Poll - Would You Buy NVIDIA 680i Now ?

Would You Buy NVIDIA 680i Now ?

  • Yes - Reference Design (EVGA/BFG/BIOSTAR/ECS) etc.

    Votes: 41 28.3%

  • Yes - Partner Developed (ASUS/ABIT/MSI/GIGABYTE) etc.

    Votes: 28 19.3%

  • No - 680i is Still a Quirky P.O.S.

    Votes: 76 52.4%
  • Total voters
    145
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I'm trying to establish if This Product is Fixed !! And if so, What would you Buy ?
 
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

after going thru 3 of them .. no way in hell
 
Given the opportunity for less than stellar results that many have encountered, I shied away from this board for my recent build. It was the front runner after reading the glowing reviews from assorted websites, but when the issues started surfacing, I felt that the potential for problems outweighed the benefits. It's likely that I wouldn't have had any issues at all and would've been perfectly happy, but given that I wasn't going to use many of the features of the board and my past (bad) luck with motherboards, I figured it was probably a good idea to avoid any possible source of problems.

In short, I ended up with the P5N-E and I would make the same decision again in a second. I will more than likely replace it with a Bearlake board when those become widely available pending reviews, but I'm glad I avoided the 650i chipset.
 
The 680i boards gave me no reason to go away from getting Intel chipset for Intel processor.
 
I have the EVGA 680i...

Not a single problem. Overclocks like a dream, runs cools, quiet.

Course that's just me. Or the fact that I have a revision A2.
 
Night Black said:
I have the EVGA 680i...

Not a single problem. Overclocks like a dream, runs cools, quiet.

Course that's just me. Or the fact that I have a revision A2.
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Likewise (not sure the rev though, I bought it just over a month ago), I have mine running a e6400 at 3.2(ish, I'm still working on finding the sweet spot).
 
Let you know after the Msi P6N Diamond, as for Asus I had hopes on the P5n32-e sli that was a wash, and the plus model good grief.
 
Only good reason to get something other than 965/975 at this point is SLI.
 
I've had a good experience with mine, but I understand that others haven't. I would buy the Striker again. I believe that Asus will get it's s*** together as far as the bios is concerned, and that this will be a solid board that will allow me to expand to quad core and SLI over the next year.
 
Night Black said:
I have the EVGA 680i...

Not a single problem. Overclocks like a dream, runs cools, quiet.

Course that's just me. Or the fact that I have a revision A2.
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Same here as well, love this board, and not one single issue....so far it's one hell of a mobo.

Sphere
 
No way. My EVGA 680i killed 1 stick of Corsair Dominator 1250, that was yesterday, today it gave up and gives me C1 and 1d errors and wont POST. This is a 1 week old build! I'm currently looking into alternatives.
 
If i was to get a different, badaxe2. Stability is more important to me.
 
Actually I had tons of problems with the 975 based p5w DH. The problems were numerous, and the revisions never really helped. It would get stuck on post, overclocking sucked (it just took a lot of tweaking to get it right for a decent OC), and Vista was downright uncooperative with it.

I started running a p5n32-e, and everything has been a breeze so far. So we will see how it fares over the long haul.
 
yep. have 2 evga's for near 3 months now, overclock great, sata great, sound great, even before bios revs. would buy 2 more. as good or better than the ultra-d was.
 
Too bad you didn't add a 2nd no option, its too freaking expensive. My asus P5N-E gives me all the features i need, and none of the problems that 680 has. But its not perfect, the vdroop is REAL bad.
 
saan44 said:
...In short, I ended up with the P5N-E and I would make the same decision again in a second.... but I'm glad I avoided the 650i chipset.
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Color me confused... :confused:

Don't really care which one I get, since each one has its trade-offs. Just keep me away from 975X, since both of mine hit walls below 430MHz. :mad: Love my RD600, but would've been just as happy with my Abit AB9 if my RAM hadn't held it back (and it hadn't bricked so early).
 
After my experience with the Asus Striker I would be a good person to ask.

Granted I wanted a board from a retail store so CompUSA was my only choice at like
8pm. I looked at the other boards and it seemed the layout of the 680i gives you that extra PCI slot for my XFI and I dont think I saw that with the other boards. I could be wrong. They had mostly Athlon boards but I think they had the next best board to the 680i.

I bought the BFG 680i and I am very happy with it. I am running SLI 8800GTX with an XFI and I get no SCP (distortion snap crackling and popping)

This is what Asus is battling with the Striker. Apparently the EVGA and BFG boards dont have this problem. I like the XFI fatality sound card. I just hope Vista eventually will somehow support EAX in some way.

I can honestly reccomend the BFG board and the company as well as the 1000watt power supply they sell which I have.
 
A few people did indeed have problems, however if you look through the forums it's almost a non factor now. I just added the NFORCE chipset set drivers and that seems to be working great.

Would buy another one in a heartbeat.

Luck and have fun;) :)
 
no for me. i have an intel d975xbx mainboard, that is the best there is, the rest is just wishful thinking.lol:D :p
 
Just built a rig a month ago with the 680i after doing all the research on these boards. This was the first computer I've ever built and it has all gone very smooth, flashed to the P24 BIOS before loading windows and did not install the nTune or NAM programs that seem to cause issues for people. It's been completely stable for me so far (knocks on wood).
 
Not here. I've read about to many quirks and issues. I had hopes for the RD600, but unless DFI can squeeze some more performance out of the BIOS updates, I'll just stick with the 975X.
 
I would...it seems that alot of the problems have been addressed, at least where the ref boards are concerned.

I'd get the eVGA board for said reason.
 
I still see people having troubles... how statistically significant that is is up for debate... Someone answer this... Can physical board revisions and Bios releases really fix a troubled chipset?
 
With the exception of Asus's 0803 bios disaster, I've had nothing but good experiences with my Striker Extreme. Lots of features, easy overclocking (E6600 at 3.375 but I'm nowhere near done!). For stability I would have chosen an Intel based board had it not been for my need of SLI, but I have no regrets with the choice I made.

I'll vote Yes.
 
I love my Abit IN9 32X-MAX 680i..


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