Help needed quick response

[Rhysus_McGillus]

just one quick small problem
i have a asus p7p55d deluxe mother board, im looking at SLI,or Crossfire with a budget of around 700AUD
first part is, will my motherboard be fine to run it or will it bottleneck up lose proformance in anyway and does it run 8/8 or 16/4 speeds in sli/cfx, AND yes it supports both SLI/CFX
and with that budget what would be a good SLI/CFX combo, i have been looking at the 5850 as its easly overclocked to a 5870

i5 750@ 2.89ghz
kingston hyperx 2x2gb 2000mhz
p7p55d deluxe,

many thanks

 

[rolli59]

SLI and Crossfire will run at 8x8. Crossfired HD5850 would be very nice on that board but so would 2x HD5770 or 2x GTX470 in SLI (but that is probably over your budget.)
It is only the fasted cards like HD5970 that feel the bottleneck of the 8 x 8 speed

 

[marcellis22]

I'll second that...

 

[Rhysus_McGillus]

$700 australian dollars

 

[wa1]

U can buy a single HD 5850 for now and u can add another one later, no need to rush, a single 5850 is still fast enough...