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Misunderstood & Lonely Board
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Works. Bios updates have definitely helped. Same lovely, easy to overclock bios. Looks nice too. Great cooling solutions. Solid state capacitors, Tri-SLI, full penryn support.
Cons: Not all aftermarket cpu fans will work with this. It is also picky about RAM.
Other Thoughts: Make sure you RAM will work. I use DDR3-1600...
[eVGA 132-CK-NF79-A1 nForce 790i Ultra SLI LGA775 DDR3 2000 1600MHz FSB ATX Motherboard review by Brett can be read at Newegg.com]
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Brett
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06/24/2008
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100%
(10 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful
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The fundamental problem with all 790I
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: First, this is a 790I board, which features DDR3 Support and SLI support. So, it is what it is.
Cons: Nvidia's chipset level support has some serious issues. Out of a run of 15 boards, 4 were completely unusable after more then two months; 2 were basically DOA out of the box with random failures, lockups, and freezes. The same equi...
[eVGA 132-CK-NF79-A1 nForce 790i Ultra SLI LGA775 DDR3 2000 1600MHz FSB ATX Motherboard review by tmservo433 can be read at Newegg.com]
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tmservo433
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Review Date:
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09/03/2008
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90%
(10 of 11) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Tech Level: high
Ownership: less than 1 day
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: This offers improved SLi performance, better 45nm processor compatibility, as well as, DDR3. You can't go wrong. It has everything you'd want in today's motherboards.
Cons: It's not cheap compared to most. You get what you pay for, though.
Other Thoughts: To the guy inquiring about the "pencil mod&...
[eVGA 132-CK-NF79-A1 nForce 790i Ultra SLI LGA775 DDR3 2000 1600MHz FSB ATX Motherboard review by N/A can be read at Newegg.com]
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N/A
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Review Date:
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03/19/2008
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90%
(59 of 65) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Very Unstable Mobo
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: SLI and DDR3 support among other things.
Cons: This board is very unstable. There are hundreds of posts on the EVGA forum that points this out (google the forum site since I cannot link the URL in this review)
While NewEgg quotes high approval ratings, this board suffers from serious flaws.
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[eVGA 132-CK-NF79-A1 nForce 790i Ultra SLI LGA775 DDR3 2000 1600MHz FSB ATX Motherboard review by Mike_V can be read at Newegg.com]
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Mike_V
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04/29/2008
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85%
(17 of 20) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Easy to install, booted up first time without any problems through XP SP3 install. BIOS Utilities were extremely easy to adjust (i.e. multiple fan control; CPU and RAM adjustments extremely easy and useful). Runs well with either XP or VISTA, no issues with drivers so far!! Overall Outstanding Product!!! Thanks Newegg for getting...
[eVGA 132-CK-NF79-A1 nForce 790i Ultra SLI LGA775 DDR3 2000 1600MHz FSB ATX Motherboard review by BEDL@M can be read at Newegg.com]
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BEDL@M
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Review Date:
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05/23/2008
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83%
(10 of 12) Users Found This Review Helpful
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9 out of 10
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
Pros: The boards physical layout is well thought out, and all the SATA ports are accessible, even with two honking dual GPU cards installed. In performance, the board redeemed itself compared to the previous 680i and 780i versions. It was neck and neck with the Asus Striker Extreme II (Includes a northbridge water block) in majority of benchmarks, a close second to that board in memory tests, and superior in r...
[eVGA 132-CK-NF79-A1 nForce 790i Ultra SLI LGA775 DDR3 2000 1600MHz FSB ATX Motherboard review by Bad213Boy can be read at Newegg.com]
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Bad213Boy
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06/26/2008
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82%
(14 of 17) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Freezes Often
Tech Level: average
Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Awesome performance, when it's working.
Cons: I'm going to paste what Mike_V stated, as it speaks truth:
This board is very unstable; it will randomly lock-up/freeze 2-3 times a night, forcing you to do a hard reset.
There are hundreds of posts on the EVGA forum that points this out (google the forum s...
[eVGA 132-CK-NF79-A1 nForce 790i Ultra SLI LGA775 DDR3 2000 1600MHz FSB ATX Motherboard review by Mac can be read at Newegg.com]
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Mac
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Review Date:
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09/02/2008
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81%
(9 of 11) Users Found This Review Helpful
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A beaut.
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Rigged it up and started first boot. Extremely fast, vista 64u could view the raid without drivers. Instructions very straight forward. Auto settings for RAM found correct 9-9-9-24 timings. Ram uses 1.7v, but was showing 1.5v as default but very easy to find and change the voltage. Board was easy to install and came with plenty of SATA wires. Manual ver...
[eVGA 132-CK-NF79-A1 nForce 790i Ultra SLI LGA775 DDR3 2000 1600MHz FSB ATX Motherboard review by Timmac can be read at Newegg.com]
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Timmac
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04/04/2008
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80%
(8 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Awesome freaking board!!!!!!!
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Quite possibly one of the most beautiful motherboards I've ever seen. Performance is amazing as well is tweakability. I'm running everything at stock settings for now until I finish lapping my Thermalright IFX-14 heatsink.
Cons: One, my old board seemed to have a faster network connection but maybe I just to buy new ethernet cables, I...
[eVGA 132-CK-NF79-A1 nForce 790i Ultra SLI LGA775 DDR3 2000 1600MHz FSB ATX Motherboard review by ZenDigital can be read at Newegg.com]
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ZenDigital
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Review Date:
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06/30/2008
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80%
(8 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful
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Excellent MB & Service
Tech Level: somewhat high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg
Pros: Gave up on two Gigabyte MBs with issues and ordered an eVGA 790i Ultra board and after ironing out a glitch with the help of their 24/7 phone support, got things running perfectly. eVGA ROCKS BIG TIME (and so does NewEgg).
Cons: None so far.
Other Thoughts: Could not believe a computer component manu...
[eVGA 132-CK-NF79-A1 nForce 790i Ultra SLI LGA775 DDR3 2000 1600MHz FSB ATX Motherboard review by MikeBTP can be read at Newegg.com]
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MikeBTP
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Review Date:
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06/28/2008
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80%
(8 of 10) Users Found This Review Helpful
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