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."

Comments

Sigh. This is news?

[sloth jr]

Another motherboard. No real performance standouts. Usual mix of ports and "more" crap. Marketing nonsense like 12-phase power array. Another review spread in 6 or more pages.

Wake me when something really interesting happens.

sloth jr

Solid state capacitors = article written by dimwit

[Prune]

The photographs show the board covered with typical surface mount electrolytic capacitors, just like the ones in my last order from Digikey. So not only did the guy confuse solid-state with surface mount, but incorrectly claimed they weren't electrolytic capacitors. I've been on /. for a few years now, and this is one of the dumbest things I've seen yet. Congratulations /. on reaching deep new lows!