nForce 780i Board

[a1]

I have my sights on the EVGA nForce 780i motherboard. It features 3 way SLI, PCI-E 2.0 and 1.0 x16, DDR2 800MHz. It can support the Intel Core 2 Duo and the Quad.

so is the board any good? Should I get it? It is at a low price at the moment at the local electronics place and I might get it for a build. Or should I go get an Intel board.

[N. Chapman]

I would wait for the 790. but that's just me.

[Brett_Henderson]

I have that board, and like it so far. O'clocking is a breeze.

The price should be coming down a bit.

I would wait for the 790. but that's just me

LOL

[N. Chapman]

I have that board, and like it so far. O'clocking is a breeze.

The price should be coming down a bit.

I would wait for the 790. but that's just me

LOL

[Brett_Henderson]

Fast (cheap) DDR2 RAM wouldn't even be close to a bottleneck on the system he's building. Right now.. DDR3 is kinda like Rambus was .. years ago. Over-priced, over-kill...

[MWISimmer]

By the time (future-wise) you'd be buyng components that would outpace that board.. it prob won't even be a socket 775 CPU..

SShhhh..!  Don't let out the "industry secret" Brett..  ;D  ;D

[a1]

I have done my reading and find that this board and the Asus Maximus Extreme are the 2 that I really like. I wouldn't really mind much with DDR2 but DDR3 would seem better.

[Brett_Henderson]

The DDR3 RAM is faster, than DDR2 when you compare just memory specs... but how either will perform differently as part of a system, is negligible. DDR2 RAM is very inexpensive right now...


I was torn between those boards too, and I'll admit that I went with the 780i because the Asus board sold out before I got there (I got the last 780i board to boot  8-) )..  Since then, I'm glad, because I probably would have bought DDR3 RAM and spent an additional $170... and NOT gotten $170 worth of performance.