[H]ard|OCP reviews Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6 nForce 680i based motherboard
GIGABYTE has been relentless this last year releasing many impressive high quality motherboards that have become highly sought after by the enthusiast. Indeed their GA-P965-DQ6 Rev 1.0 is one of the best P965 boards released to date. Gigabyte didn't rest on their laurels and released a revision 2.0 version of that board as well as several other excellent models in a wide range of price points. Their latest crop of boards have not only been stable, but have been excellent overclockers as well. Gigabyte has joined in on the recent the 680SLI mania by releasing their own 680SLI chipset based N680SLI-DQ6, albeit a little later than most vendors.
The Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6 is the latest addition to Gigabyte's already successful lineup of motherboards. The N680SLI-DQ6 features the NVIDIA 680SLI (C55XE and MCP55XE) chipset. The N680SLI-DQ6 supports the latest Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core / Core 2 Duo / Intel Pentium Extreme and Intel Pentium D processors. Following Industry trends the N680SLI-DQ6 requires only a few components to create a working machine. The required components are: Socket LGA775 CPU, DDR 2 memory, power supply, drives and a video card. GIGABYTE integrated the following components into the N680SLI-DQ6: 1 ATA-133 port; 1 floppy port; 10 USB ports; 4 on the backplane and 3 headers supporting 2 ports each.) ; 10 SATA 3G ports; 4 GigE Ethernet ports; Onboard Realtek ALC888 DD audio codec; Coaxial, S/PDIF In/out; 3 IEEE1394 ports (1 on backplane and 2 via header) and of course standard PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports...
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