GTX 660 SLI or other options?

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sikko

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Opinion required.

Budget:
US$500
Goal:
Maximum frames - minimum bucks. I can accept the drawbacks of SLI on games that do not have support.
The plan:
Overclock my i7-860 (Lynfield/Nehalem) up as far as possible. 3.8GHz seems easily possible.
Replace Crossfire motherboard with 1156 SLI capable board and go SLI.
Rationale:
CPU has life in it.
GTX 660 is cheap to purchase
MB is cheap to replace.
Significantly cheaper than a new CPU, MB, and GPU. (i7-4770K, Haswell MB, and another 660 or replace with 770/780).

The current rig:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3P (rev. 1.0)
CPU: i7-860 Lynfield/Nehalem
Memory: 16GB DDR3-1333
PSU: "Beefy" ANTEC 750W
Case: ANTEC 900
GPU: Gigabyte 2G GTX 660 OC

The proposed replacement motherboard:
Foxconn Inferno Katana GTI
EDIT: MB revised to:
ASUS P7P55D-E PRO
The extra GPU for SLI:
Gigabyte 2G GTX 660 OC

Thoughts? Am I onto a well thought out, solid, plan here?

I'd appreciate opinions with a rationale as to why I should proceed.

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Kurifox

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Altough my recommendation is that you always buy the single best card, rather than sli, it seems you are already set on SLI, and do not mind the possible drawback of games not being so, SLI compatible.

660SLI is a good coice, gbyte is a good manufacture to, the OC i7 is still good and will last a while, altough i dont really recommend getting that Board, i have had many bad experiences with FOXCON, i do not think they are generally good Mobos (may not be the case for specific model) they are ussualy slow, machines i have tempered with Foxcon mobos tend to take their time in loading, installin OS, reeboting, generally i have not had great experiences. I would probably advice you to find a more reliable - wellknown brand, Asus, asrock, gigabyte, etc.

Foxcon are ussualy cheaper for a reason.
 
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sikko

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Missing the point - I already have a GTX 660 - essentially - this upgrade would "add another one"
 
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sikko

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I am no fan of Foxconn either, but general availability of 1156 socket SLI motherboards, is well, sketchy, at best :)
 
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Kurifox

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True, did not think of that variable.
 
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sikko

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A bit of creative Google hunting turned up a local source for an;
ASUS P7P55D-E PRO

How is this looking now, that board has all the mod' con's and is a preferred supplier of mine.
 
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Kurifox

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Much safer bet than the Foxcon, suports SLI, your i7 and has 3.0usb for the bonus.
Seems like its a GO!.

Have fun
 
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sikko

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By way of an update, as much to document this for me as anyone else. CPU has gone to 3.6GHz, motherboard was upgraded to the ASUS P7P55D-E PRO as earlier detailed. About to SLI.

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