Extrait de HARDWARE MAGAZINE: 08/09/2007 | |
Original | Traduction // Translation The 680i LT SLI model XFX offers equally a less troublesome motherboard, at about €220, based on the 680i LT SLI. If this chipset is very attractive being nearly identical to the 680i SLI at about €50 difference, we didn't appreciate the XFX model which once again conforms to nVidia recommendations. Firmly committed to keeping their 680i SLI for the very top of the range, nVidia estimates that a 680i LT SLI motherboard should not have a black PCB, too prestigious, but simply green. More seriously, nVidia are trying to impose active cooling with two ventilators on the 680i LT SLI boards, which made us decide not to test the XFX model which follows this trend. Fortunately market leaders such as ASUS free themselves from this "advice" in order to offer us better conceived motherboards at a better price/quality ratio. The BIOS is fairly mundane. It doesn't offer the control we have become used to finding with the best-known motherboard makers, nevertheless it is complete and offers good overclocking possibilities. Don't forget that one of the strong points of the nForce 680 is to allow de-synchronisation between the memory bus and the FSB. For example, it is possible to overclock a CPU with a 450 MHz bus having left the DDR 2-800 at its nominal frequency. |