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

[denden]

I have ordered the alphacool one finally, but wanna know if water resistence of this block is high cos I found the crack inside is so narrow and the space inside seems not a lot for high water flow.

Agreed. A MCW-30 with 1/2" tubing is suicide on this board.

Another option is to order a MIPS cooler specifically made for this board or to use an Alphacool 4-eyelet block like I'm using. However these options all require ordering from Europe whereas the DD block is readily available in the US.

[virtualrain]

I have ordered the alphacool one finally, but wanna know if water resistence of this block is high cos I found the crack inside is so narrow and the space inside seems not a lot for high water flow.

Yeah, it seems like a fairly high resistence design... but effective. I modified the insides of mine to be higher flow but I'm not sure that was really necessary. (I can't buy anything without modding it! LOL!)

[virtualrain]

virtualrain where are you getting those right angle barbs at, and when ya gonna post your water set up pics??

Dude, if you can believe it, I'm still wrapping up the build... 4 months later!... the pics will come when I'm done... maybe (crosses fingers) as early as next week.

BTW, those are Koolance compression fittings. They come in swivel elbows or straight and in 3/8" or 1/2" sizes. The only issue with the normal straight fittings is that you need min 20mm center-to-center spacing between inlet outlet on blocks to use the 3/8" ones and even more for the 1/2" ones. The elbows are sweet though and can be used on pretty much any block.

[denden]

how you modded?

Yeah, it seems like a fairly high resistence design... but effective. I modified the insides of mine to be higher flow but I'm not sure that was really necessary. (I can't buy anything without modding it! LOL!)

[virtualrain]

how you modded?

I dremelled out some of the copper inside. I'll post pics in a few days.

[hlonipha]

Well my board took a dive, nvidia sata controller do not work, it is rebooting to a frozen post screen (once it reboots and it start to show cpu info it freezes and will not continue to post, it randomly freezes while on desktop, already tried different cpu, video, sound and ram. oh well

[virtualrain]

Well my board took a dive, nvidia sata controller do not work, it is rebooting to a frozen post screen (once it reboots and it start to show cpu info it freezes and will not continue to post, it randomly freezes while on desktop, already tried different cpu, video, sound and ram. oh well

Crap that sucks. Ask for cross-shipment on your RMA... my retailer was able to swing that with DFI for me.

[hlonipha]

Crap that sucks. Ask for cross-shipment on your RMA... my retailer was able to swing that with DFI for me.

Yeap I'm getting cross ship but I had to pay the full price of board plus overnight shipping. I'm thinking once I get the new one sell it and buy something else. Not sure which board should I buy now that I do not run SLI I really do not need the 680I chipset.

[virtualrain]

Get an X38 board then.

[hlonipha]

Get an X38 board then.

Looking for availability now. Wonder if I will find someone to buy my dfi

[AlphaHeX]

How about new bios

http://us.dfi.com.tw/Support/Downloa...FLAG=B&SITE=US

[95blackz26]

ill try it later. i was thinking about a new bios last night too.

[Wiggy McShades]

How about new bios

http://us.dfi.com.tw/Support/Downloa...FLAG=B&SITE=US

what they still love us? someone try this asap maybe ill keep this board now.

[pump101]

can anyone tell me if this board has the same restart/power down procedure as the asus boards? i have a p5k deluxe and the moment and its a nigtmare tryin to save overclocked settings. board completely powers down then restarts after 2-3 seconds but the chillcontrol thinks the pc has been shutdown and turns of the cooling unit.

so i'm searching for a board that doesnt do that.

hope you guys can help

[Lood007]

Only the intel P35 chipset does that. nVidia's does not turn on/off when changing settings.

[pump101]

Only the intel P35 chipset does that. nVidia's does not turn on/off when changing settings.

cheers mate. most appreciated. now i can purchase the board.

[The Jedi]

I've read a report of audio crackling in games with a Sound Blaster X-Fi in this DFI board, particularly when using dual cards in SLI. I also read on Auzentech's website that nVIDIA has released to its partners BIOS changes which fix the problem.

Does this board work perfectly with an X-Fi in either Vista 32-bit or 64-bit? FYI, brand new drivers for the X-Fi are out as of today.

I'm trying to decide whether to get this DFI board, or the Gigabyte 680i SLI Rev 2.0 board for just a good all around stable, supported board. Ideally I want something well designed enough to support high voltage low CAS RAM.

Greets.

[virtualrain]

I've read a report of audio crackling in games with a Sound Blaster X-Fi in this DFI board, particularly when using dual cards in SLI. I also read on Auzentech's website that nVIDIA has released to its partners BIOS changes which fix the problem.

Does this board work perfectly with an X-Fi in either Vista 32-bit or 64-bit? FYI, brand new drivers for the X-Fi are out as of today.

I'm trying to decide whether to get this DFI board, or the Gigabyte 680i SLI Rev 2.0 board for just a good all around stable, supported board. Ideally I want something well designed enough to support high voltage low CAS RAM.

Greets.

The only info I have is from the DFI Club Forums where it was assumed to be an isolated incident worthy of an RMA... http://csd.dficlub.org/forum/showthread.php?t=3986

[AlphaHeX]

Pump101, the board is doing power down but it is a rare situation. For example changing NB voltage to 1.54V will poweroff the PC You have then to power it on manually but of course everything is working fine after that

[volve]

Hey all,

2 questions:

1. How's the new N5FD723 BIOS working out?

2. For the record, my southbridge fan started making a pretty high-pitched annoying whine today (non-OC), so that's probably on it's way out. Amazing given how little I've had this board up and running...

-volve

[virtualrain]

Hey all,

2 questions:

1. How's the new N5FD723 BIOS working out?

2. For the record, my southbridge fan started making a pretty high-pitched annoying whine today (non-OC), so that's probably on it's way out. Amazing given how little I've had this board up and running...

-volve

Is anyone running the latest 9xx BIOS?

[AlphaHeX]

virtualrain, I'm not brave enough I've just moved from 521 to 723 BIOS and I'm now able to run my 4 sticks at speeds greater than 1080 -> the current maximum for me is 1122

[Raja@ASUS]

As soon as my board gets back here I'll flash it..

regards
raja

[virtualrain]

As soon as my board gets back here I'll flash it..

regards
raja

Hey Raja... good to hear from you here. Any idea what changes have been made since the 521 bios? It seems to be a bit of a mystery. I'm usually of the "if it's not broke don't fix it" mentality, but these days with so many variables and issues, how can you know if it's not broke?

[virtualrain]

I recently got an RMA board and got it overclocking fine at 3.6GHz and 1.6Vcore. I didn't have any trouble with the multi changing to x6 under load before.

Now, I was just doing a recheck of Prime Stability on my system today and I noticed it was dropping to x6 under load immediatly.

I double-checked that C1E is disabled. I checked that the power profile is set to "High Performance" in Windows.

Any ideas?