Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6 - A Mother Of A Motherboard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday July 13, 2007 @08:04AM from the no-flux-capacitor-though dept.

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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Re:But... by KillerCow · 2007-07-13 08:08 · Score: 2, Interesting

... does it run linux?
What is a power array? by __aaabsi3154 · 2007-07-13 08:09 · Score: 3, Interesting

I recognize most of that stuff, but what is a 12-phase power array?
iSCSI SAN by doseyg · 2007-07-13 08:31 · Score: 3, Interesting

With 4 Gigabit ports and 10 sata slots this could make a nice cost-effective iSCSI SAN...