Why I buy this one ?
- SLI-ready motherboard with fast Gigabit Ethernet performance
- Supports Intel Core 2 Extreme, Intel Core 2 Quad, Intel Core 2 Duo, Pentium EE, and Pentium processors
- 3 16x PCI express slots; ESA (Enthusiast System Architecture) certified
- NVIDIA RAID technology with standard RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 0+1 techniques
- NVIDIA's patent-pending isochronous StreamThru Data Transport System for uninterrupted data streaming

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What our customer's say!

"EVGA nForce 780i ", Works great. If you get a rebate, be prepared to contest it because they may say you didn't sent all the required docs.

"Best Motherboard So Far.", this is prob. one of the best motherboards i have owned so far. very easy to overclock, with a ton of options. quickly changed from air to watercooling with it also. only thing is if you use triple SLI you will lose all your pci slots unless you watercool the video cards. other than that, very stable and powerful motherboard. no complaints. only praise.

P.S. if you plan on watercooling your northbridge along with your CPU you'll need to get a custom waterblock for it. i used EK custom, it works great. also, you will have to get a fan to cool the southbridge and not interfear with your video card. they have one on newegg for about 8 bucks i think. fits perfect.

"beware of its size", the 780i is a great motherboard for heavy gamers and graphic designers. i have a 9800gtx, an intel quad core, 4BG rams,and a 500Gb HDD all running smoothly. but be sure that you get a case the will accommodate its size, believe me it's a big motherboard. the bigger the case the better the cooling. a great thing about it is the 3 way sli support with is great for further enhancement, and of course the 8 GB ram support. however beware that it only supports 800 Mhz ddr2 rams and up to 1200 in sli mode, so don't bother and buy the 1066 or higher ramms. finally, it is a good motherboard that it delivers.

"Frustrated", I am building my first gaming PC and thought this would be a good starting point. So after days of reading reviews and deals I chose the 780 SLI. So far, it has been nothing but problems. Installation was very easy!! Along with a dual core quad processor 2.8, 4GB RAM, 8800GT VID Card and 500GIG HD. Went to install windows (three hours format-something's wrong) and received damaged HD or bad connection with media player meassage. Nothing wrong with HD or DVD player. So it's either motherboard, processor or memory. All three came from Amazon. I hope they don't give me any S$%^ making the returns. Western Digital is helpful as well as EVGA. I thought this would be a simple process, but I discovered different. If returning all three does not work, I will just give up and keep my AMD 64 workhorse.

"My Opinion: Best Mobo for the money",
Out of all my hardware this is what I wasted no expense getting what I wanted.

Perfect for 9xxx series cards etc and tri SLI is just the open invitation for improvement.

A mother board that will last through the rest of your hardware in performance.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"yum", This is great board.
The price is a little up there, and the overclocking options as good as they are just are not that user friendly.
other than that this is the best board i have ever had.

"Beware of the Video Corruption Bug", Do not buy this board until the "rainbow artifact bug" has been fixed. When watching a video (e.g. avi, youtube, dvd, etc) rainbow artifacts are created making the video unwatchable and eventually crashes the system. This bug is being seen on all nVidia 7xx series motherboards. Go to the EVGA forums and the nVidia forums and this issue is discussed at length. Some users even posted a youtube video of what it looks like and I would recommend you watch it before you decide on a purchase. Both companies know about the problem but no fix is in sight. At first they wouldn't even acknowledge there is a problem. I was lured into SLi but should have researched more. Many users have been waiting months for a fix. I would recommend going with and Intel x38/x48 & crossfire solution because it is more stable. Benchmark scores don't mean anything when the board doesn't work and you spend more time rebooting the system than using it.

"Good, but could be better.", This review will be divided in three parts dealing with the chipset choice, the 780 itself and specifically with the EVGA mobo.

When choosing a chipset for your new mobo, you are confronted with basically two choices: Intel and nVidia.
Intel chipsets are very stable and highly overclockable. If you buy an Intel mobo, you will be pleased to find out that on top of their stability they have no chipset fans, what contributes to the overall low level of noise of your system.
The downside of the choice is that they do not support SLI, but Cross Fire instead. If you are a gamer, this is an issue because nVidia video cards are far ahead ATI's in terms of performance and power consumption.
nVidia mobos obviously support SLI, but have a serious thermal issue. Their chipsets get extremely hot and, perhaps because of that, are generally more limited when it comes to overclocking. My own personal claim about it: nVidia, PLEASE, INVEST IN NEWER DIES TO SOLVE IT!
This thermal issue, in turn, contributes to overall noise level, for you are forced to place a 60mm fan over your chipset. Summing up: if you run CPU intensive applications, like simulations, go for an Intel chipset/mobo. If you are a gamer, you probably have to choose NVIDIA.
Of course, all this discussion assumes you have chosen an Intel processor.

If you have chosen an nVidia chipset, the choices today are 780 and 790. Ruling out the 790 for its price and DDR3 issues, you're locked with 780.
As you probably read elsewhere, the 780 is just a 680 with 3 PCIE slots (2 of them are 2.0), ESA support and, most important of all, support to new 45nm Intel processors. Nothing else changed dramatically.
Sometimes, 1333Mhz FSB support is advertised as something new, but it's not. Remember that xx50 processors were already supported by 680 mobos. The real issue is the 45nm Penryn technology.
nVidia could release 680 mobos with Penryn support if minor fixes were made. Quite understandably, however, they have opted to fix it and add some gimmicks to throw in a new product and basket the marketing gains.

So far, then, two conclusions: the first one is that 680 mobos no longer make sense. The second is that you should buy a 780 mobo if, and only if, you are buying a new system today. If you are satisfied with your non-Penryn system, just up grading your mobo makes no sense.

But suppose you're buying a new rig today and decided for the 780. What are the choices?

As most people know, nVidia authorized partners do not produce their mobos. Instead, nVidia centralizes the process and allows them just to print their names (EVGA, XFX etc.) on the board. Therefore, the choice between these manufacturers is very subjective and done by details like warranty, RMA policies etc. Because my previous experience with EVGA was very good in terms of bios up-dates, I stick to them.
What most people don't know, however, is that nVidia itself does not produce mobos as well. They buy them from Foxconn, medium-medium quality producer from Taiwan.
In other words, be advised that you are not buying an nVidia/EVGA/BFG/XFX mobo; you're buying a Foxconn mobo.
That said, what follows applies almost 100% to all these other manufacturers.

It's a great product with two serious issues.
The first one is its original incompatibility with SATA optical drives. The problem was fixed via bios update and there is a chance that if you buy a brand new mobo today you won't experience it. I had to go through it and it was a hard time: blue screen when trying to install anything, than finding an old IDE optical drive, updates...

The second one is the position of the chipset fan (remember what I said before about heating?). The way it's placed, it blows hot air directly on your video card. Not the smartest thing to do considering that my 8800 Ultra already runs at 72C.
Some have fixed it using a regular 60mm fan placed over the chipset radiator and inverting the airflow.
I find this solution cumbersome for you won't be able to use the fittings to securely place the fan on the mobo.
My suggestion is to cut the red and black wires of the fan about half their length and invert them, connecting the first half of the black wire to the second half of the red wire and vice-versa. You get the inverted airflow in a more elegant way.

Others complain about minor issues such as non-solid capacitors outside the voltage regulation circuit, could-be-better codec etc, but these are minor.

Over all, a good product.



"Solid Penryn Ready Mobo", Good solid 3x SLI, 8GB DDR2, Penryn ready Mobo. What more do you need to know?

"Great Board", Pos) Great Board Works very well with the SLI feature of Ram and Cards alike! Alot better than the lower 750i board. The SLI-EPP features are a great benifet over the 750i board. When buying Ram make sure you get SLI approved Ram for the extra speed. Or EPP approved Ram. EPP and SLI are the same.

Neg) None so far really. Ive only had the board for a week or 2. MCP runs alittle hot. Keep an eye out on it. Called EVGA support and they told me the normal operating temps of the MPC is 50oC - 85oC mine runs 65oC idol w/Fan. I recommend u put on extra fan on it. I made a Homemade one.

P.S)Make sure you have an 8 Pin power supply plug and not the 4 Pin. Do not use only the 4 pin you will overheat the board. U need a 500watt power supply min with this board (trust me)