There are several places in the article that list speeds in the unit of GT/s. Anybody want to enlightenment what a GT/s is?

What Nvidia re-releasing rebranded outdated products?

So when will we expect TR to write a front page editorial or some article bashing Nvidia?

I mean if you guys bash Ati for the "outdate" SouthBridge then what will you guys say of the Nvidia outdated NorthBridge+SouthBridge ?

No 1600Mhz FSB
No DDR3
No quad SLI
Erratic PCIe2.0 implementation
Erratic Tri SLI implementation

The best chipset ever (in the past months) is no doubt the Ati 790FX. All the goodies everyone could want and at cheap prices.
I guess you guys will have to take a better look at it:
http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=pt-PT&langpair=de%7Cen&u=http:...ww.planet3dnow.de/vbulletin/showthread.php%3Ft%3...[4]

Because after what I have seen from Intel and Nvidia lately...

About the power consuming when you add too much to the boards like lots of SATA/eSATA/FW/USB/Ethernet/... expect the motherboard to consume more power...

PS: Is this core logic really for enthusiasts?

Is it just me, or are all links to the pages messed up?

Without the benefit of having read the article, I'd still say that I hate NVIDIA's way of doing chipsets lately. Reusing components over and over again and rebranding is just deceptive to me. Looks like most of their engineering resources are focused on the graphics division, naturally.

Three-way SLI setups hang the third graphics card off the south bridge, requiring that traffic not routed through the SLI bridge connector hop between the nForce 200 and the MCP through the north bridge.

I have a feeling that any nimrod attempting 3-way will get BSODs amidsts poor performance because of this.

Also, your analogy of the 570 MCP was lol'worthy!

I'm still scared of the X-Fi issue on Nvidia chipset.
Not sure this newbie fix the issue already or not.

I'm pondering the low-cost 680i->780i upgrade that eVGA is offering. I'm plenty happy with my 680i, and just a few new bits plus 45nm ability sounds ideal to me.

I wonder what Nvidia has cooking as a full official 1600FSB product, though.

Might maybe be worth waiting for, but I can't imagine eVGA offering a similar deal.

wow, the x38 chipset did very well, impressively. wish that the sli was tested too though, as the gaming test results were like drawing a straight line down.

Seriously WTF guys - you didnt test overclocking with a quad core?! That is THE big question mark for a lot of people on this board, and lets face it if youre willing to lay out the money on an expensive nvidia board youre highly likely to pay a bit extra for a quad too

so, this being a new Nvidia chipset, i'm very interested in what, if any, problems you had with the new motherboard? Any driver glitches, or random stability issues?

I just built an EVGA 680i A1 based system (Q6600), and i'm seeing people mention in here about known issues with the 680i and quad core chips. A friend and I have seen random freezing for no apparent reason. Since EVGA offers the upgrade option to a newer product for only the difference between the two, i'm wondering if it might be a good buy to upgrade to the 780i now.

Looks good, but I'm afraid I'm waiting until 2008/09 when Intel axes the FSB before I upgrade my Quad Opteron.
It will be the first Intel based system I've owned in the last 10 years.

The 970 series from AMD is much better than this IMHO. It's a shame, really that Intel will not allow them to create mainboards for Intel chips.

A 780i SLI review without 3-way GPU benchmarks?

That's like testing a new Dodge Viper by getting in, feeling the seats, testing the radio, trying out the cup holders...and never starting the car. :(

An extra 30 Watts over P35? I am amazed a chipset consumes 30 Watts let alone 30 Watts more, so ~50 Watts total?. The new ATI 790FX only uses 10 Watts. I would never consider buying this chipset. I bet they have a new die shrunk chipset within 5 months that addresses all the short comings of this chipset.

780i = revision of 680i + PCI 2.0 support.

It is purely firmware issues that cripple 680i's quad-core support. Nvidia wants to justify the existence of 780i. ;)

I doubt it is power issues. If the damm chipset and motherboard can handle aggressive overclocking with dual-core chips. It can at least operate any quad-core chip at stock speed with maybe a little arm-chair overclocking.

With such a luke-warm review, this ones gonna be a shelf queen, especially if 1600MHz FSB is around the corner. I love my 680i for Dual Core and SLI, and once dialed in OC'ing is sweet. But as other's have noted, Quad owners have a lot of issues with 680i, especially significant Vdrop when OC'ing Quads.

I'd heard that this chipset was having problems overclocking the 45 nm quad-cores. I.e. as in getting them even a little bit over stock speeds. Can you do a quick run to confirm?

The dual-core overclocking results may not be representative at all, and this may make a huge difference to prospective buyers.

The chipset is not impressive ..

About what I expected... Solid enough to consider if you want the SLI option but nothing exceptional.