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I have a 790i Ultra SLI currently running Win7/64 with an e6600 OC'd to 3.1Ghz on a (don't remember the name atm) monolithic air cooler in a HAF 912 case. I have a High Point 620AP SATA3 adapter and a new SSD I'd like to put in it as well as upgrade the system to Win10. I'm just curious what order folks think I should follow.
Should I do the SATA3/SSD upgrade, make it stable, and then upgrade to Win10?
Or should I upgrade to Win10 and then do the SATA3/SSD upgrade?
Do we think it matters?
Also, if anyone has experience migrating a 790i Ultra SLI to Win10 and has any suggestions I'd love to hear them.
Thanks!
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2015/11/01 11:03:42
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Personally I think you need to give up on that old 775 platform
I really don't see what you could run on that system that would benefit a SSD or Win10
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2015/11/01 11:26:48
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A QX9650 OC'd a bit. But the real reality is that I have a lifetime warranty of the motherboard. It's distinctly in my best interest to run the crap outta this system. I intend to make it very serviceable.
Anyone with constructive input?
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2015/11/01 19:03:05
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A QX9650 OC'd a bit. But the real reality is that I have a lifetime warranty of the motherboard. It's distinctly in my best interest to run the crap outta this system. I intend to make it very serviceable.
Anyone with constructive input?
Ok.... I don't see how a QX9650 would benefit much, if any, from Win10 and/or a SSD Also you're making it sound like as if you're trying to break it down so you can RMA it
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2015/11/01 19:45:26
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Perhaps not from Win10. But a SATA3-connected SSD, yes. The QX9650 brings two more cores and a higher core clock speed.
I'm not trying to break my electronics. I'm trying to make it serviceable, just as I said, so it's something that can be used with some satisfaction for a number more years.
I thought I'd get some thought-out and constructive input here, not thinly-veiled condescension. Anyone?
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2015/11/01 19:54:43
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There is an issue or 2 with running an SSD on the 790. 1st, you will only get sata2 speeds since that board doesn't support sata3... no big deal... Also, there is an issue with garbage collection and trim on windows. You'll need to do a little more research. i can't remember all the specifics anymore, but there are several threads on here about it. it can definitely be done, it's just a little more extra maintenance.
To answer your original question. I would backup your important files, and install a fresh clean version of win10 on the brand new ssd... if you don't want/can't do that, I would upgrade to 10, then transfer to the new ssd.
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2015/11/01 20:42:17
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2015/11/02 13:12:22
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Thanks zildjian75 (nice avatar, btw) and MDecker. I've been running a SATA3 SSD on my SATA2 X58 motherboard for a few years so I'm familiar with those limitations and tweaks. As I said in the original post, I have a SATA3 adapter. I was just looking for a preferred order to perform the upgrades from anyone that might have any experience with the 790i and Win10.
The move from e6600 to QX 9650 should be painless and the most essential step. Then I guess the question is whether I try the SATA3 adapter in Win7 or update to Win10 and then try the SATA3 adapter. The only driving reason to get to Win10 in my mind is to eventually support DX12 whenever I upgrade the GPU.
I wanted to get started on it this week but life may delay me 'til next week.
Thanks!
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2015/11/04 08:48:25
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nVidia's site has no drivers beyond Win7. There are websites out there offering updated drivers. Are any of them legit?
I'm guessing that when the upgrade happens that the old drivers are replaced with Microsoft drivers.
Advice here? Thanks!
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2015/11/04 11:22:08
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I don't see that much hassle really. My wife has a very similar system she uses just to play the sims on. Be aware the qx 9650 is a really hot running chip so make sure you have a good cooler on it if you overclock any. I just put my crucial m4 ssd in it when I upgraded mine and now it boots up into windows much faster. Not sure how much memory you have but make sure you have at least 6 gigs before upgrading to windows 10. Hers only had 4 so I had to put more in before 10 would let me install 64 bit. I say start off with ssd then go chip if you are happy with performance of ssd.
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2015/11/04 12:11:00
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2015/11/04 12:42:55
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I don't see that much hassle really. My wife has a very similar system she uses just to play the sims on. Be aware the qx 9650 is a really hot running chip so make sure you have a good cooler on it if you overclock any. I just put my crucial m4 ssd in it when I upgraded mine and now it boots up into windows much faster. Not sure how much memory you have but make sure you have at least 6 gigs before upgrading to windows 10. Hers only had 4 so I had to put more in before 10 would let me install 64 bit. I say start off with ssd then go chip if you are happy with performance of ssd.
The case has lots of air cooling and the air cooler on it is a huge monstrosity that barely spins up with the e6600 oc'd to 3.1 so I'm hoping the heat won't be a huge issue. I'm trying to keep costs relatively low and a water cooler doesn't fit that description. Thanks for the heads up. 8GB of RAM is where she sits and I'm really looking forward to SATA3 speeds. I have a 680i system loafing around here, too. I may go the same route with an add-in SATA3 controller for it as well if this works as well as I think it will. rjohnson11
I have no idea if these drivers are legitimate:
http://www.driverscape.co...e-790i-ultra-sli/27964
That's one of the sets of drivers I found with a very brief Google search. I'm hoping someone who's taken a 790i Ultra SLI to Win10 will speak up. The drivers Win10's going to want to install would have to be dated newer than the latest ones on nVidia's site. So I imagine it will want to install and keep those. I could keep this thing at Win7. But if she can go Win10 I'm going to do it.
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2015/11/04 20:46:37
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you will not get full sata 3 on that board even with a sata 3 add in card. I have tried a couple different ones and a get little better than sata 2 but not as good as full sata 3 speeds. As far as drivers go I didn't need any when upgrading from 7 to 10.
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2015/11/06 11:59:23
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you will not get full sata 3 on that board even with a sata 3 add in card. I have tried a couple different ones and a get little better than sata 2 but not as good as full sata 3 speeds. As far as drivers go I didn't need any when upgrading from 7 to 10.
You went from 7 to 10 with a 790i Ultra SLI?
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2015/11/07 04:05:57
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I tried to upgrade a 780i sli board to Win 10 64x . Every time I loaded the nvidia video drivers the video drivers would start crashing , eventually hard locking the system .It did it so many times I lost my video card and then hard drive . evga warrantied the card no problem . The only way I found to stop it was to use the Microsoft default generic drivers (not nvidia) . Device manager showed as generic but it would work . No more crashes or lockups , but I couldn't use it for gaming that way . I ended up installing my last spare hard drive in and loaded 8.1 Pro 64x on it , smooth sailing now . I also remember other forum members installing ssds on mine and your motherboards & had issues with the trim . I did put in an ssd on my X58 system w/o issues though . The Mushkin eco series seem to boot just as fast as my Samsung 840 Evo . So , I recommend trying 10 on a regular hdd first . Use the drivers Microsoft installs for th board and the see how it goes .
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2015/11/07 04:20:32
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I tried to upgrade a 780i sli board to Win 10 64x . Every time I loaded the nvidia video drivers the video drivers would start crashing , eventually hard locking the system .It did it so many times I lost my video card and then hard drive . evga warrantied the card no problem . The only way I found to stop it was to use the Microsoft default generic drivers (not nvidia) . Device manager showed as generic but it would work . No more crashes or lockups , but I couldn't use it for gaming that way . I ended up installing my last spare hard drive in and loaded 8.1 Pro 64x on it , smooth sailing now . I also remember other forum members installing ssds on mine and your motherboards & had issues with the trim . I did put in an ssd on my X58 system w/o issues though . The Mushkin eco series seem to boot just as fast as my Samsung 840 Evo . So , I recommend trying 10 on a regular hdd first . Use the drivers Microsoft installs for th board and the see how it goes .
With a 780i motherboard any video card above a 750ti probably won't work
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2015/11/07 18:56:11
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At the time it was one of my 470s in it . Use to run a triple sli of 470s on it . Right now it's running a 760 on it just fine in 8.1 Pro . I put the two 960s I got from RMA on my X58 rig . I didn't see the need to waste it on a PC that was going to be reused as a htpc and do some steam streaming from my main PC .
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2015/11/11 09:16:04
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I've had issues running some SSD mfr utilities on my X58 while others worked fine. I expect the same on the 790i. Sorry about your troubles.
Why couldn't you game with the MS Win10 drivers?
rjohnson11 - Why do you believe anything above a 750ti wouldn't work on his 780i? I was going to put my GTX480 on my 790i. Would you expect issues with that?
I'm not married to the idea of upgrading to Win10, it just makes sense to get the latest OS that will run on it for long-term support issues.
Thanks all for the continued input!
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2016/02/20 17:28:22
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I ultimately decided to make the 790i Ultra SLI the motherboard for an Ubuntu Server 14.04.3 LTS build. That allows me to consolidate two old, out-of-or-nearly-out-of-support servers into one. The SATA2 adapters had issues with an OS-created RAID. I put a 3rd-party SATA3 RAID adapter (Highpoint 640L) into use for the array duties to get around that problem. All's well.
Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS on a system with a lifetime warranty 790i Ultra SLI sporting a lifetime warranty 8800GTX. Howzabout that?
Thanks all for your time, input and interest!
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2016/02/20 18:01:51
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I'd run the crap out of that board and cpu, plenty of life left, not to mention those boards are still worth a lot.
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2016/02/20 18:20:16
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The fact that it's lifetime warrantied makes it priceless! ;)
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2016/04/26 00:58:01
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Go an M.2 PCIe SSD on this board. You can also host 16GB 1.5v RAM on P10, Your OC overhead decreases a lot though. For a Q9650 your ceiling is 4.06GHz as opposed to the Q9650 max of 4.5GHz. Not sure what the max ceiling is for a QX9650, I think its 4.35GHz. Anyway, with all 4 mem slots populated to 16GB you will be sitting on effectively 4GHz (4.05/6). No more, as the board won't take the stress (maybe you can mess with timings/voltages if you are desperate). You can also Quad channel. The 4GB RAM modules and Quad channeling were just emerging when this board first came out. Which has turned out to be an unbelievable performer and bang for buck.
Hope EVGA do something similar for the emerging Xeon's E5v4 Broadwells.
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Re: 790i Ultra SLI => Win10, SATA3, & SSD
2016/05/15 12:49:35
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I tried to upgrade a 780i sli board to Win 10 64x . Every time I loaded the nvidia video drivers the video drivers would start crashing , eventually hard locking the system .It did it so many times I lost my video card and then hard drive . evga warrantied the card no problem . The only way I found to stop it was to use the Microsoft default generic drivers (not nvidia) . Device manager showed as generic but it would work . No more crashes or lockups , but I couldn't use it for gaming that way . I ended up installing my last spare hard drive in and loaded 8.1 Pro 64x on it , smooth sailing now . I also remember other forum members installing ssds on mine and your motherboards & had issues with the trim . I did put in an ssd on my X58 system w/o issues though . The Mushkin eco series seem to boot just as fast as my Samsung 840 Evo . So , I recommend trying 10 on a regular hdd first . Use the drivers Microsoft installs for th board and the see how it goes .
With a 780i motherboard any video card above a 750ti probably won't work
I once (just for fun) installed a GTX 780ti into an "Evga 780i SLi FTW" motherboard from 2008. Surprisingly enough, it all booted up and worked perfectly fine. This was the motherboard i tested: http://www.evga.com/articles/420.aspCombined with this GPU: http://www.evga.com/Produ...4A70-8D09-FB40CBFE9CEE
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