Originally Posted by
Roger_D25
Although this is a bit off topic guys I still think it's relavent to the discussion here? There has been some discussion in this thread about what southbridge (MCP) was going to be used on the DFI 680i motherboard and what MCP would be better. It looks like it's going to ship with the 570MCP instead of the 590MCP that most high-end 680i boards have been using. Well I'm currenlty on my 4th eVGA 680i AR/A1 motherboard. My first two boards were AR revisions and my last two boards have been A1 revisions. My first A1 revision was delivered a couple weeks ago when eVGA was sending out replacments for better C2Q overclocking (GTL mods) and was recenlty RMA'ed due to some major problems. Well my 2nd A1 revision just arrived a few days ago and after removing the stock heatpipe coolers to mount my chipset waterblocks I noticed something very intersting!
Unlike my first three eVGA 680i boards this one came with a 570MCP instead of the 590MCP which was a bit suprise to me as I hadn't heard anything about eVGA replacing the MCP from anyone! With that said this has been my best 680i board yet, no problems and very stable overclocker so far! Anyway I just thought I'd let you guys know since I image we'll start to see this on many of the 680i boards? I'm gonna try getting in touch with eVGA to ask about this but I'm not holding my breath, lol!
