Posted 11/07/08 at 03:45:04 PM by The Maximum PC Staff

I finally took the plunge and built my own rig. Everything worked fine until I plugged my Boston Acoustic Digital BA735 speakers into my EVGA 680i motherboard’s onboard outputs: Nothing happened. I received no sound at all. I tried the same speakers with a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer card and got the same result: zilch. Am I missing something here?

The answer to Rich's question, after the jump!

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Posted 12/18/07 at 08:20:27 PM by Paul Lilly

EVGA offers 680i owners low-cost upgrade to 780i, Nintendo warns retailers against pricey Wii bundles, RIAA not happy with CD ripping, and more!

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Posted 11/23/07 at 06:13:06 PM by Paul Lilly

The 680i chipset may not support 45nm processors, Asus accused of violating GPL, band seeks to pull Guitar Hero from store shelves, and much more!

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Posted 09/19/07 at 06:03:17 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

Gigabyte cranks up the specsmanship for its GA-N680SLI-DQ6, which offers no fewer than 10 SATA ports and four Gigabit Ethernet ports. Yep. Four. What you’d ever need four Ethernet ports for, we don’t know.

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Posted 07/18/07 at 06:45:34 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

Want to build a 4TB array in a Windows OS? Here's your check list for how to do it

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Posted 04/25/07 at 03:28:52 PM by Paul "One4yu2c" Lilly

Reports are coming in that the 680i chipset killing enthusiast RAM, but nVidia says it's not to blame.

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Posted 02/06/07 at 07:49:20 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

Nvidia’s first attempt at playing motherboard maker (with its AMD AM2 boards) was good, but there was definitely room for improvement. With the 680i, Nvidia gives the mobo game another go, and dives even deeper. Not content to just design boards, Nvidia is now manufacturing them too. These boards are in turn sold through partners, such as the EVGA board reviewed here.

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