Evga 680i revision
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:26 pm
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.
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.