veedubfreak
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Not sure what the difference is. Buy.com - EVGA nForce 680i SLI Intel Socket 775 ATX Motherboard - 122-CK-NF68-A1 I have the nf67 board and i love it. BTW,
two things:
the cards can be different brands, even different specs.
SLI will clock the higher card to lower cards specs. i ran an asus 600/900 and an evga 650/950 for a bit together, no prob. always better to have the same card IMO, plus it just looks better.
680i, from what i have been reading, is likely NOT going to support the penryn processors. (this is still up in the air, but it is the current rumor...some may, some may not...?) so if you are thiknking of upgrading in the near future with a yorkfield, wise to choose another mobo p35 or x38.
From everything i've read the 680i will support 45nm chips. It just might require a bios flash. So far i've been able to boot as high as 450FSB on my 680i board.
Well it doesn't work in our "made by nvidia" 680i sli board with P30 BIOS (not P31 though I hasten to add). Neither EVGA 680i LT or Inno3D 680i SLI state "45nm" support on them, but the ones we have were both made quite a while ago.
We just tested the QX9650 in the Striker - ours is an ES chipset but the core power regulation stuff is identical to a retail board. It boots, however it doesn't recognise the multiplier and defaults it to 6x all the time. Great for overclocking, I suppose, but it constantly complains it needs a new BIOS - of which the last one was out in August, far before any 45nm release.
That and Asus still states "LGA775 Intel® 45nm Processor Ready
This motherboard supports the latest Intel 45nm CPU which introduces new micro-architecture features for greater performance at a given frequency, up to 50% larger L2 caches, and expanded power management capabilities for new levels of energy efficiency." on its website.
...but 256mb is not going to be enough vram for a 21'' screen