To hell with Nvidia motherboards

[Quakindude]

I'll be RMA'ing this board. And buying an INtel based board when my funds allow. We a re fuckin broke right now. Gonna get another P35 based board....maybe a GA-p35-DS3R.

When ever the 780i boards show up, I'll just keep roasting the SOB's from moderate overclocks and folding @ home and sending them back.

[Reloadron]

That sucks big time. I used a Q6600 on a build this week for Kathy and went with an ASUS Maximus just because I wanted the Intel chipset. I looked at Intel boards but when I really looked at DDR3 cost I balked.

Though not overclocked, this thing has been running Vista Ultimate for about a week now. Call me an Intel Fanboi or Intel Zealot but I have always had good fortune using Intel chipsets with Intel processors.

Ron

[gvblake22]

75% of my motherboards have been nVidia chipsets, but they have also all been AMD based systems. nForce 2 was a great chipset, nForce 3 was give or take, nForce 4 was a great chipset. I only had one nForce 5 series AM2 board and it was a flaky Abit, but never an nForce 6 or 7 series. From the sounds of it, only buy nForce boards that are on an even number!

My first Intel system is based around a P965 chipset and it has been absolutely flawless so far. My only other chipset has been an AMD XPress 200 and that was pretty good too (on a DFI RS482 Infinity).

Sorry to hear about the funky board, maybe your RMA will actually work?

[screwballl]

I have had only 2 nvidia based boards in the past few years... nForce2 which gave me fits with steam/Counter-Strike 1.6 and CS:S but no other games... and then the nforce6100 on the brothers Biostar board... so far no problems there but it is just a matter of time. everything else has been intel chipsets (and a random VIA or AMD 760).

[Hiniku]

Is this the 680i board or the 780i?
I'll buy it from you if it helps.

as far forcing CMOS to clear, you don't have to wait after pulling the battery out, just short the two terminals and you're good to go. Obviously do this without power attached, though.

Did you try dropping the VDIMM down to 1.9 and to 800Mhz, and/or try different DIMMs? Some Micron processes have a hard time at 2.1V and above, they can die on you.