Without forgetting the nForce series with the advantage of having dual to triple SLI board and the usual large heat-sink going around the CPU socket, more like embracing the CPU when you look it that way. The EVGA 790i Ultra is the version with the enable of the potential of having triple single core SLI or the acceptance of quad core SLI (which is dual core GPU’s that is SLI with another dual GPU for short, having a dual card connection with dual cores) the EVGA 790i Ultra is the newer version of the 7-series nForce with no physical difference but the sole difference is the support of the new DDR3 memory and the jump of price form the 780i to the 790i by about $50 more.
With the problem of NVIDIA with the board is the storage instability when placed in redundancy array in to the Hard-drive on 0+1, with some corruption of some data or the full partition, and also the problem on some occasions the blue screens and system crashes when applying dual or even triple SLI on the new GTX28, with some reviewers having driver malfunctions and also lost of performance, NVIDIA may fix this with a quick driver update. For the 790i Ultra, is a fast board and cannot in some cases used in RAID purposes and triple SLI capabilities, you should update first then use, them.
These board are the purpose of getting the fast performance possible on a NVIDIA SLI rig, with good memory RAM latencies and overclocking, and the CPU is covered with PWM’s to have a precise voltage regulate and also as a bundle an additional fan for the Northbridge so called “tower heat-sink†try to keep a warm Northbridge chip from heating any further. With array of heat sink with the same design as the former 780i, with three green SLI PCIex 2.0 ports. You expect the SATA’s are placed in some right angled and facing up and the RAM slot just enough not to intend to remove a long graphics card.
For spacing of the PCIex slot good for placing another expansion TV tuner in the top, when having triple SLI. And fat enough to accommodate double slot graphics. For the usual giving is an eSATA Integrated Audio, two PS/2 ports, and dual Ethernet and with the USB ports just to finish its bundle, with some complicated stuff when diving into the BIOS system, when trying to teak the frequency of the core and memory or even the voltage, by the time you went over the BIOS you get used to the menus and sub-menus.
With the NVIDIA being hampered with some technical problems in storage solutions and some device drivers comes to a solution to the frequency system crashes and storage corruption, this is solemnly as a pure performance rig board, with some problems with the driver and storage issues can be fixed in a simple update, and some choice of non-solid state capacitors in the board, the board is a great DDR3 memory with SLI graphics with the budget is no worry for you.
