NVIDIA's response
HEXUS.channel spoke to Ben Berraondo, the UK PR manager for NVIDIA to ask for an NVIDIA perspective on this. “Every company that has already released a 790i board isn’t pulling it,” he said. “You’ll have to talk to Foxconn to get the details of their specific case but I doubt it’s just a chipset issue.”
We then spoke to Rui Pereira, channel sales manager at Gigabyte UK. He said: “If we are going to pull our 790i board I have received no confirmation from HQ. As far as I’m concerned the 790i is still on the roadmap.” He did reveal, however, that back at Computex this year, Gigabyte had encountered compatibility issues between the 790i and some Intel CPUs.
Another motherboard maker we were able to speak to was MSI, in the form of product marketing manager Richard Stewart. “We have a 790i board called the P7N2 Diamond out at the moment and it has no reported issues,”he said.
So this appears to be limited to Foxconn for now. It would be interesting to know whether there are any temperature and overall stability related issues with this chipset. We would like to hear from any readers that already have a 790i boards and how they’re finding them. As ever, let us know your experiences in the HEXUS.community.
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