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Those extra letters don’t seem to help that much

The EVGA nForce 780i SLI FTW is an attempt to compete against Intel’s historically more powerful chipsets. Unfortunately, it fell short in a few key areas; it is a DDR2 board in a DDR3 world and it really doesn’t offer
much improvement over the original version of the 780i. Add to that it’s less that stellar performance on [H]ard|OCP’s torture testing and you can see why [H] was a little disappointed in EVGA.