im bummed,evga 680i wont support yorkfield.

[Automata]

Thanks for that info thideras, I was about to switch to an A1 I have. It overclocked well with the E6600 but I've changed to a Q6600. Guess it is time to sell it.

Yup, you are in the same boat as me

I have a thread where I'm discussing alternatives to the 680i, I put in a request to get it moved, I'll link to it once it gets moved!

Here you go:

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=536171

 

[deeppow]

Thanks thideras, guess I'll limp along with a DFI 965-S for a little while. Time for something else.

 

[Mycobacteria]

It could be nvidia's plan to make you buy a 780i...

 

[Automata]

It could be nvidia's plan to make you buy a 780i...

Which is a fail. I was "promised" 45nm support and when the processor isn't supported, they lose my business for quite a long time. I'm not the only one that is mad about this.

I really hope they fix it, but I'll be long gone before that.

 

[Nebulous]

See, it's things like this that keep me from making the jump. I just sit back, get my popcorn and soda and watch the chaos, lol.

I feel for you guyz, really i do.

Sometimes i wanna mothball my rig, but this makes it impossible.

 

[Spawn-Inc]

it's a **** off for sure but it doesn't bother me, it will give me a change to do some extreme overclocks or vmods more with the hardware.

 

[chawks2]

You have to wait for Nehalem before Intel starts smarting up to AMD. I _LOVE_ the fact you can upgrade to a Phenom on an AM2 mobo.

I'm not an AMD guy, but have had some small HTPC's/budget builds that have been spectacularly stable. Is it true even older AM2 boards will support Phenom?

 

[Mycobacteria]

I understand that theridas will dump his 680i I would also be cut if I was in your shoes.

But how will theridas run SLI without a nvida chipset??

 

[Spawn-Inc]

he will have to suffer with crapfire (have never tried it but heard bad things)

 

[Automata]

I understand that theridas will dump his 680i I would also be cut if I was in your shoes.

But how will theridas run SLI without a nvida chipset??

It is spelled "thideras"

he will have to suffer with crapfire (have never tried it but heard bad things)

Nah, I've decided to not run SLi

 

[Rattle]

yeah I hear that, even though i really like SLI with these gt's and I would probably upgrade to more powerful cards in sli, this stunt makes we gonna go x38 and single ATI card when an affordable 45nm quad hits the streets and a real ATI gpu finally hits the streets.

 

[bing]

Does nVidia 7xx series supports 45nm quad ?

 

[Spawn-Inc]

ya, thats what they are saying. it will fully support all of the new 45nm cpu's while the 680i will only support the dual core's.

depending on costs and my budget i will probably buy the new motherboard and just get a Q6600 G0 for this setup.

 

[deeppow]

Just for the heck of it I did put my 680i into my system with a Q6600, mainly due to curiosity. Did update the bios to P31. With the watercooling I run swaps are a pain in the ***.

It does run but overclocking was not very good, FSB of ~325 with 9 cpu mult. Prime stable for several hours. Wouldn't boot with an 8 cpu mult. Certainly not a setup I would run for long.

Didn't expect anything much different based on thideras' info but as I said, just curious.

 

[freeagent]

Just for the heck of it I did put my 680i into my system with a Q6600, mainly due to curiosity. Did update the bios to P31. With the watercooling I run swaps are a pain in the ***.

It does run but overclocking was not very good, FSB of ~325 with 9 cpu mult. Prime stable for several hours. Wouldn't boot with an 8 cpu mult. Certainly not a setup I would run for long.

Didn't expect anything much different based on thideras' info but as I said, just curious.

yep, i tried hard to make that thing fly.. i was even going to buy a 6750 just to see if i could get some real fsb from it.. i just had to know, because i spent 300 on the board and ive seen people do well with dualcores, and some even able to run 1600fsb with their quads, i was jealous lol. but i traded the board and my gts320 for this gtx and vf1000.

 

[eggtrade]

I heard that nVidia 7xx are exactly the same as 680i apart from the fact that it supports 45nm quad and has pcie-2. Don't know about you guys but I was expecting a bit more out of the new chipset, other than being a SLIGHT workaround.

 

[Automata]

Well, I'm talking to a rep right now to see if I can return this motherboard and order a new one

 

[deeppow]

yep, i tried hard to make that thing fly.. i was even going to buy a 6750 just to see if i could get some real fsb from it.. i just had to know, because i spent 300 on the board and ive seen people do well with dualcores, and some even able to run 1600fsb with their quads, i was jealous lol. but i traded the board and my gts320 for this gtx and vf1000.

I got around 450 with the E6600 but that board died and this is the RMA. Not really sure what it'll do since I didn't try the E6600.

 

[leftheaded]

what about PCI-e x16 vs 2.0? is there any point to running pci-e 2.0 cards in a x16 slot? or is that like driving a ferrari in a school zone?

i'm trying to figure out if SLI is for me or not. i just ordered two 8800 GT which are 2.0

 

[Automata]

what about PCI-e x16 vs 2.0? is there any point to running pci-e 2.0 cards in a x16 slot? or is that like driving a ferrari in a school zone?

i'm trying to figure out if SLI is for me or not. i just ordered two 8800 GT which are 2.0

Well, you need a motherboard that supports PCI-E 2.0, which would be a x38 chipset.

The only real difference is more power can be delivered through the board (why would you want more failure point?? ) and it can run 32x, which no card can even saturate a 8x PCI-e bus...

So, no, at this point PCI-e 2.0 is pretty worthless.