Believe me I would love nothing better than to forget about all this 680i stuff and just get a brand new Intel X38 hot off the press Gigabyte style with CrossFire dual ATI GPU's, but alas, it does not seem that ATI is going to release a video card anytime soon which is in the same league as...
P.S. Has AnandTech done an NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI motherboard "Roundup"?
The 680i chipset has been out for a while now, so there are a million reviews of 680i boards to be found (many of the best ones on AnandTech). But gathering and comparing all the information has proven to be quite a...
Blazer7, Thanks for responding and thanks for the links. The first one I've already read (a few times over) and its an excellent article. The second one I must have missed since I've been so focused on ASUS and EVGA since I thought they were the tops for 680i SLI. I will read that one...
Update to this question.
After a lot of research, it appears that Intel P35 chipset, though perhaps more stable, simply can not compete with NVIDIA 680i SLI for power and performance, particularly if you need to drive three 1600 by 1200 LCD monitors.
P35 overclocking ability is...
Thanks all for responding, sorry about delay, but I'm at work.
Blazer7 thanks for comments. I will move Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 to my short list. Good to know that you've had zero problems. That's good information. Gigabyte and ABIT seem to be the motherboard companies with the least...
If there are any experts out there who could help educate this noobie I would be so grateful!
If price is no object, what is the best chipset and motherboard for an extreme gaming rig?
I?ve done weeks of research and was all set to buy an EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 motherboard, when I started...
I'm building a $4K-$6K rig and I think I'm going to go with the ASUS Blitz Formula (Special Edition), unless the ABIT IP35 reviews are super good.
It makes me sad not to go with an NVIDIA 680i SLI dual video solution such as EVGA A1 but there's too many rumors of NVIDIA chipset instability...
I'm building a $4K-$6K rig and I think I'm going to go with the ASUS Blitz Formula (Special Edition), unless the ABIT IP35 reviews are super good.
It makes me sad not to go with an NVIDIA 680i SLI dual video solution such as EVGA A1 but there's too many rumors of NVIDIA chipset instability...
Rgr that. I'll try to return the favor sometime. My area is C# Windows UI design. Thanks for help with ram. You may have saved me a lot of waisted money trying to get 1333 DDR3 ram which would have been more twice too fast. (Maybe this is what Corsair wants!)
P.S. I just want to say...
MarcVenice,
Thank you SO much! You understood my question exactly. Your answer makes sense.
My confusion came from the fact that the physical bus speed is multiplied by 4 to get the CPU bus speed, but only multiplied by 2 to get the DDR2 RAM speed. My confusion came from the fact that...
Hi. Thanks for replying.
No. Not adverse to overclocking RAM (a little) as long as I don't have to use water cooling, and as long as its fairly stable.
If any of you mad modders out there could help out this poor newbie, I will so grateful, otherwise I?m going to have to ?underclock? my CPU. Its an incredibly basic question, but this is my first build, and none of the five books I read actually answer it. I don?t actually want to overclock my...
I want to run an Intel E6850 on a 1333 MHz Front Side Bus at a physical bus speend of 1333 / 4 = 333 MHz with a one to one FSB to Memory speed ratio using Corsair RAM.
But I'm confused by Corsair's speed specifications. Does Corsair's 800 MHz rating mean that the memory will run on a 200 MHz...
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