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NoClue101   07-11-2008 at 02:08:33 PM

I Can't decide on a motherboard! Originally I had my mindset on the P5Q-Deluxe, but I plan on running a MSI 4850 crossfire setup and this motherboard lacks the two PCI-E x 16 ports needed to reach it's full potential. Now I am considering going with an X48 board, the ASUS P5E3 PREMIUM/WIFI-AP @n LGA 775 DDR3 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard. I'm not really sure I should go with this because it's a DDR3 board. What does anyone recommend? I also am looking at the ASUS RAMPAGE FORMULA LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard ...Does this support Crossfire?

Any advice or even any feed back at all is always appreciated, thanks ahead of time.

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M@Sc0T   07-11-2008 at 02:34:13 PM
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As far as I know all Intel chipsets are Crossfire enabled... So yes any X48 mobo does support XFire.... Get the Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4 mobo.... It's DDR2 and has 2 full x16 PCI-ex slots. It OC's well too! Im not sure about this but i think one of the Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6's support both DDR2 and DDR3... Not sure if it supports both. If it does and u really WANT DDR3 go for it, otherwise go for the DS4! It's just better... Also DDR3 isnt worth it now... Wait for the Nahelm CPU's to come out and get it then with ur X58 mobo... CPU's can't really use it yet except for the QX series which is EXPENSIVE...

So I'd say go for the Gigabyte GA-X48-DS4 and get some nice and fast OCZ REAPER PC6400 CL4 or Corsair Dominator RAM with it!

Hope this helped a bit!

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evongugg   07-11-2008 at 02:41:00 PM
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DDR3 is expensive and only worth it at the higher speeds.
Stick with DDR2 at the moment.
All X48 motherboards support Crossfire.

Two models stood out, and both used DDR2 rather than DDR3 memory. DFI and Gigabyte had the best onboard feature set, but while Gigabyte also had the most complete set of rear panel ports, DFI had the highest stable DDR2 memory speed. The Lanparty LT X48-T2R also pushed our Core 2 Duo E6850 the farthest, but higher achievable FSB for the X48-DQ6 speed might put it ahead if we’d used a different processor.

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 41-31.html

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pogsnet   07-11-2008 at 03:31:14 PM
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DDR3 is expensive at the moment. Who knows next year it is as cheap as DDR2. Since DDR4 is coming to town, and santa clause? Don't know.

How about MSI X48C Platinum which runs DDR2 and DDR3?
http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php [...] at2_no=170

Try MSI and I bet you wont regret stability and reliability though performance may not be ahead with ASUS and Gigabyte but I prefer the two I mention since performance gap would be 1-5% only.

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