It's been a while since I have been doing a community review. This time I want to take a closer look at the EVGA nForce 750i SLI FTW. The board will have a price of about $179.99, which seems to be nice in my eyes. According to the product spec sheet, it offers two PCI-Express-X16 2.0 slots, so it's fully SLI capable. You can read the features from the spec sheet and the pictures, so I won't bore you with that. I guess you are interested in performance and overclockability rather than the multimedia features. This is XtremeSystems after all.
I will test the board with a couple of CPUs hoping to find one capable of a high FSB. I will be using air and single stage first, maybe LN2 later on, depending on how much free time I have. For now I can only post a couple pictures, as I haven't set the sytem up yet, but I will do so as soon as possible. I should be done before Sunday if nothing goes wrong. Enjoy the pictures and stay tuned for more to come =)
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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 =)
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I didn't do anything with the board today as I came come from work late. I am planning to start testing the board tomorrow. I will hopefully be able to answer all of your questions then.
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first thing i would do is replace the tim under the nb.... cooler, you'l be shocked to see all the gunk they put under there. this board seems to use different caps then the 780 as well, wonder if that will have a impact.
PCI Express x16 Slots
These two PCI Express x16 slots are reserved for graphics or video cards. The design of this motherboard supports two PCI-Express graphics cards with x8 bandwidth using NVIDIA’s SLI technology.
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For Single Mode, insert the VGA card into the "PCIE X16_1" VGA slot. (labeled on the board).
The “PCIE X16_2” VGA slot will become inactive.
I'm thinking EVGA has maybe not made "Dual x16" clear, although it is a 750i. CPU-Z would clear it up.
I would like to know if the NB and SB have same mounting holes as 780i .. Thinkin about ordering one and throwing some EK WB on there but not sure if the NB and SB will line up..
Why does the manual quote it as "The design of this motherboard supports two PCI-Express graphics cards with x8 bandwidth using NVIDIA’s SLI technology." Makes it sound like 8/8 instead of 16/16.
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) and the RESET buttuon has a HDD LED built-in which is very helpful when the board is not in a case
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