EVGA 680i SLI board is killing ram.

[Ic3man]

For those who are mere chickens when it comes to talking straight, say what you mean and not learn to use or hide behind words like philosphical, religions, etc. This is what the mass media has slyly taught people, to talk bent as if their playing with words is so hip or worshipfully great. There are no shades of grey, only in the minds of chickens or budding ones. That is called politics. The fact is not how problems will be solved in the future [talking like a politician] but what are the problems now such that these problems can then be tracked and SEEN to be monitored. Ever heard of a place called Iraq or Greed….

Fashion is [usually] selling rubbish for fashion is about elevating perceived values to the heights that the dumbed-down can tolerate but usually gives little but dreams in return. Ever heard the politicos talking about this fact? No? So, even the dumb ones have some sense left, inspite of talking [or learning to talk] like a politician. For those defiant bent talkers, know that stealing is taking others property and giving little or nothing in return. This is called black or white not black & white for the latter uses fashion [whaterever the fashion may be] to cloud issues and all the science of gymnastic talking will not change anything other than exposing those who talk bent. Just because this is a techie forum [really?] doesn’t mean common sense should be abandoned or latent pimps be allowed to roam free.

When you buy something, there is no need to worship or praise for when the product satisfies, it has merely fulfilled it's asking price. Fashion is about worshipping, not common sense. If you chose to abaondon yours, don't drag others into it. Like those halleluja boys & gals. Drumming up support for madness [which mobo cost is spiraling towards] is manipulating idiots to convert the undecided masses. Comprehend fully that just because 99 patrons do not have a fly in their soup doesn't mean the one who had should be undermined. Especially when the soup is the Great Golden Variety and cost accordingly.

Put simply I think he means that ExtremeIce shouldn't be lampooned for what he has found.

It isn't the fact that he stated the mobo is killing ram its the fact he is generalising a rather serious and potentially slanderous comment referring to the EVGA 680i boards as a whole rather than a few. I'm inclined to agree with a few others here that it was either user error or a dodgy board but I certainly feel for anyone who has hardware problems...had enough of them myself to know.

[X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE]

Put simply I think he means that ExtremeIce shouldn't be lampooned for what he has found.

It isn't the fact that he stated the mobo is killing ram its the fact he is generalising a rather serious and potentially slanderous comment referring to the EVGA 680i boards as a whole rather than a few. I'm inclined to agree with a few others here that it was either user error or a dodgy board but I certainly feel for anyone who has hardware problems...had enough of them myself to know.

slander is when you lie about the truth. well i have not lied, lets see how many more reports come in about this.

I'm not sure if this was mentioned before, but one of the OCZ techs did mention that removing DDR2 modues from the slots with the power to the mainboard ON, MAY kill it. Probably the OP did this a number of times to swing the probabilities towards death.

I have never done that at all. i have psu unplugged before i do any hardware changes.

Good on ya for reporting that the 680i is killing ram ExtremeIce but maybe you should consider changing the title to My EVGA 680i is killing MY ram rather than announcing a false statement.

Many here (inc myself) have had no such problems, dare I say the vast majority of people havn't had the problems you suggest. As previously stated why keep throwing good money after bad. It could be the 680 thats killing your ram, it could be a faulty voltage regulator on your board it could be a number of things but the first port of call would be to RMA the board imo rather than posting a misleading thread.

This thread is not miss leading at all. It is the truth and nothing but the truth. I notice about 2 reports every day about ram dieing or getting damaged by the 680i chipset, if that is only %5 of report! do the math.

[Daemono]

Just wanted to throw my 2c in and say I had 0 problems with this board. I've been a lurker here forever, and made an account just to say how much I love this mobo. It didnt eat my RAM, it was fun to OC, and aside from the PS2 keyboard being buggy as hell, it works perfectly. I'd honestly recommend it to my friends.

[shawn1998]

Here's a good one for you guys here. This is what he posted over at the EVGA forums. Enjoy his math!!!

out of all the people that report problems would equate to about %5 of people. so if 2 people that report their ram getting damaged,killed,fried. so 2 x 20 = upto 40 people per day getting their ram killed. There is a possibility that the caps on the back of the boards are the problem.

According to xtreme ice, we supposedly now have up to 40 people per day reporting that the EVGA 680i has "killed" their ram. Man, it's worse that I thought...(can you taste the sarcasm?)

Shawn

[X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE]

Here's a good one for you guys here. This is what he posted over at the EVGA forums. Enjoy his math!!!



According to xtreme ice, we supposedly now have up to 40 people per day reporting that the EVGA 680i has "killed" their ram. Man, it's worse that I thought...(can you taste the sarcasm?)

Shawn

well as you know that can't be confirmed, but i would say only about %5 of people would report it as they don't all know where to report errors other than there local Computer shop.


I haven't seen any reports today. so all i have heard of is about 10-15 people so far.

[X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE]

Here's a good one for you guys here. This is what he posted over at the EVGA forums. Enjoy his math!!!



According to xtreme ice, we supposedly now have up to 40 people per day reporting that the EVGA 680i has "killed" their ram. Man, it's worse that I thought...(can you taste the sarcasm?)

Shawn

I did not say there is 40 people per day reporting bad ram. please get your facts straight next time.

[Luis_GT]

I really feel sorry for you Xtreme Ice, but to say the truth, the only problem I have with this mobo is the Raid access failure whenever I'm overclocked to 3.6 or above. I'm even currently running my Ram @ 1300mhz and still havn't killed my ram. Maybe you got a dodgy board... but would'nt you have stopped after the second pair of Ram was killed?

[Dumo]

Its 5 pages long with rams killed lol...Its getting old.
I really can feel the pain of losing hardware either from user error or hardware nalfunction.....

So what is the solution?
Heres...dump this board if its killing your ram or any components then buy a different board. Easy

[theteamaqua]

man 680i sounds scary lol

kunauk killed his board by falshing bios the right way, people's RAM got killed ...

i am gonna wait, maybe i will get RD600 with R600 and not 8800 GTS SLI with 680i boards

[X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE]

man 680i sounds scary lol

kunauk killed his board by falshing bios the right way, people's RAM got killed ...

i am gonna wait, maybe i will get RD600 with R600 and not 8800 GTS SLI with 680i boards

Evga will just say user error.

[theteamaqua]

i am gonan wait it out, again maybe ill get R600 + RD600 instead of GTS SLI

[X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE]

i am gonan wait it out, again maybe ill get R600 + RD600 instead of GTS SLI

I will give the 680i a second chance when my refund comes back i might get the Striker or the BFG, striker sounds like a better idea.

[DjLeco]

Nvidia must fabricate ONLY videocard chipsets no motherboard chipsets...
Let the chipsets on INTEL manufacturers do produce it.
Again troubles with nvidia chipsets, (like always)...

[theteamaqua]

I will give the 680i a second chance when my refund comes back i might get the Striker or the BFG, striker sounds like a better idea.

cuz if i get GTS SLI i have to get 680i boards...

btw how s P5N32-E SLI?? another 680i board from Asus? is taht one good besides flashing bios kills board??

[shawn1998]

I did not say there is 40 people per day reporting bad ram. please get your facts straight next time.

Umm, here is your post that I quoted:

so 2 x 20 = upto 40 people per day getting their ram killed.

I do have my facts stright. I think it's you who needs to get your facts straight. Don't post complete BS if you don't want to be called on it.

Just saying...

Shawn

[The Asgard]

I'm 99.9% sure this problem is associated with a faulty board/s. I also heard a similiar thing about the Badaxe eating memory again I never had any issues and I played with 4 Badaxes and currently still use one in my MCE Box. Over the pond on the OcUK forums I have not heard of any such problem.

Lets face it if the board did eat ram then it would be BIG news.

theteamaqua your missing out on a great board.

[X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE]

Umm, here is your post that I quoted:


I do have my facts stright. I think it's you who needs to get your facts straight. Don't post complete BS if you don't want to be called on it.

Just saying...

Shawn

I didn't say 40 people per day reporting, i said.
''upto 40 people per day getting their ram killed'' I didn't say that was how many reported i said that is how many there might be!!!!!!

[dinos22]

Nvidia must fabricate ONLY videocard chipsets no motherboard chipsets...
Let the chipsets on INTEL manufacturers do produce it.
Again troubles with nvidia chipsets, (like always)...

LOL if it was so bad people wouldn't buy them...............BUT they are that good and people are buying for that reason

[shawn1998]

I didn't say 40 people per day reporting, i said.
''upto 40 people per day getting their ram killed'' I didn't say that was how many reported i said that is how many there might be!!!!!!

Might be? Don't post complete BS like that, it's mis-leading and straight out wrong. Since your post is based on your own crack-cooked theory, maybe it should be labeled as such. I "might" win the lottery. I "might" be a brain surgeon. I "might" be John Holmes himself (not really).

Get it yet?

[Think]

Well, as far as I am concerned I would rather purchase the striker over this board.

Still going to wait for a better non nvidia solution when ATI/AMD releases the RD600 as well.

[The Asgard]

Well, as far as I am concerned I would rather purchase the striker over this board.

Why?
The Asus is overated and VERY overpriced.

[linflas]

and where are these 15 people, I frequent the evga forums, and I have counted only 2 people blaming the board for bad ram, where are the other 13, and why have they not posted on evga's forums to complain about their problem?

The 2 people mojom@n a.k.a. x.t.r.e.m.e. i.c.e.
and dayofpain

no one else in that thread you posted their, INCLUDING me has blamed the board for damaging their ram.

You misunderstood me when I posted there, I lost my gskill on a p5wdg2 ws pro mobo, and I posted that I attempted to use it on the 680i to see if my other board was faulty, but it did not work in either. So the ram was bad, and needs an rma.

you stated you had a gskill problem and all I did was say I had a problem with some same model gskill as well.

this thread has gotten out of hand, I don't think bashing the board on forums is going to help you in getting your products replaced, which they should be anyway through an rma. It sucks you lost your ram, but I think you are blowing it way out of proportion, I have no doubt your board is probably faulty, and you got screwed because of it. This happens, bad boards are shipped, and as many of us saw, the quality of manufacture of this board is not what i would call top notch, foxconn is just pumping them out willy nilly, so there are bound to be a few bad boards, you just got unlucky.

[Reinvented]

lol...wow... BS i say!

It's the DFI Expert crap all over again. :-P

[Think]

Why?
The Asus is overated and VERY overpriced.

I don't trust this board Asgard. Be it as it may, neither board satisfies what I would like to see in a board anyway so I'll just wait for awhile.

[mustang9621]

lol...wow... BS i say!

It's the DFI Expert crap all over again. :-P

I couldn't agree more, The expert killed three cpu's on me and since then I will not be the first to try any new Tech. The 680i boards on the market today are all reference boards and the top tier board makers are just getting ready to release their designs. The early adopters are the beta testers at their own risk, the manufactures will remain mute and the fan boys will insist that it is always the users fault. Welcome to high tech