NVIDIA 680i SLI: Official 1333MHz FSB CPU Support Arrives

At first glance, all facts indicate the NVIDIA 680i chipset fully supports the new 1333MHz FSB processors. Dare we say that at times the performance capability of the 680i chipset even excels when utilizing the latest and greatest CPU from Intel? This is in stark contrast to several of our test results when the P35 was first launched and indicates NVIDIA has been busy tweaking the BIOS to gain some additional speed. If only NVIDIA had spent some additional time tweaking their Vista drivers then we would be truly happy - not really, but close enough.

..Overall, we were pleasantly surprised with the performance of the 680i chipset and the QX6850. In early testing we are seeing very good results with other 600i based boards and have no doubt performance will continue to improve over time. Our advice if you have a 600i based board and want to purchase one of the new 1333FSB based processors is to go for it. Just realize chances are your current 1066FSB Core 2 Duo will probably already run at 1333FSB without too much trouble, so the more likely reason to upgrade CPUs is if you’re looking at moving to quad core. Even then, we’d likely stick with the Q6600, especially next week when the new prices kick in.

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