Where Are The Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 Motherboards?

[cdfire]

Nope that did not help. Thats it! time to find a new board, tired of this piece of junk.

 

[Blazer7]

TheBeagle has posted a fix for the DMI issue back on page 55. I know that you?ve seen his post back then but have you tried it ?

 

[cdfire]

Ah I had forgot about that post. Thank You Blazer and Beagle, I will give that a try later today.

 

[Blazer7]

You know what they say, third time's a charm.

Keep us posted on how you're doing.

 

[cdfire]

Just took a quick look in the BIOS, I found everything Beagle said he did except I can not find the flash rom protection setting. Can anyone point me in the right direction to that setting? Have to leave for a bit, but will try this when I get back home.

 

[Blazer7]

Enter BIOS, hit "Ctrl+F1", enter Advanced BIOS Features.

It should be there.

 

[jaggerwild]

Hello all!
Just wanted to post, a friend started an over-clocking site, stop by and check it out if you'd like!
http://www.411overkill.com/forum/phpBB3/index.php
Thanks jagger :laugh:

 

[cdfire]

Well I kinda took a short cut and did all that Beagle posted except clear the CMOS and so far so good. Will see how it goes the next couple of days. Thanks again Blazer.

 

[Blazer7]

Anytime. :thumbsup:

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@GriMRapeR & Jas6

Guys, any news on those replacement boards ?

 

[Blazer7]

Nvidia to buy Ageia

Nvidia closes Ageia acquisition

 

[justinburton]

I read about that Ageia acquisition too. Goodbye Ageia, hello next generation quantum physics from Nvidia http://www.nordichardware.com/news,4749.html.

 

[Blazer7]

ASUS Striker Extreme gets official support for the E8200, E8400 & E8500 wolfdales. (BIOS ver 1502)

 

[GriMRapeR]

Originally posted by: Blazer7
Anytime. :thumbsup:

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@GriMRapeR & Jas6

Guys, any news on those replacement boards ?

No mate but I wouldn't be expecting to hear from him for another week or two as the 780i's have not come out yet and I don't think any 790i specs have been released either. If I haven't heard from him within two weeks I will be making contact with him again. Either way I will post here as asson as something develops.

 

[jaggerwild]

Bump to keep this up front where people can see it, not page 5. Where gigacrap wants it

 

[Blazer7]

MSI's 680 board (P6N Diamond) officially supports the Q9450 Yorkfield cpu (2,66-1333-2x6MB).

 

[dlbetz]

Gary, Any Luck with Gigabyte? Thanks!!!

 

[EateryOfPiza]

Is anybody having trouble with their purple Gigabyte SATA controllers? I put a new 1TB drive on it and if I copy anything to that 1TB drive, it ends up corrupted (ie. MD5 sums do not match)

Once I have time, I'll do some more extensive testing to see if it's the drive's fault or the controller's fault, but any headsup with be great, thanks.

 

[Blazer7]

@ EateryOfPiza,

Are you using the latest driver for the GB controllers ?
Are you using all 6 nVidia SATA ports ?

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Did anyone else notice the ?Replacement Model? note on the board's page on GB's US site ?
This note is not present on GB's main site (Taiwan). Does anyone know what this means ?

GA-N680SLI-DQ6 (US site) (Taiwan site)

Replacement Model : GA-N650SLI-DS4L (rev. 1.0)

 

[KSEDK]

Hi guys,

I was wondering if anyone here could help me with my settings in the BIOS?!

My system is as follows:

Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6 (rev 1.0)
Intel Q6600
Crucial DDR2 BallistiX PC6400 2048MB CL4 (dual kit)
Seagate SATA hdd

And various other hardware items.

I am not satisfied with the way my rig is running, so I was thinking there might be something in the BIOS that I could optimize.

For instance, it looks like it throttles down to 1600mhz, instead of always running 2400 mhz.

All help is welcome

Best regards,

KSEDK

 

[EateryOfPiza]

Originally posted by: Blazer7
@ EateryOfPiza,

Are you using the latest driver for the GB controllers ?
Are you using all 6 nVidia SATA ports ?

Turns out my drivers are outdated, I'll update them and get back to you.

I am using all 6 nVidia SATA ports.

Some info for any who care: For latest drivers for the purple SATA ports, which is actually a JMicron JMB363 controller (see here), you can visit ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/
Changelog for the drivers is here: ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jm...river_Release_Note.txt

If Gigabyte is dropping support for this board, expect them not to provide driver updates. We'll have to turn to the chip manufacturers for drivers.

 

[Smitty1705]

Any word on a replacement for us yet?


Smitty

 

[Blazer7]

Hello Mr KSEDK,

If throttling down is your problem then you can certainly ?fix? it. All you have to do is enter BIOS and Disable the CPU Enhanced Halt (C1E) and the CPU Thermal Monitor 2 (TM2) options. Both can be found in the Advanced BIOS Features menu. I don't think that this will improve the performance of your rig though.

Just for the history. It is a well known fact that our board sucks when it comes to quad core ocing.
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@ Smitty,

GB is still in mute mode (their favorite), so not a word yet. I hope that this ?Replacement Model? thing over at their US site is a joke but then again I won't be surprised if it's not. If GB considers the GA-N650SLI-DS4L as a replacemend for the DQ6 then god help us.

 

[KSEDK]

Hi Blazer7

Thx for your reply. I will look into that asap

Another "problem" I have is, that I think my RAM is being undervolted. I am pretty sure that the specs say that they should have 2.2V but where ever I look it says that it is getting 1.8V and when I look at the page in the BIOS where you can see the health it says 1.8V FAIL?!

I have now raised the V on the RAM by 0.4, I hope that is not wrong

Just lost one set of RAM 1 week ago. Could that be because it has been undervolted?

I don't experience my board as being faulty but because so many of you have problems with the board I have contacted Gigabyte. Now I have heard back from them that I can send it to their service center in Germany. I just don't want to send it there if they can't find any faults, or if the replacement board is something less than the board I have paid good money for.

What to do, what to do ...

/KSEDK

 

[Blazer7]

Hello Mr KSEDK,

The +0.4V will give you 2.2V, so your settings are correct.

Whenever you up the voltage above normal the 1.8 fail message will appear so this is normal too.

I've heard that our board may spike during boot and send more current to the mem slots than normal but I don't know if that's true. I've lost a pair of good RAM on this board too but I'm 100% sure that it was not the board's fault.

It is a good measure to use a cooling device for your RAM. This will help keep the temps down and ease your mind. I'm using OCZ's XTC memory cooler and I can recommend it to anyone as it fits nicely on the board, it is not that noisy like Corsair's Dominator cooler and it can handle the heat for sure. At some point I was running my DIMMs @2.4V (G.Skill's limit for my mems) and the cooler had no problem keeping the temp at a reasonable level.

If you're not experiencing problems with your board when running all components within the manufacturer's specs there is no need to send it back to GB. If you do they?ll just test it with all components & settings @stock and they will send it back to you along with the bill.

The best thing right now is to wait and see if GB will launch a trade-up program for us.

 

[Blazer7]

I?ve been trying to figure out how f@#$#@ we are and here is what I?ve been able to find so far.
Please feel free to amend or add to the list.

nVidia 680 based mobos - Penryn support status
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MSI - P6N Diamond - BIOS 1.3 - supports 1 wolfdale + 1 Yorkfield - testing 3 wolfdales + 5 Yorkfields
ASUS - P5N32-E SLI - BIOS 1403 - Wolfdale support
ASUS - Striker Extreme - BIOS 1502 - Wolfdale support
ASUS - Striker - BIOS 0802 - Wolfdale support
Albatron - NF 680i SLI - BIOS P32 - Updated Wolfdale microcode (no official support yet)
Abit - IN9 32X-MAX Wi-Fi - BIOS 14 - Update Micro CPU code to support 45nm CPU - possible Wolfdale & Yorkfield support (no official support yet)
eVGA - all 680 mobos - BIOS P32 - Wolfdale support (not able to confirm 100%) + Trade-up program
BFG - NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI - BIOS P32 - Updated Wolfdale microcode (not able to confirm actual support)
DFI - LANPARTY UT NF680i LT SLI-T2R - BIOS file N5FD723.bin (latest) - Wolfdale support
ECS - PN2-SLI2+ - BIOS P30 - no info on penryn yet
Gigabyte - GA-N680SLI-DQ6 - ??? ?