An update on the 750i FTW:

The board itself seems very nice. I love the layout and the on-board cooling is solid. The northbridge fan is a bit loud, although you can force it down to 30% RPM in BIOS which helps a good bit.

There have been a few problems with the install though. Firstly the manual page 15 references the internal USB header, but has the incorrect location pointed out. The location it directs you to is actually the firewire header. Plugging in the front USB ports to this header results in frying anything that you plug in to the port. I lost a pen drive this way, but I've read that others have lost IPods etc. A diagram of the entire mobo on an earlier page (5 or so) shows the correct location, which is just above the CMOS battery.

The second problem that I've experienced involves BSODs when loading windows to the desktop. It was only intermittent at first, but has steadily gotten worse, so much so that I've been unable to reinstall windows as it bombs out on the first system reboot and can't complete the setup.

The EVGA forums pointed me to a possible solution which involves grabbing an updated nforce SATA driver (for the 790 boards) and installing that. Since I can't even load windows, I've got to hope that I can pull the driver .sys file off of a usb drive (the one that still works) so I can direct the vista setup to use that SATA driver for the install.

It seems like a really nice board, but unfortunately some early teething problems have made setup a frustrating experience for some. Such is the price of non-reference hardware I suppose.

Further updates to come as things hopefully get worked out.

Interesting. I'll be sure to check this out when I get a chance. Thanks for the tip

nice! i should have gotten one, did u check if the ram is on the supported memory list for that mobo? my case is too small to run 2 x 8800gts, cooling constraints and i like my computer quiet. 2 would make me run my case fans faster. on low right now and silent as heck! i got an GA-P35-DS3L instead.

Ive got a DFI Infinity NF570 mobo, and I get occasional BSODs with windows telling me the nForce SATA controller is to blame.. Ive updated the SATA driver, but still get 'em.


Ugh.. with the new E7200 out.. Im tempted to rip out my 5000+BE and buy a 750i and the E7200 and pump it up to 3.8ghz... with my 9800GTX... vroooommm..

My manual refers to these headers on page 16, and refers to the 1394a header among the card slots, and the USB ub the same place, as you said. Luckily, I've only used the USB ports, and seem to work OK... where should these cables be plugged in?
EDIT: Nevermind, I re-read the post, and saw the part I hadn't seen in the first read that refers to the proper header. Teach me to read too quickly.