Wednesday, October 1st 2008
EVGA Upgrades 790i SLI FTW with Digital PWM
EVGA is one of the elite NVIDIA partners that sells NVIDIA-designed motherboards based on the nForce chipsets, apart from being a leading graphics card vendor. EVGA for one, added innovation to the NVIDIA designs with its own level of enhancements, such as improved capacitors, more number of CPU power phases than NVIDIA's own designs, among others. EVGA brands these higher-grade motherboards under the "FTW" series. If you've spent long enough time on an internet bulletin board, you would know that FTW means "for teh win".
EVGA decided to give its flagship motherboard, the nForce 790i SLI FTW an improvement with its power circuits. The new board, 790i SLI FTW PWM circuitry a digital upgrade. The board features an 8-phase circuit for the CPU. It also provides digital power management. This is said to push up its overclocking capabilities. The board provides vDroop control and onboard power, reset and clear CMOS buttons. The motherboard supports all LGA-775 socket processors including the ones with 1600 MHz FSB. It supports memory with speeds of up to DDR3 2000 MHz. The nForce 790i SLI FTW DIGITAL PWM is now on sale at $339.99, $40 higher than the older nForce 790i SLI FTW.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
EVGA decided to give its flagship motherboard, the nForce 790i SLI FTW an improvement with its power circuits. The new board, 790i SLI FTW PWM circuitry a digital upgrade. The board features an 8-phase circuit for the CPU. It also provides digital power management. This is said to push up its overclocking capabilities. The board provides vDroop control and onboard power, reset and clear CMOS buttons. The motherboard supports all LGA-775 socket processors including the ones with 1600 MHz FSB. It supports memory with speeds of up to DDR3 2000 MHz. The nForce 790i SLI FTW DIGITAL PWM is now on sale at $339.99, $40 higher than the older nForce 790i SLI FTW.
28 Comments on EVGA Upgrades 790i SLI FTW with Digital PWM
@tatty. i think they are almost the same if not the same. I personally prefer EVGA cause XFX support is simply horrible.
I also thought that XFX support was cr*p, until 10 days ago I sent them my board that refused to boot because I did a bad flash (although followed the instructions) and it corrupted, within 6 days I has a brand new board on my doorstep warranty replaced (it was 5 months old), they paid for the carriage both ways and the new board was sent and from and the old board sent to mainland europe so not even in the same country.......so in this case, I personally cannot complain, although I have had issues with them in the past, like they seem to know less about their boards than my 1 year old granddaughter does :eek:
EVGA, in my experince, have been much better. I suppose it is a regional difference.