Quote Originally Posted by Roger_D25
Khaotic,
Back when I bought my eVGA 680i there wasn't as many other 680i boards available as there are now. With that said I would probably have gotten the Asus 680i (non-Striker) but not sure? It's a tough call since all these boards are faily new and havn't been sorted yet?

I see from your specs that your running an Asus P5B-Deluxe with an E6400 @ 3.6Ghz, how is that system working for you? I've heard many good things about that board, infact I was even thinking about scrapping the eVGA and trying that board out but I'm going to give the 680i some more time!
Thanks for the reply - and sorry mine is so late.
My P5B WiFi Deluxe has been an AWESOME board. I understand all the "issues" with the vDroop, but the funny thing is, with the MANUAL overclock setting AND using AUTO as the vCPU setting - the voltage goes UP to the CPU as i increase the front side bus. Of course, CPU-Z stops reporting the correct voltage pretty quick, but the Asus probe shows that its at 1.55 +/- when I'm running with a 450-500FSB.
I've got an E6400 that will handle the high FSB just fine and I'm on Air cooling - Scythe INF series with a fairly quiet 120mm fan on the sink. I can get a 500Mhz front side out of the board/chip combo IF i lower the multi of the CPU. All in all, its been a REALLY fun board to play with.
I've got a eVGA 7950GX2 slapped on it, and I use it mainly for my LAN rig.

I'm looking to put a 680i into my MAIN rig to replace the P5W DH - becuase I want SLI without the mess of hacked drviers. AND i want a nice stable overclock to go with it. I have a Xeon 3060 on the way that has been sold to me by a fellow forumsman who says it will do 3.6 I expect that an Asus P5N32-E SLI or Asus striker Extrme should give up enough FSB to get a 6600/Xeon 3060 to 3.6 with little to no trouble while at the same time holding up an SLI setup. Is this a true statement everyone? I hope so - becuase that is the plan. I could REALLY R E A L L Y use some feedback on this one.