EVGA offers a truly excellent overclocker with an unrivaled warranty and support, and in some ways it does offer things outside of the standard "feature-rich motherboards" that compete everywhere else. Not everyone needs six SATA, or cares about hippy power saving hoo-har. But given the lack of performance we can't get to "GRRRR brute force no BS mobo!!" because it's actually rather flaccid until you beat it with a stick.

Essentially EVGA has neither the features or core performance to get what it's asking for this product. If it were to drop about £20 to £30 from its price, only then would it make a very competitive product of worthy consideration.

The bottom line is that unless you particularly care for the warranty and support, you'd be mad to pay (almost) nForce 780i SLI money for this. Unfortunately for EVGA it also seems like SLI is going out of favour too - with ATI's new Radeon beasties out the bag and the P45 chipset offering CrossFire and performance that eclipses the nForce 750 SLI at a fraction of the price, there's simply no contest.