interesting new board from Abit.
from what I seen of the 680i so far, hitting between 450 to 500 FSB without too much trouble, this might end up being one hell of a good board, and atleast a solid contender against the 975X boards thats for sure.
http://www.pcstats.com/releaseview.cfm?ReleaseID=1535
http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/mothe...&fMTYPE=LGA775
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Nice mobo.
No crappy caps around the socket.
Looking good.
looks pretty decent.
Wow where is the Fatal1ty logo?
Has the same exact layout as every other board, gigantic heatsinks FTW!
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nice digital VRM... i want to see how digital vrm performs.
Lots of metal on that board, but at least its not a mess like the asus striker is.
I like it
I wonder if hipro has one of these yet!!!
I thought D-PWM kicked out a lot of heat, but the chip is uncovered??
I like it *interested*
Last edited by K404; 11-08-2006 at 02:32 PM.
Originally Posted by T_M
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Looks good, but again watercooling is a pita. Now you have to watercool the SN as well, get an aircooler for it or cut the heatpipe :/
But then again the picture doesnt cleary show where the SB heatpipe leads to, so there is still hope
I really like the rest of the layout, with one exception. How is a hardcore gamer, the board is supposed to be designed I guess, supposed to use a SLi setup + gfx card for physics and a soundcard? Not even a PCIE 4x soundcard would fit because of the high NB cooler. :/
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NICE!
Digital VRM and a solid layout
Can't wait to see DFI's board, hopefully it isn't too far off.
Hi! To me is looks like the NB cooler has a curve cut out at either side..I think a PCI-E card will fit ok
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You are looking at the inductor chip, only part of the DPWM, the part covered by the heatsink above it is where it gets hot.
Got yaYou are looking at the inductor chip, only part of the DPWM, the part covered by the heatsink above it is where it gets hot.thanks!
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IT HAS A CLEAR CMOS BUTTON!!!! now the only problem is that if i want to water cool the northbridge now the pwm area is left totaly uncooled
an other motherboard at 399$ ?
wow abit is really hanging in there w/ the molex power conector at the bottom
nice looking
seems like nvidia made this mobo for extreme cooling most have really clean layout around the socket
5 phase DVM
with a bad Molex location
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http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/
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it says 6 phase on the website
I wouldn`t call Molex position bad. far from PSU - maybe, but it`s alot easier to manage cables then if it`d stick right in the midle of the motherboard
It`s 5 on the picture
how would abit get it wrong on thier own website? how can you tell by the picture anyway?
5-phase PWMIC has 10 electric contacts on each side.
By doing some DVM studies. unless of course they are hiding another stage under those heatpipes
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The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.
http://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/
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yeah that molex location sucks
btw, that clean socket area is perfect for Phase or DI/LN2 Tubes
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Wow, f*cking heatpipes again. Cross abit off my list.Wow where is the Fatal1ty logo?
Has the same exact layout as every other board, gigantic heatsinks FTW!
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