"S.D.O.N." > "Sudden Death Of NVIDIA chipsets"

[hipro5]

"S.D.O.N. " > "Sudden Death Of NVIDIA chipsets"


As the tittle says......

I want to hear/discuss your oppinions about that....
On what conditions your NVIDIA i680 chipset "died"..... Voltages, Cooling, Stressing, etc.

I lost mine by feeding it 1.83Volts and cooled it by a Swiftech Heatsink (Very good).....
One night I powered off my rig and next day, NO GO....I finally discovered that I have "lost" the Internal PCI-E controler of it......

With a PCI VGA works as it used to, but when I plug a PCI-E in slot one, no go....

I've also heard/read that the i680 chipset "goes down" very easy....BUT on what conditions?....Please post your findings/failures.....

[afireinside]

Interesting... I had an NF4 board a year ago that had it's PCIE control crap out as well. One day it just POST'd with no video over PCIE. Not sure what caused it. GL finding the cause

[nn_step]

Interesting... I had an NF4 board a year ago that had it's PCIE control crap out as well. One day it just POST'd with no video over PCIE. Not sure what caused it. GL finding the cause

well if I remember correctly isn't the nForce 6 series using a new process?

[hipro5]

I've ALSO noticed that as time passes it needs MORE Voltage (Northbridge) to do the same frequenchies.....
A thing like the very first batch of Northwood CPUs....

[basco]

after flashing strikerbios 1004 i had probs with my 1st pci-e slot
moved card to 2nd slot and flashed back to 1002 and ok now.

the harder i oc the more i got blue screens with error pci-this + pci-that.....
no matter what voltages-all watercooled

and what worked yesterday-does not mean it works next day.
this is my 4th 680i mobo and i hate them - if you want to go low oc - easy-but if you want more then 4ghz-boot -no boot-boot-noboot and so on

maybe i´m a fool and me is the prob,but on my 2x965 mobos i go 4ghz easy and ram 1300mhz

for me this is like lottery-one board is good next is .......!
and for this skyhigh prices-not worth the nerves.
but if you want sli-no choice

greets from austria

[hipro5]

No basco.......You're ubsolutelly RIGHT.......The i680 chipset ITSELF craps out when it comes for Overclocking......The higher you go, the MORE problems you have...... It's like it "fulls of bandwidth" and it can't handle it....

I've tested ASUS Stiker, ABIT IN9 and now EVGA.......ALL of them are not good as 975/965 chipset mobos BUT from what I have seen up to now, I whould honestly suggest the ABIT IN9 one.....I had the LESS problems with that.....

As for the EVGA I'm "learning" a couple of days now, I encoded a problem when overclocked the fsb with my PS2 mouse.......when I get into windows, it just jumps here and there and it's opening by itself windows and programs....I plugged a USB mouse and I'm OK - for the time been - ....

[basco]

i think i made a mistake in only bying C2Duos to 6600. so i need the fsb to go higher.
i thougt that with extreme models with low fsb and up the multis there are no probs.

my first p5n32-e died after 2 hours during windows install and no oc with exploding transistor nearby the lowest pcie slot

on 965 i can get my ram to 1200mhz with 2,20v good for benching
on striker i need to find a strong divider first then my mobo only boots when i set the volts to 2,250v-everything above this volt and i got no boot.
really tried a lot of settings -nothing worked.

both in9´s are the most stable boards i´ve got so far but both cannot go over 1645fsb. only clockgen takes me higher.

maybe dfi goes the right way with 680LT-we will see

now im testing the quadgt and till now its a plug in set and go benching mobo

[kniwor]

Well one of mine died because my case had something to do with it, I dont think it had anything to do with nVidia.