DFI LP UT 680i SLI-T2R/G nears completion

[Solarfall]

I really hope that heatsink they have on the PWM's does a good job. One of the biggest headaches I have had on my IN9 is keeping the temps on the digiPWM undercontrol. Ideally they would include some kind of removable fan arrangement to stick on the top of it should you need msome extra cooling in there.

have to agree with you on this. removable fan whould be really great feature.

[AlphaHeX]

Indeed the board on the picture which flytek had posted is a work in progress According to DFI Europe the final version can be slightly different

[GNU]

If the 680i shipment reaches europe, I throw away my "not yet sick RD600" and will buy the 680i for a new hope

[scarface]

ETA of April ... what year?

That's what i'm sayin'

[AlphaHeX]

The board will be available in April this year 2007

[FragTek]

Being a former phase + RD600 user I can personally vouch for the awesomeness of not having to "dodge" anything around the socket, so awesome!! Glad they are keeping it clean for the nV edition board.

[G.Foyle]

On the VR-Zone pic, do I see C55, not C55XE?

ANd about the heatpipes... on normal coolers hetapipes connect a source of heat (CPU) to some cold element (fins). On ASUS 680i boards (3 of them) they connect a source of heat (NB) to another source of heat (mosfets). They are USELESS and make the board more expensive.

[memory]

can't wait to get my hands on it=)

[AlphaHeX]

The description of our favorite mobo is available on Czech DFI webpage for at least 1 month There is no picture of course

http://www.dfi.cz/produkty.detail.ph...b&id_hw0mb=796

[Jodiuh]

I'm happy to see this OC friendly chipset get the DFI treatment. The only niggle I have actually lies w/ RAID performance of the 680i. I don't suppose there'd be any change from board maker to maker, eh?

[virtualrain]

According to this thread, the RAID problems seem to be isolated to eVGA boards... http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ht=raid+bunged

[Sumanji]

I think he means actual performance... i.e. RAID speed on nF680i MCP sucks versus ICH7R and ICH8R.

[AlphaHeX]

I shouldn't be asking flytek to change a topic as DFI 680 mobo is really based on 680LT chipset I've got confirmation from DFI that it is true Team from polish web portal (pclab.pl) have a discussion with DFI at Cebit as they had that board but behind the scene To remind all of us 680LT is a light version of 680i (3rd PCI-E slot is missing, 8 USB vs. 10, 1 network card insteed of 2 and memory controller is supporting up to DDR2-800 not DDR2-1200 as on 680i. Below is the most recent picture of the board from Cebit, as you can see there is a 3rd PCI-E slot ! I'm wondering what memory controller was used, I hope it will support DDR2-1200. It looks like oskar is cooking something amazing for us

DFI representative from Europe told me that they will be releasing Inf P965-S first and then couple of weeks later NF680LT. I hope that couple of weeks is equal to end of April He have also commented why 680LT chipset was used -> "We have chosen to use the nF680LT board since overall performance is better and still supports SLI and Physics operation."

[Jedi2155]

very good point...but RD600 last official bios was 12/22...3 mo ago

Thats better than my video driver.....

Last nVidia XP driver... 11/02....I miss my ATI driver updates.

I wanted to wait for this...but 5 months was just too long a wait .

[s e t h]

RD600 has new official bios as of last week

[EnJoY]

I shouldn't be asking flytek to change a topic as DFI 680 mobo is really based on 680LT chipset I've got confirmation from DFI that it is true Team from polish web portal (pclab.pl) have a discussion with DFI at Cebit as they had that board but behind the scene To remind all of us 680LT is a light version of 680i (3rd PCI-E slot is missing, 8 USB vs. 10, 1 network card insteed of 2 and memory controller is supporting up to DDR2-800 not DDR2-1200 as on 680i. Below is the most recent picture of the board from Cebit, as you can see there is a 3rd PCI-E slot ! I'm wondering what memory controller was used, I hope it will support DDR2-1200. It looks like oskar is cooking something amazing for us

DFI representative from Europe told me that they will be releasing Inf P965-S first and then couple of weeks later NF680LT. I hope that couple of weeks is equal to end of April He have also commented why 680LT chipset was used -> "We have chosen to use the nF680LT board since overall performance is better and still supports SLI and Physics operation."

I believe they've also been able to bypass the RAID/SATA controller issues by using this chipset, and they only affected 680i chipsets. I wonder what sort of binning they had to do to ensure 500FSB on every chipset like Oscar wanted? Unless he let that dream die long ago when he couldn't even get the majority of 680i chipsets to do it.

[GNU]

That's nothing news! More informations about this.

[Sumanji]

I don't understand how that can be the LT chipset; there are three PEG slots plus another x4 slot, 10 USB ports (I assume there are 6 on the back plate as per Ultra-D), and 2 GbE ports (again as per Ultra-D).

How does that work?!

[Sgt_Strider]

I can't wait until this board is released. I hope that if they did end up using the 680LI chipset, the boards will be cheaper.

[AlphaHeX]

That is the whole secret Sumanji I'm sure that Oscar made excelent board What is concerning USB, 3rd PCI-E speed and dual lan we can't confirm it as there is no information about the final specification of that board yet

[Bulldog14]

Gents:

A few things need to be straightened out here.

1: The NB cooling solution you have seen in the pics is not the final one.
The board displayed is not a full production model.
2: Yes this board has the LT variant of the 680 chipset, but should not
be seen as "inferior" to the 680i. The thing to keep in mind is that
pretty well every 680i/lt board on the market is an Nvidia reference
board. Lack of physics slot on 680 LT NV reference designs tends to
get people thinking that physics is not possible at all with the LT. This
is incorrect. This board has been designed by the man himself (Oskar)
and as such is free from many of the "limitations" placed on the
reference designs. You didn't actually think that Oskar and his team
would be happy tweaking a reference board did you?

DFI Support Europe

[erwinz]

this board or the DFI Infinity 965P mm... ???

[Bulldog14]

The Lan Party 680 board of course.

[AlphaHeX]

Bulldog, you are absolutely correct with your summary

[Sumanji]

That is the whole secret Sumanji

I'm a bit apprehensive now... why didn't they just use the full 680i SLI chipset? The only way I can see them equalling full 680i feature set is if they combined 680i LT northbridge with the nF590 (instead of 570) southbridge. But then surely nVidia will get angry at them for trying to use a cheap chipset and making it "moddable" to unlock new features (just like nVidia got angry when people were modding Ultra-D boards to SLI-D).

And then there is the potential that 680i LT silicon is inferior to 680i SLI, so whatever Oskar does we might end up with pooey boards

Sorry to cast FUD, but this doesn't seem good to me...

Suman