interesting have you done any comparisons between those and other SATA Intel ports :)Quote:
Originally Posted by crazyea
interesting have you done any comparisons between those and other SATA Intel ports :)Quote:
Originally Posted by crazyea
No because I was silly and activated windows and all my data is on the drives. Creating a new array will kill that. I should have played around a bit first. OH well, next time.
Great info Nick! I've stickied the thread so hopefully people will see it and read before posting a new thread:)
Thanks, Eric :)
Updated: 680i Data Corruption Issue --> Supposedly Fixed in Later BIOS Releases
I'm glad this is a sticky now. Now people won't have to ask my questions:slapass: lets try and make this as detailed as possible with all the benches we can think of.
Naww.. that's up to the user. This is just a basic shove towards choosing a motherboard.
I just meant use the benches with similar settings on different chipsets would be helpful. Thats the kind of stuff I look for when choosing a board. What is faster at what. That sort of thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by NickS
:confused: looks like my 965 is a mutant cause i can't say it runs very cool lol
680i i have is on the test bench so i guess i can't comment on board temps as they are cool when on open bench lol but case is where it matters and i'm not yet replacing the asus P5B unless nvidia will finally start listening to my bios suggestions/remarks to get some SPI cranking :)
The search tool is your friend. Google is your friend.
It is not mutant lol, 965 is hot and so is 680i. In fact, any performance chipset is hot without fan
with 2 vid cards and a sound card there is no room for a another card(RAID) in my box:)Quote:
Originally Posted by PanteraGSTK
still waiting for a better bios.
680 nb is surely hotter than 965 nb fan or no fan???Quote:
Originally Posted by kiwi
i have to raise voltage on 680i nb to crazy levels in order to reach 480 fsb [1.65-1.7v for 480x7] and i believe heat is hindering the overclock [wot a surpirse]...i still have not reached 500fsb...for some reason 440x8 does not work on my board with ANY ram divider....and the nb is NOT hot at 440x8...so i'm stumped.
i think vcore at 1.6v or higher would be required for higher fsb.....in any event i have not the cooling for such high voltages; but there is a large difference in re'q voltages for diff cpu's; i've tried undervolting and my cpu responds to higher voltages for higher clocks.
edit: setting 1.4v for nb (i think because its running cooler) helped me to get higher fsb (from 437 to 458x8)
YupQuote:
Originally Posted by adamsleath
I also didn't notice heat difference between 1.5 and 1.6 volts (346 FSB vs 445-highest I can go), but nevertheless it's surely too hot. I plan to install Thermalright chipset cooler there but voiding warranty... it's a problem for me as I caouldn't afford another mobo in case this broke.
Edit 2/14/07- Added this thread, shifted some links around for better categorization.
Added this thread.
This thread added :)
very informative thread it is Nick :toast:
Perhaps you should mention Vcore bug of ASUS 680i boards is gone with newest bios releases (0802 and 0902 for P5N32-E and so on)
What is this vCore bug you speak of? Just vDroop or an actual bug with setting voltages..Quote:
Originally Posted by xoqolatl
I think he's reffering to the "holes" in the vcore settings.Quote:
Originally Posted by NickS
Nick
Thanks for the great job. I have a new E6600 that I'd be happy with at 3.6-3.8 and was a little skeptical about >1.5vcore, but I see pretty much everyone in the 4.0 GHz club uses >1.5, so now I'm not worried about trying it. Also, new ASUS P5N32-E SLI Plus with latest bios, resolves a lot of the vdroop issues I've been reading about.
Keep up the good work!
KK, will add that. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeus
Added this awesome thread!
Addition to NVIDIA 680i Chipset.. (in this case it's EVGA boards)
There's a new PCB revision out. Look at mem-slot; serial ending with C00 = old, D00 = new.
Fixes quadcore 1300FSB+ bug.
Supposedly also fix skippy PS/2 mouse.
Reports of memory-overvoltage being fixed (if it ever exsisted)