Exclusive: Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Review - NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI

If you’ve seen our sneak peek , you would have understood why Gigabyte has been keeping the board under wraps all this time. The GA-N680SLI-DQ6 is Gigabyte’s most ambitious motherboard since they launched the GA-965P-DQ6 back in June 2006. As its name implies, the GA-N680SLI-DQ6 is the second board from Gigabyte to feature their Ultra Durable 6-Quad design and the only other board to share the ‘DQ6′ suffix. Like its Intel P965 counter-part, the GA-N680SLI-DQ6 sports a full set of solid capacitors, over-the-top cooling and packed with more features than you care to count.

..The Gigabyte GA- N680SLI-DQ6 is no doubt a very strong contender for the top enthusiast Core 2 Duo motherboard you can get today. It has multiple improvements over its Intel P965 cousin, the GA-965P-DQ6, but the nForce 680i SLI chipset isn’t exactly cheap to implement. With all the added features, an educated guess would probably put the board in the range of US$280 to US$300. This is still very much cheaper than the ASUS Striker Extreme though, so if you are looking at an all-encompassing motherboard to build your ultimate rig, the GA-N680SLI-DQ6 may be it, but it may not be the best overclocker out there.

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