Hey guys... please help... Mobo is dying.

[bloomstomb]

I have a evga 680i sli mobo. First, all my harddrives are dying after a few months. 2nd, the first memory slot blew up... Infact it also blew up on my friends computer at about the same time (he has same board).

I want your advice on a VERY STABLE, DEPENDABLE mobo which can make use of my water cooling loop (D-tec on a q6600 and dangerden on a 8800 ultra).

Please help. This is my livelyhood and this MOBO is messing with it... Big time..

Money is not a issue (well as long as its not 600 dollar mobo or something.

[Trap05]

evga 780i FTW
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188027

Actually do you just have one card? If so would you consider going with a Asus Intel board?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131297

[bloomstomb]

evga 780i FTW
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188027

Actually do you just have one card? If so would you consider going with a Asus Intel board?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131297

I have 1 card, but I would like to be able to put in another and run sli.

Thank you for the reply.


I forgot one thing. I also have my water loop hitting the mother board. (I cant remember what it is cooling but it was recommended at the time to buy this piece to cool the motherboard... Its right below the CPU and to the left of the memory slots, north of the vid card slots.... Will this piece be compatible with the 780?

[Trap05]

Its the northbridge you're speaking of and I have no idea. I'll let a watercooling guru step in

[Choppah4]

Actually the 680i and 780i are basically the same board. 780i has PCI-Express 2.0 slots where the 680i did not. The original 780i boards were quite toasty, but so far the 780i FTW boards seem to have much better temps, and since you're watercooling it shouldn't be an issue. I own both boards (don't water cool) but can state they are essentially identical for what you'll be doing. Also the 780i has 3 PCI-Express 16x slots for Tri-SLI, but you'd have to upgrade the video card to at least a 9800 GTX, then get two more... ugg. For the possible 12 extra frames per second and ever present SLI with issues with this game or that game I'm a single GPU Intel board man now. Granted my video card has two GPUs means nothing :p