EVGA NForce 680i SLI Motherboard

[Pedro Rocha]

Now that the NDA is gone here is the first impression of the EVGA NForce 680i SLI Motherboard

A big thanks to EVGA Europe and to AquaPC

The board is a Nvidia 680i reference card - made by NVidia to EVGA, a preferred lunch partner


In this first part, I will show you a few pics, Bios screens and first results

I'm still using a HD that I have used with a board with Intel chipset that not allow to fully use NTune..

Setup:
- EVGA NForce 680i SLI Motherboard
- E6700 ES B1
- Tuniq Tower 120
- TeamGroup 5300
- Seasonic 600w

Board just out of the box


Mounted with Tuniq Tower


Some bios screens - a few suprises

General Menu


Now a very nice feature - the board have 2 separeted PLL's : one for CPU FSB, other for memory speed - so they can be controled and raised independently



Memory timmings :


And now some voltages :

VCore up to 1.8V - very cascade friendly


VMem up 2.5V


VCPU FSB


The board allows also to contro many more voltages.

Finally temperature monitoring (hope can read very low temps)



And now the first results - still with limitation of non clean Window with no nTune to raise FSB



4Ghz ar cooled, so easy - 1st try :


More FSB, and memory speed in "Unliked" mode - in this case at 1100Mhz 4-4-4-12



More memory bandwith with much less CPU speed ( latest version of CPU-Z still not read memory speed and timmings)

The 3 slots PCI de 16X are really asking me that I mount the 2 EVGA's 8800GTX in SLI

More results with the next few days - SLI and real cold comming


To be continued ..

This is Pedro Rocha over and out