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

[Solarfall]

The NV 6xxi based boards are slightly faster in games and 3D benches from all the reviews I've seen, the P965 slightly faster at pi type benches

i confirm this....

btw i love the head butt in your sig, pretty brutal... it's zidane...right

[shimmishim]

looks like a sweet board.

still wondering what the price will be and ETA.

[nugzo]

still wondering what the price will be and ETA.

Nobody really knows......

[dinos22]

Nobody really knows......

bet you next week we'll start seeing them like we did with direct DFI deal

[s e t h]

well DFI sales has recently stated end April/early MAy...lets hope this time they are being conservative as opposed to optemistic.
the fact that the retail package has been seen to me means it is more likely they will hit the mark or even beat it.
also the web-page for this board is up which is another indicator it may arrive sooner than expected.

pricing will be more than other 680LT boards due to all the features dfi has put back and the fact that they have done their own custom design rather than just using nvidia's reference design.
the good new is it will retail well below the overpriced monsters from some of the other manufacturers.

my best guess based on the $140 or so that the p965-s is going for is that the LanParty 680SLI will retail close to $250...maybe a touch more depending on the retailers and their markups.

[t1no]

i confirm this....

btw i love the head butt in your sig, pretty brutal... it's zidane...right

Yes

[ma1kmcn1]

This boards arrival is great timing for me. My third EVGA 680i board just died this morning. I love the EVGA customer service but the board is crap. I'll be getting the DFI board the day it comes out.

[theteamaqua]

This boards arrival is great timing for me. My third EVGA 680i board just died this morning. I love the EVGA customer service but the board is crap. I'll be getting the DFI board the day it comes out.

ur 3rd board??? wow i thought it was crap but not that crappy

[nugzo]

ur 3rd board??? wow i thought it was crap but not that crappy

LOL i've had 6 atleast...

[fhpchris]

How are you guys killing the EVGA boards?

[Solarfall]

How are you guys killing the EVGA boards?

LOL thats what i've been wondering too.. mayby people have gotten there hands on a bad batch of mobos or something, like in the DFI sli-dr days, remember those first boards killed ram too and had those nasty power spikes witch killer cpu's like there was no tomorrow.

[AndreYang]

Quad-Core Test








More GTL voltage doen't help more FSB.

[AndreYang]

FSB 500 2 hours ORTHOS

[Reinvented]

LOL thats what i've been wondering too.. mayby people have gotten there hands on a bad batch of mobos or something, like in the DFI sli-dr days, remember those first boards killed ram too and had those nasty power spikes witch killer cpu's like there was no tomorrow.

Sorry, that statement is so false. The USERS killed their board in THAT case. THEY killed their memory by either putting too many volts into it, or using the 5v jumper. Had nothing to do with the board, just stupid users, making stupid errors. As far as CPU's go, it was ONLY 4 people. FFS, again...it wasn't a bad batch or ANYTHING.

[Mekrel]

It was also due to come using low CPU volts and using a lot of vdimm and with the onboard memory controller, it was too much differential. Resulting in a broken memory controller. Andre, what GLT Ref voltage settings have you tried? I heard testing in the region of 160+ is needed for quads. Sure you probably already know that though

[theteamaqua]

nope not evne DFI killed that many RAM and boards... just read "EVGA killing RAM" thread ull know that the board is a piece of $hit!!! if u get a bad one, which u have a good chance of getting a SHlT one

and like i said 2.2v is not gonne kill RAM , OCZ says 2.4v is ok

[Solarfall]

Sorry, that statement is so false. The USERS killed their board in THAT case. THEY killed their memory by either putting too many volts into it, or using the 5v jumper. Had nothing to do with the board, just stupid users, making stupid errors. As far as CPU's go, it was ONLY 4 people. FFS, again...it wasn't a bad batch or ANYTHING.

well the gues who reported that there boards were lethal to there ram and cpu were no noobs, but finnish overclocking gurus. and that time i did not even know that XS even existed. so i know nothing about what went on in here. and it was whole lot more that 4 people who reported that they had boards that killed there cpu's.

[AndreYang]

It was also due to come using low CPU volts and using a lot of vdimm and with the onboard memory controller, it was too much differential. Resulting in a broken memory controller. Andre, what GLT Ref voltage settings have you tried? I heard testing in the region of 160+ is needed for quads. Sure you probably already know that though

I use GTL 160/80/80. More doesn't help.

[BlueAqua]

Let's try to stay on topic here a little.

Not too great of Quad core performance, a little disappointing. Keep the results coming!

[joezxk]

good

[Evil-Fruits|R4z]

looks really nice, keep going

[Solarfall]

Let's try to stay on topic here a little.

Not too great of Quad core performance, a little disappointing. Keep the results coming!

i agree.... sorry gues for the offtopic

[shimmishim]

wow, you'd think with this much time they'd get quadcore overclocking tuned and figured out. sucks it maxed out in the 300 mhz region, rather than mid to upper 400.

[AndreYang]

i agree.... sorry gues for the offtopic

so AndreYang can you try some other cpu's than that Quad core chip . would be interesting know if the mobo will give same kind of results with other intel chips. mainly i'm interested will the FBS be that high or even better.

I already have tested Quad-Core in #112.

Oskar told me about Quad-CPU FSB support problems. It's not GTL voltage problem. He thought 680i doesn't support quad-cpu well.

[Tyrou]

I hope he'll still find a way to get at least 400MHz fsb out of this chipset when using a quadcore.
Are the unlocked multipliers properly handled on your QX6700, I mean, is it possible to set a higher one than 10x in the bios ?

Thanks for the preview