***CONFLICT*** 6600 with eVGA 680i mobo

Just built a new system using the 6600 with the eVGA 680i and eVGA 8800 GTX. After a couple minutes running WOW the system would lock up or error/close out. Talked to lvl 2 tech support at eVGA and he said there is a known issue using the 6660 with the 680i. And that there should be a new bios update out this week to resolve this issue. Anyone else have this problem or able to confirm this issue??? Should I just replace my 6600 with a 6700 instead to be on the safe side??? personally I think it is total B.S. to not let consumers know about known existing conflicts even if they are to be resolved in a matter of days. Especially when there is a letter from the CEO of eVGA personally guarantying that these boards are ready to go and let you will have no problems whatsoever.
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It also failed when playing their included demo Dark Messiah
Your right - that guarentee is for the graphics card not the mobo
very curious as to why the one post is not having problems but I am - when eVGA will directly (if you call them) tell you there is a stability issue
running XP pro and 2GB of OCZ DDR2 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-8000 / 1000MHz Gold Gamer eXtreme XTC Edition Dual Channel 5-6-6-15
could my RAM be the issue or just my current bios settings
*** I still think eVGA if they know there is a problem currently with the 6600 - just post it somewhere and I will go buy the 6700 and avoid a major headache

LOL... that's the price you pay for buying hardware the week it comes out. Sorry if that sounds harsh.... but it's well known that hardware is rarely perfect @ launch and that updates will be required. If it's that big of a deal for you send the board back and buy something that's been out for a while.

Um, "known issue" means they may have just heard about it last week. As long as they are promptly releasing a BIOS update, I'm not sure what the problem is here.

There are always conflicts/problems. I'm just happy that they will be releasing a BIOS fix. That's been one of my only concerns with my eVGA 680i.

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EVGA-user said:

Just built a new system using the 6600 with the eVGA 680i and eVGA 8800 GTX. After a couple minutes running WOW the system would lock up or error/close out. Talked to lvl 2 tech support at eVGA and he said there is a known issue using the 6660 with the 680i. And that there should be a new bios update out this week to resolve this issue. Anyone else have this problem or able to confirm this issue??? Should I just replace my 6600 with a 6700 instead to be on the safe side??? personally I think it is total B.S. to not let consumers know about known existing conflicts even if they are to be resolved in a matter of days. Especially when there is a letter from the CEO of eVGA personally guarantying that these boards are ready to go and let you will have no problems whatsoever.

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The CEO "guarantee" was for the issue with the graphics cards, resistors I think......nothing was "guaranteed" about the board.
I thought about the MB for a minute, but held back.......I'm going to wait for the ASUS non-Striker 680i board.
It stinks that you have issues right off the bat.......send it back.

I'm running that exact setup:

EVGA 680i
E6600 Week 29 (B code) @ 425x8 = 3.4ghz 1.3v
EVGA 8800GTX @ 630/2020
2gb Corsair XMS2 PRO PC6400 @ DDR 800

No problems at all. The system is rock solid stable, fast and very easy to overclock. I don't play WoW because I've seen what it's done to a few of my friends, but I've played several other games and have not had a single crash.

SO wait... You went out and bought a high end system for WoW? Please give it more of a challenge than that (if you ever get it working).

J-Mag said:

SO wait... You went out and bought a high end system for WoW? Please give it more of a challenge than that (if you ever get it working).

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LOL... I pretty much ONLY play FFXI and surf the net on my system. Not to mention the DP system that I'll be building in a week or 2.... that'll only do those 2 things.

EVGA-user said:

Just built a new system using the 6600 with the eVGA 680i and eVGA 8800 GTX. After a couple minutes running WOW the system would lock up or error/close out. Talked to lvl 2 tech support at eVGA and he said there is a known issue using the 6660 with the 680i. And that there should be a new bios update out this week to resolve this issue. Anyone else have this problem or able to confirm this issue??? Should I just replace my 6600 with a 6700 instead to be on the safe side??? personally I think it is total B.S. to not let consumers know about known existing conflicts even if they are to be resolved in a matter of days. Especially when there is a letter from the CEO of eVGA personally guarantying that these boards are ready to go and let you will have no problems whatsoever.
****REVISED***
It also failed when playing their included demo Dark Messiah
Your right - that guarentee is for the graphics card not the mobo
very curious as to why the one post is not having problems but I am - when eVGA will directly (if you call them) tell you there is a stability issue
running XP pro and 2GB of OCZ DDR2 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-8000 / 1000MHz Gold Gamer eXtreme XTC Edition Dual Channel 5-6-6-15
could my RAM be the issue or just my current bios settings
*** I still think eVGA if they know there is a problem currently with the 6600 - just post it somewhere and I will go buy the 6700 and avoid a major headache

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Hi,

My name is Jacob Freeman and I am a Product Manager at EVGA.

There are no issues with the e6600 CPU. As a matter of fact, we have a few here and get rather impressive overclocks with them.

I apologize for the misinformation, I am unsure why you were told this, but it is incorrect.

As for the issue you are experiencing, can you please let me know what voltage you have your memory set to in the BIOS? Also, what command rate? Is it set to 2T?

Thanks,
Jacob Freeman

I like EVGA, and I have to say my favorite brand of video cards used to be BFG, but EVGA one upped them with 90 day trade-in program.
It's dumb to even ask but....
You have the latest BIOS, mobo drivers, network card, video card, anything plugged in....all the drivers up to date?
Try putting your BIOS in "fail-safe" mode.


If you are still having issues....this is a pain in the ass because online retailers have drove a large amount of retail "real" computer shops out of business.....but if you still have them around you (we have one good shop left haha). Go there and try another brand of memory..... (Nforce boards love certain memory modules)

If you still have problems....take out everything you do not need out of the machine.
As in you should try running WoW or anything else that troubles your computer with JUST mobo / cpu / video card / boot hard drive w/ WoW installed on it. No PCI card's, no extra hard drives, no floppy drive, if you can play WoW without the cd in...unplug the cd-rom even. Try it like that (with the other high quality brand of memory, maybe Corsair or Crucial).

If this still doesn't work. Keep the different memory in, and try an extremely overkill power supply.

If you can't get it to work still...then I don't know.

Freezes generally track down to memory (run memtest86 also even), power supply, or conflicting card's.

Basically the name of the game is swap out one component at a time with other high quality components that you know work fine. until you find what component is giving you an issue.

I suggest run Memtest86, hard drives manufacturers have utilities to test drives and I would run that as well, run Folding@Home on both core's for many hours, then run Orthos or Prime95....I am not sure what everyone likes now-a-days. But try and find out if your problem happens under medium to heavy loads in 2D situations. You can find out if its a 3D only problem, and then you can maybe point at the video card possibly.



http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1120779

Check this post....possible 680i / OCZ problems.

i have this board, and a 6600, and have no issues. all my games play great. why would there be an issue with the 6600, but not the 6700, or the 6800 for that matter? something is broke at 2400mhz, but works at 2667, all else being exactly the same?

Have this board and an E6600 as well, no issues to report.

I have this board and I have to say that I too am suffering from the same issue , I have a E6600 and I am having some lock ups and shutdowns.

Jacob Freeman, thanks for responding to me in particular.

Your 680i board is impressive, along with the 680i in general. I was reading posts of users who owned the EVGA board, and 680i boards in general. Looking for ANY kind of connection with the systems....

A few users had OCZ memory and problems. No board is "perfect", but I think we can agree all boards dislike, and like certain memory chips.

No doubt every Intel Core 2 Duo and Quad works most likely, but have you performed tests with OCZ memory?

-Ryan

To have Evga post here and their lifetime warrenty is one of the reasons I go with Evga.

jAkUp said:

Hi,

My name is Jacob Freeman and I am a Product Manager at EVGA.

There are no issues with the e6600 CPU. As a matter of fact, we have a few here and get rather impressive overclocks with them.

I apologize for the misinformation, I am unsure why you were told this, but it is incorrect.

As for the issue you are experiencing, can you please let me know what voltage you have your memory set to in the BIOS? Also, what command rate? Is it set to 2T?

Thanks,
Jacob Freeman

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Thanks for the great feedback........given that you all are responding here......maybe I'll just go ahead and pull the trigger on this board instead of waiting for the ASUS P5N32-E....
A question though, Jacob, I was planning on using Corsair XMS-Twin2X2048-5400c4(675-DDR2) for memory. Any conflicts known there???? Or maybe a better question.....recommend a 2GB memory for your board that wont cost over 250-275 dollars a set.
Thanks.

nooh said:

I have this board and I have to say that I too am suffering from the same issue , I have a E6600 and I am having some lock ups and shutdowns.

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After i flashed to the new BIOS revision, add me to this boat. I'm randomly getting shutdowns w/ my e6600.

jAkUp said:

Hi,

My name is Jacob Freeman and I am a Product Manager at EVGA.

There are no issues with the e6600 CPU. As a matter of fact, we have a few here and get rather impressive overclocks with them.

I apologize for the misinformation, I am unsure why you were told this, but it is incorrect.

As for the issue you are experiencing, can you please let me know what voltage you have your memory set to in the BIOS? Also, what command rate? Is it set to 2T?

Thanks,
Jacob Freeman

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Agreed. I am using an E6600 with an eVGA 680i motherboard and two eVGA 8800GTX's, and I have had no issues at all. In fact, this was easier to get going than my P5W DH Deluxe setup was.

magoo said:

Thanks for the great feedback........given that you all are responding here......maybe I'll just go ahead and pull the trigger on this board instead of waiting for the ASUS P5N32-E....
A question though, Jacob, I was planning on using Corsair XMS-Twin2X2048-5400c4(675-DDR2) for memory. Any conflicts known there???? Or maybe a better question.....recommend a 2GB memory for your board that wont cost over 250-275 dollars a set.
Thanks.

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The memory in my sig is working well with the eVGA board. (It should as it's SLi EPP memory.)

Dan_D said:

The memory in my sig is working well with the eVGA board. (It should as it's SLi EPP memory.)

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Thanks......I think I'm going to use Corsair XMS 6400 C4, it's as well EPP and SLI approved.
Did you have to increase your memory voltage to get the OCZ to work properly???? I've noticed most boards are default 1.8V and the EPP/SLI tends to want to operate at 2.1V???
Will the board boot at 1.8V????

magoo said:

Thanks......I think I'm going to use Corsair XMS 6400 C4, it's as well EPP and SLI approved.
Did you have to increase your memory voltage to get the OCZ to work properly???? I've noticed most boards are default 1.8V and the EPP/SLI tends to want to operate at 2.1V???
Will the board boot at 1.8V????

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On my P5W DH, I had no trouble running the memory at 1.8v. I just noticed a couple of minutes ago that the eVGA 680i has my memory set at 2.3v. I am investigating this some more.

e6600 3.6ghz 9 x multi,geil 6400 c4 2gb@880 4-4-4-12 2t 2.2v,no issues at all,perfectly stable within 50mhz of the absolute maximum i could screw out of it.freind has exactly the same set up gets 3.93 9x multi...guess he got the middle of the wafer.
love the board bios can only make a good thing better