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Gawd
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The nForce 500 series were poor overclockers, and some of the boards weren't Core 2 Duo compatible if I am not mistaken. Quad core support is probably not even an option. As for the whole going AMD solution, well why not have a Core 2 Duo/Quad if I can afford it? I'd hate to be limited to just AMD processors at this point. Especially since not everyone just plays games. If you are into digital video editing and video encoding, then you may want the quad core option. Until now, Intel was your only choice for a real quad that was x86 compatible.
There's certainly not anything wrong with going with the 680i if you're willing to put up with its idiosyncrasies (especially with quad-core overclocking thrown into the mix) and distinct possibilities for RMA's, but I was just trying to say that there are other options to run a perfectly good SLI setup, if compromising on either CPU performance (AMD) or SLI performance (650i) is worth greater stability to you, even with no budgetary constraints. Not everybody needs the absolute top-of-the-line regardless of stability issues. You implied that there was no other option.
I have a RAID controller that requires a PCIe x4 slot. Additionally with triple SLI coming soon, I am sure there are others who will embrace the 700 series triple x16 slot configuration.
I know that you do, hence why I said that few others probably do. Triple SLI is a whole 'nuther ball of wax; I look forward to seeing how it performs compared to traditional SLI, and if the 700-series manages to fix any of the 600-series' problems, or really is just unchanged with a PCI Express 2.0 bridge thrown into the mix.