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- Pros: You can pretty much do whatever you want as far as the bios settings, which is really cool. Also, I've never bought a motherboard and saw such an increase in performance, WITHOUT touching the settings. After playing with the settings I am very happy with this board.
- Cons: I had to take the heatsink that runs along the northbridge and southbridge and replace the thermal paste because originally it ran kinda hot. Not that big a deal though.
- Other Thoughts: As far as the fan on the northbridge, yes it does blow air on to the video card, but the air feels cool on mine...
XFX in general
- Pros: American techs
- Cons: Will not cross ship which means down time, extremely unstable chipset and compatibility issues.
- Other Thoughts: Worst motherboard I've ever owned in my life, XFX has lost my business until they can get their act together. Don't get my wrong the tech support is nice, it's nice to talk to an American but NVidia chipset is unstable and the lack of cross shipping when plenty of other manufacturers will cross ship has me quite upset. No cross ship means customer down time. EVGA cross ships and Intel cross ships, now I do too.
XFX, here's my payback to you for a pile of a motherboard.
Great mobo, would buy again.
- Pros: Ultimate tweakability.
Don't have to shutdown your PC to overclock or change pretty much any BIOS setting. All available through the nvidia control panel. Once you get used to this, you will never want to buy a mobo without these features. Saves you loads of time when overclocking or initial setup.
Good for pairing with fast ram that requires specific memory timings.
- Cons: Max ram is 8GB, wish it supported 16GB.
Takes a little while to get used to saving bios settings and ram timings and such. (through the operating system)
The box mine came in fell apart. (the glue wasn't strong enough), not really a big problem, but i like to hang onto my boxes in case i resell.
- Other Thoughts: I did not buy into the SLI ram gimmick. Honestly. Even if i blew the extra cash on the ram that operates at DDR 2000 or whatever, I don't think the benefit would have outweighed the cost. Your better off getting some decent DDR1333 or 1600 ram. and spending the rest of your cash on a SSD. You will never reget getting an SSD. It's like your PC just got a fresh install of XP, everything pops open quickly. It never gets worse, it stays like that.
Probably one of the best 775 mobo's out there. If your not going to jump into a core i7, this is a great mobo that will last your for quite some time. I will buy into a core i7 whe prices drop. This rig can handle anything i throw at it. I have no needs for upgrading for quite some time.
q9550
gtx 260
4GB DDR 1600
intel X25 Gen2
windows 7 64-bit (previously xp 32-bit)
| Model |
| Brand |
XFX |
| Model |
MBN790IUL9 |
| Supported CPU |
| CPU Socket Type |
LGA 775 |
| CPU Type |
Core 2 Quad / Core 2 Extreme / Core 2 Duo |
| FSB |
1600/1333MHz |
| Chipsets |
| North Bridge |
NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra SLI |
| Memory |
| Number of Memory Slots |
4×240pin |
| Memory Standard |
DDR3 2000(OC)/1800(OC)/1333
Support DDR3 up to 2000 MHz with EPP 2.0 Memory |
| Maximum Memory Supported |
8GB |
| Channel Supported |
Dual Channel |
| Expansion Slots |
| PCI Express 2.0 x16 |
2 |
| PCI Express x16 |
1 |
| PCI Express x1 |
2 |
| PCI Slots |
2 |
| Storage Devices |
| PATA |
1 x ATA100 2 Dev. Max |
| SATA 3Gb/s |
6 |
| SATA RAID |
0/1/0+1/5/JBOD |
| Onboard Video |
| Onboard Video Chipset |
None |
| Onboard Audio |
| Audio Channels |
8 Channels |
| Onboard LAN |
| Max LAN Speed |
Dual 10/100/1000Mbps |
| Rear Panel Ports |
| PS/2 |
2 |
| USB 1.1/2.0 |
6 x USB 2.0 |
| IEEE 1394 |
1 x IEEE 1394a |
| eSATA |
1 x eSATA 3Gb/s |
| S/PDIF Out |
1 x Optical, 1 x Coaxial |
| Audio Ports |
6 Ports |
| Onboard USB |
| Onboard USB |
4 x USB 2.0 |
| Onboard 1394 |
| Onboard 1394 |
1x 1394a |
| Physical Spec |
| Form Factor |
ATX |
| Power Pin |
24 Pin |
| Packaging |
| Package Contents |
MBN790IUL9
Driver Disk
User Manual
Rear I/O Panel Shield
IDE/PATA Cable
FDD Cable
6 x SATA Cable
3 x 4-pin to SATA Power Cable
USB Bracket
IEEE1394 Bracket
2-way SLI Bridge
3-way SLI Bridge
Optional Fan |
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Reviewed By: on 11/19/2009
Tech Level: somewhat high - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
