MATX Xfire/SLI mobo

Hey, Im running out of room at my desk and at the moment my case is squished between my desk and a wall so the airflow isnt as good as it could br + plus its an eyesore, so if looked around at some cases and have come accross this http://www.advancetec.co.uk/acatal [...] 70710.html

I also use my PC for gaming so I want a mobo which has either SLI/X fire not fussed as upgrading card very soon and Support for my current cpu x2 7750 BE AM2+ (but would prefer a socket AM3 mobo if this cpu will work with it untill I upgrade to phenom II)

Iv seen the DFI lan party boards but i cant seem to find them on any UK sites Budget around £130 give or take if its a better board

the only M-ATX mobo's which support both are the X58 mobo's, and the cheapest one of those is the MSI X58M which cost just over £150.

If you want SLI, then you might opt for the GTX295, which is basically 2 video card GPUs sandwich together.

ATI has the HD4850x2 and HD4870x2, these are designed different, they are 2 GPUs on the same board.

These options are better than true SLI or Crossfire for your SFF build, they only need a single PCIe slot.

My personally feeling is, GPU technology and CPU technology are ahead of gaming software right now. As a large number of games are ports from consoles. XBox360 uses a GPU that is pre R600 (HD3x00) series and PS3 uses a pre 8800 GPU.

Both ATI and Nvidia are set to release their next generation GPUs later this year, so I wouldn't worry too much about needing more than a GTX295 or HD48x0X2 anytime soon.