EVGA 780i or wait for FTW version?

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draug

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Has anyone heard of a probable price of the EVGA 780i FTW? Also, do you think the solid state caps and the better cooling will be reason enough to wait for the board to come out, and to pay the extra money for it? Thanks.
 
It use to be $150 on newegg... all of a sudden all the prices of nvidia motherboards have increased ~$50... not sure what the deal is.

750i $150 -> 190
780i $220 -> 260
790i $300 -> 350

Whats the deal :mad:
 
If your undecided i would just go with the 750i
Unless you need the 3rd PCI-e
or the 6 sata, i Can't imagine you needing dual eithernets.
But it is just as good as the 780i, and you can use it to step up to a 780 if you feel the need.
 
Err my bad meant the 780i FTW, not the 750i FTW >,<. And heh, I'm really not an MSI fan.
 
Im also kinda on the same boat as you as but I don't know if I should just get the 780i, 750i FTW, or wait for the 780i FTW...I only need 2x 16x PCI-E 2.0 for 8800GTS 512MB SLi
 
is there some kind of eta for the 780i ftw? and is there any real difference from the 780i except for all aluminum caps?
 
Supposedly the 780i FTW has an ETA of sometime in May. Was April/May, but the April half only has a few days left!

And don't be laying hate on EVGA now ;)

Supposedly the fan on the northbridge of the 750i is a bit loud, and its second PCIe slot for a gpu is only x8 instead of x16. I've heard of other mobo's doing this also, but it makes me think that those two video cards would SLI better in the 780i, in which you could put both cards in PCIe v2 x16 slots.

So, for me I'm really thinking between the 780i and 780i FTW. Supposedly the 780i has a waterblock on the northbridge (w/e that means) and all solid state caps. How either of these affect me as I'm going to be using all air cooling.. I don't know.
 
waterblock is for Liquid Cooling....so therefore since your going air itd be a waste for you imo
 
TheInternet1980 said:
Really though, For The Win?

Gamers don't even really say that anymore.

Fail at being trendy and hip eVGA. FAIL.
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I still say "ftw" all the time.. :(

So ya, I guess I'm leaning towards the 780i board. Hell, who cares if its lifespan is shorter than if it had solid caps? Lifetime warranty ftw.

See what I did there?
 
draug said:
Supposedly the 780i FTW has an ETA of sometime in May. Was April/May, but the April half only has a few days left!

And don't be laying hate on EVGA now ;)

Supposedly the fan on the northbridge of the 750i is a bit loud, and its second PCIe slot for a gpu is only x8 instead of x16. I've heard of other mobo's doing this also, but it makes me think that those two video cards would SLI better in the 780i, in which you could put both cards in PCIe v2 x16 slots.

So, for me I'm really thinking between the 780i and 780i FTW. Supposedly the 780i has a waterblock on the northbridge (w/e that means) and all solid state caps. How either of these affect me as I'm going to be using all air cooling.. I don't know.
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The 750i has two PCI-E x16 slots.
 
i say FTW all the time.... lol

Im really trying to get an ETA but at this point i have no knowledge to pass on.
 
Well, I think I'm just going to get the 780i, as the solid caps don't matter too much with the lifetime warranty. And the waterblock does nothing for me :).
 
vanilla_guerilla said:
me too, but usually for fuck the world, or fuck them wimmins. and right, who out there will be keeping a ref 780i board long enough to benefit from aluminum caps?
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Considering the number of dead 680i boards out there... I would think it definitely can't hurt.
 
id just get the regular version unless you are watercooling...

and im still laughing @ whoever said in another thread they're sticking with their 680i WTF edition

LOL !
 
Duffman247 said:
If your undecided i would just go with the 750i
Unless you need the 3rd PCI-e
or the 6 sata, i Can't imagine you needing dual eithernets.
But it is just as good as the 780i, and you can use it to step up to a 780 if you feel the need.
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Is it now? Doesn't seem to support DDR2 1200 with EPP, everyone seems to miss that. Until someone proves me wrong.
 
It doesn't support that and it doesn't really matter because a Core 2 system is faster with memory in a 1 to 1 ratio anyways (IE: 400FSB DDR2-800 or 333FSB DDR2-667)
 
I just want to say that I went with neither and went with the eVGA 750i FTW instead...gonna start to build this weekend...:)
 
I'm still trying to get you guys some sort of an Update on the 780i FTW. hang in there guys.
 
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