with 1T is fun:D

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/3...shot151bg7.jpg

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Originally Posted by Dumo

Run it with 1T is fun:D

http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/3...shot151bg7.jpg

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surprised there are no benches in 5+GHz for W.R.

i'm sure with a bit of tweaking they will take it down no dramas .........and not to mention RAM seems to clock higher than 975X :)

Not to hijack this thread but....

I am just curious if everyones board has these two numbers in photo one, whereas mine did not have a sticker and was blank showed in the second photo.

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/image....BfMl84X2wuanBn

http://static.flickr.com/115/3053916...57befd.jpg?v=0

and doesn't the 680 have the sweetest lil fan! lol

I was was of those "running fine here" guys , that is until today. What has been reported re: the ram is happening to me also now. Although I don't think the ram has been killed. I think the board ha gone wacked. Like one stick works, and one stick doesn't, then all of a suden the reverse, then both sticks work great, then none, all over the place. Once in windows it seems fine no matter what. But when you cold boot, here go the long beeps and have to re-save bios and try the black slots and on and on. voltage, overclocking etc, don't seem to come that much into play with all this crazy behavior. I think it's something on the board going wacky, but I couldn't begin to guess what exactly. I even tried a bios chip from a BFG board abd it behaved exactly the same way. I wonder if the striker has thi sort of flakeyness being reported?? I might give the asus a try to see if it will settle down at least. Thinng is, (and I was warned about this) all was well for a few weeks then bam! Oh well, it goes with the territory I guess. Expensive territory at that.

Mines blank too.

If you have corsair you can check out compatibility the lazy/unenlightened/careful? way! not that this is a memory thread but....

http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair...or_search.html
http://www.corsairmemory.com/corsair...h_results.html

and some expert here suggested http://ramlist.ath.cx/ddr2/

or pester xs people

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Originally Posted by shawn1998

There is a difference between "bringing it to someone's attention" and declaring that the board is a ram killer. You are the one that wasted how many sticks of ram before realizing that your particular board might be bad? $1500 to figure out you might have a faultyl board? A fool and his money..., well, you know how it goes.
People that have issues are generally the ones posting. You prove the op wrong by even stating that. Their are hundreds upon hundreds of these boards in the wild, but only a few people here and there claiming the board killed their ram. I'm not the only person here saying this, read around. You have issues and I feel for you, but good lord, you should have figured out after the second set went. Common sense, that's all I'm saying.

As a side note, the EVGA rep stated over on the EVGA forums that they have not recieved complaints about ram being killed on this board, with the exception of the few people you have pointed out. So it HAS come to the attention of EVGA and it HAS been addressed. You should post his response here, wait, I'll do it for you:


As posted by EVGA tech JacobF over at EVGA.

Just saying.

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Well I guess you want to turn this into a mud slinging match:rolleyes: I never said I went through 1500 dollars worth of ram genius, I lost a stick of C3DF at default with no OC and yes the power was off and the plug pulled out, I am now using C5D until I get the replacement C3DF as I use my PC for work as well. I also own a set of Mushkin XP2 6400, its fine in other PC's just not this one.

So no I have not killed 1500 in ram and where the hell did I call this MB a ram killer?

Anyways I replaced the Evga tonight with another one and the only difference is that its branded BFG, my IDE does not see my DVD on this one :)

too too many issues

This is the worst MoBo on the market ... i have tons of problems ... its time to P5W DH again!

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Im at 1500 dollars in ram, two sets being Dominator type, hell thats enough for another computer,

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I got it from your post, genius.

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Originally Posted by OBR

This is the worst MoBo on the market ... i have tons of problems ... its time to P5W DH again!

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Perhaps its just broken?

Just a thought.

For those brainless enough to think that living is about talking politics, [i.e rationalising], here’s a lesson in truth. {And just because you see everybody, in and out of politics rationalising, doesn’t mean it is normal}. Truth is not about BS, debates, showing-off, comparing organ sizes, alwaying being right, etc. Truth is what it is. Did this mobo killed ram. Did it or didn’t it. Does it have to be a “full-time” ram killer to justify this fact for those experiencing the situation. If so, don’t learn to be a pimp just because you feel obliged, ingratiated or for whatever reason, the need to side with anyone. All people are after, is information. Of course, some might have other agendas but the fact is all it should be. Now, if a vested interest wants to “quieten-down” the situation because they feel that people are always in a state of perpetual panic, that is another matter for their PR people, latent pimps included. For others, who can decide from what is being presented, they can make up their minds – for themselves.

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Originally Posted by cir108

For those brainless enough to think that living is about talking politics, [i.e rationalising], here’s a lesson in truth. {And just because you see everybody, in and out of politics rationalising, doesn’t mean it is normal}. Truth is not about BS, debates, showing-off, comparing organ sizes, alwaying being right, etc. Truth is what it is. Did this mobo killed ram. Did it or didn’t it. Does it have to be a “full-time” ram killer to justify this fact for those experiencing the situation. If so, don’t learn to be a pimp just because you feel obliged, ingratiated or for whatever reason, the need to side with anyone. All people are after, is information. Of course, some might have other agendas but the fact is all it should be. Now, if a vested interest wants to “quieten-down” the situation because they feel that people are always in a state of perpetual panic, that is another matter for their PR people, latent pimps included. For others, who can decide from what is being presented, they can make up their minds – for themselves.

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I think people are getting a little too uptight. Yes, there are problems with some boards, although we don't know how widespread. I don't think the philisophical ramifications of how certain posters have posted need be discussed in the thread :p:. I'm sure that this will be solved soon enough; nVidia will either fix this via a bios update or replace the board. There is way too much riding on these boards to let this fester. Besides, people having paid $400 for these boards are more likely to be banging on their backdoor pretty fast :D .

Ok 2 more sticks are going bad now making it a total of 4 sticks = $1100

The 2 sticks that are in my computer right now were running fine for about 24 hours with 2.1v, early yesterday i had to up it to 2.2v because windows was starting to freeze. This memory has never seen more than 2.1v until yesterday.

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

Ok 2 more sticks are going bad now making it a total of 4 sticks = $1100

The 2 sticks that are in my computer right now were running fine for about 24 hours with 2.1v, early yesterday i had to up it to 2.2v because windows was starting to freeze. This memory has never seen more than 2.1v until yesterday.

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Why do you keep putting RAM in a board that might be bad? That's not very smart.