Any other 680i mobos coming out soon?

[fowzee]

I knew I should have bought the eVGA 680i from buy.com when it was selling for $209.00 after rebates last month! The price has been stuck at $249.00 for awhile now on Newegg and I'm wondering when some competition will come in to knock prices down? It's the only thing holding up my system.

Any word on DFI/ECS/Abit or others? Any educated guesses as to when prices will come down?

(p.s. Striker is too expensive so not looking at that!)

 

[Valtiel]

The P5N-E SLi is $100 cheaper and it can do about the same amount of overclocking on the CPU. It's an SLi board but if you're like me and don't plan on using SLi too soon, well you don't have too . I am getting an SLi board to futureproof myself from SLi physics (assuming it actually comes out) because that's how paranoid I am

 

[fowzee]

To be honest, I'm not even thinking about OC'ing. But I am thinking about SLI and PPU's and like the 3 PCIe slots on the eVGA. That's why I'm not going with the cheaper Asus atm (cuz I think it only has 2 PCIe slots?).

Why is info so scarce on these boards? No one knows anything?

 

[tehrobzorz]

just a few pointers..

16x sli and 8x sli has hardly any difference.

its ati that is going to utilise the triple play physics which will use all three pcie

its not the number of physical pcie 16x slots that counts.. its the electrical speed.

physics should not ever be needed in gaming. cpus are approaching times where you may not run enough apps to take advatage of all its cores. the cpu should be able to handle the physics no problem dont worry.

 

[BUFF]

the abit IN9 32X is out but is at a premium just now.
prices will drop as availability improves.