Update on best 780i board

Show me where ?

I have not seen any X48 that blows me away yet, its simply a Cherry Picked X38 NB.

I have seen a few 790I though that do so esp FSB over 625mhz.

What little info is avail on P45 does not seem to be anything special.
 
Aye reviews I've seen have shown 790i boards overclocking the same chip further than Intel boards. I'm not prepared to live with what appears to be a very high chance of data corruption though when overclocking.
 
Theres no way I'd trust a 790i at high FSB based on my experiences with 680 and 780 boards... which has been attrocious.
 
helmutcheese said:
Show me where ?

I have not seen any X48 that blows me away yet, its simply a Cherry Picked X38 NB.

I have seen a few 790I though that do so esp FSB over 625mhz.

What little info is avail on P45 does not seem to be anything special.
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No main stream users will ever be able to get 625mhz on a 790i, Its just to unstable and runs way to hot, I wouldnt trust one near 500mhz if i didnt want massive corruptions on my raid array. The only thing i will say about 790i is it seems to be better with ram, I could run 1333mhz ocz DDR3 at 1900mhz at 8 8 8 20 but could only manage 1500mhz 8 8 8 20 in a maximus extream, But the 790i has very few settings were as the asus boards has massive amounts of settings for the ram alone. Face it Helmut nvidia boards plain suck when put agasint any intel chipset boards and with the arrival of the newest blackops foxconn boards this gap will only widen. Hopefully with the lauch of Nehalems chips we will never have the horror of anymore half assed nvidia chipsets :p
 
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Smirnoff said:
No main stream users will ever be able to get 625mhz on a 790i, Its just to unstable and runs way to hot, I wouldnt trust one near 500mhz if i didnt want massive corruptions on my raid array. The only thing i will say about 790i is it seems to be better with ram, I could run 1333mhz ocz DDR3 at 1900mhz at 8 8 8 20 but could only manage 1500mhz 8 8 8 20 in a maximus extream, But the 790i has very few settings were as the asus boards has massive amounts of settings for the ram alone. Face it Helmut nvidia boards plain suck when put agasint any intel chipset boards and with the arrival of the newest blackops foxconn boards this gap will only widen. Hopefully with the lauch of Nehalems chips we will never have the horror of anymore half assed nvidia chipsets :p
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Where is your proof in that.

The Mobo runs cooler than the 680I and 780I, you can also WC the Asus one.

They are all over XS with 625+ FSB on 45nm Duals.

The fact is you dont seem to have any luck on any of them, that could be done to your knowledge or such.

I think the 680I sucks, but still get more out it than most, same for the 780I but it was too buggy.

I have not seen anything bad about the 790I bar the so called corruption that AGAIN is fixable, there is nothing about "too hot".

Most of you are too young to even remember the NF2 corruption (due to Silicon Image not Nvidia).

Tell facts like they are, there is plenty of bad posts on 680I's and 780I's, there is not on the 790I. the corruption issue aside (that not all user get and it aint even related to High FSB, it can happen under 400).

Why the hell did you buy a 790I after the crap with the 780I if you think Nvidia suck so much, seem your more the fool m8?.
 
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Do you know what type of stable FSB speeds the 790i boards are getting with quadcore cpu's ???
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No mate as I only have a Dual and obv a Quad is harder to OC on the FSB, IMO the Q6600 aint the best CPU to OC on the FSB period, the 45nm Quads are far easier.

I can remember seeing 45nm Quads on XS at 500FSB but TBH I aint looking at Quad results so probably missed.
 
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Ive got a Q6600 on the evga 680i mobo atm and had no problems with at...all my probs are with vista 64bit still bein a bug!!!!!

Ive got the fsb at 400 for each core on x9 multiplier so im getting 3.6 that **** be enuf for anyone right????
 
Helmutecheese can you do anything else than read XS and repost everyones else's comments ? I have personal used and tested nearly 750I/780i/790i/P35/X38/X48 board, I give my honest opinion about all the hardware i use, I dont care about brand or made i just want the best and it is currently Intel on the chipset front. I understand that you may think Nvidia chipset are good I quiet liked my 680i untill I got my first P35 board, You never really know how bad something is till you get something better :)
 
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Helmutecheese can you do anything else than read XS and repost everyones else's comments ? I have personal used and tested nearly 750I/780i/790i/P35/X38/X48 board, I give my honest opinion about all the hardware i use, I dont care about brand or made i just want the best and it is currently Intel on the chipset front. I understand that you may think Nvidia chipset are good I quiet liked my 680i untill I got my first P35 board, You never really know how bad something is till you get something better :)
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Hey I can do what I like, you moaned about every NF you have had and then still buy more.

Where have I quote or repeat info from XS ? (although if I did/do its my business).

I am begining to think its your knowledge or lack of it that causes half your issues.

I have stated repeatably that the 680I is a POS and the 780I (at time I had) was also a POS, (I tried both and did ok OC wise but bugs are PIA).

I dont see anything stating the same about the 790I, if there was I would state so and would not give Nvidia a 3rd chance.

My NF2 was the best Mobo I ever had after all initual issues with Bios+Drivers.

I will buy one when its a bit more mature (possibily a newer Rev) and Corsair have better DDR3 at about 2000mhz in 4GB kits.
 
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Helmutecheese, you have nothing to back you up to say you have tested this hardware, i know for a fact smiroff has tested just about every hardware combo you can dream of.
 
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I dont care, he does not seem to be able to get any of his hardware to run.

I have ran 2 out of 3 of the Mobos in question (680/780).

You or him can show me proof the 790I is crap and is hot ?.
 
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Overclock + Prime + touching the NB = Toasty fingers :)

On the whole its not a bad chipset (790i) other than the corruption issued and under volting DDR3, Its a big improvment. But next to a Maximus Extream its bios settings are crude and lacking, TriSLI and Quad SLI are a joke ( Not really the boards fault tho ) having both boards side to side running the same chips and ram the Maximus was just more stable and cooler. The maximus could run at faster FSB speeds than the 790i, But the 790i could run the 1333 chepo OZC DDR3 at 1900mhz 8 8 8 20 where as the Maximus could only do 1600Mhz at 8 8 8 20, But i had limited amounts of time and as the Maximus has 10 times the ammount of memory setting the 790i board has so it could be more down to tweaking all the sub settings, Hopefully i will have more time soon so i can look further into it. At the end of the day it comes down to your GFX card's if you got ATI cards go Intel if you want to do SLI you got to go with Nvidia boards. The Intel/Ati combo apeels more to me than the Nvidia side of things as i use multiple displays, Seeing a 3870x2 driving 4 24" LCD was impressive. Its not a terrible board but i feel the Maximus is the better board, But with new BIOS's the 790i will improve but i cannot see it supassing the high end intel chipsets. I would like to be able to put a Foxconn Dreadnought againt a Foxconn Blackops P45 board ( Looking at the effort and cash Foxconn is spending on these boards they will be surpassing DFI as the highend overclockers boards ) agasint each other and see what comes out top :) Who knows maybe I'll be proved wrong and 790i will be king.
 
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Very scientific using finger. :p

I would worry more if it was cool, then that would point to the heat not being transfered.

I assume the Threshold is 90c same as before and it probably wont reach that unlike the bad mating pipes on the 780.

I dont have a 790 due to normally I never buy a 1st Rev of any Mobo (I made that mistake with the 780 though, I was hoping better than 680 POS which was purchased well after launch, like 9months or so), and the fact of DDR3 specs for 4GB Kits + price for 4GB Kits
 
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The heatsink comb is pretty good, No more push pins its all screwed into place which helps temps a lot. As for DDR3 i'd wait for the 2x2gb set price to improve as for some strange reason the 790i has 2 black slot and 2 grayish slots, I'm told the black ones clock better, Also 8gb kits will be comming soon :p

As for finger testing, When we had the first 780i board under test i made the mistake of touching the NB and burnt my finger, It bloody hurt for ages :p
 
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The heatsink comb is pretty good, No more push pins its all screwed into place which helps temps a lot. As for DDR3 i'd wait for the 2x2gb set price to improve as for some strange reason the 790i has 2 black slot and 2 grayish slots, I'm told the black ones clock better, Also 8gb kits will be comming soon
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The memory slots on my 780i are coloured the same (two black & two grey)...Plus the NB/SB heatsink is screwed down on the 780i boards as well............
 
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