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EVGA nForce 750i SLI FTW Motherboard Review


Fri 2008-04-18 - Posted by Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan
A little over a week ago, I reported that EVGA had just launched a new enthusiast-oriented motherboard, the nForce 750i SLI FTW. Well the fine folks over at Guru3D have managed to snag themselves one of these new motherboards. Does it live up to its ballsy “For The Win” designation? Let’s find out!

Here’s what they had to say:

“Occasionally I get bitch-slapped by my editors for cursing a little too much in my reviews; but f*ck it, this is a nice mainboard guys ! The reality is simple; some features are cut away opposed to the 250-350 USD mainboards yet the rest is the same and some even better with this mainboard. In the past the 650 SLI series never was that good in overclocking, hey NVIDIA doesn't like to destroy it's own enthusiast market. But this 750i SLI FTW is just an exceptionally good mainboard if your mission is to tweak and overclock. It has everything we as enthusiast PC users want. It looks cool, even comes with multi-channel sound, including TOSLINK optical output, fantastic performance, the sexy diagnostic LED, and it has micro switches for power on/off, reset and now also CMOS (yay!).”


So…is it EVGA FTW?! It’s still too early to tell in my opinion. While the reviewer is obviously enamored with this motherboard, he only increased the FSB to 400Mhz, and that’s not high enough to validate the “FTW” moniker. Even the $165 MSI P7N SLI Platinum consistently hits 470-475Mhz with a quad-core processor. Having said that, this does appear to be a superbly designed motherboard, and at $190, I would easily recommend it over any nForce 780i alternative, unless you need Triple SLI capability, of course.

Click here to read the full review.

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