should i buy a evga 680 motherboard ?

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hi all and happy new year.

actually i have the following setup :

core 6600
4 giga corsaire 6400 pro (4 giga cause waiting for vista)
p5b deluxe
8800 gtx leadtek
tagan 900 watts
western digital raptor 150 giga sata 1

i run the cpu at 3.2 at 1.39v and memory at 4 4 4 12 (rated at 5 5 5 15 1.9v) at 2.0V and its stable, never crashed since i overclocked it (weeks ago) anyway i ordered a 680 evga and another 8800 gtx (i can still cancel my order)...

but i have read on evga forums and others forum A LOT of pple who fried their no o/ced ram (looks like blue ram slots on this motherboard kill the ram ??), or just cant boot cause of instability problems with every bios of the evga, specially the last p23 final..im really worried about these issues..i dont want ruin my self in another motherboard if it doesnt work and plus kill my stuff (like the ram)..i live in france and i cant rma as easy you can, cause there is not really support center in france for evga or corsair..i ll have to call usa and its a lot expensive with phone and mails etc....well.. my question is...anyone here has the evga 680 motherboard and has no problem at all ? with the last bios ? or what bios would you recommand to me ? thanks for advance for the light you could bring to me.
 
Hey:
Im from argentina (so I would have more trouble rma-ing than you😉), and have NO PROBLEM AT ALL, its the best motherboard outhere, and I have almost the same rig than you

E6600 OC at 3Ghz (9x334)
eVGA 8800GTX
4GB ram DDR2 1000 gSkill
Thermaltake Agulia
320GB 16M x2 WD
etc..
All working perfectly since 1 Month, have no more time now, if you want, I can answer all of your questions, if you have any more? (Y)

Cheers!!!

Max.-
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/CustratingReview.asp?item=N82E16813188009

http://www.evga.com/community/messageboard/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=26

Decide for yourself. BIOS 23 isn't a cure-all yet, as shown in the evga forum. It's a hit or miss. I spent a good day reading EVERYTHING. Basically, if you overclock the board, you may have problems. #1 being losing raid data. It seems that the board is stable at stock.

I upgraded my buddy's rig to evga 680i. Good build quality. Few bent capacitors. Got it up & running the 1st try. The only problem is that ps/2 mouse is not working at all.

Asus Striker Extreme which uses the same 680i seems to have fewer problems than eVga's.

IMO, the best & most stable overclocking boards are P5B-D, DQ6, 975XBX & P5W-DH.
 
thanks for replies :)

i have kept my order of this motherboard..if i buy its cause i want sli..even if my cpu will bottleneck this a bit..i plan to buy quadcore in the future but not now (need money lol)..i agree p5b deluxe rox..so stable.amazing motherboard. im gonna cross fingers and pray to have no trouble with my evga mb..gonna flash to final bios 23 at first boot. and i ll use only 2 of my 4 giga ram on the black ram slots at the beginning and see how it works.
 
Now P23, but had no problems at all with the one flashed from factory, I think, ppl have most of the trouble with RAID 0 configurations (useless imo :roll: ), I use no RAID at all, and use the Sata conectors that are on the edge of the MB, if it is of any help, never had a single reboot, or blue screen with this one, I bought it on ebay 😀 , It ROCK long way 8)
 
im glad it works great for you man :)i should receive mine in 2 days :) cant wait to install it hehe..i plan to o/C my core duo to 3.2 like now on my p5b deluxe, with a fsb at 400 synch, i hope i ll be able to do this. i heard pple pushing it over 500fsb so it should be possible hehe..thanks for the feedback again :)
 
Why would u waste money? you already have a very nice mobo the difference between the two isnt much and if you were upgrading from a weaker mobo i to would say yes, as i also have a eGVA 680I and love it, however you already have a p5b deluxe seems kinda of wasteful, but seeing as you got money to blow buying ANOTHER 8800GTX god.... i only got 1 8800GTS.....
 
i needed a sli mobo, im not wasting money, i have 2 8800gtx (its not stupid to buy another), p5b deluxe is a crossfire mobo, that means i would mean unofficial drivers with degraded sli performance to make my sli works on this board and i dont want this..i cant wait directx10, cause it will show the real power of the 8800gtx and will stop some pple to think this card is deadborn.
 
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