Update: Asus 680i Observations Part 2: Large Pics Warning....

[Kunaak]

Since I've had more time to mess with the 680i lately, I've found a few more interesting observations that may help some people with these boards.

first off though, I want to say, I am not the expert on these boards, people often ask me questions about this board, that I just have no answer for...
often people have troubles that I simply havent had, so I can't do anything more then give general advice.
so what works for me, isn't always gonna help you, since we all have varying degrees of experience, and very different hardware.
these are just my latest observations, on a very unusual chipset...

first off, some pics to show 500+ isn't impossible with these boards.



this is a straight boot shot.
no tweaks for the super pi test, other then whats in bios.
I am not much of a tweaker when it comes to Super Pi, as I am not usually looking to break records, except my own personal ones.
no clockgen used, not cause I wouldnt use one... I just havent found one for these boards yet.



just a bandwidth shot.
booted at cas 5-4-4-10-10 TRC and rest at auto.
TRC and TRAS were tweaked with Memset, just alittle.



this is my most tweaked shot, with me trying to go for a personal best in Pifast, with this particular processor.
unfortunatly I am just at the limit of what this CPU will do with only 1.6 volts... I need to go back to bios 0302 where the Vcore actually worked...
bios 0702 works mostly, except the Vcore doesnt go above 1.58 volts anymore... seems asus just screws up this board more everytime they release a new bios.
my advice, stick with bios 0302 if you got it.

oh yeah, about PI Fast.
theres 2 major versions out, version 4.1 which is the version supported by Hexus currently. Version 4.3 is out, but its alot faster then version 4.1 by about 5 seconds.
if you ever see a PiFast score thats unusually high, chances are they are using version 4.3 to get the upper hand.



this is just Aquamark3 at 4.1 ghz, nothing too interesting about this shot, just alittle 3D for the hell of it.

8800 GTX at 660/1060.
Mushkin PC6400 at 1240 or 1250 mhz (forget what it really was).
cas 5-4-4-10, TRC 10, rest at Auto.
E6400 at 4.1 ghz.

Now, Observations.