[First Look] DFI 680i LT NF-680i LT SLI (56K Warning~~~)

[bingo13]

well im thinking of getting this board too~
but how good will it stack against the evga680i?

Memory performance is not as good when overclocked.

[MikeMK]

Has anyone seen any word of UK availabilty or pricing? If its sub £200 im gonna grab one and sell my IN9 i think

[dogchainx]

http://www.ocxtreme.org/forumenus/showthread.php?t=710
450fsb*8!! 3.6ghz qc~

Very good to know. I can't see it posted anywhere...is that with the new beta bios?

QC oc'ing is icing on the cake for me, since I won't be delving into quads until late 2007 or early 2008. Buts its nice to know that I can upgrade and OC the hell out of one.


EDIT: First REVIEW of the DFI 680i. (yes, I do nothing else than search google for 680i. :P)

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/108...ial/index.html

[Raja@ASUS]

the raid figures are not the best but working and respectable enough to use, dedicated cards are always a good solution assuming all else is ok. This for me was Raid on a budget, 4 cheap drives in raid 0...

regards
Raja

[Rattle]

nice

[OldGuy]

EDIT: First REVIEW of the DFI 680i. (yes, I do nothing else than search google for 680i. :P)

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/108...ial/index.html

Gee...I wonder why the evga comes out on top in the OC comparisons? Maybe that 112mhz difference? If yer gonna do a comparison, do a friggin clock for clock comparison. At stock there is next to no difference and I'm sure it would have been the same had they clocked them at the same speed. When the board is out for awhile and the initial price comes down it should be a very good board to consider...

[dogchainx]

Gee...I wonder why the evga comes out on top in the OC comparisons? Maybe that 112mhz difference? If yer gonna do a comparison, do a friggin clock for clock comparison. At stock there is next to no difference and I'm sure it would have been the same had they clocked them at the same speed. When the board is out for awhile and the initial price comes down it should be a very good board to consider...

No kidding. Or at least put down the FSB and CPU speeds on the graph.

Bad Tweaktwon..BAD!

[virtualrain]

Tweaktown is also mis-informed on the capabilities of the 680 LT chipset. They said...

The 680i LT lacks the extra 8 lanes that a full fledged 680i SLI has for a physics

AFAIK, this is wrong... nVidia literature...



He also said this (which I could not find in the manual)...

If you want to use the PCI Express x16 slot at the bottom as well as the top two, you cannot have any other PCI Express cards on the board and need to set a jumper - this gives you x8 speed on the final slot.

[xs64]

any news when this board will available in Euro?

[dogchainx]

Hmmm...there might be two different packaging types. One has the back withOUT the full motherboard picture (OCXtreme forum photos), the other WITH a full motherboard picture(Tweaktown review).

Different markets? Maybe...but a simple observation anyways.

[bingo13]

Hmmm...there might be two different packaging types. One has the back withOUT the full motherboard picture (OCXtreme forum photos), the other WITH a full motherboard picture(Tweaktown review).

Different markets? Maybe...but a simple observation anyways.

The early engineering boards were different than the production level boards.

[safan80]

I wonder if we'll see a quad-core update now that he has bearlake??

[EYEBORG]

just wanted to say I LOVE THIS BOARD! :P
I'm getting another one to replace the 939 wifebox :P

Havent had much time to play. on my E6400 Ive seen 3.7 load XP and 3.6 with some stability, 3.5 is solid.. need to play and tweek this thing some more, however, I've been at work for the last 14hrs and am wiped out.. gone helping family move over the weekend, bbl.

I did see one on a fairly reputable auction site today if anyone can't wait... I don't think we're supposed to link to the bay here though..

[Jobeo]

i think its funny he listed one of the cons as "Availability low at this stage"...

considering its only available to reviewers ya i'd say the availability is a bit limited ... =/

[mrcape]

Haha I thought that too.

Sweet cons -

Cons:
Expensive for 680i LT range
Availability low at this stage

[gandalfone]

Great for management ram
Team group 1200

[Nelly]

H'mm my apologies if this sounds sarcastic or a party pooper but whats the chances of people buying this board then a deathly silence on forums like the R600 version of the Lanparty?

[dogchainx]

just wanted to say I LOVE THIS BOARD! :P
I'm getting another one to replace the 939 wifebox :P

Havent had much time to play. on my E6400 Ive seen 3.7 load XP and 3.6 with some stability, 3.5 is solid.. need to play and tweek this thing some more, however, I've been at work for the last 14hrs and am wiped out.. gone helping family move over the weekend, bbl.

I did see one on a fairly reputable auction site today if anyone can't wait... I don't think we're supposed to link to the bay here though..

Tooting your own horn EYEBORG?

LINK

Nice little profit if you bought it for $260, with a buy it now for $400. I hate you.

BTW, why did you remove the auction?

[Isaac MM]

Well then EVGA 680i SLI is still better than DFI 680 LT?

[nugzo]

Any board is better than a board you cant get. IMO the EVGA is the best of the boards out right now. Hopefully the DFI wil out perform it, maybe we will know next week. Remenber, the EVGA has a 5 month headstart on bug fixes, now that board is near perfect. We all hope the reason the DFI hasn't been released is b/c they were working out those bugs before release. I hated EVGA with a passion @ initial release, we were all their beta testers. It sure would be nice if you could get a 680i board that was near perfect at launch. /me hopes its the DFI.

[GAR]

Any board is better than a board you cant get. IMO the EVGA is the best of the boards out right now. Hopefully the DFI wil out perform it, maybe we will know next week. Remenber, the EVGA has a 5 month headstart on bug fixes, now that board is near perfect. We all hope the reason the DFI hasn't been released is b/c they were working out those bugs before release. I hated EVGA with a passion @ initial release, we were all their beta testers. It sure would be nice if you could get a 680i board that was near perfect at launch. /me hopes its the DFI.

I would say the eVGA is the best 680i right now, along with the ASUS P5N32-E, those boards are real stable, had one, got the eVGA cuz of the QUAD CORE fix, A1.

[Roger_D25]

Good point nugzo about the eVGA board at launch, it was pretty bad overall! Now though a few months after launch and many of us are getting very high FSB speeds, their overclocking like crazy, RAM is running very stable and at very high clocks, and pretty much all the SATA/RAID issues are fixed. Granted their are some other major issues like very relaxed latencys with chipset so after about 440Mhz-460Mhz we're seeing a drop in bandwidth, still suffer from fairly low FSB speed on Quad Core chips, chipset could use better cooling (even on the non-reference boards), and it took me 3 RMA's to get a board that worked at 100%!

With that said I wouldn't be suprised if the DFI board has some growing pains unitl the BIOS gets mature but I think that whole process will happen alot faster than it did on the reference boards! We'll see soon enough.

[dogchainx]

Good point nugzo about the eVGA board at launch, it was pretty bad overall! Now though a few months after launch and many of us are getting very high FSB speeds, their overclocking like crazy, RAM is running very stable and at very high clocks, and pretty much all the SATA/RAID issues are fixed. Granted their are some other major issues like very relaxed latencys with chipset so after about 440Mhz-460Mhz we're seeing a drop in bandwidth, still suffer from fairly low FSB speed on Quad Core chips, chipset could use better cooling (even on the non-reference boards), and it took me 3 RMA's to get a board that worked at 100%!

With that said I wouldn't be suprised if the DFI board has some growing pains unitl the BIOS gets mature but I think that whole process will happen alot faster than it did on the reference boards! We'll see soon enough.

I bought the eVGA 680i board today for $215 AR, along with extra cooling for the NB/SB. Meh, I wanted to start testing out my memory and CPUa.

Its just, i'm not patient. I have two e6600's, one e6420, 8x1GB DDR2 pPC6400 sticks of RAM, and one huge urge to upgrade. All of this without a motherboard. From what I read, i'll take my chances on the eVGA. If it has problems I'll RMA and get the DFI board in two weeks.

Sigh...i have over $1500 in CPUs/RAM/etc just sitting here. Watch for a FOR SALE thread in a few weeks!

[nugzo]

AR eeek you need the A1!

[dogchainx]

AR eeek you need the A1!

lol...i meant After Rebate. ;-)

I have read way to much to get the AR.