I am using 780i in a build as well as SkullTrail. I like Nvidia and Intel. I have had 680i rigs and had a good experience with them up to now. I also have a dual Bone Trail 1 build and love it as well (the server for my business). I realize people have beefs with both companies . .I do not want to get involved in flaming companies. Nvidia and Intel have both made large contributions to our community . . .and nothing is ever perfect. I just want to use products that work and work well.
I agree completely - but I'm an engineer. I have to get called to the carpet and told when I screw up and after a few times of that you don't have a lot of sympathy for someone else getting the same treatment. So, you learn to be brutally honest about stuff like that.
Nvidia failed as far as the 680i was concerned.
It should have never been released into production.
Now, we have the 780i, which nVidia even admits is just an increment update to the 680i. And hopefully corrects all of it's predecessors flaws. And I mean that - I'm using an Nvidia chipset board, nF4, right now. It's been great for a long time. I actually want to be able to pick and choose between chipsets and stuff like that.
But it makes me wonder. How can Nvidia not even really acknowledge that they screwed up? They've just kept blithely walking down the same path. They haven't even released a minor revision to the offending chipset. They could have at least have stated that they knew about the problems and released a 680iR2 or something similar. They haven't even slightly altered the designation of the new Tri-SLi 680i chipset, and I don't think it's exactly the same as the original 680i.
I guess that's my personal problem with Nvidia. I know mistakes happen in design and manufacturing. As a business you owe it to your customers to admit to your mistakes, try to fix the issues that you've caused, apologize and move on with something better. And Nvidia hasn't done this.
I love their graphics cards, using a BFG 7900 GTX OC right now, but because of the way they have handled their chipset issues. I will probably be purchasing an ATi card for my next upgrade. I, personally, feel like they have let me down to the point that I can't trust them to deliver a product that I can trust.
So, I'm not trying to flame nVidia. I really wish that they could do better. But I am extremely disappointed in them.
Sorry for the thread jack. And I really hope for the success of the SkullTrail. It could just be my next motherboard.