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zeljkodjurkovic

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01-31-2008 at 11:53:20 PM

Hello All,

It seems that the first Gigabyte 780 SLi mobos have started to show their face.

I've been checking the net and there are only a couple reviews.

I was wandering is there anything else that separates these boards except the PCIEX 2.0 and support for newer CPUs.
???

According to this review not much is different.

http://www.tehnoguru.info/index.ph [...] &Itemid=29

any thoughts ... >>>

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Slobogob

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02-01-2008 at 12:21:57 AM

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Nope there isn't much new about them. The 790 series will be the real 7xx chipset. The 780 is just a 680 with a PCIe 2.0 chip thrown in.

PlasticSashimi

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02-01-2008 at 12:55:55 AM

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I didn't get a 780i because of the price gouging during the time of my purchases....but yeah there really isn't anything that different.

I believe there are 3 full PCIEX 16x slots vs

16,16,8 on the 680i boards

that and like you said, the CPU support and PCIEX 2.0 (we'll see if that ever matters...

at least the 680i boards have quite a few BIOS revisions by now and are much more friendly to OC then when they came out...

I bet the 780i boards will be buggy for the first few months at least

kinda glad I didn't get one now....my 680i hasn't given me any problems whatsoever....<knocks on wood>

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