NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI MCP

NVIDIA® nForce® 790i SLI®-based motherboards provide the perfect combination of price and performance.

NVIDIA nForce^® 780i SLI™ media and communications processors (MCPs) are the foundation for the world's ultimate gaming PC. Maximize your rig's performance with 3-way SLI technology, achieve ultimate control with the real time component monitoring and tuning features the first platform designed for ESA-certified components, and experience phenomenal DirectX^® 10 gaming with the best platform for GeForce GPUs.

Maximize Your Rig's Performance
Get as much as 2.8x the performance of a single card configuration with support for 3-way NVIDIA^® SLI™ technology. Play the latest DirectX^® 10 games at mind-blowing frame rates and resolutions for an unmatched gaming experience.

Achieve Ultimate Control
Real-time component monitoring and tuning features give you complete control over your PC. Maximize your PC's performance through an immersive, all-in-one, 3D system monitor application.

Spectacular DirectX 10 Gaming Experience
Up your game by pairing NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI with three NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX or GeForce 8800 Ultra graphics cards and experience next generation DirectX^® 10 games the way they're meant to be played.

Designed for NVIDIA^® SLI™ technology
NVIDIA SLI technology is a revolutionary platform innovation that allows you to intelligently scale graphics performance by combining multiple NVIDIA graphics solutions in a single system with an NVIDIA nForce SLI MCP. New support for 3-way SLI technology provides up to 2.4x performance increase so you can play the latest next generation applications at mind-blowing framerates and resolutions.
Support for ESA
Provides real-time and complete PC performance management. Tested by a comprehensive certification program for system compatibility and reliability, ESA-certified components and applications bring you unprecedented control to manage and tune thermal, electrical, acoustic and operating characteristics to maximize your PC's performance.
NVIDIA Control Panel
NVIDIA Control Panel allows you to take full advantage of ESA. Easily adjust PC characteristics for maximum performance. Features NVIDIA System Monitor, so you can seamlessly monitor characteristics in an intuitive and customizable 3D environment.
PCI Express 2.0 Support
Designed to support the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, offering a future-proofing bridge to tomorrow's most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications by maximizing 5 GT/s of bandwidth (twice that of first generation PCI Express). PCI Express 2.0 motherboards are fully backwards compatible with existing PCI Express products for broad support of PC peripherals.
NVIDIA MediaShield™ Storage
Suite of features that safeguards your most important digital media assets; always reliable, scalable, and accessible. Includes support for RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 configurations and up to six SATA 3Gb/s drives.
NVIDIA FirstPacket™ technology
Be the 'King of Ping' with NVIDIA FirstPacket technology. Get the crystal-clear phone conversations and online gaming performance you expect. NVIDIA FirstPacket technology assures your game data, VoIP conversations, and large file transfers are delivered according to preferences set by you in an intuitive wizard.
High Definition Audio (HDA)
High definition audio brings consumer electronics quality sound to the PC delivering high quality sound from multiple channels. Using HDA, systems can deliver 192 kHz/32-bit quality for eight channels, supporting new audio formats.

Main | Features

CPU	Intel
Processor Supported	Pentium D Pentium 4 Penryn (Yorkfield) Penryn (Wolfdale) Core 2 Quad Core 2 Extreme Core 2 Duo
Socket Supported	LGA775
PCI Express 2.0
PCI Express x16 slots	3
FSB Speed	1333MHz
NVIDIA SLI®-ready*	3-Way
DDR Support	DDR2 800
SLI-Ready Memory
SLI-Ready Memory Type	Dual DDR2 1200
SATA/PATA Drive Support	6/2
NVIDIA MediaShield Storage
NVIDIA MediaShield RAID	0, 1, 0+1, 5
Audio Specification	HDA (Azalia)
ESA-Certified
Gigabit Ethernet Connections	2
Ethernet Connection Type	10/100
NVIDIA FirstPacket technology
NVIDIA Control Panel
Vista Support
NVIDIA System Monitor
Form Factor	ATX

NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI MCP

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