I'm trying to find a motherboard (hopefully ASUS or Gigabyte) that have say the x38 or x48 chipset, support crossfire.. have at least dual pciex16 v2.0 and at least one pciex8 with a few pciex1 and 1 pci..
or better yet.. three pciex16 v2.0 and a 2-3 pciex1 and 1 pci slot..
So far i havent had much luck in finding this..
My main reasoning is that i will use an 8 port addon raid card that is pciex8.. which would need that slot or a x16 slot, along with two video cards and a pciex1 and pci card.
If only they made a crossfire and sli combo board .. this would be even better...
As of now I was probably just going to stick with the Asus P5E board with sli (two independent ati cards most likely, once the 4850 comes out)..
It was this or go with the the Asus P5E3 premium board.. but it requires DDR3.. I didnt want to go that route just yet.. i have 4GB of DDR2 still usable. It also appears that the 3rd pciex16 slot on this board is only cable of x4, not to mention this board is rather pricey (limit = $280 or so).
Any thoughts out there?
Thanks
or better yet.. three pciex16 v2.0 and a 2-3 pciex1 and 1 pci slot..
So far i havent had much luck in finding this..
My main reasoning is that i will use an 8 port addon raid card that is pciex8.. which would need that slot or a x16 slot, along with two video cards and a pciex1 and pci card.
If only they made a crossfire and sli combo board .. this would be even better...
As of now I was probably just going to stick with the Asus P5E board with sli (two independent ati cards most likely, once the 4850 comes out)..
It was this or go with the the Asus P5E3 premium board.. but it requires DDR3.. I didnt want to go that route just yet.. i have 4GB of DDR2 still usable. It also appears that the 3rd pciex16 slot on this board is only cable of x4, not to mention this board is rather pricey (limit = $280 or so).
Any thoughts out there?
Thanks