Phenom II x4 955 be mobo help

[bird187]

Hi im looking forward to buying a motherboard that fully supports Phenom II x4 955 black edition.Im looking for a nvidia chipset with ddr-2 since i have the ddr-2 1066mhz and dont have money to upgrade to ddr-3.Also the motherboard needs to be sli compatible with pny geforce 9800gtx+ 512mb vram.

ANY IDEAS? Really need help finding good board sli with phenom II x4 955 be.The budgets 120 or less on the motherboard purchase.

 

[bird187]

Sorry for reposting but would this be ok? http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/614 .Is it fully compatible with 955be and sli?

 

[FreyG]

Unfortunately the motherboard you chose has the 790GX chipset, which means it will only work in crossfire, not SLI.

The pickings are pretty small when it comes to AMD boards that support SLI, and unfortunately the choices aren't that good, from everything I know the nVidia chipsets on the boards that have SLI are pretty unreliable, having never owned one myself I cannot say for sure.

But anyways to fit all your requirements and your budget you would probably go for a motherboard with the 750a chipset such as this one:
ASUS M4N72-E AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 750a SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131367 - $119.99

Perhaps someone else can comment as to why the nVidia chipsets aren't a very good choice, I don't know a whole lot about it myself, but anyways hope this helps you out!

 

[bird187]

Thanks for takin the time to help!

 

[bird187]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128339. Could this board work with sli and x4 955 be?

 

[bird187]

this looks like an ok buy. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=13-131-367&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&Pagesize=10&SelectedRating=-1&PurchaseMark=&VideoOnlyMark=False&VendorMark=&Keywords=%28keywords%29&Page=2
pci-e 8x when running sli.Correct me if im wrong but a 9800gtx+ wont need more then 8x pci-e2.0 would it?

 

[bird187]

Well not many people helped at all.I expected more from tomshardware but w/e im buying items now.