crossfire and SLI

is it possible to SLI on an intel motherboard?
is it possible to crossfire on an nvidia motherboard?

damn... i thought it was possible to crossfire on nvidia motherboards...

i picked my video card alreafdy a 9800 gx2... i just dont know whatll be best for the future an intel or nvidia board...

everyone says nvidia boards suck...
what do u guys think of this one?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813188024

is that what ppl complain about the nvidia boards? overclocking?
cause honestly i dont give a damn about extreme overclocking, as long as my q6600 can reach 3.2 on air im perfectly fine...
is that the only bad things about this boards?

Do a google search, I've heard stability problems, hard drive problems, and incompatibilities on 780 and 790i, supposedly it's worse than on the 680i.

x48 is very good isnt it?

Any board with an x16 slot, no matter what chipset will work with any video card. The 750i nvidia chipset is terrible, and has difficulty getting any overclocking so stray away there. x48 is great.

kk thanks

rig is done. ill place the order what do u think? should i change anything?

880 Watt PSU
9800gx2
x48 motherboard
22" acer monitor
4 gb 1066mhz memory
300 gb velociraptor
q6600
windows xp pro 32bit
Sunbeam CR-CCTF 120mm "Core Contact Freezer" CPU Cooler

Get 64bit Vista instead of 32bit XP. They say Vista is too heavy, but they said the same thing with XP vs 2000 back when XP came out. On a relatively powerful new computer, it's a non-issue. The extra ram io addressing can come in handy. 64bit XP is not a wise alternative as it has driver problems that's unlikely to be resolved due to everyone moving to 64bit Vista and skipping over 64bit XP. At this point, there is basically no driver problems for 64bit Vista.

If you want upgradibility, consider 4870 instead of 9800gx2, so you can add another 4870 later to outperform a single 9800gx2. The problem is single 4870 cost the same as 9800gx2 but perform far lower, resulting in much lower performance in the near term.

If you don't plan cf anyway, consider a cheap p45 at half the price while delivering the same performance, just no cf.

Otherwise looks good.

i plan to crossfire in the future but as u said 4870 is same price as gx2 so when the gx2 gets obsolete in a year or two ill crossfire...
is 4gb memory enough for vista 64?

Case looks fine. Although you might want to keep that large side fan off. It's a proven poor design. All the side fan does is disrupting the otherwise smooth airflow inside the case, and may sometimes worsen temperatures.

For os, just get the cheapest 64bit Vista. You won't miss the "extras" Microsoft throw in.

And 4gb is enough. 64bit Vista doesn't actually consume more ram than 32bit Vista, it's just able to recognize and address more.

It's very powerful from a mainstream point of view. I was just being an elitist. People in this forum are nuts. They have dual quad Skulltrail rigs for $3k or so. So our standards are skewed.

sweet im done then
i dont like the case though dont know why i bought it...
ill keep it for a while

I played the first Stalker, and thought it's quite good. The second one is supposed to be similar. No idea about Juarez.

and suposedly is better than 8800gt.. how about those in sli?

thats pretty good for crysis, i think im fine with the gx2 then...

hehe still isnt it playable with fps above 20? do u have a link with some age of conan benchmarks with different cards?

Well if it was the overwhelming majority having these game breaking issues on their 780i, trust me we'd be seeing a class action lawsuit already. But I am more concerned with the fact that these seem not to be isolated cases, but people running into these issues that are just not all that uncommon.

To answer your question, the X48 is a very good chipset, however you'd have to pay a premium for it, and seeing as it's only a higher binned X38 chip, it really doesn't make any sense. I'd say get a P45 board with the GX2 and call it a day.