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

[shimmishim]

No I never tried the asus 680i chipset based boards. I did however try the 650i Asus board & it didn't acheive FSB over 450mhz. Only the Striker from what I read would suit my overclocking and after reading alot of problems with that & the other Nvidia Asus boards I stayed clear of it. Limited vcore upon intial release was a problem for me too. Comparitively, the Asus offerings are not faster or more stable than the evga 680i. The evga is very memory friendly & I kinda wish I had kept my particular board. Of all the boards I've overclocked since conroe came out, it was by far the easiest. It pushed my E6400 to 3.7ghz right out the box & all I did was set the cpu-vtt to 1.5v & cpu to 1.5v. No increase on the northbrige or southbridge voltages were necessary. Nor was any indept tweaking. Unfortunately @ that time the ps2 keyboard & mouse were unuasble when overclocking. After the P25 bios didn't solve the problem, & raid was still hit or miss I returned the board because my 30 days was coming up. If you don't like the price or availability of the DFI board, consider the evga. Supposedly most of the bugs are worked out and the new revision is quad core FSB friendly. I love my IN9 32-Max. It's as worth the $300 price tag, as much as the P5W DH was worth its $269.

Hahaha. you're making even ME want the IN9.

The plus board has been good to me. it's based off of the 650i NB but performs just as well as its bigger brother.

the vcore issue has been resolved on the plus board with the release of the 0602 bios. vcore over 1.65 works properly.

i haven't had too many problems with this board minus finding the strongest dividers that work with this board.

my board can do 500 mhz w/o breaking a sweat with a little tweaking and a replaced NB heatsink.

back on to the topic... any word yet on price (for the 5th time)

[NinjaZX6R]

oh no!...don't even think about 3.45v as an attraction!...haven't you been reading about people burning their ram up with 2.4v and above....you might go to 2.6 just for a very short time with a fan blowing air on the ram but that vmem will certainly burn your ram up in about 2-3 weeks if you decide to run the puter for any lengthy period.

I'm aware.

I have a 1gb set of D9 fat bodies that are running with 2.8v and they just wont die! I think today I'll try 3.0v (limit of my quadGT).

-Collin-

[paulzig]

There is a store here in Australia that has the board on pre-order for $440AUD. Not bad compared to all the other 680i boards available.

Which store?

[paulzig]

I'd buy it just for the colour scheme

[GAR]

when is this coming to stores in the US?

[The Nemesis]

when is this coming to stores in the US?

Fry's is looking into it. I'm waiting on them myself. We should know something middle of next week. They had dropped alot of their DFI line due to a dispute.(DFI stopped accepting boards back from Fry's as defective)

[Ace-a-Rue]

they don't like fry's policy for returns...hehehe

[GAR]

yeah, alot of people would return the old lan party boards, that board being an enthusiast board, alot of noobies tried messing with it, and not being able to tweak it right, they think its "faulty" but yeah if frys gets it im gonna buy this board and sell my evga....the only issue i am having with evga is the noise it makes under load.

[Ace-a-Rue]

you know you can get rid of that noise which comes from the coil packs by putting silcon on the coil to stop the harmonics coming from it...to find the coil pack(s) just use your finger to press on the coil when the noise starts.

[Kemp3]

Any Update on release date ?

[GAR]

you know you can get rid of that noise which comes from the coil packs by putting silcon on the coil to stop the harmonics coming from it...to find the coil pack(s) just use your finger to press on the coil when the noise starts.

Thanks bro, will try it.

[ineedaname]

My newest striker bios removes linkboost so it seems like the LT and the normal 680i have pretty much no difference now.

[Solarfall]

My newest striker bios removes linkboost so it seems like the LT and the normal 680i have pretty much no difference now.

same thing with EVGA, the latest bios removes that link boost option.

[virtualrain]

Is there going to be any more quad-core overclocking with this board or what?

[caboob]

oooh...I may reconsider doing SLI because of this board..

[PsyCor]

Still no news on a release date? My fingers are itching to buy myself a new computer with this motherboard as the base. But I can't wait forever...

[NinjaZX6R]

Still no news on a release date? My fingers are itching to buy myself a new computer with this motherboard as the base. But I can't wait forever...

I hear that...I'm ready to "settle" for the Asus board instead. Man...DFI is fashionably late every time. Seems like by the time they get their chipsets out, the next one is already out and being found on Asus boards!

-Collin-

[Haltech]

I hear that...I'm ready to "settle" for the Asus board instead. Man...DFI is fashionably late every time. Seems like by the time they get their chipsets out, the next one is already out and being found on Asus boards!

-Collin-

Asus boards are and dont work worth a damn, not to mention, have shotty support. DFi engineers their stuff a hell of lot better than Asus does on its best boards. Enjoy your craptactular Asus product, while i wait for the DFI and will work without incident, esp WITHOUT the heatpipe bull and price gouging.

[Emerica]

The box kind of reminds me of a Xbox 360 box.

[NinjaZX6R]

Asus boards are and dont work worth a damn, not to mention, have shotty support. DFi engineers their stuff a hell of lot better than Asus does on its best boards. Enjoy your craptactular Asus product, while i wait for the DFI and will work without incident, esp WITHOUT the heatpipe bull and price gouging.

I never said one bad thing about DFI or one good thing about Asus. I've always loved DFI and would buy them any chance I get. I wouldn't call Asus crap, though. They get their boards to the market extremely fast and while some may have issues, they work pretty fast in making new bioses and what not. I think it's safe to say that any company makes good and bad products and I've had my share of good and bad from Asus. Would you really go as far as to say the Commando or Striker boards are crap?

-Collin-

[EYEBORG]

So do you think $260USD for this board would be out of line? I have an opportunity to get it for this price as a pre-order.

[nugzo]

So do you think $260USD for this board would be out of line? I have an opportunity to get it for this price as a pre-order.

Thats a great price. Please share teh pre-order info. i'd like to pre-order for that price.

[Kemp3]

share and share alike

[AndreYang]

This pic is from Oskar Wu. I think he has solved Quad-CPU high fsb problem, but I don't receive new bios yet. Maybe I will post in few days.

[Blacklash]

So what's the max FSB you fellows are getting with this board on a 7x multi with a C2D?