MB upgraqde?

[Duke{CLR}]

I think with the improved cooling and the guaranteed 45NM support and not having to RMA my board to OC a quad core it's a no brainer. There are 59 days left in the promo so I will wait until I can read up a bit more on it but it seems like it might be a rare opportunity.

I also looks like it will be a lot of work but I can take the opportunity to reinstall XPVista on a RAID when I reinstall everything.

The 680i will support one of the 45nm chips with a BIOS (I can't remember the name of the one) so they say. In the review linked above it mentions something about there being more to it then that and some changes to the MB are needed. They also talk about the NB and the SB and some other chip for the PCI 2.0. So there is definitely a bit more to this 780. I also wonder if the benchmarks they ran could improve with new drivers/BIOS.



EDIT: I went for it. I can always cancel it if something bad happens but I think it will be OK.

[TheSilentAssassin]

when given to upgrade to something better, don't hesitate, just do it. go with the mother board!

[Duke{CLR}]

Crap I am way back in line. I signed up that night and I am 432 in line. I wonder how long it takes to manufacture that many Mobos.

[juneau]

Not that long at all. The first batch will be mahoosive.

[Duke{CLR}]

I hope so. I have been reading about the problems with the early versions of the 680i so i'm anxious to see what the difference will be.

[WalkinTarget]

Sheesh, be glad thats not a lunch line you're waiting in !!!

eVGA is always worth the few extra $$$, but it certainly looks like the mainboard is not much of a benefit for the existing hardware out there, so this won't be flexing its computing muscle until newer items such as the 45nm Intel chips and next generation of video cards come out (mid-January ?).

[Duke{CLR}]

I read something about issues with it's network abilities and that the older boards never performed well. This is supposed to be fixed with this board so I am hopping to see some sort of immediate benefit but who knows. I do get some lag like symptoms on this machine where I don't get them on the other computers that use this network maybe this will fix those.

[darth_nevus]

good news at 432 your not in the first batch. the first batch is always full of worms. You'll do just fine.

On a side note, i am VERY proud of you. coming from buying prebuilt pc's to making decisions like this and dropping it on a whim to completely reassemble the system a second time in 2 years!

We taught you well young padawan. its great to see yet another preson removed from the wretched grip of Dell and prebuilt "gaming" pc's in general. you leanred well and fast.

[Duke{CLR}]

Thanks I can't believe that it was only a year ago and I was just thinking about building. I owe it all to you guys for helping me get going. I also have a lot of spare time on my job to read up on this stuff so thrown some RSS feeds and I can actually start to understand some of this stuff.

My next goals are to understand memory OCing and RAID.

Of course the real test will be disabling and reassembling without cooking anything I hope to be able to do it in a single day.

[Rand{CLR}]

Bump for a silly(?) question:

Will the 680i Mobos support 45mm at all? With a BIOS upgrade? Or are most of us up the creek if/when we wish to move to a Penryn Chip?

-Rand

[Ghost_Rain]

I have 650I mobo and I never had any problems with it

[Duke{CLR}]

Bump for a silly(?) question:

Will the 680i Mobos support 45mm at all? With a BIOS upgrade? Or are most of us up the creek if/when we wish to move to a Penryn Chip?

-Rand

I found this on the EVGA site.

The EVGA 680i SLI, 680i LT SLI, and 650i Ultra motherboards will support 45nm Wolfsdale (dual core) CPU's with an upcoming BIOS update. 45nm Yorkfield (quad core) CPU's will be supported on nForce 700-series SLI motherboards.

[Dead_And_Gone]

Good deal

home guilt computers, you'll never go back to retail ever again

[Ghost_Rain]

Bump for a silly(?) question:

Will the 680i Mobos support 45mm at all? With a BIOS upgrade? Or are most of us up the creek if/when we wish to move to a Penryn Chip?

-Rand

From what I have been read ob Various web site the answer is no this is why they are bring the 750i and the 780i mobo

[BenKenobi]

Duke did you end up getting your 780 yet?

Theres still 23 days left in the promotion, still unsure if I should take advantage of it