EVGA one of the major high-performance for all NVIDIA chipsets and also graphics cards, with the XFX and BFG are one of the only company that solemnly make NVIDIA chipsets, and products for both AMD and Intel platform processors , with EVGA going a new type of the 700 series from the nForce, with the better innovation form the previous 780i chipset, with a better control on the memory and the enabling the use dual X16 NVIDIA graphics and the triple 16x with two 8x NVIDIA graphics, with the 780i from EVGA with all of the same design as the database design of OEM board, with a large tower North Bridge heat-sink that can accompany a fan installation, and the disguise of the heat-pipes by placing an additional heat dispassion form the travelling heat in the heat-pipe.
With the board, with the normal eight phase power regulator with the solid capacitors treatment, and the green colour to distinct it from the usual black and white ports in the board, with them separated by another slot size, they would be easy way to have triple SLI with a GTX280. With six SATA ports and the full support of NVIDIA’s storage chip, you can have the same effect of Intel’s RAID 0, 0+1 and other RAID strip down and redundancy. With the 24-pin on the side of the board and the eight pin right on top, for easy access on the power connectors, With the support of the older DDR2 memory, while the 790i Ultra goes for the better and expensive DDR3, the 780i is a cheaper memory alternative to the 790i, with triple SLI.
For the remaining stuff in the board, the back is covered by two PS/2 ports and six USB 2.0, dual gigabit Ethernet and also Fire wire port, and another 5-in-1 Audio connector with HD enabled. With the board also find an onboard F.F debug Led POST, which in term, have a good diagnosis of the computer and its components, if the monitor doesn’t come to life, while the back panel doesn’t have a CMOS, this sometimes susceptible to system crashes and also some instabilities when sometimes you automatically overclock it, while the manual is a better alternative, the BIOS is sometimes complicated but with a few minutes for a feel of the BIOs you can remember it in the back of your hand.
The performance of the board is par. With the older 780i but having no problems when used in the longer time and also no problem of the storage corruption and RAID problems, but the memory, and CPU going a fraction higher than the BFG offering and OEM one, they almost go side on side with the XFX version of it. But for the price comparison of the EVGA and the XFX, the EVGA is a clear winner on the lower priced variant of the 780i, but BFG has a much lower price but a lower performance, while the 780i from EVAG is an alternative to the 790i Ultra, I can say that when you rearrange the last three letters of the title, you can figure out that I am saying.
