Is there a design flaw in the 680 motherboard?

[Kavin Lawrence]

thats what i thought also... until a forummer pointed out to me...
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/482770

anyways today is the death of my 4th 680 motherboard

is it me or all the 680 motherboard .. the chip sets are just badly designed??

seems the cheapest 680 motherboard i have is the champion by far till today
the Asus p5n32-e-Sli....8 months... wee

the rest didnt non even last more than 6 months:
Asus striker Extreme
EVGA 680 AR
EVGA 680 A1
and today Gigabyte N680SliDq6

which reminds me Olin just a heads up ... so far among all the forums i have been i still find www.lowyat.net as the best forum overall. Even the garage sale and bulk is way better. Just want to share
Theres loads of ES, Staff purchases Procs, and especially WD hdd and Dell monitors..
the cons are the warranty.

Check it out..

[Nitin Kumar]

i believe the evga 680i's are constantly revised.

here is my story, 8 months ago i jumped on the 680i bandwagon and i had 4 boards die on me after 6 months, they work good as long as they are alive, lol. so i got a p35 and crossfire and crossfire is way behind sli when it comes to game support so i am back to 680i.

i just got my 680i two days ago and i just put it in the new case i got tj-09(best case i have ever owned by the way), anyways before i put in the board i took of all the heatsinks and reapplied thermal paste, and i also took of the heatsinks of mosfets, and i noticed something the earlier A1 revision had total of 24 mosfets 16 by the rear ioshield and 8 on the side by the cpu socket, but mine only had 18, which included 12 on the top instead of 16 and 6 on the side instead of 8.
i do believe 680i was the best chipset as long as it lasted and is totally non dependable. hopefully the little revised part has something to do with the 680i's dying out. now i have real nice airflow around the mosfets and even under stress testing with prime the mosfets are bearly warm to touch. i will inlude a screenshot of my new rig, just waiting on my 8800gtx's sometime this week.

link to my new rig, check it out.
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/7325/myrigrv7.jpg

[Kavin Lawrence]

hmm whats that ure ure fron panel?? ure cooling tan??

[Olin Coles]

It just looks like the cooland reservoir and control panel... I don't see anything wrong with that. Looks pretty nice actually!

[Nitin Kumar]

just the fan contoller panel, dvd writer and dual bay reservoir, thats it. so my front bays are all packed,

Kavin, i returned my evga 680i, because it was acting very weird with my overclocks, and guess what i got, a striker extreme, the new ones are clocking really good with quad cores, i am an hour in to prime 95 on all cores, with my q6600 at 3.4 runnint at 8x425.

check out this thread at xtremesystems, this is what tempted me to get a striker, so i got one today. NKD is my screename and i have posted some screenshots in that thread.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=159457&page=2

[Kavin Lawrence]

nice
prices of reference boards are dropping for gtx/gts

heard from some vendors nvidia stopped producing this cards..

olin any contact with whats coming in november/december
i know g92 and g98 which is mainstream and lowend..
what about g90?

luckily i sold off all my ultras like a few weeks back

currently gaming on HIS 2900xt 1gb... got it cheap RM1350 =US400
currently cheapeast gtx is forsa reference board at RM1699 = US500

[Olin Coles]

olin any contact with whats coming in november/december
i know g92 and g98 which is mainstream and lowend..
what about g90?

I am under a non-disclosure agreement, but hopefully we can publish details soon.

[Nitin Kumar]

honestly i would love to see a g90, but i honestly dont think there is need for it, gtx plays all the games fine, and i dont know about crysis, but bioshock, lost planet all give playable frame rates at 1920x1200,

by the way testing the striker at 3.6 right now 450fsb and cpu multiplier of 8, prime95 has been running for 3 hours on all cores and striker is finally what it was suppose to be with quad cores, u should really give it a shot Kavin if your having issues with the evga boards. i myself went through 5

[Kavin Lawrence]

nah i had one of the earlier asus striker extreme.
after blowing away nearly US1.5k on motherboards...

will wait for a better chipset.
just sold off my 2 ultra's
hd2900xt 1gb sold off
keeping hd2900xt 512 and evga 8800gts 640
sold off 2600xt

and just got myself a asus 8600gts silent..
for temp... actually not a bad card..

olin did u review this cards??
would have been a hit if only nvidia would haven taken a poll and found out average gamers nowadays use 20/22 inch.

going to volt mod and attach hr03

kindda weird that this card has absolutely no heat sinks on the mem at all...

[Kevin Young]

I started my first C2D build with the EVGA 680i mobo, and it died after two months.
Thank God for the newegg warranty.
I RMA'd it, got a brand new one back, sold it, and bought my Gigabyte P-35.
There's very little performance difference between the two and this mobo has been rock solid.
IMHO the 680is were rushed out the door when they first came out, and it showed.
They've gone through a few revisions since, but with the problems they initially had, it's tough for me to trust that chipset again.
Like Nitin said, when they're running, they run great, but keeping them that way seems to be the major issue.
Just my .02 ;-)