Official eVGA 780i Discussion/Review/Overclock/Guide Thread

[Maxfly]

little update.
ran orthos blend for 13 hrs.no probs at all.im not going to go any higher with the fsb until i can get a ViperJohn nb block.even with a 80mm fan mounted on the stock cooler my nb temps are horrible.if i can get my hands on a q6600 or yorkie ill update with my results.
so far no complaints what-so-ever.this thing has been solid as a rock for me.

[jas420221]

Did anyone mention in this thread where I can get the vcore reading from this board?

[WoD]

I'd like to build up an SLI setup with the 780i chipset.
Are there any issues with 8GB RAM or can the 780i easily manage 4x2GB sticks?
And what kind of problems do I have to expect when running the 780i which I wouldn't have with a X38?
FSB wall is no big deal for me, since I'd like to go with an unlocked QX9650.

[Furiøùs]

With 780i eVGA, you cannot use SATA Optical drives, but one of the tech guys at eVGA's forum released a beta chipset driver that fixes it.

The 780i is really really good, just some dumb mistakes that should have never been made in the first place. The 780i can easily do 4x2, im doing 2x2 atm, going to get 2 more sticks for 4x2 for 8GB, So i'll report when i get them.

The board is great, there was a new bios just recently released, its on the eVGA boards. P04, highlights are CPU Microcode, not really much. I cant hold my 500x8.0 anymore, it blue screens. I think they tweaked internal timings on the board, so you can get better performance at lower FSB, but so far im back to 445x9.0 till i can figure out how to fix it.

[WoD]

Thanks a lot Furiøùs.
The sata bug seems to be an annoying one. Maybe I should better go with X38 and GX2... hm

[Furiøùs]

the SATA bug has just recently been fixed for some with a beta chipset driver. Its not anyone elses fault but nVidia for doing this, but really, i just hope it gets fixed soon cause i want to replace my old plextor DVD-Burner with 2 SATA drives.. get crackin nVidia!!!

[Hughyhunter]

@ furious,
What reason have you changed to 8x multi? Does the bandwidth make that much of difference? If you have 1000mhz memory why run it at 800mhz. You should be running it linked at a 1:1 ratio or sync. That's just my opinion.

[bluehaze]

SATA's give me a fit installing 64bit Vista, after it loads all the files to the HD I have to unplug my DVD burner from the Sata port or else it will bluescreen when it reboots. Once Vista is installed and SP1 run I can plug it back in with no problems system 100% stable.

Just don't install "mediashield" drivers from NVidia they will kill system stability trust me, I found out the hard way

Edit: This is with running two raptors raid 0, I am not sure but I think the problem only happens when you are running raid.

[aussie-revhead]

My P5K with vista64 and sata dvdrw wasnt happy either , I ended up installing from an ide dvdrw and then swapping back .

[Furiøùs]

I couldnt run linked and synced, didnt like the 1:1 divider. not sure what it was but i couldnt have that high FSB with the high memory speed. it really hated it. Blue screens, would crash within seconds of OCCT and prime. meh but now its 445.9.0 with the mem at 1017 5-5-5-15. havent tried lowering anymore voltages cause thats what people are reporting with the P04 BIOS, slightly lower vCore for the same OC

[politenessman]

With 780i eVGA, you cannot use SATA Optical drives, but one of the tech guys at eVGA's forum released a beta chipset driver that fixes it.

The 780i is really really good, just some dumb mistakes that should have never been made in the first place. The 780i can easily do 4x2, im doing 2x2 atm, going to get 2 more sticks for 4x2 for 8GB, So i'll report when i get them.

The board is great, there was a new bios just recently released, its on the eVGA boards. P04, highlights are CPU Microcode, not really much. I cant hold my 500x8.0 anymore, it blue screens. I think they tweaked internal timings on the board, so you can get better performance at lower FSB, but so far im back to 445x9.0 till i can figure out how to fix it.

???
mine running fine since december with 2x samsung sh203n opticals, using whql. have installed vista 64 twice to a raid array from them. never even heard of this issue.

also how would a chipset driver help an os install? drivers arent loaded yet.

[aussie-revhead]

This chipset has a wall around 450 MHz right (with q6600) ?

[saphirex7]

Geezers!

Anybody tried the new "beta" Everest and LOOKED at the SPP Temps???

[Maxfly]

thats my only gripe with this mb.the nb is ridiculously hot.despite having replaced the tim with ic7d and thermalright tape on the fets AND a 80mm fan blowing on the nb i still idle at 70c!
the only option is to get a waterblock to cool it down.so my hr-05/sli are both useless to me now
thanks for the headsup on the beta everest Saph.ive paid hell trying to find a proggy to monitor nb temps.

[msgclb]

Geezers!

Anybody tried the new "beta" Everest and LOOKED at the SPP Temps???

I first tried build 1344 beta but it didn't have a SPP sensor. I finally located the 1343 beta and this is what I've got for the SPP ...



Why would a later beta not have the SPP?

Build 1343 Beta:
http://www.lavalys.com/beta/everestu...m7gsn3dvjx.zip

[Hughyhunter]

Two things:

First: Why wont my board boot and run stably with memory linked? I am at 1800mhz FSB with 800mhz memory right now (unlinked) and have tried linked 5:4 and synced (with loose timings 5-5-5-15) and both are not stable.

SEcond: have to hook my GPU cooler fan up to mainboard (wrong connector for GPU). It's the two aux fan connectors at the bottom of the board installed. How do I control the fan speed with them? How do I lower settings or voltages on those connectors?

[fadetoblack]

Geezers!

Anybody tried the new "beta" Everest and LOOKED at the SPP Temps???

mine's at 98C MCP at 63C. are there any waterblocks available for 790i?

[msgclb]

Geezers!

Anybody tried the new "beta" Everest and LOOKED at the SPP Temps???

I've found the reason the SPP temp was removed from the latest beta Everest 1344. See here.

I haven't had any problems with the Everest Beta 1343 that includes SPP temp support.
http://www.lavalys.com/beta/everestu...m7gsn3dvjx.zip

But if you do then here's 1344.
http://www.lavalys.com/beta/everestu...xdl2kfjn0u.zip

[msgclb]

Everest has added back the SPP temp for a limited number of motherboards in this beta:

http://www.lavalys.com/beta/everestu...1scfd4mcyx.zip

You can read about it in this forum:
http://www.lavalys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3092

They have changed the way the SPP temp is calculated and you can see from this image my SPP is now half of what it was in the previous beta and probably closer to the actual temp.

[fadetoblack]

Everest has added back the SPP temp for a limited number of motherboards in this beta:

http://www.lavalys.com/beta/everestu...1scfd4mcyx.zip

You can read about it in this forum:
http://www.lavalys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3092

They have changed the way the SPP temp is calculated and you can see from this image my SPP is now half of what it was in the previous beta and probably closer to the actual temp.

awesome, thanks for the link. my spp now shoes 49, and mcp 63. i didnt expect the mcp to be hotter

[Furiøùs]

jesus im reading about this stupid SPP temp. it makes no goddamn sense.

THERE IS NO TEMPERATURE SENSOR FOR THE 780I REFERENCE BOARD.

Everest just reads BIOS temperatures for you in the OS. THERE IS NO SPP temperature sensor, thats why you dont see it in the BIOS. IF its not in the BIOS it does not exist. Sorry to pop your bubbles guys, but those temps are wrong, no matter what.

[aussie-revhead]

Furious - from your sig:

eVGA 780i @ 445FSB

Is that about as far as a 780i can go ? What would be the limit with a q6600 ?

[oohms]

Everest has added back the SPP temp for a limited number of motherboards in this beta:

http://www.lavalys.com/beta/everestu...1scfd4mcyx.zip

You can read about it in this forum:
http://www.lavalys.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=3092

They have changed the way the SPP temp is calculated and you can see from this image my SPP is now half of what it was in the previous beta and probably closer to the actual temp.

I freaked out when i saw my SPP at 122 degrees

But then i looked into that thread and realised that they are only guessing how that sensor is calibrated.

We've also changed the formula by dividing the resulting temperature by 2. It seems that formula provides much more realistic Celsius readings.

[Maxfly]

has anyone tested/run a 9450 on this mb yet?if so it would be greatly appreciated if you could post your fsb results with it.

[Zefram0911]

I have an X3350 on it. It's the same as a Q9450. I got it to post at 3.8Ghz... but I can't seem to get it stable for folding just yet... I've had to lower it to 3.6Ghz and it's still not stable... I can't figure this thing out for the life of me.