Motherboard & Memory recomendation

[satchmo2002]

Which would you guys say is the better board for a high end gaming system with 2 crossfire 5870's and possibly a 9800 for physx.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128415

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130223


also i'm curious of how the imc in the amd processor can handle DDR3 1600. I am going to use 8gb of ram so would you recommend DDR3 1333 or DDR3 1600?

 

[satchmo2002]

bump

 

[saint19]

Hi newcomer and welcome to the Tom's hardware forum.

I would get the 790FX-GD70

 

[satchmo2002]

why would you make that choice?

 

[saint19]

Support more ram speeds, and IMO can delivery the same performance that the gigabyte at a less price.

 

[jemm]

for a high end gaming system DDR3 1600, tough DDR3 1333 would do it with minimum difference

 

[satchmo2002]

Is DDR3 1600, really be a big difference over DDR3 1333?

 

[saint19]

See yourself, the difference isn't big, in fact, is more small that DDR2 800MHz and DDR2 1066MHz