- Form Factor - ATX
- USB 2.0 Port - 10
- Pin Count - LGA775
- NVIDIA nForce 790i Ultra MCP
- System Memory
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XFX Motherboard MBN790IUL9
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Solid, stable, top-of-the-line,
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This review is from: XFX MBN790IUL9 nForce 790i Ultra SLI DDR3 1600Mhz FSB Socket LGA 775 ATX Intel Motherboard (Personal Computers)
I built a system with this motherboard, an Intel Q9450 CPU, and 4MB of OCZ memory. Booted up fine, Windows Vista installed with no additional drivers as long as you don't use RAID (though I did put the latest chipset drivers on when Windows finished installing.)
Now that it's up and running with Windows updates applied & software loaded, it's as stable as any system I've ever used. Forget what you've heard about problems on previous nVidia motherboards - this one works and works well. I avoided building my own system for years because I thought it would be a hassle getting everything to work together, but I've had no such problems. (I did have problems with system crashes after waking from sleep mode, until I installed the P07 BIOS and the latest nVidia drivers. Now there seem to be no sleep-related problems.) And of course, it is insanely fast. Haven't had the chance to try SLI yet... maybe in the future. As you would expect for this price, the monitoring and overclocking utilities are excellent. If anything, the BIOS has TOO MANY options. Tons of ports, including older ones like PS/2 mouse & keyboard, IDE, floppy, and 1394. Even a serial port is provided (though not on the back plane.) Six SATA ports. Ten USB ports (six on the backplane, four on the motherboard.) Two eSATA ports (one in the rear and one on the motherboard.) Two gigabit ethernet ports. Only an on-board 56K modem is missing (that is not a major omission, but it's handy for faxing every once in awhile.) My only complaint is with the slots provided. There are three PCI Express X16 slots, but only two PCI Express X1 slots. The board also has two legacy PCI slots. This board could have gone without one (or both) of the old slots, and provided more PCI Express X1's instead. It would seem that anyone who would spend $350 on a motherboard is going to upgrade their legacy PCI cards too. So, if you do tri-SLI with double width video cards, understand that you will have only one PCI Express x16 remaining. If you do dual SLI, you'll have a legacy PCI and a PCI Express x1 left over. So, if you want a sound card and a TV tuner card on top of that (and who wouldn't?) you may run out of space. Less significant, there is a small fan provided to cool the chipset, and it blows hot air point-blank onto the side of the card in the top PCI Express X1 slot. I wish they would have oriented the fan to blow in a more benign direction. In summary, this motherboard is not cheap, but it's terrifically fast, customizable, and expandable. If you're not on a budget, consider this for your next system.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wow best of the best motherboard out there...,
This review is from: XFX MBN790IUL9 nForce 790i Ultra SLI DDR3 1600Mhz FSB Socket LGA 775 ATX Intel Motherboard (Personal Computers)
Wow...this motherboard will take your breath away. No problem and its been working ever since I got it back 3 years ago... I bought another XFX motherboard for my son and he also loved it. Its the best if you plan to build a super fast gaming computer and so on...
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best deal on a tri sli 790 board,
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This review is from: XFX MBN790IUL9 nForce 790i Ultra SLI DDR3 1600Mhz FSB Socket LGA 775 ATX Intel Motherboard (Personal Computers)
My Asus striker extreme motherboard was in for repair and I didnt want to wait for it be be reurned so what does a hardcore computer user do? Simple.... buy another sli motherboard for the meantime. I looked at the egva verson of this motherboard back when it was new (and $300 retail) and it was very tempting.... now a few years later I find this great deal on a referb one.
I was a little worried from the reviews but in desprite need of a tri sli 775 motherboard I figured why not. When I got the board it was not open box, dent box or even looking or labeled referbished. Its possible I got lucky but this looks 100% new to me. The motherboard runs GREAT! I had ZERO issues hooking it up and it runs awesome. The box contained more coards than I will ever need and my perfered <hard plastic> sli board. This is a GREAT board for anyone looking for a dual or quad <775> motherboard. DONT THINK.... JUST BUY IT.... A++++ DEAL.
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