Evga 680i revision

[hox]

Hi all, the first generation 680i boards as well as 975x-based boards have a limition in their abiility to stably run Intel Quad core cpus at a FSB much over 300. The culprit is the low GTL voltage present in these chipset based boards. The BX2 is not different in this respect. I have asked on this forum if the intel folks were addressing this and received no replies. The engineers at intel actually met with the folks from thetechrepostory group who posted a mod of the bx2 board to improve gtl voltage, so Intel has been informed of the issue.

The news is that EVGA is issuing a revision of their 680i board that will cross ship with anyone currently owning an older vesion. Preliminary posts from people receiving this new board claim stable FSB speeds of up to 450 mhz on air-cooling. While the EVGA board has been plagued with several issues, it seems that the folks at Nvidia and Evga have perservered and produced a good solution. I purchased and used my intel bx2 board for about a month before I mothballed it, I did not like how the most simple things did not reliably work including the all important Desktop control center, and desktop utilities, as well as the bios recognizing hard drives. I switched to a Asus P5wDG2 WS Pro, about $100 more expensive but 30 days into the swich I can say the Asus offereing is rock solid stable. It is my hope that perhaps Intel will revise the Bx2 with their upcoming Bx3 board to support better overclocking of the Qx6700 cpu and offer a cross ship exchange of the product. Probably a pipe dream but hey a company much smaller than Intel, EVGA, has done just this.

[dicecca112]

You got proof of this like Links from the other websites listed in your post?

[Sparky]

Found this on eVGA forum. Hope this isn't in violation of the rules by posting link, but thought it related to this thread.

http://evga.com/community/messageboard/ ... C_ID=28369

EVGA_Marketing
Administrator



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Posted - 02/24/2007 : 3:36:18 PM
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Dear 680i Users,

Some users have reported they are encountering obstacles in over-clocking Intel Quad Core CPUs in excess of 1300MHz FSB on the EVGA nForce 680i SLI platform.

If you have an Intel Quad Core CPU and are experiencing this issue, EVGA will swap your original unit for a motherboard that improves your Intel Quad Core over-clocking.

U.S. - EVGA advanced RMA service will replace the board
Canada - EVGA will replace the board in a normal RMA process
Europe - EVGA will replace the board in a normal RMA process

If you are interested in receiving a replacement, please be sure your product is registered on our site at http://evga.com/register/. After registering, please visit http://evga.com/support/680i_fsb.asp and enter your serial number and stay tuned for an update on when to RMA your board in early March via email.

Note: This offer is only applicable for the Intel Quad Core issue listed above.

Thank you,

EVGA Management Team

[werty316]

I knew eVGA was now shipping a new revision but never knew what it fixed.

[stunt]

Does anyone know when the new mobo are out for sale?

[hox]

You got proof of this like Links from the other websites listed in your post?

I believe Sparky has provided the link for the EVGA information I listed.

Here is the link for the GTL mod from FreeCableGuy at TheTechrepository:
http://www.thetechrepository.com/showthread.php?t=88

And here is the open discussion regarding the GTL issue: http://www.thetechrepository.com/showthread.php?t=94

And here is the link discussing the invitation to intel to the autor, (freecableguy) to discuss this issue and other overclocking matters:

http://fanboyreview.blogspot.com/2007/0 ... intel.html

Please think about how you state your request for information from " You got proof" which implies people are lying, (which I take offense to) to something more polite like: " if you have a link to help the readers......" I would appreciate it.

Regards
Hox