Albatron 680i SLI mainboard review

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Albatron nForce 680i SLI mainboard review

You get to use 4 x 240-pin DIMM socket Dual Channel DDR2, a maximum of 8GB of DDR2 533/667/800/1200MHz SLI-Ready memory can be used. Below it the ATX power connector and one IDE port (P-ATA).

Albatron nForce 680i SLI mainboard review

Storage I/O

1 x UltraDMA133
6 x Serial ATA 300MB/sec with support for RAID 0, RAID1, RAID 0+1  (4 above on the photo and 2 at another location)
 

Albatron nForce 680i SLI mainboard review

1 x Floppy disk drive connector to your lower right (yes some people do still use them). Now look upwards and focus on the cooling design. Really beautiful isn't it ?

Albatron nForce 680i SLI mainboard review

Both the SPP and MCP (north and Southbridge chipset) are passively cooled by heatpipe technology. For standard usage this is just fine. Yet the Northbridge chip can get hot pretty darn fast once you start to overclock. How did NVIDIA solve that issue? Next photo please.

Albatron nForce 680i SLI mainboard review

You can use the supplied fan which will now actively cool down the chip. Pretty medieval but works like a charm, though. Now we can overclock the Northbridge as well :)

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