H]ard|OCP reviews EVGA 750i SLI FTW motherboard
This budget SLI motherboard provides high end performance and deep features for a much smaller cost. As EVGA puts it, the 750i SLI FTW is engineered For The Win. Now let's get to is and see what For The Win is all about.
Normally known for their NVIDIA GPU based graphics cards, EVGA has been selling EVGA branded motherboards for some time now. Their boards' up to this point have all been NVIDIA reference designs created by NVIDIA’s design teams and built by other contractors. The 750i SLI FTW is a milestone for EVGA as it is the first board released to the public that was designed by EVGA themselves. The board looks largely like one of NVIDIA's reference designs so I am not sure if this is a modification of a reference design or a ground up design that just happens to look similar to one of NVIDIA's reference designs. In any case the board looks similar aside from the fact that EVGA chose to use all solid capacitors in the construction of the 750i SLI FTW. This is a welcome change as I've always wondered why the reference designs continue to use traditional capacitors even when most motherboard makers are using more and more solid caps...
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