According to NVIDIA, the mainboards based on their 790i chipset "provide the perfect combination of price and performance for 1600 MHz FSB Intel CPUs. With an arsenal of SLI® technology, high-bandwidth DDR3, unmatched DirectX® 10 gaming, and extreme CPU overclocking, you will smoke the competition." So far, so good, but I don't think they thought people would find themselves in smoke, instead of smoking others...


Fortunately, no 790i-based board caught fire because of overcloking, as far as I know, but a lot of problems involving data corruption appeared, and now even NVIDIA admitted it, posting in its technical forum the following message:"Nvidia has received reports of data corruption when using certain high speed memory and overclocking the front side bus. Our engineers are currently investigating this issue and as soon as we have more information, we will provide an update to this knowledge base article."

Finally, someone admitting such a problem! I am sure this is not the first time, but in most cases, early boards with problems had their issues fixed by later BIOS updates, all being done pretty quietly. Finally, someone is honest. Be sure we'll let you know as soon as more details about this problem arise - hopefully the information that NVIDIA managed to fix it...