Guys, let me give a little more info to those who haven't read the evga thread that has just passed 400 posts (with abut 300 in the past 3-4 days) and is #2 thread (number of posts) in the motherboard section of evga forum (thread that has the most posts - over 800 is also related to 680i - raid...
don't you guys think that we should be hearing words like this from evga? wouldn't that be nice?
I'll tell you one thing - Corsair has gained more points in my book in the past week than anyone ever did. Thanks Redbeard. Truly.
i think i even asked him if he was positive on that revision 2 issue. he sounded pretty positive 2. I am wondering maybe it's just different packaging (sata cables, power cables etc.)?
Well, I talked to EVGA today to rma my board and asked some other questions. According to the tech support person i talked to:
1) there is no REV2 of this board.
2) no bios info is available.
3) the capacitors that are missing on the backside were there for some "radiation testing or...
Redbeard you guys have all the bells and whistles, someone just did an interesting test on the evga board - using one stick in blue/black slots trying to get a stable boot. He gets no boot if it is <2.1v in black and <1.9v in blue (here;s the post...
I don't know if you guys visit evga forum but here http://evga.com/community/messageboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=26392 is a whole bunch of people that are having the same issues.
Here's my build:
EVGA 680i
E6300 (stock freq) + Arctic silver+Zallman 9700
EVGA 8800GTX (stock freq)
4GB Corsair...