680i SLI is too expensive? Asus as the solution : P5N32-E SLI PLUS

[renethx]

for those people that says that this is not a 680i board, they are totally wrong. The northbridge is 650i but the features and all the resources are from 680i.

Even nForce 680i LT SLI uses the nForce 650i SLI SPP. Both the AnandTech review and the The Tech Report review say the 680i LT SLI SPP is labeled C55-P-N-A2. But this is exactly the nForce 650i SLI SPP as you can see from this ASUS P5N-E SLI review.

Basically all of

• nForce 650i SLI
• nForce 680i LT
• ASUS P5N32-E SLI Plus
• ASUS P5NT WS

have the same SPP C55, with apparently different part numbers

• C55-P-N-A2
• C55-SLIX8N-A2
• NF650I-SLI-N-A2
• NF680ILT-SLI-N-A2

Only the pure 680i SLI SPP is C55XE, with part number C55-SLIX16N-A2 or NF680I-SLI-N-A2.

But the distinction between C55 and C55XE is very obscure and as a matter of fact

C55 = C55XE
from their specs.