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Overall its a good board. (the nForce 590 ASUS P5N32-SLI one)

Overclocking is a little easier with this one over the old x16 nforce 4 version. So far I've only been able to get my C2E OCed to 3.25 stable and ram at 864 mhz.

Running Quad I get just over 9,000 on a 3Dmark06 and about 140,000 on Aquamark 3. I know I can do a hell of a lot better though. Did run a 9,200 on 3Dmark06 with a higher OC but it crashed shortly after the test.

I think my main OC problem is overheating. I have the coolit freezone water chiller for the CPU. Its supposed to be one awesome CPU cooler. But it creats a LOT of heat and needs good ventilation. Thats something I'm going to work on soon. Just ordered some very strong 140mm fans. One to replace the stock one on the front of my case, and the other to attache to the back of the CPU cooler with an adapter to draw a lot more air though. A little cutting on the back grill will help airflow too. So hopefully when I'm don I can get over 3.66 stable.

I've had it running at 3.81 and ram at 980ish but was only stable for about 2 mintues. You can set the FSB over 300 but stability is a huge issue I'm hoping to resolve with the new air solution. The FSB was set to 1333 which I believe is 333.25 fsb. Worked for less than 2 mintues.

I would have to say, yes, it would be "compatible" with QUAD core, but good luck getting it stable. Its definilty not built for it.

So I'd say if you need a C2D board with SLI, this is the one to get. If you're upgrading from the older x16 nforce4 board just keep what ya got for now.

Once I get it all done I'll post some pics.
 
Hmmm, a motherboard to be kentsfield compatible needs to be stable at 333mhz FSB w/out 140mm fans or watercooling. It might work, but first you will need all that stuff you are buying and also it will not be supported from the manufacturer.
 
TONS of new info on the upcoming 680i SLI, 650i SLI, and 650i Ultra chipsets from DailyTech. I particularly like "NVIDIA is expected to launch in early November with immediate motherboard availability."

Coming to a motherboard near you in November

NVIDIA is set to release its upcoming nForce 600 series of chipsets in the first half of November. DailyTech has come across more details of the upcoming chipsets including the nForce 680i SLI, 650i SLI and 650i Ultra—all for Intel’s land-grid-array 775 socket. At the top of the nForce 600 chain is the nForce 680i SLI MCP. This chipset will be replacing the limited availability nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition that was announced last June. The nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition had problems with overclocking the front-side bus past Intel’s rated 1066 MHz.

NVIDIA has remedied this situation and the nForce 680i SLI will officially support a 1333 MHz front-side bus. Whether or not this will support Intel’s upcoming Conroe 1333 MHz front-side bus refresh is unknown. Nevertheless, the supported 1333 MHz front-side bus will allow overclockers greater headroom with current overclocking friendly Core 2 Duo processors. NVIDIA has improved the dual-channel memory controller as well. The nForce 680i SLI’s memory controller now has memory dividers capable of support DDR2-1200 memory. Also supported is NVIDIA’s SLI-Ready memory with Enhanced Performance Profiles.

Graphics expansion will be a key point of nForce 680i SLI motherboards. In addition to the two full-speed PCI Express x16 slots, nForce 680i SLI motherboards will have a third PCI Express slot for NVIDIA’s unannounced three-GPU applications. This will most likely be a form of HavokFX SLI physics processing to counter ATI’s upcoming triple-play physics processing. The third slot will electrically have eight lanes routed to it.

On the networking side of things is the return of NVIDIA’s native Gigabit Ethernet, FirstPacket, DualNet and TCP/IP acceleration technologies. These features previously debuted with the nForce 590 SLI and remain the same on the nForce 680i SLI. High definition audio and six SATA 3 Gb/s ports with NVIDIA MediaShield storage technology are supported too. RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1 and 5 are also supported with the nForce 680i SLI.

Targeting budget conscious users are the nForce 650i SLI and 650i Ultra. These chipset are not officially rated to run at 1333 MHz front-side bus, though NVIDIA claims the chipsets can clock beyond official specifications with overclocking. Unlike the nForce 680i SLI, the 650i SLI only supports two PCI Express x16 slots in dual eight lane configurations. These two chipsets are identical with the nForce 650i SLI endowed with SLI support while the 650i Ultra only supports single-graphics card configurations.

The nForce 650i SLI and 650i Ultra have dual-channel DDR2 memory controllers, though there’s no official support for DDR2-1200 or SLI-Ready memory with Enhanced Performance Profiles. It is unknown if motherboard manufacturers will be able to expose the same memory dividers as the ones available on nForce 680i SLI motherboards.

Storage features have been stripped on the nForce 650i SLI and 650i Ultra as well. Instead of the six SATA 3 Gb/s ports found on the nForce 680i SLI, the 650i SLI and 650i Ultra are limited to four SATA 3 Gb/s ports. Nevertheless, NVIDIA’s MediaShield storage technology is still available with support for RAID 0, 1, 0+1 and 5 configurations.

Networking features are also crippled with the nForce 650i SLI and 650i Ultra. Although native Gigabit Ethernet and FirstPacket are supported with the nForce 650i SLI and 650i Ultra, the DualNet and TCP/IP acceleration features are unavailable. As with the nForce 680i SLI, high definition audio technology is supported too.

All nForce 600 series motherboards will support NVIDIA’s nTune utility that allows system tweaking within Windows. The utility allows CPU and memory adjustments in Windows without the need to restart.

NVIDIA is expected to launch in early November with immediate motherboard availability. Expect pricing on nForce 680i SLI motherboards to be north of $200 while nForce 650i SLI and 650i Ultra will fill in the below-$150 price points.
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4637
 
This chipset will be replacing the limited availability nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition that was announced last June. The nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition had problems with overclocking the front-side bus past Intel’s rated 1066 MHz.
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Yes! They knew it! 590 sucks!

NVIDIA has remedied this situation and the nForce 680i SLI will officially support a 1333 MHz front-side bus.
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Perfect! Finally a Well-Overclocker NVIDIA board!

Whether or not this will support Intel’s upcoming Conroe 1333 MHz front-side bus refresh is unknown
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After ATI became one with AMD, then I would say yes it will support new conroes and kentsfield

NVIDIA has improved the dual-channel memory controller as well. The nForce 680i SLI’s memory controller now has memory dividers capable of support DDR2-1200 memory. Also supported is NVIDIA’s SLI-Ready memory with Enhanced Performance Profiles.
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This board is kicking my ass...

In addition to the two full-speed PCI Express x16 slots, nForce 680i SLI motherboards will have a third PCI Express slot for NVIDIA’s unannounced three-GPU applications.
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After months with the sucky AGEIA sh*t, we will finally have a real and tru physics card!

On the networking side of things is the return of NVIDIA’s native Gigabit Ethernet, FirstPacket, DualNet and TCP/IP acceleration technologies. These features previously debuted with the nForce 590 SLI and remain the same on the nForce 680i SLI.
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High definition audio and six SATA 3 Gb/s ports with NVIDIA MediaShield storage technology are supported too. RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1 and 5 are also supported with the nForce 680i SLI.
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All nForce 600 series motherboards will support NVIDIA’s nTune utility that allows system tweaking within Windows.
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Just more great features to this lovely sweet board

NVIDIA is expected to launch in early November with immediate motherboard availability. Expect pricing on nForce 680i SLI motherboards to be north of $200
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Who cares, with all the features of this board, who cares about paying $250 or $280? I will have in my hands the 680i the first freaking day! said so, going ahead. Peace
 
Does anyone know what's the latest word on when Vista will be officially out (not Beta versions)?

I am good to go for now with my P5N32SLI and my cheap video card and then will probably upgrade to the new Mobos, DX10 video cards, Quad CPUs and Vista when they are all released - that way I don't have to reinstall everything several times (I like to do clean installs even when upgrading my video cards). I saw on the Dell site that there are a couple of programs out now that will transfer all your installed programs on your original PC to a new PC over the LAN and wonder how well they really work.
 
Well since nobody is posting ill post something to keep the thread on top

I dont know if I told you guys but I have in my hand an E6600 in no-use, because im waiting for the 680i. Right now I have 2/5 of the parts I need.
The cpu and I just bought the hard drive which will be a Maxtor 500Gb 16Mb cache w/ 7200rpm.

This will be my final rig

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.4Ghz
ASUS P5N32-SLI 680i Deluxe/Wifi-AP
Corsair 1Gb TWIN1024X2 C4 DDR2 DIMMS
eVGA GeForce 7900GS w/ HDCP
Ultra X-Finity 2G 600Watt PSU w/ FlexForce & AfterSpin Tech.
Sony DRU820A w/ DVD-RAM support
ThermalTake Tsunami VA3000SWA

Plus Ill be putting another 100gb hard drive as slave and 2 more cd writers. A floppy drive and some cold cathode lights and many fans so my rig will stay cool.

What do you guys think? I wanna see your opinions 😀
 
First, answering myself to get 700 posts :)

Secod, I just want to spend some time guessing the name for the 680i

Ill say

P6N32-SLI Deluxe/Wifi-AP

or

P6N32-Quad Deluxe/Wifi-AP
P6N64-SLI Deluxe/Wifi-AP
P6N64-Quad Deluxe/Wifi-AP
 
All I can say is that it looks like I'm gonna wait for the new boards to come out! I know I know....as soon as they come out they will annouce another new board due out 2-3 weeks/months later. But I think this will be it for me, one way or another.... the 680i looks like the board. Not gonna wait any longer than that!
 
I'm also building a new rig for an e6600.

I have everything minus:
e6600
mobo
video card
memory

Lol, pretty much all the important stuff. e6600 is a given and that's 300 bucks there; I'm waiting for the new 680i to come out, not so I can buy one, but to get the ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium at a lower price than now; if the DX10 cards prove to outperform the current wave, then I might be moved to get one, otherwise I'm getting the 7950gt from eVGA and then use their step-up program 3 months later for something better and cheaper; and from what I read here, the differences between ddr2667 and 800 are too litte to matter, though I will still choose 800 just to be safe and future-proof my rig (atleast for a little while). And more than likely I'll get 2Gb (2x1Gb).

The only question I have is that everytime I look at the specs for the P5N32, it says the ddr2 standard is 800 (OC). What's with the OC? I don't get what that's supposed to mean; I've never seen that before.
 
Here's my new rig, all I need is a motherboard and CPU and I'm ready to go:

680i motherboard (when available)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.4Ghz (when I get mb)
OCZ EPP PC2-7200 2X1GB DDR2-900 CL4-4-3-15
2 x eVGA 7900 GT KO (SLI)
OCZ GameXStream 700 Watt SLI PSU
Antec P180 Advanced Mid-Tower Case
2 x LG GSA-H10N 16X DVD±RW Drive
2 x Seagate 7200.10 320GB 7200RPM 16MB SATAII Hard Drive (RAID 1)
SIIG USB2.0 9-in-1 Media Reader / Floppy Drive

I'd appreciate any opinions as well. Thx.
 
dundelinger.... we're looking pretty close. My case and power supply are different, but everything else looks pretty much the same! I'm holding off on the ram only to make sure I get the best match I can with the motherboard (when it finally comes out).
 
Tech Report has reviewed the board:
http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q4/nforce590sli-intel/index.x?pg=1

They could get the FSB only up to 330MHz.
Gaming performance there are no differencies running sli in 590, 570 vs Nf4. So the FSB for me is the deciding factor and that will be good only in nF680.

So I couldnt wait for the nforce board and got the P5B Deluxe (i965). Now happily running 1:1 376Mhz FSB my E6600 @ 3381Mhz, 1gig overclock 😉


@dundelinger: If you dont need HPCP, consider the 7900GTO cards, they are basicly 7900 GTX half the price.
 
Just got my latest edition of MaximumPC mag (Holiday 2006 edition) and they had some interesting articles about things coming out:

- Vista is due out Jan 30th

- Quad Core is due out before Christmas and here's an interesting comment: "With four CPU cores sharing the memory bandwidth of a single FSB, will data and instructions bog down like LA's rush-hour traffic? Thus, we're hearing word that Intel is pushing hard to introduce a 1,333MHz front-side bus (up from its current 1,066MHz FSB) to mitigate any gridlock."

- DirectX10: Not compatible with anything less than Vista, nVideo expects to beat ATI, committing to announce and ship its new product before the Christmas holiday. My question is, if DX10 is not compatible with current Windows, why would they release video boards before Vista? I suppose those boards can run DX9 as well for backwards compatibility since DX10 apparently is not backwards compatible (they said they redesigned the APIs from scratch). The article on DX10 is several pages long - very detailed. In short, it looks amazing once applications have DX10 support.

- Third-Generation SATA: Spec by end of next year, 600MB/s max bandwidth.

- PCIe 2.0: 16GB/s (8GB/s in both directions) = twice the current PCIe bandwidth, Current PCIe video cards will work in 2.0 slots: Should see mobos with 2.0 by next summer. Video cards expected to be available shortly after that.

- DDR3: RAM Modules = Mid 2007, Mobo and Chipset not as firm = Intel "Bear Lake" chipset rummored to support DDR3, DDR3 not compatible with current Mobos, 1,066MHz (and then 1,333MHz and then 1,666MHz).
 
Hey Slim,
That looks like a pretty sweet rig!! I too will be waiting on that board to be released!! Thanks for keeping this thread up to date - I read it about every afternoon to see the developments! :)
 
Well this string slowed down since the boards came out! I'd like to see some more reviews.

Sounds like more people are going to wait for the 680i than the c55 version of the new board.
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>> wait for the 680i than the c55 version of the new board

They're both the same thing.
 
NVIDIA has improved the dual-channel memory controller as well. The nForce 680i SLI’s memory controller now has memory dividers capable of support DDR2-1200 memory. Also supported is NVIDIA’s SLI-Ready memory with Enhanced Performance Profiles.
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This board is kicking my ass...


.. so no 1:1 for kentsfield with this board then as it can't make 1333.

In addition to the two full-speed PCI Express x16 slots, nForce 680i SLI motherboards will have a third PCI Express slot for NVIDIA’s unannounced three-GPU applications.
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After months with the sucky AGEIA sh*t, we will finally have a real and tru physics card!



After months? You bought one? no wonder its shit because there aren't even any games yet that support hardware physics. Also how do you know that nVidia's physx plans include a good physics card? I read they're likely planning on just having people use another GPU.


On the networking side of things is the return of NVIDIA’s native Gigabit Ethernet, FirstPacket, DualNet and TCP/IP acceleration technologies. These features previously debuted with the nForce 590 SLI and remain the same on the nForce 680i SLI.
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First packet is pointless for hardcore gamers. Its just uses extra resources unless you happen to be doing more than one network thing at once ( how many players really do play on line and download at the same time?... none unless they're stupid because the DL still uses provider's bandwidth which causes game to lag. This won't prevent that no matter how you reorder the packets).

DualNet is also pointless unless you're a server at a lan party. Just running a gaming client doesn't even fully use 100 Mbps. The bottleneck is still your cable modem/DSL, even if you could get 2Gb/s to it (which you can't because most routers and all cable modems still only have 100 mBit or even 10 mbit Ethernet).
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All nForce 600 series motherboards will support NVIDIA’s nTune utility that allows system tweaking within Windows.
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Just more great features to this lovely sweet board


This is just outright encouraging stupidity. Tweaking your bus speeds while running windows is just asking for a corrupted Windows install and/or disk. Whenver you modify your bus speeds you need to (at least) run memcheck for a few hours first before you should even allow your PC to boot.
 
@dundelinger: If you dont need HPCP, consider the 7900GTO cards, they are basicly 7900 GTX half the price.
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Hey M8DNanite,

I've already bought the 7900 GT KOs, and I guess you could say I jumped the gun... I was tempted by a great price at NCIX + a great rebate. Then not long after, eVGA released the 7900 GTO for cheaper. :evil:

D'oh.

Thanks for the recommendation, though.

dun
 
So still no reply as to why specs for the premium says the ddr2 standard is 800 (OC)? If anyone knows or has the board and used 800 right away without BIOS config, then please let me know.

Thanks,
SS
 
So still no reply as to why specs for the premium says the ddr2 standard is 800 (OC)? If anyone knows or has the board and used 800 right away without BIOS config, then please let me know.

Thanks,
SS

EDIT: Don't know why it doubled-posted, srry bout that.
 
Brother

WHO CARES! I will be paying $280 for that board, I just want to use my Core 2 Duo thats it!
Ill be getting extra features (great!) that I might not use but still they are there in case I need them or want to use them. Better value for your money. :lol:

In addition, I just fixed the title 😳
 
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