VMFA-Blaze Posted March 2, 2007 Posted March 2, 2007 The 965 doesnt support SLI. The 975 supports crossfire. The 680i does SLI, but needs better BIOS. Especially for the price of most the PCBs. Not to high jack this thread but this could prove to be a useful issue later on.. I had called ASUS regarding this but the Tech staff doesn't know anything about it.. But I've seen this mentioned at other tech forums and it seems that other guy's have gotten this DVD as well.. Now is there a bios revision on ASUS's site I don't know.. Its very strange to say the least... Anyway my Geforce 8800 runs exceedingly well with this board and I'm not even close to trying out the SLI feature... ~S~ Blaze intel Cor i7-6700K ASUS ROG MAX VIII Extreme G.Skill TridentZ Series 32 GB Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SATA II ASUS GTX 1080/DIRECTX 12 Windows 10 PRO Thrustmaster Warthog Oculus Rift VR
OldFrankHog Posted March 2, 2007 Posted March 2, 2007 Yeah Ive seen this disk before :) It isnt in all the boxes i guess eventually they found out it wasnt supposed to be there. I believe its an error from Asus the disk should be with the Stiker Extreme Mobo as this is the one with i680 chipset. Either they made a typo or just intended to name the "striker" "commando" and the "commando", "striker" at some point :P The disk contains the drivers for the i680 chipset thats all. Join us today!!!
Prophet Posted March 3, 2007 Posted March 3, 2007 From what I have read, its not the SLI support that is such a problem with the 680i, but the RAID data corruption. That was the biggest reason I stayed away from it. Normally I love nVidia chipsets, and have used them exclusively since the came out. But I use RAID, and so having corruption was not acceptable at all.
VMFA-Blaze Posted March 6, 2007 Posted March 6, 2007 From what I have read, its not the SLI support that is such a problem with the 680i, but the RAID data corruption. That was the biggest reason I stayed away from it. Normally I love nVidia chipsets, and have used them exclusively since the came out. But I use RAID, and so having corruption was not acceptable at all. I had the Asus board with the 680i chip set and had quite a lot of trouble with it... I think the main issue is memory, it seems to be very choosy with the settings that you can run.. Well I had it flying for about 2 days with XP Pro 64 and it wasn't that bad... I had to change to the 32 bit O/S because I couldn't install my Cougar.. Well after installing the 32 bit drivers I began to get blue screens when I tried to run it under load... Now that I look back on it I think what might have happened was changing the O/S must have altered the memory settings.. I just didn't have enough experience to handle the issue unfortunately... I still feel bad about having RMA'd the board.. It had a lot of nice features like SLI and even a physics card setting ... But maybe it will work out for the best.... I now have the Commando, with cross fire capabilities.... I just want to see what ATI has to offer for DX10.... ~S~ Blaze intel Cor i7-6700K ASUS ROG MAX VIII Extreme G.Skill TridentZ Series 32 GB Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SATA II ASUS GTX 1080/DIRECTX 12 Windows 10 PRO Thrustmaster Warthog Oculus Rift VR
OldFrankHog Posted March 6, 2007 Posted March 6, 2007 Amen to that. All im waiting for is to see what ATI comes up with to choose a chipset that will support either SLI or Crossfire. Join us today!!!
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