nVidia has problems with current chipsets?

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:22 am

Long time no see!! Not much time for puters when u become a dad.

I find a lot of "rumors"... but no explanation to what exactly is going on.

Anyone care to explain?

My nForce 4 has been great. Are the new ones crap?

Key Keeper · Post by **Key Keeper** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 1:25 pm

650i is rubbish, 680i is ok. If I had it to do again I would go with intel chipset.

ZYFER · Post by **ZYFER** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:40 pm

As always, I suggest when going with Intel, use an Intel chipset. When doing AMD, Nvidia is the better way to go.

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:48 pm

Whats so crappy about it then?

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:34 am

I've been running a 650i with my e4300 o/c'ed to 3ghz for over a year now, totally stable. I realize that it hasn't worked out so well for others, but it appears to be more with the support of specific processors than the chipset's fault.

Key Keeper · Post by **Key Keeper** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:17 pm

My main gripe is the incompatibility with memory. And the SLI is useless if. 8x sli? I didnt buy it for sli so doesnt matter to me but that just seems kinda stupid. Also heat, I could cook a NY Strip on my chipset sink. 650i seems more like nforce3, works but not near as well as the next chip.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 11:32 am

The memory issues seemed to follow intel as well. I suspect that it's just the memory. Currently though, I've had 3 different types of memory in my board with no problems (Geil, OCZ, & ADATA). So long as everything is at 2.1v, I've never had problems.

8x SLI is fine for all but the highest end video cards. You can run GeForce 8800's in 8x SLI with no drop in performance. The newer dual GPU cards are a different story though.

I'll give you credit on the heat issue, I ended up upgrading my northbridge heatsink to a larger one with a fan. Since then though, I've got rock solid stability.

Key Keeper · Post by **Key Keeper** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:20 pm

Will try the voltage thing.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:51 pm

Good luck with it. Unfortunately, with some people, they couldn't even boot to up the voltage. So, they had to get memory that supported lower voltages in the first place to adjust the BIOS.

ZYFER · Post by **ZYFER** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:14 am

Some memory you need to bump up the voltage, it actually tells you right on the packaging that you need to do so.

normalicy, the same happened with mine, but I had some to boot it with the change the voltage. It isn't really the fault of the motherboard, more so of the makers of the RAM who need a higher voltage for the memory to even operate.

Key Keeper · Post by **Key Keeper** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:57 am

normalicy, what mobo are you using? I can adjust just about everything with my asus p5ne-sli.

normalicy · Post by **normalicy** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 8:43 am

Oh, I'm using an MSI P6N SLI-FI (economy version of the platinum). It's got tons of support @ the HardOCP forums.

Err · Post by **Err** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:25 am

ZYFER wrote:Some memory you need to bump up the voltage, it actually tells you right on the packaging that you need to do so.

normalicy, the same happened with mine, but I had some to boot it with the change the voltage. It isn't really the fault of the motherboard, more so of the makers of the RAM who need a higher voltage for the memory to even operate.

Ditto. I was getting bluescreens until I manually increased the Voltage of my to 2.2V. My XFX 680i motherboard didn't detect the memory timings or voltage correctly.

ZYFER · Post by **ZYFER** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:42 am

The memory timings it should detect, the voltage it doesn't. But, if it is unable to properly detect timings, that might be a problem with the RAM itself. I had a stick of DDR memory that thought it was DDR400 when it only operated as DDR333.

Buzz · Post by **Buzz** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 3:48 am

So mainly it is incompatibility with memory that is the problem?
What about data corruption? Beleive i read that too somewhere...

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