NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI Lab Update with P30 BIOS

Even though there are boards from Abit, Asus, DFI and Foxconn that don’t follow the Nvidia design, many of Nvidia’s motherboard partners do and since this same BIOS applies to a vast majority of rebranded boards there should be a fair few people thinking of applying it.

There was a quite a bit of noise made about the P30 BIOS on the nForce 680i chipset, with specific optimisations made for general performance, memory and overclocking (including quad-core overclocking), we had to find out if this nine month old chipset has had a shot in the arm.

..There’s no doubt that if you want ultimate compatibility for the latest processors and 1333MHz FSB then the latest P30 BIOS is a de-facto upgrade. However, it’s disappointing that the performance hasn’t shown itself to match the claims in virtually every single test.. ..I still think the improvements are largely overstated, and let’s not forget that dual-core overclocking hasn’t improved in our experience but at least something is certainly heading in the right direction.

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