You should be ok. I don't know if your motherboard supports AHCI but otherwise in normal mode in should be fine.

quadlatte780i does not support AHCI so you will need to use the windows storage controller driver and not the nvidia ones for TRIM to work, a few guides have been posted here but in short you want ...

Quadlatte, you are way over my head.  I just read a general discussion on AHCI, and have heard of TRIM; alas, I really don't know what I need to do.  You indicated that some guides have been posted.  Can you point me to them?  Are they specific to the 780i?  Did I make a mistake in buying this SSD?
 
I had hoped that I could just drop this in place in replace the old disk drive; apparently, it is more complicated than that ...
 
Thanks!

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I have a sata 3 ssd with my 790i. using the windows storage controllers (just dont install the nvidia chipset drivers, video drivers ONLY) and i have had no issues with it. Speeds max at sata 2 speeds. all is stable.

Note that if you have a creative x-fi sound card like i do. Expect to have your sound drivers disappear after a restart or cold boot every month or two. I've read its a bug with their drivers when using an nvidia chipset and an ssd. Simple "fix" for this issue is just uninstalling the sound card from the device manager, rebooting, letting them install again automatically, and rebooting.
not sure if this bug applies to the 780i as well but i would assume since our boards have the same mcp southbridge.

xfi cards have always been buggy with nvidia chipset boards, mine was buggy to the point i pulled it and use the onboard sound instead

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quadlatte780i does not support AHCI so you will need to use the windows storage controller driver and not the nvidia ones for TRIM to work, a few guides have been posted here but in short you want ...

Quadlatte, you are way over my head.  I just read a general discussion on AHCI, and have heard of TRIM; alas, I really don't know what I need to do.  You indicated that some guides have been posted.  Can you point me to them?  Are they specific to the 780i?  Did I make a mistake in buying this SSD?

I had hoped that I could just drop this in place in replace the old disk drive; apparently, it is more complicated than that ...

Thanks!

the SSD is a great upgraded and will work fine with your board with the exception of AHCI support, the only real thing you will not have is hot plug capability. the TRIM command which is just a way to keep the drive performing at top performance by keeping the garbage taken care of (when you delete files, unlike a mechanical drive a SSD handles these deleted blocks differently which requires either a program like early drive had or use of the TRIM command)  
you will need to remove the nvidia storage sata drivers, after that delete the storage controller from device manager, next make sure the nvidia temp folder on your c drive is deleted, this folder contain the uncompressed drivers from when you installed them, next reboot, you will see the add new hardware, let it find your hardware and search for a driver from windows update, you want the standard IDE microsoft driver, once that driver is installed you will need to reboot again, after you reboot you should see in the device manager standard IDE controler and not nvidia sata controller. then trim will automatically run everytime you delete files.
 
i looked for some of the guides but it looks like evga did a purge again so there gone. 

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SO!!!  How do you delete the Nvidia drivers and install the windows ones.....I try this and the nvidia drivers are still there!!!!!!!!