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kortex   02-02-2009 at 08:46:20 PM

For a good gaming motherboard (using nvidia cards), do I necessarily need an nvidia chipset? I like Asus motherboards, but I don't see any core i7 motherboards yet with an nvidia chipset. There are many more
options, also, if I don't limit myself to an nvidia chipset.

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Bronze Motherboards badge o1die   02-03-2009 at 01:14:18 AM
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No. EVGA makes an sli nvidia x58 board. I prefer asus, msi, or gigabyte for bios support.

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kortex   02-04-2009 at 08:04:22 PM
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No I don't necessarily need an nvidia chipset or no to no one makes an nvidia chipset motherboard with core i7 support? :/ Thanks.

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scrumhalf   02-04-2009 at 08:47:12 PM
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The Asus P6T WS (Workstation) board has the Intel X58 chipset + nVidia nForce 200 South bridge, enabling it to have true 3 way at 16x/16x/16x. To date, this is the only board that offers true 3 way with each having 16 lanes, but you'd be hard pressed to saturate 16 lanes on each card. There are several boards that do 2 way and 3 way SLI with just the Intel X58 chipset (SLI and Crossfire are natively supported), just look for the certification for the motherboards you are considering. They run 2xSLI in 16x/16x and the ones that can run 3xSLI in either 16x/16x/4x or 16x/8x/8x (this is more common). This is due to the X58 chipset only having 36 lanes total for the PCI Express bus.

What cards are you planning to use?

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