EVGA 680LT motherboard review
Author: Grga Curkovic
Date: 26 Mar 2007

Having a long-lasting pleasure of constantly using high-end motherboards for testing (in this case, EVGA's 680i motherboards), it's always pretty exciting to find out there's something new and different out there. This time, the new chipset is called 680LT (dare we say, Light?). Although the basics of the chipset aren't that much different, there are some aspects where changes are quite noticeable. Particularly - overclocking. Like the original 680i, the 680i LT motherboard has been "Designed by NVIDIA", which we will explain later. So, stay with us while we take you to the world of 680LT...Four memory slots, and more or less everything that you had on the 680i chipset is still there. There's one quite big difference, and that's memory frequency. On 680LT, you can actually use memory frequencies up to 800MHz with SLI memory support. Future 1333MHz CPU's are also supported, so you won't get in trouble there. Although we saw quite a few reports that this is a no-third-PCI-E-slot product, we can say that we actually saw an 680LT motherboard design (non-reference) with third PCI-E slot. We'll tell you more about this product very soon when we get a sample in some two weeks so there are many more interesting things to come from this chipset...

Let's get back to the "Designed by NVIDIA" thing and explain that from NVIDIA's point of view.
"Designed by NVIDIA" stands for:

- motherboard designed by NFORCE and GeForce engineers with highest quality
- optimum performance from NVIDIA GPU's
- products that support advanced BIOS features in NV BIOS
- support from NVIDIA and partners