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Review: eVGA nForce 680i SLI LGA775 motherboard

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 20 November 2006, 00:30

Tags: EVGA nForce 680i SLI motherboard, EVGA, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

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Presentation and Bundle

The presentation is very green, very NVIDIA, and you'll likely see similar presentation themes from the majority of the AIB partners NVIDIA are working with for the release and sale of this particular board.


The main board features are described on the outer box panels and it's hard not to understand what's in there should you see it on a store shelf and wonder if it's worth a buy. Bundle-wise, there's what you'd expect including a SATA cable and SATA power provision per port (with each port apparently supporting eSATA with the right cabling, which isn't provided), the I/O shield, driver CD, really good manual, quickstart guide, floppy for RAID driver insertion during Windows installs, and also extra backplane ports for the internal headers. In short, everything you need to get up and running with board's features is provided, and it's presented nicely. The box makes note it's a premium motherboard, so you should take note of that too as we move closer to the conclusion.


The BIOS is up next, where a lot of the magic for this product happens.