Will the new SSD drives be compatable on a nForce 680i SLI (122-CK-NF68) board?
If so would there be a transfer bottle neck with this MOB?

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Pretty sure I've seen some people using them when they first came out.
As to a bottleneck I'm not sure but the 680i does not have AHCI mode that I know of which might cause some slowdown.

Here's a month old review of some SSD's and they used a EVGA 680i, so they should work.
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/reviews/intel_x25m_160gb_mlc_ssd

Here's some stuff on problems people were having here on 680i and SSD's a few months ago.
http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:qrBhqDa_NzAJ:www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp%3Fm%3D100472658+SSD+on+a+680i&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

All that said, SSD's are a little too expensive for the gain you get IMO. Plus they have limited life as of now as they can only be written to so many times. I'll wait a couple years myself for all the kinks to work out and prices to come down before going to SSD's. And for the sizes to go up, the drives are too puny for my use right now. Biggest they have now is 250GB for $700+, I'd fill that up in a week or two.

Intel's SSDs are up to 1.2 million hours MTBF thats just as reliable as any spindle based HDD...

possibly raid mode i only run normal hdds in raid0 but saw this:
http://forums.pcper.com/s...hp?t=444831&page=3

"I did the registry edit on Microsoft's page to enable the AHCI driver for Vista.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976

Then I rebooted, went in to the bios for my P5N32-E SLI motherboard, which uses the Nvidia 680i chipset, turned on RAID mode, which also turns on I believe AHCI for the Nvidia SATA Controller, rebooted and noticed that my system was faster, and it works perfect."

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Forgive me if this was already stated above
(I did not read every reply):

We found a shortcut to switch from IDE to AHCI:

First, in Device Manager force a driver change.

Second, re-boot into the BIOS and change IDE to AHCI.

When Windows finishes booting, the correct AHCI driver
will already be installed.


Switching from IDE to RAID is a different story altogether, however.

To initialize an Intel RAID, one must run the Option ROM
to initialize the required data structures on the target HDDs.

In IDE or AHCI modes, this initialization is not necessary
and won't happen if a new machine uses those BIOS settings.

This is why Intel recommends you begin with RAID in order to
render all HDDs "RAID Ready": it's much easier to begin with
the RAID setting, EVEN IF all HDDs will be JBOD starting out.


Conclusion: after assembling a new machine,
switch IDE to RAID in the BIOS and use the F6 option
in Windows Setup to load Intel's RAID device driver "iastor.sys" etc.
This will also enable all AHCI functionality, because RAID mode
is a superset of AHCI.


Occam's Razor: the simplest solution is always the best solution.

Most of those links you gave refer to and talk about ACHI mode which is different from raid.
Far as I know you need 2 drives to use/enable raid mode and not sure if the EVGA 680i even has ACHI mode I think it does not though.

As for the firmware update, these are the downloads I found for the drive you listed. if these don't work maybe contact Intel support as I think I remeber something about some early X-25m drives having some kind of problem, it's all foggy though as to whatt hose problems were.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Solid+State+Drives+and+Caching&ProductLine=Intel%C2%AE+High+Performance+Solid+State+Drive&ProductProduct=Intel%C2%AE+X25-M+Solid+State+Drive%2c+80GB+SATA+II+2.5in%2c+MLC%2c+High+Performance