• Best AM3 DDR2 SLI Motherboard?
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Hi. I'm upgrading my current machine, and planning to getting a II x4 965 around July (along with an Antec 300 or CM II 690). I'm trying to find an AM3 DDR2 motherboard (because I don't feel like dropping another 100 bucks for some more ram). I already have a 260, and I plan on buying another one in the fall, so I would prefer one with SLI capabilities. I live in the US, and I don't plan on spending more than $150, but going over would be fine. What would you recommend?
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130265[/url]
[QUOTE=dArKnEsS_2;22595570][URL]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130265[/URL][/QUOTE] And that's that. No other options, OP.
Great. Thanks. [editline]05:55PM[/editline] Hold on, It says Crossfire. Will SLI still work with that?
[url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131367[/url]
[QUOTE=Darrylop;22595650]Great. Thanks. [editline]05:55PM[/editline] Hold on, It says Crossfire. Will SLI still work with that?[/QUOTE] As far as i know, AMD chipsets support only crossfire, and Nvidia chipsets only support SLI.
[QUOTE=anikilol;22599455][url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131367[/url][/QUOTE] Eww dual PCI-e 2.0 8x [editline]06:52AM[/editline] [QUOTE=pebkac;22600990]As far as i know, AMD chipsets support only crossfire, and Nvidia chipsets only support SLI.[/QUOTE] Not always true. You can crossfire fine on a nV chipset and vice versa by using modified drivers. In some scenarios, no modifications are needed at all
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;22602246]Eww dual PCI-e 2.0 8x l[/QUOTE] Won't bottleneck anything short of a 5970 significantly so relax.
[QUOTE=pebkac;22600990]As far as i know, AMD chipsets support only crossfire, and Nvidia chipsets only support SLI.[/QUOTE] This just means you can't SLI without the SLI bridge connector
[QUOTE=Arsonist;22603641]This just means you can't SLI without the SLI bridge connector[/QUOTE] Which you shouldn't do anyway because the Bridge doesn't bottleneck, on-board will sometimes.
[QUOTE=NecroTitan;22602844]Won't bottleneck anything short of a 5970 significantly so relax.[/QUOTE] Not true. With two 5770s, there's a 5% performance drop between a x8-x8 board and a x16-x16 board. Then again, 5% is tolerable
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;22609493]Not true. With two 5770s, there's a 5% performance drop between a x8-x8 board and a x16-x16 board. Then again, 5% is tolerable[/QUOTE] Odd, I've seen CFX 5870 x58 benchmarks where there is actually better performance on x16/x8 than x16/x16, obviously x8/x8 is the slowest but by about 2fps.
x8-x8 isn't the slowest. The slowest combination would be x16-x4
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;22602246]You can crossfire fine on a nV chipset and vice versa by using modified drivers. In some scenarios, no modifications are needed at all[/QUOTE] Do you know of any drivers for the MSI one? Its obviously cheaper, and I can't find that other one either.
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