Saturday, July 26, 2008

EVGA nForce 750i SLI FTW Intel Motherboard Reviewed

evga mobo imgThe EVGA nForce 750i SLI FTW ($US200) is a motherboard for Intel that features:

  • Intel Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Pentium EE, Pentium D, & Pentium processor support
  • Nvidia nForce 750i SLI MCP and SPP chipset
  • dual channel DDR2-800 memory support, up to 8GB
  • 8x USB 2.0 ports
  • 4x Serial ATA II, with RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, and JBOD
  • Gb LAN
  • 2x 1394a ports
  • Azalia High-Definition audio
  • 2x PCI Express v2.0 x16 slots

"... users who would like to build an SLI graphics subsystem have very limited options when it comes to choosing mainboards for LGA 775 processors. Nvidia nForce 6 series doesn't support contemporary Intel processors, NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI and nForce 750i SLI run very warm and unstable during overclocking. ... we can only leave the decision making to SLI fans here. You may either use only one graphics card, or give up CPU overclocking altogether or overclock to pretty mediocre speeds. You may wait for new Nvidia chipsets or even switch to ATI graphics cards. The choice is yours, and at this time we cannot recommend any Nvidia nForce 750i SLI based mainboards. None of them are really good, so no wonder very few companies have them in their product range." [X-bit Labs | EVGA nForce 750i SLI FTW Mainboard Review: Rehabilitated?]

As it seems, overclocking fans won't be interested in the nForce 750i SLI mobos. If you just have to have a system with an Intel processor and 2 graphics cards in SLI, probably the best way to have it is to run it at stock speeds.

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