NVIDIA nForce 680i Board Image Leaked

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An image of an upcoming NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI based motherboard has been leaked on the AnandTech forums. The motherboard is manufactured by eVGA. It comes with three PCI Express x16 slots, two PCI Express x1 and two PCI slots. Other notable features of the nForce 680i SLI motherboard include 1394a, onboard high definition audio, dual Gigabit Ethernet and a heat pipe cooler for the MCP and SPP. It is unknown which high definition audio codec is used on the upcoming motherboard. Performance and overclocking information on the upcoming nForce 680i SLI motherboard is unknown at the moment, but you can keep an eye on this thread. eVGA is expected to ship the 680i motherboards in bundles with the upcoming GeForce 8800 series video cards at launch.

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[ktr]

wow..that mobo looks hot.

 

[15th Warlock]

Yes it loks awesome indeed, what's the difference between these boards and the ones with the nforce 590 Intel edition? The third PCIe 16x slot?

Seems the 590 Intel edition actually never made it to retail, some mobos based on the 570 can be found around though.

 

[ex_reven]

yeah i was thinking the same thing, why 3 slots???

 

[Homeless]

What socket is this mobo going to support? also

ex_reven: the third slot is for nvidia's physics card

 

[Batou1986]

if these manufactures keep on adding more and more pci-e slots there gonna have to come up with a new atx standard just so u can plug in a standard pci card looks like intel 775 socket btw

 

[ex_reven]

what uses the PCI 1x slots???

(the little ones)

 

[Alec§taar]

what uses the PCI 1x slots???

(the little ones)

The DDR Drive X1 will, once it releases:

* I have been waiting PATIENTLY for them to arrive on the market!

(I am going to replace the CENATEK RocketDrive 2gb Solid-State ramdisk drive I use here on THIS system (my primary workstation), which is older tech, & uses PC-133 SDRAM & PCI 2.2 bus (133mb/sec. max burst transferral rates))...

* The DDR Drive X1's using faster memory AND a faster bus interface, by far, than my CENATEK SSD unit does should mean it's a far better performer overall than the SSD I use now... & my signature shows HOW I apply SSD's to my system!

So, if this one goes faster & it should due to using both faster memory & bus type?

Naturally, I want it (& will put the CENATEK SSD back into my 2nd system here, where it came from initially (SQLServer 2005/IIS 6.x development lab rig for me, all running on Windows Server 2003 fully patched)).



APK

P.S.=> I just happen to have a PCI-Express X1 slot open too, I believe it is X1, & if not, it is X4... & a PCI-e X1 card WILL work in them (iirc) @ backward compatibility speed @ X1 rates... I look forward to this! apk

 

[Batou1986]

alot of fiber optic adapters use them and raid cards in the future i could see using them too

can that ddrdrive x1 thing use internal power ? and aint its max cap 8gb or 16 ?

 

[Alec§taar]

can that ddrdrive x1 thing use internal power ? and aint its max cap 8gb or 16 ?

It looks to be external power (if you look @ it's back mounting plate? You can see the power adapter hookup)... this is also how my current SSD works for power too.

Max-capacity will probably be whatever the driver can handle in 32-bit, along w/ the firmware code also, & that tops out @ 4gb afaik... but, here? I could be off/wrong... I honestly don't know ALL THAT MUCH ON ITS SPECS!

(The way I got 'wind of it', was during discussions here about SSD's, & specifically, GIGABYTE'S IRAM - & the owner of DDRDrive's company wrote me here in "PM" to "hold off buying a new one until this one arrives" (his DDRDrive X1 unit)).

So, waiting patiently...

APK

 

[ex_reven]

i have 2 PCI 1x slots in my mobo

i doubt il ever see them put to use

 

[Thermopylae_480]

I've seen video capture cards using the PCIx1. The third x16 slot could be used for a physics card.

 

[cdawall]

all i got to say is it gots some insane cooling for a mobo the cipset cooler is heavier duty than my ti4200s gpu cooler!!!