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Review: EVGA NVIDIA nForce 680i LT SLI

by Josh Blodwell on 26 March 2007, 14:00

Tags: GeForce 8800 GTX , EVGA, XFX (HKG:1079)

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Presentation and bundle







It's a box, and it's in NVIDIA colours. There's marketing hype, there's flames: what more could you possibly ask for? Nekkid ladies - denied!



This being the Light version of the board it's unsurprising that there are no games or apps bundled in. Instead you get a floppy disk with NVIDIA's RAID drivers (for Windows installations) and a CD, which carries the usual chipset drivers, nTune (NVIDIA's comprehensive OS-based tweaking utility) and Realtek's HD-Audio drivers. You also get the SLI bridge, so try not to lose it, and the ATX I/O shield.



The rest of the goody bag is also basic but useful. You get an 80-conductor rounded IDE cable, a rounded FDD lead, and expansion brackets for 4x USB ports, a single FireWire, and Serial ports, respectively.



The board's complement of 6 SATA ports are taken care by 6 associated cables, and they're of the latching variety. EVGA also supplies 3x SATA power Y-splitter cables.