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FSB525! Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6
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WOW!
This board is looking&clocking great! :toast:
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:slobber: The heatpipe setup looks amazing! I love the back plates!
How stable is the 525 fsb?
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Holy cow! I almost jumped on the p5n32-e Plus, I might have to hold out for this board. Wondering how effective that monstrous heatpipe solution will be, I can imagine that 680i chipset just cranking up the heat on the pwm area. Great results though, how about memory OCing, amazing like other 680is?
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i dont think u can put an aftermarket cooler (cpu) with a plate underneath the board like the tuniq
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500FSB prime Air
http://pic.xfastest.com/hicookie/Gig...sb%20prime.gif
Ajfina>
yes, i can, but not 100% compatible
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looks impressive,thanks for sharing
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Originally Posted by Ajfina
i dont think u can put an aftermarket cooler (cpu) with a plate underneath the board like the tuniq
yeah, i doubt that. Seems my Tuniq is not compatible with this board :(
@ MECURY : nice board and impress ocing u have :toast:
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Originally Posted by afireinside
:slobber: The heatpipe setup looks amazing! I love the back plates!
How stable is the 525 fsb?
I agree! That looks simply awesome! :D
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Originally Posted by xs64
yeah, i doubt that. Seems my Tuniq is not compatible with this board :(
@ MECURY : nice board and impress ocing u have :toast:
http://pic.xfastest.com/hicookie/Gig...6/P2160486.JPG
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I suspect that backplate heatpipe does little to nothing and it likely doesn't work at all when the board is mounted vertically (althought that's assuming there is actually any fluid in the system to begin with... It may be so poor that it's dry inside and strictly for show). I would remove it in favor of properly mounting an aftermarket backplate.
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Originally Posted by Kunaak
voltages available?
no problem with any voltage u set in bios, doesn't have the buggy like p5n32-e sli:D
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What about quad-core clocking?
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Originally Posted by afireinside
:slobber: The heatpipe setup looks amazing! I love the back plates!
How stable is the 525 fsb?
525 is not that stable yet. ;)
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Originally Posted by MECUCRY
no problem with any voltage u set in bios, doesn't have the buggy like p5n32-e sli:D
thats not what I asked...
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Originally Posted by MECUCRY
no problem with any voltage u set in bios, doesn't have the buggy like p5n32-e sli:D
That is not completely true, especially with the F2 BIOS. :D Your board appears to be just like the one Gigabyte delivered to HiCookie. ;)
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Originally Posted by bingo13
That is not completely true, especially with the F2 BIOS. :D Your board appears to be just like the one Gigabyte delivered to HiCookie. ;)
yup,they send to xfastest to do the reveiw,but retail resion no doubts
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Originally Posted by bingo13
That is not completely true, especially with the F2 BIOS. :D Your board appears to be just like the one Gigabyte delivered to HiCookie. ;)
Why is this the perfect board. LOL
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Originally Posted by Knight
Why is this the perfect board. LOL
Actually, not that good in bios, still F2,
vMch max is +0.2v
no vtt setup
Sb has problem voltgae max is +0.35v
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Originally Posted by MECUCRY
yup,they send to xfastest to do the reveiw,but retail resion no doubts
Or was this "review" done at Gigabyte? :p:
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Originally Posted by bingo13
Or was this "review" done at Gigabyte? :p:
done at gigabyte? duno what u said?
im not working in gigabyte, and ths mobo and testing in my home:)
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Originally Posted by MECUCRY
done at gigabyte? duno what u said?
im not working in gigabyte, and ths mobo and testing in my home:)
Good, then drop a retail CPU in it and show the results that people can expect when this board goes on sale in two weeks. It is easy to get the high FSBs with the 1333 CPUs in it, I know this for a fact. While ES results are nice, it is only fair to post retail CPU results for a clear picture on the board's capabilities.
Something like this - http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/7...09x440agp4.png
How high can you take a Quad Core on the F2 BIOS? ;)
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Originally Posted by Knight
Why is this the perfect board. LOL
No, just the perfect CPU to use in it for those screen shots. :D
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Originally Posted by bingo13
No, just the perfect CPU to use in it for those screen shots. :D
good point,so this mobo can offer 500 fsb , if u can't go there , that's the issue about ur cpu:rolleyes:
DDR2-1000 4445 1T (512x2) 1:1 8x500 (boot 500fsb in bios)
http://pic.xfastest.com/hicookie/Gig...0_1t_512x2.gif
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Originally Posted by MECUCRY
good point,so this mobo can offer 500 fsb , if u can't go there , that's the issue about ur cpu:rolleyes:
DDR2-1000 4445 1T (512x2) 1:1 8x500 (boot 500fsb in bios)
It has nothing to do with my CPUs, it has everything to do with using a 1333FSB CPU as it is quite easy to go above 500FSB on this board or others with an E6850. I gain an easy 20FSB with the E6850 over the X6800 at the same clock speeds on this board.
Once again, are you going to show results with currently available retail based CPUs on the F2 BIOS because those results will be out shortly? How about showing how high this board will actually run 1T with 2x1GB modules. It is easy to get to DDR2-1000 1T with the right 2x512MB modules on this board, not so easy with 1GB modules. ;)
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Originally Posted by MECUCRY
Good time for N680i
It's your results ?
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what about quad-core fsb?
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This stockcooling solution will force you to remove it when using phase or ln2... not really a very bad thing, but... strange Oo.
Is this a retail board? I read nothing about it i think...
Nevertheless, nice OC with low volts it seems...
I'm interested how it scores against the in9...
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Originally Posted by virtualrain
What about quad-core clocking?
Yes, throw the two-core away and show us quad core overclocking
(with this "quadcore optimized board"), thats all what counts :toast:
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Originally Posted by SuperPysz
what about quad-core fsb?
325 Max Stable at this time with the latest beta.
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Originally Posted by bingo13
325 Max Stable at this time with the latest beta.
i'm using Xeon 3210 With F2 BIOS and only got FSB 310 stable... can you share your BETA BIOS ? I've F3b, maybe you have a new one ?? thanks ! :toast:
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lol quad gigabit. id rather have dual 10gigabit
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Originally Posted by bingo13
325 Max Stable at this time with the latest beta.
Thanks, this is what I was wondering about. I could have figured as much.
The same quad-hype happened with their 965-DQ6 board, and it sucked as well.
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Originally Posted by Benny Lodewijk
i'm using Xeon 3210 With F2 BIOS and only got FSB 310 stable... can you share your BETA BIOS ? I've F3b, maybe you have a new one ?? thanks ! :toast:
That 325 is with F3B and a QX6700. F3A seems better for dual cores, only hit 305 with it. I have another BIOS coming Sunday that should be good for both. ;)
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I get my board tomorrow.. getting excited here. wew.. glad the F3 final is out.. just in time.. I need a new e6600 now that will do 4ghz stable.. heh
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I know this is an old'ish thread, but i couldnt find any others regarding this Board (Gigabyte GA-N680SLI) and Quad Cores at least.
I have this board running with a Q6600 and like others around have hit a BIG FAT wall at around 320fsb. From what i can gather from info on teh net and other people it's due to the GTL Ref Voltage, that is not allowing the Quads to use higher FSB's.
I have all teh gear needed to push this sucker higher (see sig), hopefully there will be a fix and in a future revision (bios fix unlikely) or some Guru can work out a good volt mod and details for it on this board.
The Q6600 sits @2835@315 on 1.2(1.16-7 real)@60-65c (CoolerMaster GeminII) and will Prime all day. Just dissapointing they hyped the Quad Core Optimised 1333fsb, NOT!!.
Sry for bringing up an old thread though hopefully more people have this board now and using quads and possibly work something out.
Cheers
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Yeah.. when I get a quad core I'm going to ditch this board in favor of a 680i LT version board.. unless some magic fix comes out for the n680sli..
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Originally Posted by
bingo13
325 Max Stable at this time with the latest beta.
ROFL i reckon my vanilla P35 mobo with 4-pin power connector will beat that lol
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Originally Posted by
revenant
Yeah.. when I get a quad core I'm going to ditch this board in favor of a 680i LT version board.. unless some magic fix comes out for the n680sli..
Mind you i havnt looked at any of the LT versions, but are they clocking Quads better are they. I got this board due to it's great feature set, primarily for me teh 10 Sata ports.
It's dissapointing that Gigabyte on the own website say this board will support 1333fsb Quad Chips, there will be some dissapointed and angry people out there. I have sent an email off to them regarding this, so who know what might happen.
Unfortunately it is VERY unlikely this could be fixed with a Bios update of any sort, as from what i can gather is due GTL Ref voltage and othe mods, on a hardware level that appear to be needed to get Quads above 320fsb at whatever multioplier.
From there Spec Listing
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LGA775
Support Intel® Core™ 2 Quad/Core™ 2 Duo/Pentium® D/Pentium® 4 Processor
Supports 1333/1066/800/533 MHz FSB
FULL SPEC LIST
There own news Report, take note 2nd paragraph. What i'm not sure of is theer anybody that has done a volt mod to allow for higher FSB like what's been done on teh DFI and Asus boards and what other action, besides buying another board, maybe a Bearlake Chipset down the track.
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Originally Posted by
dinos22
ROFL i reckon my vanilla P35 mobo with 4-pin power connector will beat that lol
LOL, that was posted 4mths ago champ hehe.
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Originally Posted by
MrMX5
LOL, that was posted 4mths ago champ hehe.
Were are the new results :D ;)
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Originally Posted by
dinos22
Were are the new results :D ;)
Would be good to see for the normal C2D's, if they didnt have the problem with the 680's and Quads i'd be going nuts on this by now.
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Originally Posted by
bingo13
Please dont get me wrong, but i cant anything on the F4 bios and the link you sent has 2 versions, Which one should i use. I know i'm new here, so no offence is meant in anyway, just curious before i try this thats all.
Cheers
Edit - Did a full search on google and there is a forum thread on Anandtech, thanks again.
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WOW looks awesome performs well to
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With some quick testing with the F4f bios, it dosnt solve a thing. Still got a pretty hard ceiling @320fsb.
Even throwing 1.32v at and lowering multi to 8 @325 it will SOMETIMES get to windows login before it reboots. Tried it at 327-350 in case there were any FSB holes so to speak and the exact same issue as before.
So I'd bet there isn't much they can do with a bios upgrade to fix the fsb ceiling for Quads as i would say it's a hardware thing ie the GTLREF voltage and a mod will need to be done to get the board further at least for a QUAD core.
Gigabyte need to look at this, as it will be a problem with native 1333fsb Quad Cores when they come out, if you cant even hit 325fsb at the moment. I also know it's not my setup either as i know a few with basically the same except the Mobo and are hitting 400+fsb on a Quad.
Thanks for reading my rant LOL. Hopefully something gets done.
Edit - Strange thing though when i loaded the new bios and rebooted the 1st time all my old settings where unchanged (which is good) except for the SB/PCIE which went up .30 for some reason WTF. Also CPU temp was only showing around 19c (got a pic) with system temp on 32c.
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MrMX5 - from what I have heard, coming also from a friend of mine to has a pair, the foxconn based 680i LT boards (eVGA, XFX) are posting some crazy nice fsb numbers with quads.. 400 to 425fsb no problems.. I know they don't have the nice feature set, but perhaps the DFI 680i LT will? it's due out any day now.. but I am unsure if the OCing fix for quads is a feature of the LT chipset or just a fix on the motherboard in general.. thus it's possible DFI's offering might not yeild the same good numbers.. I'm waiting to hear..
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Originally Posted by
revenant
MrMX5 - from what I have heard, coming also from a friend of mine to has a pair, the foxconn based 680i LT boards (eVGA, XFX) are posting some crazy nice fsb numbers with quads.. 400 to 425fsb no problems.. I know they don't have the nice feature set, but perhaps the DFI 680i LT will? it's due out any day now.. but I am unsure if the OCing fix for quads is a feature of the LT chipset or just a fix on the motherboard in general.. thus it's possible DFI's offering might not yeild the same good numbers.. I'm waiting to hear..
Thas good to know. With regards to the DFI boards, from a review (i think) on VR-Zone the revelant mods for the GTLRef Voltage has already been implemented, which would explain the better clocks on Quads.
I think it will still be a bit amusing with all these Mobo manufactures stating Native 1333fsb for Quads, that when those CPU's come out there not going to work at all unless they have quite a high Multi so you dont need above 320fsb.
Thanks for teh response though, the main thing i was after were the Sata ports, hence the Gigabyte board.
I cant complain over night i just encoded some 200 ep's of teh Simpsons and on my old machine that literally wouldve taken 4-5 days LOL. But then again thats not what half these forums are about it's how FAST you can get your System.
