System Setup and Notes
We compare the new nForce 680i SLI to nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition (NVIDIA's reference board) to see what's new in terms of performance, and there's also commentary regarding how it compares to P965 and i975X where appropriate.Hardware
| System | eVGA nForce 680i SLI System | NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition System |
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| Processor | Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 (2.93GHz, 4MiB L2 cache, LGA775) | |
| Motherboard | eVGA nForce 680i SLI | NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Intel Edition |
| Memory | 2GiB (2 x 1024) Corsair EPP | |
| Memory timings and speed | 4-4-4-12 2T @ 800MHz (PC6400) | |
| Graphics card(s) | NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX | |
| Disk drive(s) | Seagate 160GB SATAII (ST3160812AS) | |
| BIOS revision | 691N0P20 (04/11/2006) | 2.053.42 (07/17/2006) |
| Mainboard software | NVIDIA 9.53 | NVIDIA 9.37 |
| Graphics driver | NVIDIA ForceWare 91.47 | |
| Operating System | Windows XP Professional, w/ SP2, 32-bit | |
Software
We ran the mainboards through our usual array of benchmarks.| 2D Benchmarks |
ScienceMark Memory Bandwidth ScienceMark Memory Latency HEXUS Pifast calculation to 10M places HEXUS Cryptography HEXUS WAV encoding HEXUS DivX encoding Cinebench 2003 v9.5 |
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| 3D Benchmarks |
Far Cry v1.33 Quake 4 v1.04 Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory |
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