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

[denden]

just back home from works, will let you know soon

Thanks, My loop consists of Swiftech Apooge GT, Thermochill PA120.2. My 8800GTX is cooled by MC60 & Corsair Nautilus. When I used the DFI, I had the northbridge with MC30 on the same loop as cpu. If you reach 4 hrs I'm so switching bact to this board & SLI.

[denden]

I drop to 3750 prime stable for 2 hrs then to play crysis

Thanks, My loop consists of Swiftech Apooge GT, Thermochill PA120.2. My 8800GTX is cooled by MC60 & Corsair Nautilus. When I used the DFI, I had the northbridge with MC30 on the same loop as cpu. If you reach 4 hrs I'm so switching bact to this board & SLI.

[virtualrain]

confirmed the new bios helps me push my Q6600 to 3.8G running prime for 1 hour and solve the multi drop problems, strongly recommand DFI680i owner to flash!

I wish I had the same luck... I'm running the 10/18 bios and I cannot get this board to stop from throttling or shutting down. If I enable Thermal Management in BIOS, then the board will drop to x6 multi under Small FFT's... If I disable Thermal Management in BIOS, then the board will shut down within 5 seconds of running Small FFT's. If I run large FFT's... no problems.

DenDen is this what you noticed in earlier BIOS versions?

BTW, I'm water cooling my mosfets!

[denden]

last night I swtich on the C1E, it function perfectly to lower the multi to 6 when idle and jump to 9 when I prime small fft for 2 hrs. Well I've never come across your shut down problem against the thermal management, I only found the multi down to 6 when without fan blow to the mosfets in the ealier bios. It seems so strange that your mosfets should not be overheat with wc. should you try enable C1E instead of enable the thermal management if wanna enbling the stepspeed?

I wish I had the same luck... I'm running the 10/18 bios and I cannot get this board to stop from throttling or shutting down. If I enable Thermal Management in BIOS, then the board will drop to x6 multi under Small FFT's... If I disable Thermal Management in BIOS, then the board will shut down within 5 seconds of running Small FFT's. If I run large FFT's... no problems.

DenDen is this what you noticed in earlier BIOS versions?

BTW, I'm water cooling my mosfets!

[ragge86]

got this board a couple of weeks ago. paired it together with a q6600 G0. have tried various bioses, 1018/918/723. and no stability other than at stock speed
and last night when i was flashing to the 2ct.. somthing bios it froze up and died. i have been a dfi fan for a long time but i hate this board and won't buy a new 1 again.
i don't recomend this board for anyone else to buy, at least if you're going to use a quad core

[Lugburz]

last night I swtich on the C1E, it function perfectly to lower the multi to 6 when idle and jump to 9 when I prime small fft for 2 hrs. Well I've never come across your shut down problem against the thermal management, I only found the multi down to 6 when without fan blow to the mosfets in the ealier bios. It seems so strange that your mosfets should not be overheat with wc. should you try enable C1E instead of enable the thermal management if wanna enbling the stepspeed?

Could you please share your bios settings?

[denden]

cpu vid control:1.6v
cpu vid special add:auto
cpu drive strength:weak
dram drive strength:weak
dram voltage control:2.22v
nb core voltage:1.60v
sb core voltage:1.62v
sb dual voltage:1.62v
ht link voltage:1.47v
ht link voltage:1.52v
cpu gtl 1 ref volt:170
cpu gtl 0/2/3 ref volt:95
north bridge gtl ref volt:95

fsb-memory clock mode:unlink
fsb mhz:1670
mem mhz:850
pcie bus slot 1 mhz:120
pcie bus slot 2 mhz:100
spp<->mcp ref clock mhz:250
ldt freq:5x
cpu bselect:auto
cpu clock ratio:9x

cpu feature:all disable except for enable for "core-multi processing"

memory timing:expert
TCL:4
TRCD:4
TRD:3
TRAS:3
CMD:2T
advanced mem setting: all set to auto

Could you please share your bios settings?

[NeoGeo333]

Just got the RMA back from DFI and what you know? Its DOA, didnt use water setup just air cooling to see if it works, just the nessesary parts video,cpu,ram,power. would not boot its just hangs on error code 80 which is related to HDD, so i changed HDD and still same thing. Cleared CMOS and now it has error code 00. Hold power and reset for 5sec same time, now it would not even boot when pushing power. Like it dead only the standby led lights up. Man i have had it with DFI, anyone know a board with similar pci-e configuration like the 680i-lt? I mean 16x+16x+8x.

[crash5s]

Does this board having any known issues with corsair 6400c4d (looked and couldn't find any) since I need another 680SLI as my current board up and died.

[century child]

Man i have had it with DFI, anyone know a board with similar pci-e configuration like the 680i-lt? I mean 16x+16x+8x.

Not sure about the layout but many have switched from the DFI board to the latest revision of the Evga 680i board and been happy.

[lionel57000]

hi

2 questions please :

1.
i have corsair dominator pc2-9136 who runs at 1142mhz at 2.1v

on my old evga nf680, memory runs perfect at thsi frequency

on my dfi nf680i lt, i canno t use the memory at this frequency

default is 800 mhz, and when i do unlinked, push the frequency to 1142 and voltage to 2.1 , computer doesn t boot

i miss something for the overclock of the ram ?

2. what about the name of the bios ????
at the begenning, 2c are for core 2 duo and 4c for quad core

and now ?

the last bios is named N5FD723.zip and so ?? for dual , quad core or all cpu ??

where is the last bios ( beta or not) for quad core ?

thanks

[MikeMK]

Hey all, had this board now been discontinued? Cant seem to find it anywhere in the UK. No where seems to stock it anymore!

[Lugburz]

cpu vid control:1.6v
cpu vid special add:auto
cpu drive strength:weak
dram drive strength:weak
dram voltage control:2.22v
nb core voltage:1.60v
sb core voltage:1.62v
sb dual voltage:1.62v
ht link voltage:1.47v
ht link voltage:1.52v
cpu gtl 1 ref volt:170
cpu gtl 0/2/3 ref volt:95
north bridge gtl ref volt:95

fsb-memory clock mode:unlink
fsb mhz:1670
mem mhz:850
pcie bus slot 1 mhz:120
pcie bus slot 2 mhz:100
spp<->mcp ref clock mhz:250
ldt freq:5x
cpu bselect:auto
cpu clock ratio:9x

cpu feature:all disable except for enable for "core-multi processing"

memory timing:expert
TCL:4
TRCD:4
TRD:3
TRAS:3
CMD:2T
advanced mem setting: all set to auto

Thx a million
Will try some of those settings with the latest beta bios...

[lionel57000]

Hey all, had this board now been discontinued? Cant seem to find it anywhere in the UK. No where seems to stock it anymore!

no

this mobo is available

and look in forums, you can find a lot for sale ...

[elpistono]

what bios unlock the multiplier for the QX6850?

[lionel57000]

the 620 it seems

[Lugburz]

what bios unlock the multiplier for the QX6850?

The latest beta it seems:
N5FDA18

Source:
http://csd.dficlub.org/forum/showthread.php?t=4397

[elpistono]

I have just bought this mobo
impossible to install xp or vista or format the hard drive he says to me that it misses a file
incompatibility with raptor 150??
please help
thanks

[century child]

I have just bought this mobo
impossible to install xp or vista or format the hard drive he says to me that it misses a file
incompatibility with raptor 150??
please help
thanks

What's you are seeing is data corruption. Most likely it is due to your RAM. Try setting the timings manually in BIOS and make sure it is getting enough voltage.

[elpistono]

What's you are seeing is data corruption. Most likely it is due to your RAM. Try setting the timings manually in BIOS and make sure it is getting enough voltage.

it's not my ram

[century child]

What measures have you taken to ensure that it's not to do with your RAM config? Also, you will probably get more views if you start a new thread. This is intended to be a general info thread I think. You should also post at the DFI Club forums for help: http://csd.dficlub.org/forum/index.php

[elpistono]

What measures have you taken to ensure that it's not to do with your RAM config? Also, you will probably get more views if you start a new thread. This is intended to be a general info thread I think. You should also post at the DFI Club forums for help: http://csd.dficlub.org/forum/index.php

ok thanks

I tried to start with 3 differents cpu (e6700,qx6800es and qx6850),nothing to do
a message of windows xp " he says to me that it misses the file windows\config\system 32"
I think that I will return it to RMA

[ma1kmcn1]

I have just bought this mobo
impossible to install xp or vista or format the hard drive he says to me that it misses a file
incompatibility with raptor 150??
please help
thanks

I doubt it is the raptor. I have two on my system with out problems.

[century child]

ok thanks

I tried to start with 3 differents cpu (e6700,qx6800es and qx6850),nothing to do
a message of windows xp " he says to me that it misses the file windows\config\system 32"
I think that I will return it to RMA

The missing file error message is exactly what what you get when data corruption occurs during a Windows install. This is most certainly the problem, the difficult part is just figuring out what is causing it. The majority of the time, this happens due to incorrect hardware configuration in BIOS, most of the time relating to RAM settings. It can also be due to defective RAM modules. I would highly suggest you wait to RMA until you have 100% ruled out all possible causes other than the mainboard itself. Otherwise you will most likely get a replacement board and will have the same problem. If you post over in the DFI forums with a detailed configuration in your signature, I'd almost be willing to bet you'll get help and have the problem sorted out in no time.

[95blackz26]

I have just bought this mobo
impossible to install xp or vista or format the hard drive he says to me that it misses a file
incompatibility with raptor 150??
please help
thanks

did you try and overclock it yet. if you did it could be crashing cause its not stable.

and to what the other guy said try some other ram to make sure. or try one stick at a time.