Got my Evga 680i Board today

[Dman]

Originally Posted by Robilar

Now that was a good intel board. Had one myself for a while.

Got the EVGA board installed yesterday evening. Had issues with the zalman 9500 backplate. Fortunately its made of plastic so a bit of cutting with an exacto knife where the capacitors are housed and it now fits (good thing its the back of the motherboard, talk about a ghetto mod).

Had time (before wife went berserk, its a sunday thing) to test it booting and power up, all looked fine. Tonight I hope I can format and reload xp and start reinstalling all of my backed up files and then 'finally' run some stock benches.

Let me know if you can break 450FSB so far thats the highest I've been able to get mine.

[BloodThirstyEmu]

Kinda off topic, Will the X1800XT run on the 680i and if i wanted 2 R600's could i run them on the EVGA 680i?

[Robilar]

It will run one but not two it doesn't support crossfire.

And DMAN, at xtremesystems, a fellow there got 488 FSB stable on the BFG board (which is identical to the EVGA board). Apparently though the bios is slightly different. As there is supposed to be a new EVGA bios released on weds of this week, it may help.

[BloodThirstyEmu]

K, Thnx. Good Luck on breakin 450 fsb