Motherboards go in many shapes and sizes, ranging to the micro ATX, ATX, and the DAIM!!!! THAT’S BIG! And those motherboards that really surprise me are the motherboard that can hold up two or more video cards, for a smoother display at higher resolutions on DirectX10 games. These mothers that are produced by NVIDIA and AMD/ATI, for NVIDIA it is the third generation Nforce 790I Ultra, and the AMD 790FX. Their similarities (it is all in the numbers), but their differentiation by just looking at them is that support SLI or Crossfire, which, in plain English, that makes two or more video cards together, to make one super card, for their purpose is to improve gaming, or render images like animation and also to enable more multiple displays, so if you are planning to have multi-display desktop, just to impress your friends over how many monitor you have. But for short, this things are for gaming (be ready to be eaten up).
The board that looks green on the test results is the Nforce series chip called the 790I ultra, ultra, for high-end board, which can predict the price, but performance it is awesome from NVIDIA. Their features are, Intel socket775 with FSB of 1600MHz, and DDR3 memory with FSB of 1,333MHz, three-way SLI with PCI-E 16x and PCI-E2.0, 6SATA and 2PATA, which is weird to even add one, 10 USB inputs and Dual native gigabyte LAN. The systems configuration is an Intel core 2 duo E8500, 2Gbtye ram, 8800GT 1gbtye, 320gbtye hard-drive. The scores in the CPU test is much better to their predecessor the 680I, but cannot keep up with the Intel chipset, the X48 express chipset. But for gaming with the SLI mode it increase the performance by 20% in lower resolutions, but in higher resolutions it was just 20.0fps faster to the single card. And almost the same frame rate with the Intel chipsets, but was flogged in higher resolutions.
As a board it is a new way of thinking to the Nforce series, with fixes with the bugs over the 680I and an additional PCI-e 16x for triple SLI, is a great plus, with more tweaks gives more freedom on over clocking. But the comparison to other boards in the market, this just isn’t enough for the price, Intel proved to be a bargain with their P35’s and over-clockable X38 and X48 express chipsets, but the difference is that Intel chipsets are crossfire enabled only, and that is a plus to the Nforce, to double the gaming speed with two Geforce 8 series, or crazy enough, three 8800GT’s. This thing can be a great SLI board, if you are a screaming fan of NVIDIA and great for Intel based SLI board.
Three neatly packed PCI slots, what more you can ask for:
