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Evga's New 790i Motherboard to Support Aggressive Overclocking

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Evga, the company best know for its position as a top-tier Nvidia partner, continues to try and build a reputation as the go-to vendor for overclocking enthusiasts. The videocard manufacturer was the first to officially support overclocking its GPUs without invalidating the warranty (only XFX has since followed suit), and Evga's FTW branded motherboards look to live up to the three-letter moniker with all the right marketing bullets.

Adding to the FTW series, and specifically the 790i SLI FTW, Evga has announced the 790i SLI FTW Digital PWM designed for aggressive overclocking. In addition to the usual assortment of high end goodies (1600MHz frontside bus support, DDR3 2000MHz support, SLI certified, PCI-E 2.0), the long-winded FTW Digital PWM edition bumps up the reference design from a 6-phase to an 8-phase design. The board also comes with 100 percent solid state capacitors and ferrite core chokes, both of which purport to offer improved signal-to-noise ratios and ultimately lead to a higher overclocking ceiling.

Overclockers comfortable mucking around with advanced voltage controls will have the ability to disable Vdroop in the "enhanced" BIOS and avoid sagging voltage at higher overclocks. And for those that are more apprehensive when it comes to advanced level tweaks, Evga's BIOS will include several pre-validated voltage settings.

The board is available now for $340 direct from Evga.

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avatarI really wish they would

I really wish they would make ATI compatible boards instead.

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avatarWhy release a new 790i

Why release a new 790i motherboard so close to the release of Intel's new Nehalem CPU's? Most of us are going to be buying Nehalem CPU's and new motherboards for the new cpu's in a few months anyway. I hope these motherboards are cheap because they are about to become extemely obsolete very soon.

 

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avatarFTW? Really?

 I'm a biker and FTW means something completely different than what EVGA probably meant it to...so when I read it, I have to laugh.

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avatarfascinating

Huh, that would be really interesting... if this were MaximumBicycle.com.

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avatarLiquid Nitrogen

Just add some liquid nitrogen and they could have a product. I would concentrate on better or tighter placement of all the chips and finding ways to cool the actual chipset themselves instead of having bigger and "better" cooling methods...

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