Product Application:

Intel Motherboard

Product Provided by:

Asus

Available at:

NewEgg.com

Estimated MSRP:

$469.99

Availability:

Now

Review by:

Paul

Edited by:

Scott

Review date:

April 15th, 2008

 

 

Nvidia 790i Ultra SLI Chipset w/ 570 SLI South bridge

NVIDIA® nForce® 790i Ultra SLI®-based motherboards are the foundation for the world’s fastest gaming PCs, delivering top performance for 1600 MHz FSB Intel CPUs with extreme CPU overclocking, and unmatched DirectX® 10 gaming for 2-way, 3-way and Quad SLI technology. The only platform to support DDR3-2GHz also provides world-record setting memory speeds and component control with ESA.

Features

  • Extreme DDR3 speeds with SLI-Ready memory, including EPP 2.0. 
    DDR3 is a new PC technology that enables high memory speeds on desktop PCs. NVIDIA® nForce® 790i Ultra SLI® MCPs are the fastest DDR3 platform delivering extreme speed and increasing overall system performance. Including SLI-Ready Memory with EPP 2.0 for easy, one-click, hassle-free optimized memory performance.

  • Overclocked FSB Speeds
    Through overclocking, nForce 790i Ultra SLI MCPs can deliver FSB speeds well beyond specification. The front side bus (FSB) is specified to run at 1600MHz to support existing and future FSB speeds.

  • Designed for NVIDIA SLI technology
    SLI technology is a revolutionary platform innovation that allows you to intelligently scale graphics performance by combining multiple NVIDIA graphics solutions in a single system with an nForce SLI MCP. The nForce 790i Ultra SLI MCP provides support for 2-way, 3-way and earth-shattering Quad SLI.

  • Support for ESA
    ESA provides real-time and complete PC performance management. Tested by a comprehensive certification program for system compatibility and reliability, ESA-certified components and applications bring you unprecedented control to manage and tune thermal, electrical, acoustic and operating characteristics to maximize your PC’s performance.

  • NVIDIA Control Panel
    NVIDIA Control Panel allows you to take full advantage of ESA. Easily adjust PC characteristics for maximum performance. Seamlessly monitor characteristics in an intuitive and customizable 3D environment with NVIDIA System Monitor.

  • PCI Express 2.0 Support
    Designed to support the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, offering a future-proofing bridge to tomorrow’s most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications by maximizing 5 GT/s of bandwidth (twice that of first generation PCI Express). PCI Express 2.0 motherboards are fully backwards compatible with existing PCI Express products for broad support of PC peripherals.

  • NVIDIA MediaShield Storage
    NVIDIA® MediaShield™ Storage is a suite of features that safeguards your most important digital media assets; always reliable, scalable, and accessible. Includes support for RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 configurations and up to six SATA 3Gb/s drives.

  • NVIDIA FirstPacket technology
    Be the ‘King of Ping’ with NVIDIA FirstPacket™ technology. Get the crystal-clear phone conversations and online gaming performance you expect. FirstPacket technology assures your game data, VoIP conversations, and large file transfers are delivered according to preferences set by you in an intuitive wizard.

  • High Definition Audio (HDA)
    High definition audio brings consumer electronics quality sound to the PC delivering high quality sound from multiple channels. Using HDA, systems can deliver 192 kHz/32-bit quality for eight channels, supporting new audio formats.

Page 1:  Intro & Specs
Page 2:  NVIDIA 790i Ultra SLI Chipset
Page 3:  Packaging & Contents
Page 4:  Board Layout Part 1
Page 5:  Board Layout Part 2
Page 5:  BIOS Part 1
Page 6:  BIOS Part 2
Page 7:  BIOS Part 3
Page 8:  Overclocking & Testing
Page 9:  Gaming Performance
Page 10:  Conclusion