what's safer?

[fwoot]

is it safer to buy a new evga 780 board from a store or buy a new  680i asus striker of ebay? Is there any reall difference between them?

[manwe]

is it safer to buy a new evga 780 board from a store or buy a new  680i asus striker of ebay? Is there any reall difference between them?

surely there's , 780 & 680 have got same specification except for one major thing , which is that 680i can't support intel's 45nm processors , which is a major disadvantage .

[fwoot]

i think they can actually, well as far as i know asus released a new reflash for the striker that can support the wolfdale quads except for the extreme editions? Or so someone on whirlpool claimed?

[manwe]

i think they can actually, well as far as i know asus released a new reflash for the striker that can support the wolfdale quads except for the extreme editions? Or so someone on whirlpool claimed?

i haven't heard of it , and i'm not interested in intel , so i won't research about it lol
i've heard about this problem so many times on different websites , and the last one's fudzilla
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6887&Itemid=1
read this post to the end , maybe you're right and Fudo's wrong

[fwoot]

i doubt i'd be right as it was just a passing read through whirlpool

[Eliot]

680i/780i/790i are overpriced anyways
If you need SLI you can go for the 750i offerings...

best,


Eliot.