CROSSFIRE and SLI --- updated....

[vladmire]

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@brown_dog thanks for the input... any mobo you can recommend?

[EarlZ]

@brown_dog thanks for the input... any mobo you can recommend?

If you actually read what he posted then you would have a solid idea on what motherboard to look for, unless you want a spoon fed information.. go over to Asus,Gigabyte & Abit for motherboard references, they indicate there w/c motherboard supports what in SLI/CF and how many PCIe lanes it has when using dual card mode.

and goodluck in your expensive set up, its either 2x 9800GX2 or 2x 3870X2

[vladmire]

If you actually read what he posted then you would have a solid idea on what motherboard to look for, unless you want a spoon fed information.. go over to Asus,Gigabyte & Abit for motherboard references, they indicate there w/c motherboard supports what in SLI/CF and how many PCIe lanes it has when using dual card mode.

and goodluck in your expensive set up, its either 2x 9800GX2 or 2x 3870X2

this setup is not for me,,, yep, ive seen some mobo offers 8x/8x bandwidth but most of them are pcie v1.0 compliant for SLI mode while 16x/16x in crossfire. well, exept for the new ones.

[STEEL_ICON]

OT: What an ass. If you can't help, then don't.

Bro, just go here www.motherboardpro.com they have almost complete descriptions and specs for motherboards.

http://tinyurl.com/63zpe6
http://tinyurl.com/6yrpqj

[butitoy]

SLI X16 / X16 mobos

Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe - x16 SLI Motherboard
http://www.trustedreviews.com/mother...Motherboard/p1
" Asus is once again ahead of the competition and is the first company out with a dual x16 SLI motherboard. The A8N32-SLI Deluxe is one of the first motherboards with two PCI Express graphics card slots that offer the full bandwidth of 16 lanes to each slot. Rather than releasing a new chipset altogether nVidia made a 16 lane PCI Express controller called the SPP 100."

http://www.hothardware.com/articles/...FIN9%5F32XMAX/

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/317/1/
ABIT AN8 32X

and the quad SLI

" Gigabyte to volume ship quad PCIe x16 SLI motherboard at end of November.."
Gigabyte’s GA-8N-SLI Quad Royal

http://www.digitimes.com/Backgrounde...&seq=204&Cat=1

[brown_dog]

@brown_dog thanks for the input... any mobo you can recommend?

Try the Abit IX38 Quad GT.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mai...8quadgt_2.html

[kwicksilver]

or you might consider this.....



MSI P7N DIAMOND

[img width=410 height=500]http://global.msi.com.tw/uploads/prod_ff8dd25448881a0028c5a479128a6a0d.jpg[/img]

Specs:

Socket 775
CPU Core 2 Extreme
FSB 533/800/1066/1333
Chipset NVIDIA® nForce 780i SLI
DDR2 Memory DDR2 533/667/800/1066
DDR3 Memory N/A
DIMM Slots 4
Max Memory (GB) 8
PCI-Ex16 4
PCI-Ex8 N/A
PCI-Ex4 N/A
PCI-Ex1 2
PCI 1
IDE 2
SATA 6
RAID 0/1/0+1/5/JBOD
LAN 10/100/1000*2
TPM 1
USB ports (Rear) 6
Audio ports (Rear) 5+Optical SPDIF
Serial ports (Rear) N/A
Parallel ports (Rear) N/A
1394 ports (Rear) 1
eSATA 2
VGA N/A
DVI N/A
HDMI N/A
Form Factor ATX

@ Php 15450 @ PCX

http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?f...&cat3_no=#menu

Good Luck.......
:mrgreen:

[cheaptech]

thats one nyc mobo....

[cheaptech]

i am betting on crossfire for the future.....

[vladmire]

thanks for the updates... w/ the type of boards you've posted, picking the best board will be a difficult thing to do... hmmm...