[First Look] DFI 680i LT NF-680i LT SLI (56K Warning~~~)

[Roger_D25]

Good point nugzo about the eVGA board at launch, it was pretty bad overall! Now though a few months after launch and many of us are getting very high FSB speeds, their overclocking like crazy, RAM is running very stable and at very high clocks, and pretty much all the SATA/RAID issues are fixed. Granted their are some other major issues like very relaxed latencys with chipset so after about 440Mhz-460Mhz we're seeing a drop in bandwidth, still suffer from fairly low FSB speed on Quad Core chips, chipset could use better cooling (even on the non-reference boards), and it took me 3 RMA's to get a board that worked at 100%!

With that said I wouldn't be suprised if the DFI board has some growing pains unitl the BIOS gets mature but I think that whole process will happen alot faster than it did on the reference boards! We'll see soon enough.

[dogchainx]

Good point nugzo about the eVGA board at launch, it was pretty bad overall! Now though a few months after launch and many of us are getting very high FSB speeds, their overclocking like crazy, RAM is running very stable and at very high clocks, and pretty much all the SATA/RAID issues are fixed. Granted their are some other major issues like very relaxed latencys with chipset so after about 440Mhz-460Mhz we're seeing a drop in bandwidth, still suffer from fairly low FSB speed on Quad Core chips, chipset could use better cooling (even on the non-reference boards), and it took me 3 RMA's to get a board that worked at 100%!

With that said I wouldn't be suprised if the DFI board has some growing pains unitl the BIOS gets mature but I think that whole process will happen alot faster than it did on the reference boards! We'll see soon enough.

I bought the eVGA 680i board today for $215 AR, along with extra cooling for the NB/SB. Meh, I wanted to start testing out my memory and CPUa.

Its just, i'm not patient. I have two e6600's, one e6420, 8x1GB DDR2 pPC6400 sticks of RAM, and one huge urge to upgrade. All of this without a motherboard. From what I read, i'll take my chances on the eVGA. If it has problems I'll RMA and get the DFI board in two weeks.

Sigh...i have over $1500 in CPUs/RAM/etc just sitting here. Watch for a FOR SALE thread in a few weeks!