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eVGA 680i LT SLI Motherboard Review
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:37 am
by Apoptosis
The nForce 680i LT SLI motherboard brings the performance of the 680i SLI motherboard to a lower price point by removing a few components and limiting some of the features that are found in the BIOS. With many of the luxury features that are used on the 680i SLI have been removed, how will performance be impacted? Read on to see how this sub $200 motherboard does!
Article Title: eVGA 680i LT SLI Motherboard Review
Article URL: http://legitreviews.com/article/477/1/
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:02 am
by Bio-Hazard
Looks to be another good offering from Nvidia........;) Just swap out the NB cooling and you'll be good to go, or so it seems anyways. Who needs all those extras they dumped anyway.......
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:12 am
by Apoptosis
exactly... 55C on an actively cooled chipset cooler is way too hot if you ask me... It's a great board and after using the 680i LT SLI, I find it hard to tell anyone to buy the 680i SLI unless you need the third x16 PCIe slot or dual NIC's. The location of the front panel connectors (behind the 4-pin molex connectors and the memory slots is crappy for those that run their system on the open bench. I wonder how much the heat pipe for the 680i SLI could be bought for on it's own... Buy this board and that heat pipe and you'd be ready to rock and roll... $199 for the board and when the rebates hit it should be a great buy.
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:20 am
by Bio-Hazard
I ended up putting a Noctua NC-U6 on my 650i board (they mostly have passive cooling) along with a low speed 60mm fan and now it runs nice and cool. Outside of the cooler being a little on the large side, which might effect some folk, it works great for a water cooled system that doesn't have a real air flow in that area with only a water block there.
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:49 am
by dicecca112
Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 3:17 pm
by Bio-Hazard
I had a question put to me today about the bios versions between the 680i and 680i LT. Seening as they are basicly the same board (plus or minus a few options) would it, or is it possible to flash the LT board with the 680i bios to get the OC'ing options back into the bios?
I've cross flashed boards in the past, but they had the same chipset version, they were just different versions ie: standard to Platinum and so on............
