EVGA 680i LT SLI - BIOS/Testing
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BIOS
All the features you would want for overclocking are here. There are lots of voltage options and bus speeds. To get to 400 was a breeze; it didn’t require any bumps in voltage for any part of the motherboard. You get an integrated memory tester, which is nice.
Overclocking
This board is a great overclocker. It was able to get to 420 MHz FSB, which is where my CPU maxes out. It didn’t require any bumps in voltage. It’s a rock solid board. I was able to achieve the same overclock as other boards, but it required less voltage with this motherboard. During overclocking the board seemed cool to the touch. There didn’t seem to be any areas where the board seemed hot to the point of being unsafe. It’s great to see that this has sufficient cooling. The ASUS P5N-E SLI had a huge issue in this aspect. The coolers here have fans and work really well.
Testing
So far this motherboard has done nothing but surpass my every need. It's time to see if the motherboard can live up to this great opinion so far. I will test it against the ASUS P5N-E SLI with the 650i SLI chipset. Along with the normal benchmarks I usually run for motherboards, I will also do a few games to see if there are any gains with double the bandwidth available for the 680i LT SLI chipset. The testing hardware is listed below.
Intel Pentium 2140
EVGA 680i LT SLI
ASUS P5N-E SLI
2 GB OCZ Gold GX XTC
MSI 8600 GT OC
ePower Tiger 1200 Watts
WinRAR
This benchmark uses some important parts of the motherboard: the CPU, the memory, the chipset, and the southbridge. This test will see how fast the PC can compress and extract data. Higher speeds are better.
Super Pi
This benchmark computes the numbers of pi. It will need input from the memory, CPU and chipset.
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