NVIDIA eVGA nForce 680i LT SLI Review

March 26th 2007 | nForce 600

The nForce 680i LT SLI series of mainboards. This is a 680 mainboard in all it’s ways yet, to save on costs, there have been several functions stripped away. For example; you’ll have to miss out on the 3rd “graphics” PCI-Express slot (the 8x one); you’ll only have one GBit/s Ethernet connector; you lose the passively cooled SSP and MCP (it’s now done with active fans); you loose LinkBoost and some tweaking options in the BIOS. Other stuff you’ll miss are the black PCB, diagnostic LEDs, reset and power off/on micro switches in the mainboard PCB and some other small stuff.

..Let there be no doubt, if you buy it you receive a really good 680i LT mainboard that is topped off with fantastic performance; performance pretty much equal to the normal 680i SLI mainboard. Then there is that overclock we achieved in merely a minute, it was phenomenal. We boosted another 1.2 GHz out of a 300 USD processor; 100% stable so no complaints there either. You’ll get to have the full dual x16 PCI-Express bandwidth for some serious SLI gaming experience and you’ll receive an okay feature set for sure.

I also can’t deny that you’ll receive 100% the same performance as that full 680i SLI mainboard, you do get a full RAID 0,1,5 solution for 6 SATA drives, the Ethernet NIC, dual x16 SLI, very likely a great overclock, reasonably good integrated multi-channel sound and pretty much the majority of features that the 680 chipset can offer you.

Guru3D

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NVIDIA eVGA nForce 680i LT SLI Review
Published in: nForce 600 on 2007-03-26