EVGA 680i SLI board is killing ram.

[Brother Esau]

These chips are not even close to what the NF4 were!

[Leeghoofd]

indeed Nforce4 was a reference in performance, in fact a must have in case you ran an overclocked AMD rig... 680i is only needed in case you really want SLI , manual ram overclocks are great but to me more a gimmick... as I needed al ot of tweaks to get it performing on par with my P5W ( clock for clock that is)

[Kin Hell]

These chips are not even close to what the NF4 were!

You're quite right. The 680i Northbridge is a completely new design & includes the Memory Controller in its 90nm Fab. However, the memory controller design revolves around nF4 Designs. Even the Southbridge is robbed from the 590 Chipset, yet how many of us actually ever owned 590 Chipset based boards? Certainly not on the Intel side of things.
nVidia are convinced it was an awesome platform & helped them get to 680i. I'm sure it did nVidia but the Intel consumer never actually got to own this technology.

I stayed away from nForce5 chipset & hung it out for DFI's RD600 board, mainly because I had read the nF5 chipsets memory controller would be based around the nF4's chipset. There were also Issues with nF4 Chipsets & Maxtor hard drives back then & whilst I was upgrading from an Opteron/DFI nF4 rig with maxtor Hard drives that actually worked, I wanted newer & faster technologies for my outlay. I also recall reading in Dec06/Jan07, nVidia wouldn't be changing it's memory controller till last quarter 07, maybe first quarter 08. I wish I could find a link where I read all this cr4p & no, it wasn't the "Enquirer". Anyway, rather Ironic that RD600 boards from DFI & 680i boards from nVidia appear to suffer the same deaths. Whilst I have seen serveral boards from 2 different manufacturers & 2 different platforms all die a similar kind of death, common sense will prevail eventually. Just a shame the people making these inferior products can't see the light just yet. In the meantime, punters pay top money for top products using cr4p parts. Summats got to give!

*edit* 680i Review

[coolrmaster]

i haven't read all the rumors flying around on this thread but speaking from personal experience i've been running 4 1gb sticks of crucial ddr2-1000 on 3 different evga 680 sli mobos and have had no ram problems for over six months, although i can't speak for the other brands of ram with this board

also, evga customer support is 2nd to none

[Kin Hell]

also, evga customer support is 2nd to none

I'll second that!

[Bei Fei]

I thrid that. I sent my MB in and I had a new one in 5 days.

[xt0m]

I had two EVGA 680's, an A1 and A2 - the A1 was displaying all kinds of strange errors and eventually had it RMA'ed and got the A2
(thumbs up for EVGA - the RMA was done in less than 4 days). Nevertheless both boards killed one 8500C5D kit each, even tho I never went past 2.3v