Thursday, April 26th 2007

DFI LAN Party UT NF680I LT SLI-T2R Announced

DFI, the most enthusiast-oriented motherboard designer announced today the self-designed and manufactured LANParty UT NF680I LT SLI-T2R and has launched it into the market with a brand new package design. This motherboard adopts NVIDIA's NF680I LT SLI northbridge and MCP55P southbridge chipsets and furnishes both SLI and Physics rendering solutions. Moreover, it offers the highest-end 6 phase digital PWM technology. The UT NF680I LT motherboard features unique heat pipe cooling solution for the North Bridge. DFI also offers a particular copper-sink for the South Bridge. The DFI LP UT NF680i LT SLI motherboard includes all the features that gamers and enthusiast would ever need: EZ On/Off and EZ reset, that allows you to OC without a chassis. Further, the EZ Clear is the easiest way to clear the CMOS without opening the chassis. Additionally all DFI LAN Party UT NF680I LT SLI-T2R motherboards will come with customized and tweaked BIOS, which will give full control and overclocking potential of your system. It is certain that this model offers many new elements to satisfiy all high-end users.
Source: DFI
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28 Comments on DFI LAN Party UT NF680I LT SLI-T2R Announced

#2
tkpenalty
Pretty cool, Its good that they let you install the northbridge heatsink after you buy it.
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#3
a111087
wow, makes me question myself why i bough cheap mobo :)
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#4
Solaris17
Super Dainty Moderator
intel or amd?
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#5
ex_reven
thats the ugliest packaging ive ever seen in my life.

looks like a socket 775 board, i.e Pentium 4 and Conroe Compatible based on the retention mechanism
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#6
Darksaber
Senior Editor & Case Reviewer
I have been waiting for this board for quite some time. It is the only 680 board where two PCI slots remain free when 8800s are used in SLI.

Just checked Austria and Germany, still only EVGA and XFX boards available. Both completely reference design *sigh*
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#7
ex_reven
it only has two sata connectors? lack much?
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#8
Darksaber
Senior Editor & Case Reviewer
nope 6 further ones are at an angle on the edge of the board
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#9
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
hah, thats a thermalright cooler on one of the mobos - the HR-05 SLI iirc.

And yep, thats definately a 680i chipset, which means intel 775 - Pentium 4, conroe, kentsfield and all that shebang.

bad choice on the 90 degree sata connectors, they would be next to impossible to use. Can you imagine trying to connect/disconnect those once the mobo is in a case?

And the 8-pin CPU power near the CPU socket - could they have moved it any further away from the main ATX lead? cable mess :(
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#10
tkpenalty
Musselshah, thats a thermalright cooler on one of the mobos - the HR-05 SLI iirc.

And yep, thats definately a 680i chipset, which means intel 775 - Pentium 4, conroe, kentsfield and all that shebang.

bad choice on the 90 degree sata connectors, they would be next to impossible to use. Can you imagine trying to connect/disconnect those once the mobo is in a case?

And the 8-pin CPU power near the CPU socket - could they have moved it any further away from the main ATX lead? cable mess :(
Yeah with ur case obviously u'd have a problem... My case? No problemo... So much space, like 5cm from drive bays... soprano is worse though.. the HDDs overlap the mobo.
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#11
DrunkenMafia
Oh man, What happened to the sick layout DFI boards are becoming so well known for, they have gone back to the standard layout, I am sure they could have put the 2 intel power connectors closer together to help eliminate messy cabling... That lanparty heatsink looks kinda BLING BLING.... haahaaa Nice

I WANT ONE!!!

lol
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#12
WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
Nice looking board and accessories. angled SATA is a mess, but you can get angled connectors to fit it. Power layout is kind of a mess, but not unmanageable (modular PSUs anyone?). Lets see, at least its not the sick orange and yellow all over the place colors. I love the included heatsinks and how you yourself can place them on (AS5 rules, and ceramique too!). Uhm, Packaging is simple and nice...not overly flashy. For an LT, it has 3 PCIe16x connections for physics, I dont know of any 680i full fledged nvidia board that has 3 lanes, so thats nice. If it had built in HDMI, this would be a kick ass board. One thing that worries me, even though its pretty kick ass, is the cutomized BIOS. Will there ever be updated BIOS that are also customized? I hope they worked out all the kinks and such with this board, just in case they never do an update (But I suspect they would, no sense in keeping that ONE bios just in case something needs a bit of tweaking.)


All around nice board and Im assuming a nice price?
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#15
Ketxxx
Heedless Psychic
Looks like somebody spilt tango all over it. Ugly.
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#17
a111087
the colors are kinda strange, but it is still awsome mobo
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#18
kwchang007
AWSOME glad to see they didn't stick with the refrance 680i LT design. this i really like a 680i at LT prices....sick..
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#19
Darksaber
Senior Editor & Case Reviewer
kwchang007AWSOME glad to see they didn't stick with the refrance 680i LT design. this i really like a 680i at LT prices....sick..
my thoughts exacly. :)

cheers
DS
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#20
DrunkenMafia
Just found this board on ebay in Aussie for $450 pre order.............. holy crap!!!! how much is it over there in US
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#21
Mussels
Freshwater Moderator
thats still cheaper than some boards, i remember the asus striker extreme cost that much for normal pricing for a while.
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#22
Darksaber
Senior Editor & Case Reviewer
yea that board sells for more than some nforce 680 as it seems. The DFI has been listed for 258€s here.

cheers
DS
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#23
erocker
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KetxxxLooks like somebody spilt tango all over it. Ugly.
Yeah I don't like the lanpartys color scheme at all. Plain black would look much better.
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#24
Ketxxx
Heedless Psychic
Yea. People will think your 6 or something if you show them inside your PC an that happens to be there with all its rainbow type colours :p
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