Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6 6-Quad review
Author: Vedran Dakic
Date: 31 Mar 2007

It's been quite awhile since we received a single Gigabyte product for testing. But just by taking a look at the size of this box, we were in the "OK, it was worth the wait" phase. Non-reference designs of NVIDIA's high-end 680i chipset are slowly popping all around us. The first one was ASUS's Striker Extreme, and soon there's gonna be some more of them so - be sure to come back next week. Meanwhile, let's take a look at this motherboard.
Let's get back to the box size for a second. The last high-end products from Gigabyte that found the way to our Lab were a superb 975 motherboard and excellent GA-965-DQ6. This box reminded us of both of these products. The cooling system also reminds us of GA-965-DQ6 in a way, although there are a few pieces that are different here and there. Especially the size. On this motherboard, the copper heatsinks are really enormous. They are also pretty eye-candy, having in mind the whole design with a blue-ish PCB, and quite a number of different colors on the board - yellow, red, green, orange, purple, white, and another blue (a bit lighter). So, as far as the color spectrum, this motherboard really has it all. What about everything else?