Can you explain this statement. What is it in comparison with? Where both setups running at the same speed? How did you test this? You're the very first person to claim this compared wit ha number of people who have not had any problems.Quote:
Originally Posted by barza
Johnny
I did not get as far as running benchmarks and noting down the scores before I switched back to the EVGA board. What I did do was run Aquamark 3 a couple of times, and the scores were about 15k down on what I would normally expect clock for clock. I also took NFS carbon for a couple of spins, and there was a notable lumpiness to the frame rate compared to what I am used to on the EVGA board.
This was with a single 8800GTX, running at stock speeds.
I am sorry I can't be more scientific than that. But the board managed to corrupt my windows install without a particularly severe overclock in place on any of the components, and at that stage I switched back to the EVGA board - to repair my windows install.
Right... so is the EPP what's making the NB voltage shoot to 1.45v... Well, that's something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnny Bravo
Thank you for the info. 1.45v still looks a bit high to me tho. I'll keep EPP disabled and the NB @1.40v and see how it goes.
72 mins in Windows running some benchmarks and no BSODs... this is my record so far.
Didnt have any of these problems what so ever in my setup. Single 8800GTX everything stock (X6800) ran 11.5k in 06. SLI got me 13,200 same settings - major CPU bottleneck there im guessing, until I start overclocking. Havnt tried many games, but so far so good.Quote:
Originally Posted by barza
One thing - about the 680i sound issue with SLI & soundcard (I have an X-fi) at first I thought there was no probs COH ran fine, no probs, but i just tried oblivion quickly and got some occasional crackling out of the centre speaker so im not 100% convinced its gone I'll test some more games and post back.
Am I the only user who finds the way Abit has released this board a bit odd? At this stage none of the usual hardware sites have posted a review of this board which goes into any depth - Toms Hardware skimmed the surface with a comparison of 680i boards a while back, but did no overclocking and said they were working with a pre-release bios.
All the information we have had seems to have come from users (and possibly beta testers) like Johnny Bravo, Crotale and Coolaler. That is not to decry those efforts in any way - the info they has posted has been a massive help. But it almost seems this board has leaked its way out to the public, rather than being given a big splash. And the conspiracy theorist in me can't help thinking that is because the bios is a bit underdone....
Johnny Bravo - I realise I owe you a more systematic account of graphics card stuff. But seeing another user report data corruption issues in this thread really puts me off going back to this board for now.
question about this board..
what is the length between mounting holes for the mosfet heatsink? I'm not sure if this will fit on the board.
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1...coolnv8700.jpg
Has anyone tryed this for the sata problems!
http://www.nvidia.com/object/680i_hotfix.html
is this board still no avaliable in teh US?
sorry wrong bios
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Originally Posted by bro20000
Motherboards affected:
EVGA nForce 680i SLI motherboard
BFG nForce 680i SLI motherboard
Biostar TF680i SLI Deluxe
ECS PN2-SLI2+
That is a bios flash for the reference designed boards, do not attempt to flash your abit with this
Read that thread carefully. Some guy starts asking questions about the AW9 board and I believe those bios' are for the AW9, not the IN9.Quote:
Originally Posted by day187
ok thanks i hope no body flashed to them :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Yellowbeard
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Originally Posted by day187
I second that! Those are for the AW9D. I suggest you delete your post day187. (Edit: I see you did right after I posted)Quote:
Originally Posted by Yellowbeard
Tnaks, did u try i allready?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Nemesis
like it? , saw a guy having lots of troubles with it , not surenow,
no EPP and 2 ram sticks...need performance 2gig sticks for 4gig total...4 gig not mainstream yet - vista may change that
I bought 4gb ram because of Vista.. Apparently 680i doesnt like dealing with more then two sticks.. ideally just 1 it seems.
I can now run memtest fine forever on every stick individually.. but when I put two in I get tons of errors..
i wish intel had amd's integrated mem controller - i believe nehalem 2008 will have imc. ; amd still kicks butt in the mem dep't...o well; can't have evrything
any 4 gig ram sticks around? probably is somewhere at cas6 or sumfin
gah pc's are such buckets of electronic bolts.
asus striker is now in stock as of yesterday in Australia - for a mere 535 AUD
EVGA 680i currently out of stock around 400aud
BFG...in stock 500aud!!!! rip off
p5n32-e out of stock
p5n-e in stock...220AUDappox
abit in9 - what's that? not even advertised for preorder.
If you can't run your ram at spec. dat would really annoy me. In fact I think any 680i board would really annoy me if i bought it.
("so dont buy it" says smart ass shoulder imp)
("but i want sli" says mewling nerdy imp)
stoopid imps.
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Originally Posted by uberowo
I had 4gig GSkill BHZ running without issues on the Striker.
You will need to adjust Read Delay and Refresh Cyclic Time for a start to sort out running 4gig on 680i, try:
TRD-Read Delay-7
TRFC-Refresh Cyclic Time-30
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Originally Posted by barza
M8, this problem with 8800 series and slowdowns/bad preformance is a known issue across all platforms and is 8800/driver specific.
Aquamark shows this up all the time, usually a grafix driver uninstall (using driver cleaner in safe mode) and grafix driver reinstall will fix the slow down problems and bring preformance back up.
Also with 680i, dissable all linkboost options in bios and lock PCI-E frequency to 100, lock SPP<>MCP Ref Clock to 200 especially if you plan on overclocking. I'd lock both of these and turn off all linkboost options even if you don't overclock.
Good to hear your performance is where it should be, Mike. I am guessing you'll take down 15K on 06 with your cpu @ 3.5 or so and up.. did you pull your NB and SB sinks and put AS5 under them in place of the pads?Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeMK
Can someone point me the the direction of some high end 4gb sets of RAM? As in 2x2gb.. I have been searching around abit and I've been unable to find any..
They have them on new egg.Quote:
Originally Posted by uberowo
Hm. Never heard of G.Skill.. They dont seem to be available in scandinavia either..
Rev m8 yes i'd expect to get those kinda scores, on my P5W-DH my X6800 did 3.9ghz, so hopefully i can match that or even better it on this Abit. That should get me some serious scores. Im awaiting some EK blocks to come in stock in the UK so i can get the NB and 8800's on water, as the whole thing is running way hotter than I would like.Quote:
Originally Posted by revenant
My CPU is obviously under my storm, so that should be fine to start me off.
As for the NB/SB sinks, yes first thing i did was pull them off and take those horrid pads off and replace with AS5. BTW, does anyone know if the rather general 'system temp' relates to chipset temp? cos otherwise there is no chipset temp monitor that i can find. All i know from the feel of the heat coming off the heatsink is that its damn hot.