EVGA NForce 680i SLI Motherboard

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11-12-2006, 02:39 PM
metro.cl

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phil The Greek

Are you sure about that?Its the first time I hear that:confused:

on intel 965 or 975 chipset im sure.

@ fugger can you do a comparison between 800 1t and 2t?
11-12-2006, 06:09 PM
sierra_bound

I'm not sure why some people are dissing this board. The bios takes some getting used to. But it's a very solid board, once you start figuring things out.

And 1T does make a difference.

2T

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/4...50x112tui0.jpg

1T

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4421/8m350x111tfi4.jpg

Stability testing at 1T

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6...s37521tke7.jpg

Times are not great because memory speed was only 350MHz. Running 1T gets a little squirrelly at 400MHz. But at lower speeds, everything is fine.
11-12-2006, 06:18 PM
erwinz

hey sierra_bound would you happen to have an E6400 :D could you please show us the maximum OC? :) pretty please.. ;)
11-12-2006, 06:24 PM
sierra_bound

Sorry, don't have a E6400. My X6800 does 4GHz easily on air.

FSB seems to top out around 450. A new bios would probably help a lot.

The thing that people need to keep in mind is that the first bios on any new board is usually not very good. I remember the initial bios for the P5B Dlx was so-so. If people had made a judgement about that board based on that initial bios, they would have missed out on a lot of fun.
11-12-2006, 06:42 PM
erwinz

Quote:

Originally Posted by sierra_bound

Sorry, don't have a E6400. My X6800 does 4GHz easily on air.

FSB seems to top out around 450. A new bios would probably help a lot.

The thing that people need to keep in mind is that the first bios on any new board is usually not very good. I remember the initial bios for the P5B Dlx was so-so. If people had made a judgement about that board based on that initial bios, they would have missed out on a lot of fun.

yup yup.. :D

tnxs.. hope the new bios arrives and it be equal to the 965 in fsb.. :) that will be a monster board.. :D
11-12-2006, 07:08 PM
ShoNuff

Quote:

Originally Posted by sierra_bound

I'm not sure why some people are dissing this board. The bios takes some getting used to. But it's a very solid board, once you start figuring things out.

I agree! The key is figuring things out. The good news is that the learning curve isn't that steep. With a new bios things can only get better.

I'm glad to see that you have this board and are having success with it. Please keep posting the screen shots as I believe it indirectly helps us all simply by showing what this board is capable of. :up:

edit: Sierra what memory are you using with the 680i?
11-12-2006, 07:13 PM
sierra_bound

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShoNuff

I agree! The key is figuring things out. The good news is that the learning curve isn't that steep. With a new bios things can only get better.

I'm glad to see that you have this board and are having success with it. Please keep posting the screen shots as I believe it indirectly helps us all simply by showing what this board is capable of. :up:

edit: Sierra what memory are you using with the 680i?

I'm using Team Xtreem TXDD2048M1800HC5DC.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=117453
11-12-2006, 07:40 PM
Gautam

How do Pi times compare to i975x? It seems like 1M is virtually even, how about longer calcs?
11-12-2006, 07:45 PM
sierra_bound

975X boards are faster in Pi. Kyosen did some tests with 680i/965/975X.

8M @ 444-445X9

680i - 2mins 47secs

P5B Dlx - 2mins 41secs

P5W DH - 2mins 32secs
11-12-2006, 08:06 PM
bachus_anonym

Thanks for the first "real" insight on 1T vs 2T, sierra :up: It seems like everybody else that has this board, is just too preoccupied with SLI, pushing new memory tunning features of this chipset aside at this moment. On a side note, why am I not too surprised, that 1T doesn't hold too far beyond DDR2-800. At least it could be a good advantage of board to come ahead in reviews (compared to other 775 mobos), when tested at stock :D

Can you shed some light, on how much is asynchronous (or rather FSB-independent) memory overclocking really worth on this board? Have you tried to push memory to the max on this mobo yet? Would it really be a better clocker (frequency and latency-wise) than P5B DLX? I know it's an early BIOS, but some conclusions can be already drawn, right? :)
Thanks :toast:
11-12-2006, 08:22 PM
sierra_bound

At this point, the P5B Dlx is better for memory overclocking, probably because of a more mature bios. I was able to do DDR2-1170 with this board. I'm still trying to figure out the asyncronous memory overclocking. The board wouldn't boot with some of the settings I tried.

If overclocking fails on boot-up, it will just tell you to go to bios, or proceed with default settings. I have not had to clear the CMOS yet. Sometimes it will hang during boot-up. Powering off and on the PSU fixes that.

No cold boot issues with this board, which is good.:)

As Pedro mentioned, this board is probably better for 3D than Pi. But I like the option of running 1T.
11-12-2006, 09:50 PM
metro.cl

Quote:

Originally Posted by sierra_bound

I'm not sure why some people are dissing this board. The bios takes some getting used to. But it's a very solid board, once you start figuring things out.

And 1T does make a difference.

2T

1T

Stability testing at 1T

Times are not great because memory speed was only 350MHz. Running 1T gets a little squirrelly at 400MHz. But at lower speeds, everything is fine.

thanks for the info, but why cpu-z shows 570sli?
11-12-2006, 10:40 PM
sierra_bound

OK, I think I figured a few things out. Was able to do DDR2-1312, running memory independent of FSB.

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/6836/ddr21312hq1.jpg

Since CPU-Z won't show memory timings and speed on this board, I had to use the Nvidia monitoring utility. Also had to use yucky timings.
11-13-2006, 04:06 AM
Pt1t

Quote:

Originally Posted by sierra_bound

OK, I think I figured a few things out. Was able to do DDR2-1312, running memory independent of FSB.

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/6836/ddr21312hq1.jpg

Since CPU-Z won't show memory timings and speed on this board, I had to use the Nvidia monitoring utility. Also had to use yucky timings.

the Nv monitor gives false information ...

http://users.skynet.be/pt1t/evga/evga_Orthos_450X8_.PNG
11-13-2006, 08:11 AM
bachus_anonym

Quote:

Originally Posted by sierra_bound

OK, I think I figured a few things out. Was able to do DDR2-1312, running memory independent of FSB.

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/6836/ddr21312hq1.jpg

Since CPU-Z won't show memory timings and speed on this board, I had to use the Nvidia monitoring utility. Also had to use yucky timings.

When you get a chance, sierra, can you do some more detailed testing on that? E.g. compare results (perhaps higher Pi calculation) at lower mem speed up to the highest you can achieve, so we could see if gains are always there? Or also, compare that DDR2-1312 to running ratio, e.g. 437x8 at 2:3, which would be close to your max above? Therefore we would be able to see how it stacks up? What timings are those - x-6-6-5.0 ? What about x-4-4-4.0? Better or the same as on P5B DLX?

Thanks for your time, sierra :up:
11-13-2006, 11:19 AM
sierra_bound

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pt1t

the Nv monitor gives false information ...

DDR2-1312 is what I set in the bios. So are you saying the bios also gives false information? I don't use nTune to overclock. I set everything in the bios and also make mental notes of those settings. Occasionally Nv Monitor will give false readings for a second. But the settings you see above are what I entered in bios.

Quote:

Originally Posted by bachus_anonym

When you get a chance, sierra, can you do some more detailed testing on that? E.g. compare results (perhaps higher Pi calculation) at lower mem speed up to the highest you can achieve, so we could see if gains are always there? Or also, compare that DDR2-1312 to running ratio, e.g. 437x8 at 2:3, which would be close to your max above? Therefore we would be able to see how it stacks up? What timings are those - x-6-6-5.0 ? What about x-4-4-4.0? Better or the same as on P5B DLX?

Thanks for your time, sierra :up:

I was running 5-5-5-8. I can do DDR2-1190 @ 4-4-4-8 and DDR2-1200 @ 5-4-4-8. I will do more testing in the coming week.
11-13-2006, 11:46 AM
Pt1t

Quote:

Originally Posted by sierra_bound

DDR2-1312 is what I set in the bios. So are you saying the bios also gives false information?

I was running 5-5-5-8. I can do DDR2-1190 @ 4-4-4-8 and DDR2-1200 @ 5-4-4-8. I will do more testing in the coming week.

no i think bios gives true informations, but nothing under windows.
11-13-2006, 11:54 AM
sierra_bound

DDR2-1321 corrupted my OS last night. I'm running Orthos now at DDR2-1201 (5-4-4-8). So far, no problems.

With 2.8v, I think I could do DDR2-1400.
11-13-2006, 11:59 AM
JoeBar

Thanks sierra for your time and testing! :clap:

It seems that this board is quite nice. Even if the 500+ fsb's aren't easy as of yet (maybe other 680i boards or newer bios will solve this) its performance is on par with 965/975 bords. My only concern about evga's offering is regular bios updates.

Only if all these 680i boards didn't follow the NV reference layout. Makes SLI+wc'ing+pci sound= :nono:
11-13-2006, 01:05 PM
sierra_bound

Here is DDR2-1201 @ 5-4-4. Orthos stable. In the coming days, I will test to see how high I can clock my Team Xtreem with Orthos stability.

Large FFT's, 1024MB. DDR2-1201 is what I set in bios. As you can see, Nv Monitor is showing weird numbers. I just set a CPU overclocking record - 1,334,352MHz. :slobber: :D

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/8...1201544zd5.jpg

EVGA 680i
X6800 (retail)
Team Xtreem TXDD2048M1800HC5DC
Tuniq Tower 120
11-13-2006, 03:12 PM
erwinz

Quote:

Originally Posted by sierra_bound

Here is DDR2-1201 @ 5-4-4. Orthos stable. In the coming days, I will test to see how high I can clock my Team Xtreem with Orthos stability.

Large FFT's, 1024MB. DDR2-1201 is what I set in bios. As you can see, Nv Monitor is showing weird numbers. I just set an CPU overclocking record - 1,334,352MHz. :slobber: :D

EVGA 680i
X6800 (retail)
Team Xtreem TXDD2048M1800HC5DC
Tuniq Tower 120

hehehe congratz on the WR.. :D

tnxs for sharing mate.. ;)
11-13-2006, 05:34 PM
rob725

Sierra, I'm pretty sure that's an fsb record too. NV monitor is equally useless for clocks on my evga as well.
11-13-2006, 05:44 PM
sierra_bound

Yes, a record-setting board.:D ;) The DDR2-1312, however, is real.

I think I'll be able to run Orthos higher than DDR2-1201. Even though timings weren't great (5-4-4), it's still a good start. Running Orthos at DDR-1200 is much harder than doing 32M at that speed.

I will post an updated screenshot when I get more results, hopefully with correct speeds in Nv Monitor.
11-14-2006, 12:05 AM
sierra_bound

Some updated Orthos results.

DDR2-1214 @ 5-4-4

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/4...1214544wb4.jpg

DDR2-1271 @ 5-5-5

http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/7...1271555yc5.jpg

I would run Orthos longer. But because I'm testing a lot of different settings, it would take a year to do 8-hours for each test.
11-14-2006, 12:27 AM
GAR

just reached ddr 1200 @ 5-4-4-12 with 2.425volts.......looks good so far.

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/1802/untitledib6.jpg

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