DFI 680i LT lanparty UT

[voltaire2030]

THE 680i LT board to get !!!!

DFI LANPARTY UT NF680i LT SLI-T2R


http://us.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_prod...YPE=MB&SITE=US

[perkam]

Nice !!! 0_0

Mystery Of the PCI-E Slots Solved:

- SLI technology - 2 x16 slots both operate at full-bandwidth 16 lanes
- 3rd x16 slot for Physics card operates at x8 bandwidth

Perkam

[Revv23]

available in ten short months

[voltaire2030]

Much better ! Thx Perkam !

* It's finally out !

[K404]

Nice, but late. Strange mix of caps, and the D-PWM cooling doesnt look amazing. I hope the price reflects the competition and late arrival to market (ie...good price!)

[Vapor]

Anybody know where to get a different angle pic of that NB heatsink? Looks....interesting.

[Eldonko]

available in ten short months

Lol yup. Boards that work properly in 1 year...

[Revv23]

^on a beta bios no doubt.

[Sumanji]

Anybody know where to get a different angle pic of that NB heatsink? Looks....interesting.

See here

[Starscream]

Anybody know where to get a different angle pic of that NB heatsink? Looks....interesting.

here you go
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...7&postcount=96



nice layout.

wish more companies would do the SATA ports the way DFI does them on the highend boards.

@Sumanji
Wtf i could swear ur post wasnt there a minut ago.

[mascaras]

this DFI have more features than all the others 680i LT boards ,for example 3 pci-e slots









its almost a 680i SLi

should be also + expensive than the others 680i Lt boards


regards

[LuckyNV]

I'm assuming that the 1st two slots are 16x while the bottom one is 8x, otherwise how are you going to fit a two slot cooler GFX at the bottom unless you have a case that has room underneath like a stacker or similar

[voltaire2030]

We have reviews of the 965 but not the 680 ? Strange... I like the design of the board and , I must admit, I'm kind of a big sucker for DFI Lan party's series ! But I will wait until I see more reviews before making the jump...

[-Acid-]

and we hope it comes out sometime this year !!!!!

[irev210]

glad someone is innovating for a decent factory nb cooler instead a bunch of copper pipes running everywhere.

Copper pipes running from NB to MOSFETS to more MOSFETS to SB back to NB needs to end.

[J-Mag]

I'm assuming that the 1st two slots are 16x while the bottom one is 8x, otherwise how are you going to fit a two slot cooler GFX at the bottom unless you have a case that has room underneath like a stacker or similar

A GPU dedicated towards physics won't need to be ultra high end. Anyway there is nothing close to being established by either GPU house to create a physics solution, so the slot will only be useful for RAID cards or the like for probably a year or more.

[virtualrain]

So can someone clarify, did they use the southbridge from the full fledged 680i package with the northbridge from the LT set?

[Sumanji]

So can someone clarify, did they use the southbridge from the full fledged 680i package with the northbridge from the LT set?

Looks like it... and then sneaky BIOS tweaks to enable the higher memory clocks on the NB I assume

[zakelwe]

glad someone is innovating for a decent factory nb cooler instead a bunch of copper pipes running everywhere.

Copper pipes running from NB to MOSFETS to more MOSFETS to SB back to NB needs to end.

QOTM ( quote of the month )

I could never work out those when they had a heat pipe between two items both of which was a heatsource, shouldn't a heatpipe go from a heat source away to a cool set of fins ? Linking two hot items with a heatpipe, how does that work?

This looks a lot better with a decent passive 680i northbridge heatsink and a nice active MCP55P to fit under the graphics cards.Lets hope the northbridge has a small amount of some good thermal paste under there and fits snuggly.

The LT should be cheaper than the pure 680, this could be a keeper.

Well, they've had enough time after all.....

Regards

Andy

[Metroid]

this DFI have more features than all the others 680i LT boards ,for example 3 pci-e slots

its almost a 680i SLi

should be also + expensive than the others 680i Lt boards


regards

Sorry but also my board has 3 PCI- Express slots as stated in the website.

I doubt any other board beats the price, features and performance of the P5N32-E SLI Plus.

The P5N32-E SLI Plus is the best Quad-SLI™ ready motherboard with excellent gaming performance. But what we care is not only performance, it's also about realistic. Extreme HD gaming with the highest resolution that feels like the enemy jump out of the screen, the supreme audio with a stand-alone card-SupremeFX, induce a better Signal-to-Noise Ratio, features with DTS surround sound, sounds like the enemy is just around. The unique 3 PCIex16 slot, reserved one additional slot for GPU Physics card when running Quad-SLI™, the experience can't be more real. This board is also of AI Lifestyle descent, quiet thermal solutions increase the stability and reliability when running resource demanding games or applications, EZ DIY features enhance the DIY experience and make PC much more interesting.

[virtualrain]

I've been following the development of this board for a long time, probably as many of you have...

The interesting thing is that back around Christmas, Oskar reported that he was not happy with the overclocking consistency of the full-fledged 680i NB. Further to this, Tony reported that the LT silicon is actually a new rev. He implied that nVidia may have done some tweaking to improve the overclockability and consistency of the LT NB.

Combining the better OC'ing NB with the full-featured SB, might be a stroke of genius on DFI's part.

We shall see.

This has a lot of promise, hopefully it's actually going to appear soon!

[theteamaqua]

quad core overclocking ... i want 400fsb on 9x multi

and yeah if this doesnt oc quad core well .. its no better than the normal 680i board

[DeDaL]

Cool NB cooler.

[cantankerous]

Is this the only board coming from the DFI camp based on the 680i or will there be a board based on the full fledged 680i SLI?

The layout does look impressive however and should perform very well if all bugs are ironed out and the bios is up to par.

[virtualrain]

Is this the only board coming from the DFI camp based on the 680i or will there be a board based on the full fledged 680i SLI?

The layout does look impressive however and should perform very well if all bugs are ironed out and the bios is up to par.

I'm sure it will be their only offering... see my post a few up for possible reasons why they went with the LT and won't do a full-fledge 680 product.