Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Testing

[Benny Lodewijk]

Just received this motherboard...

some pictures

[Benny Lodewijk]

THE BIOS

[Benny Lodewijk]

THE BIOS

[Benny Lodewijk]

Test Setup

Processor Intel Core2 Duo E6300
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 F2 BIOS
Memory Kingston HyperX 8500D2K2/2G
Gigabyte GV-NX88X768H-RH GeForce 8800GTX 768 MB
PSU Tagan Dual Engine 800 Watt


Initial testing............FSB 450 MHz 1:1 Super PI and 3DMARK 2001SE








FSB 500 Mhz ?? why not ??? :p

[Ajfina]

cant see pics on ur last post , fix it

[Pyr0]

thanks for posting some results, but indoupload.com is reallly slowww

[Benny Lodewijk]

already fix it.

[Eldonko]

Thanks for sharing. How is the BIOS?

[ic3m4n2005]

One question, is it possible to feed the cpu with more volts and use power saving functions c1e/speedstep -> so you can use low idle speeds and volts and reach max frequency while using custom set vcore (not auto) ?

[HamidFULL]

WOW Great result! please tell me the price

[dinos22]

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FSB 500 Mhz ?? why not ??? :p

the SPI time looks good man


my time wasn't tweaked and B1 stepping is generally slower than B2 but still i would have thought that run on 680i would be around high 16m


maybe gigacrap have figured out how to tweak for RAM performance a bit better that others

this is with P965 chipset

[aasmaukr]

Nice, what's the max. SuperPI 1M FSB?

[dinos22]

hey benny

i'll love to see you test this board with an E6600 CPU at 3.6Ghz with 400MHz on RAM and then increase the RAM MHz with 4-4-4-x timings......it would be great if you've got any RAM that can move past 500MHz

[Aljechin]

Throw away the two core and show us quad core FSBs

[DeDaL]

Thanks. Not bad.

[Benny Lodewijk]

hey benny

i'll love to see you test this board with an E6600 CPU at 3.6Ghz with 400MHz on RAM and then increase the RAM MHz with 4-4-4-x timings......it would be great if you've got any RAM that can move past 500MHz

sorry bro, i don't have E6600 on hand ..

[Benny Lodewijk]

Just got F3b BIOS.. gigabyte said it it will improve overclocking capability. I'll try it tomorrow.

[zert]

keep us posted !

[3NZ0]

Good results so far, keep us posted. I still cant get over how much stuff is integrated onto this mainboard, 4 gigabit nic's for crying out loud

[Benny Lodewijk]

now i can hit FSB 510 MHz with F3b BIOS...(will upload the ss soon)..still digging

[nobugging]

will the tuniq tower fit this board, or do you have to remove the backplate?

[bingo13]

will the tuniq tower fit this board, or do you have to remove the backplate?

It will fit with some creative engineering or you can just remove the backplate.

[Pecosdude]

Hi benny,

Nice result!

Is that a retail board? care to share where you bought ?
After reading your thread, I tried to get one from the local distributor .....argh.. they said its not yet available.

Currently using Asus striker with E4300, couldn't get pass 400FSB.

[r7206]

Nice one ben!

Wanna know if there still raid issue on this board.
Could you try raid-0 and post us some result?

[nugzo]

I ordered this board today from ClubIt.com overnight. I Have the Abit, Asus, and EVGA 680i boards. I hope this is where my search ends. I also have E6600, 3060 and X6800 to play with. I'll start a new thread with results and comparisons.

edit: typo