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You wouldnt get me buying either 680/790 chipset mobos for overclocking.

Fact, 780I is 680I with one or 2 tweaks, and a separate chip to allow PCI-E2.0 bandwidth. AFAIK, 680Is flaws have NOT been fixed for these boards. 790I has the PCI-E2.0 chip integrated, and will be DDR3 AFAIK. Not heard anything about bug fixes.

FSB holes? Average quad-clocking? (though that is improving) Poor (in comparison to Intel NB) dually clocking? Excessive heat dump? All will still be present, AFAIK.

Tri-SLI: nVidia need to work on drivers to allow better scaling, and they also need to perform the miracle of somehow making the GPU setup not breath-takingly bottlenecked by the CPU.
 
yeah but with games supporting quad cores, if you have a q6600 at 3.6ghz or so, crysis and tri sli i bet it would rock.
 
Good luck getting a quad to 3.6 stable then.

Im not sayings its totally impossible but just that all the people I have come across with 680's have sold them and gave up on sli and just had a decent over clock on intel chipsets instead. Nvidia board just havnt got it right yet.
 
Ive always had intel, but read and known so many people have problems with nvid chipsets have problems.

What mobo do you have Kempez?
 
Ok Kempez like I said I wasnt saying its impossible, just that I know of alot of people who had ALOT of problems. Both Daza and Porkus over on wcuk gave up there Nvid mobos and bought intel because of it!
 
name='Kempez' said:
Nvidia motherboards are ok, it's just intel are better for Intel CPU's in general

Haha sorry but that's a "well duh" statement :) No offense meant :)

I've always found that chipsets made by manufacturers of equipment work better with equipment than third party developers. This extends beyond the reach of simply computers :)
 
i sold my nvidia chipset mobo, it struggled to get to 3ghz, although i did find a way (with lots of volts) to get a 400mhz fsb out of it :)
 
I' binned a Striker as it was absolute pap. In the beginning I was rubbing my hands at the thought of unlinked ram, sli...etc, but it turned out to be a heap of [insert *'s]
 
You're not the only one :) lol, i went to the maximus, and you have got a blitz now (according to sig) how are you finding that? im very happy with my board.
 
name='teknokid' said:
You're not the only one :) lol, i went to the maximus, and you have got a blitz now (according to sig) how are you finding that? im very happy with my board.

Yeah I've had the Commando, Blitz and I've got the Maximus lined up for my next build too. All boards have been top notch and overclocking is a pleasure.

I think Asus did the best they could with the original Striker, but as the saying goes.."you can't polish a turd" (turd being the 680i).
 
haha yup. although they couldve tried harder like evga when they released one that could slightly overclock quads.
 
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