Another horrifying problem with 680i?

Dave65 · Dec 27, 2006

Well here we go,had my memory in the blue slots running 1200 stable 2.150volts,ran memtest 39 passes no errors I was living the good life til yesterday.
Started getting ramdom freezes and a couple BSODS so I thought I would run memtest again while I was asleep,I stayed up to see if it would pass the 1st time error free,but it didn't,before I pulled 1 stick to see which one was bad I decided to move both into the black slots,ran memtest another 39 passes error free @ 1200 2.150 volts,so it is the board that is bad so I requested an RMA from EVGA,question is should I get another 680i or just send it back to NewEgg for a different board?
And the EVGA board is starting to fill up with others with memory problems,but most seem to have bad sticks,I hope this thing doesn't take out the memory,I will be very upset if that happens

Rattle · Dec 27, 2006

buy diff board, sell that one when it comes back from rma...

Dave65 · Dec 29, 2006

It has totally went down hill,is there another SLI option out there??

Section8 · Dec 30, 2006

Just the 590 based boards.. Which are very nice but don't OC well.

Dave65 · Jan 1, 2007

Section8 said:
Just the 590 based boards.. Which are very nice but don't OC well.

Then I guess it will be an Intel chipset...
I really hate to give up on this board,but have no choice..

El<(')>Maxi · Jan 1, 2007

P5N32-E, is not a reference board. Good luck finding one.

Rattle · Jan 1, 2007

Dave65 said:
Then I guess it will be an Intel chipset...
I really hate to give up on this board,but have no choice..

your not needing to run sli so its no big loss, look at it this way, you get a stable board that will oc as high or higher with a munch simpler and smaller bios which will get you better results in half the heartache.

greenmaji · Jan 1, 2007

Do you have a 24-30" LCD with res to match?
If not.. why SLI?

Dave65 · Jan 2, 2007

greenmaji said:
Do you have a 24-30" LCD with res to match?
If not.. why SLI?

Actually I have been contemplating hooking it to my Sony 50 LCD for gaming,but I am a total noob when it comes to that stuff,my goal there is to one day use my pc for gaming,and as a DVR,but not on my 20 inch monitor,but the 50 inch,but not sure how to go about all that yet,that was my reason for SLI,will that even matter,I do not know..

greenmaji · Jan 2, 2007

Yes but the 50" LCD only has HDTV res correct? If so.. it doesn't have res. to match a 24-30" PC monitor LCD.

Dave65 · Jan 2, 2007

greenmaji said:
Yes but the 50" LCD only has HDTV res correct? If so.. it doesn't have res. to match a 24-30" PC monitor LCD.

Yes I see your point,like I said I am a noob when it comes to resolutions and stuff

StrandedMartian · Jan 2, 2007

it seems the asus boards dont have a lot of these issues with the nVidia chipsets.

also the evga reference board has issues with big cooling solutions - a lot need mods to fit while the asus boards fit large heatsinks for the cpu fine.

Dave65 · Jan 2, 2007

Just ordered the ASUS P5B Duluxe from NewEgg,I hate to give up on this 680i,it sure a fast board when it works,but until they do something about the problems,I have no choice...

Section8 · Jan 3, 2007

You should have went with a ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium. It is the 590 chipset which is pretty rock solid. You would get SLI and no headaches. The 590 chips just don't OC as well as say the 680i but you still can OC them pretty decent.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131071

Dave65 · Jan 3, 2007

Section8 said:
You should have went with a ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium. It is the 590 chipset which is pretty rock solid. You would get SLI and no headaches. The 590 chips just don't OC as well as say the 680i but you still can OC them pretty decent.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131071

thought about it,but figured I needed a break form Nvidia.

Section8 · Jan 8, 2007

LOL yeah about there as well. Well see how the 2nd 680i board works out. What really bothers me though is that a lot of people seem to not have any trouble for a month or so then BAM the board goes to ****. So even if I get my 2nd board up and running with no problems it still may die in a months time

Dave65 · Jan 8, 2007

Section8 said:
LOL yeah about there as well. Well see how the 2nd 680i board works out. What really bothers me though is that a lot of people seem to not have any trouble for a month or so then BAM the board goes to ****. So even if I get my 2nd board up and running with no problems it still may die in a months time

I wonder if they will be a new revision,I hope they will do something.
There was a lot out there,like me who almost got a month out of it before it started to die..

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