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Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6 - A Mother Of A Motherboard

MojoKid writes "Motherboards manufacturers seem to get more exotic in their designs, with each new chipset release. HotHardware has an evaluation posted looking at the Gigabyte GA-N680SLI-DQ6; a product that seemingly out does every other current desktop motherboard in a number of key areas. The board features four Gigabit LAN controllers, 10 SATA ports, a 12-phase power array, 100% solid-state capacitors, and a unique wrap-around, passive, cooling apparatus that cools both the top and underside of the chipset and CPU socket area. And because the board is based on NVIDIA's nForce 680i SLI chipset, it also has three full-length PCI Express x16 slots for multi-GPU support. It's a good overclocker and performed well throughout the benchmarks."

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  1. But... by R2.0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...does it go to Eleven?

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    1. Re:But... by sharkey · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...a 12-phase power array...

      It goes PAST eleven.

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  2. Why? by danbert8 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is this really neccesary?
     
    (Before someone else replies, I have the most likely response, "Necessary? Is it necessary that I drink my own urine? No, but I do it anyways because it's sterile and I like the taste." -Patches O'Houlihan)

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  3. Tech Review Site by Enderandrew · · Score: 4, Funny

    I intend to launch a tech review site immediately after you give me a copy of that motherboard for review. Just ship it to my house, and I promise you a good review. Mind you I can't really test the board's SLI features unless I have two top-end video cards as well. And I can't really test the overclocking unless you give me a processor, but in the end, you'll get a glowing review. It will be worth it.

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  4. But... by jonnythan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will it blend?

    That is the question :)

  5. N680SLI-DQ6 by hansamurai · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's a mother of a product name too.

  6. Hey! by Jon.Laslow · · Score: 5, Funny

    rather than any genuine advantage).

    No need to turn this in to a Microsoft flame war! ^.^



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  7. Re:What is a power array? by Andy_R · · Score: 4, Funny

    You are too stupid to understand nature's simultaneous 12-phase powercube! Cubic Creation of 4 corner separate simultaneous 12 phase Days within 1 Earth rotation - transcends and contradicts the 1 Day rotation and all ONEism / Singularity religions - proving them to constitute Evil on Earth for the parallel Opposites. No god equals 4 corner stages of metamorphic rotating humanity - as a baby, child, parent and grandparent evolution of motherboards! I offer you $10,000.00 to disprove math that 1 rotation of 4 Earth quadrants within the 4 quarter Harmonic Time Cube does create 12 simultaneous 24 hr power phases!

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  8. 100% solid-state capacitors by iminplaya · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cool! It's really getting hard to find the old vacuum tube caps I'm using now.

    Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I read the article. Seems to me that electrolytic is kind of solid state, but I get the idea. Whatever happened to mica?

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  9. Fuck It, We're Going To Three Slots by Looshi · · Score: 4, Funny

    Overheard at Gigabyte HQ...

    Would someone tell me how this happened? We were the fucking vanguard of PCI slots in this country. The one slot motherboard was the motherboard to own. Then the other guy came out with a two-slot SLI board. Were we scared? Hell, no. Because we hit back with a little thing called the 3 slot PCI-e motherboard....