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kdogs   01-12-2009 at 06:32:37 AM

Hey all....

I've been building computers for a while but have never understood how important the mobo chipset is to performance of your graphics card. I currently am running 2x 8800GT SLI on a Asus M2N-SLI DELUXE with a nforce 570-SLI chipset. Would I benefit off getting a different board/chipset? If so how and which chipset would you recommend? Thanks in advance for your help.

-k

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JDocs   01-12-2009 at 07:50:56 AM
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The performance difference between chipsets these days is nominal at best. However since your running dual graphics your motherboard might not have full speed on both PCI-E X16 ports and I'm assuming they are PCI-E x16 v1 not v2 (NVidia only started with v2 support in the 7 series chipsets) so in some games you might be limited by 1 or 2% perhaps?

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Mondoman   01-12-2009 at 12:11:55 PM
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It's mostly a matter of stability and peripheral performance (e.g. SATA). Intel chipsets are the most stable and have good driver availability. nVidia chipsets tend to have more features, but often have bugs (the 680i was notorious for this). AMD chipsets are usually pretty stable, but stay away from the ATI chipsets, and far far away from VIA, SiS, etc.

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