[Fr3ak] EVGA nForce 750i SLI FTW review

[Leeghoofd]

Link works fine Noobzed they tested sadly only E8500 and the new E7200, no quad... and poor FSB performance in that review but I never gave them much credit as they usually tested with an old Pentium D , at least they have soem new CPU's now...

[nut311]

sweet 750i SLI, nice pictures...

[drizzt5]

Come on! I wanna see some reviews with quads... preferably q6600.

[mascaras]

i will also test with Q6600 , But Fedex didnt delivered the mobo today , only tomorrow morning


regards

[drizzt5]

i will also test with Q6600 , But Fedex didnt delivered the mobo today , only tomorrow morning


regards

Thanks... if they compete with the P35's or x38's at all i will buy one... i would like a mobo with SLI option just incase.

Awaiting your results.

[Fr3ak]

I will be able to do quadcore testing at the weekend too. For now I am setting up my good old E6600 ES which is good for 555 MHz FSB on P35. I gave my E8400 to a friend, but I will try to get another high clocking wolfdale.

[Fr3ak]

Sorry, I kept you guys waiting for quite some time, but I am really busy with work.

I am installing Xp as I write this, so benchmarks will be up tomorrow, as promised.

I dont have a camera here, except the brilliant camera of my iPhone, so I won't post any more pics for now.

Nontheless I want to present you some interesting info from the BIOS:

- As on Nvidia boards, single cores of the CPU can be disabled right in the BIOS
- The Power button has a power LED in it (what a surprise) and the RESET buttuon has a HDD LED built-in which is very helpful when the board is not in a case
- 3 profiles for Timings/Voltages can be stored and loaded in the BIOS
- Voltage ranges are:
Vcore: 0.50000V - 1.80000V
CPU FSB: 1.2V - 1.55V
Memory: 1.8V - 2.5V
SPP: 1.3V - 1.55V
NF200: 1.2V - 1.55V
GTLREF: +0mV - +160mV


I set some voltages to safe values and booted up at 400 MHz FSB with ease =)

As soon windows is installed, I will see at what FSB my E6600ES can boot into Windows on air.

[berndawg3]

Ooh, I'm excited! This is looking to be a perfect budget SLI board.

[Fr3ak]

Right, I did some very fast testing as I am tired as hell, because it's already midnight here.

I increased voltages a little and I consider them 24/7 voltages. My E6600ES's limit on single stage is 555 MHz FSB. Honestly I never tried it on air, but knowing other CPUs I think this is pretty much as far as I can get with that CPU on air.

Voltages were:
Vcore: 1.5V
FSB: 1.3V
SPP: 1.4V
NF200: 1.3V
Memory: 2.2V
GTLREF: default



Note: I only tested 1M, because I want to go to bed asap. Prime95 and 32M runs will follow at the weekend. I could boot up to 525 MHz, but not into windows.

[SoF]

You sleep too much
If I would be sure I won't need my E6850 for the next 2 weeks I could send it to you - rene told me it does 600 FSB on air also This would be a good one to test this board regarding FSB just drop me a pm if you want to I would be interested in that as I am awaiting a 790i in some time so far you are really teasing me with your tests

[mascaras]

Freak are you using the new bios released 7th???


http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.asp?m=317004


regards

[drizzt5]

Nice so far, and thank you for the review,

awaiting results with quads.

[SavageFuDD]

Thanks Freak for your time, because of you and Rattle, Iv got one comming tomorrow, Im gonna give it a try with my 2 8800 gt superclocks and the e8400 I have, and I have a e3110 coming saterday.. Im exit3ed to see what I can do with this!!

[FlimFlam00]

Nice. Thanks Fr3ak. Fr3ak likes to keep us in suspense!

So I ordered a Evga FTW, and an e8400 to replace the 680i/e6600 in my 2nd rig. Looking forward to diddling around with the new parts.

[Fr3ak]

I ramped up the voltages before I went to bed, but the FSB limit was still the same, which is why I am 99.9% sure, it's the CPU holding me back.

mascaras: I am using the BIOS that came with the board. Seems to work fine for me. No weird behaviour with the board. I will update the BIOS today.

[mion]

How's vcore droop"\?

[mascaras]

Finally Fedex delivered the motherboard , tests later guys !


Ok freak i will also test with stoK bios then update to new bios !

[Fr3ak]

SZ12 BIOS is available now, the major highlights are listed below:

* Added support to enable/disable individual cores on a multi-core CPU
* Improved PCIe 2.0 compatibility

I can already disable cores in the BIOS...

Too bad you still need a floppy drive in order to flash the BIOS. I don't really like flashing the BIOS using Windows.

I have a E8500 and a couple of quads, but I am not sure if I will test them. I already know that they top out at 450 - 490 MHz FSB on 780i and 790i. From my first impression the 750i overclocks as good, so I do not see how the FSB could magically be better than that.

[Family man 72]

If you have 2 gpus,please test 3D

[Fr3ak]

Sure, will do at the weekend. I have 2 Zotac 9600 GT cards.

[GOZR]

quick test at 4.5 on E8500..

Moding my case now..

[drizzt5]

I can already disable cores in the BIOS...

Too bad you still need a floppy drive in order to flash the BIOS. I don't really like flashing the BIOS using Windows.

I have a E8500 and a couple of quads, but I am not sure if I will test them. I already know that they top out at 450 - 490 MHz FSB on 780i and 790i. From my first impression the 750i overclocks as good, so I do not see how the FSB could magically be better than that.

I flashed my bios with a cd on my 680i se(grr)... i'm pretty sure you can do it with this 750i right?


How does this mobo compare to the p35's when OC'ing q6600's?

[JacobF]

Yes you can download the ISO version to flash, anyways his board has the latest BIOS on the EVGA website.

[Hyperhorn]

Decent numbers so far, go ahead

[Fr3ak]

Thanks for the information Jackup. My CD-burner broke, so that wasn't an option for me in the first place, which is why I didn't think about using a CD to flash =)

I have a E8500 , a QX9650 and a second Zotac 9600 GT, so I can do some more testing with the board and add some more pictures.