Everyone knew dual core would work fine on this board. It was Yorkfield support. With those settings ur essentially running an E series chip, not Quad. Nothing new there. I want to see 4 cores running!
$1000.00+ quad-core processor running on two cores with mid 300FSB capability. Would hardly call that a success in reference to motherboard compatibility. nVidia would be in a lot better position if more of their users were so easily pleased.
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No problem. If a person is happy running that type of processor on a board that is only capable of sub-par FSB then we are all happy. But there is no need to make it seem as it's a breakthrough. That type of configuration has been able to be done since the processor was released.
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I feel compelled to jump in here and clarify that EVGA has made it clear that the quad yorkies are NOT supported by their 680i mobo. I don't want the uninformed reader to beleive for 1 second that the 680i is a workable platform for the yorkfield based on this thread.
By my own testing, and the testing of many many others, the support for a yorkfield on the 680i reference boards is non existent. I was able to get 2 cores working with a qx9650 on my evga 680i months ago....but so what. That's a dismal failure at best.
Furthermore there will be no magic bios to fix the issue. I don't mean to rain on the parade of the thread originator, but the thread is misleading at best. The 680i board needs physical modification in order to support the yorkfields.
Carry on.
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no physical alterations to make it work, no bios mods.
i tried it with the p29 bios first, but it wouldent boot(but would post)
so i flashed to P31 and foun that it wouldent boot again, so i lowered the fsb because i know that the p31 bios has a crap FSB limit, down to 1066 and it booted stright up, so i just worked from there and found the limit.
what evidence do you want as proof? camcorder footage?
no physical alterations to make it work, no bios mods.
i tried it with the p29 bios first, but it wouldent boot(but would post)
so i flashed to P31 and foun that it wouldent boot again, so i lowered the fsb because i know that the p31 bios has a crap FSB limit, down to 1066 and it booted stright up, so i just worked from there and found the limit.
what evidence do you want as proof? camcorder footage?
So you made it to the bios with the QX9650 installed and lowered the fsb down to 266 and only THEN was it stable?
Btw, can you prove 100% stability by posting a Prime95 4-thread (small fft) screenshot (running at least 30 minutes) with all 4 cores enabled?
no physical alterations to make it work, no bios mods.
i tried it with the p29 bios first, but it wouldent boot(but would post)
so i flashed to P31 and foun that it wouldent boot again, so i lowered the fsb because i know that the p31 bios has a crap FSB limit, down to 1066 and it booted stright up, so i just worked from there and found the limit.
what evidence do you want as proof? camcorder footage?
I hope this is possible with my 975xbx2, and the 965p's
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But there is no need to make it seem as it's a breakthrough. That type of configuration has been able to be done since the processor was released.
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