What motherboard do I need.

jdm4936

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I want a motherboard that has 4 ram slots supports at least 3 ssds. Crossfire enabled with three SLI ports. Easily overclockable. Is this board good for that ASRock P67 EXTREME4. I am quite a noob and this will be my first build. I plan on adding an additional 6950 later and overclocking my cpu and gpus as well as unlocking my 6950. Is this motherboard sufficient?

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G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) Desktop Memory Model F3-17000CL11D-8GBXL



SONY Black SATA DVD-ROM Drive Model DDU1681S-0B


ZALMAN CNPS11X Extreme V-Shaped Dual Heatpipe Design w/120mm Long Life Bearing CPU Cooler Compatible with Intel Sandy Bridge


COOLER MASTER Megaflow 200 R4-LUS-07AB-GP 200mm Blue LED Case Fan


SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive



ASRock P67 EXTREME4 (B3) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard



Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I52500K


COOLER MASTER HAF 922 RC-922M-KKN1-GP Black Steel + Plastic and Mesh Bezel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case



PC Power and Cooling Silencer 910W High Performance 80PLUS Silver SLI CrossFire ready Power Supply



COOLER MASTER R4-L2R-20AC-GP 120mm Blue LED Case Fan

Visiontek 900352 Radeon HD 6950 Video Card 2GB, GDDR5, PCIe 2.1, mini-Display Port, HDMI, Dual DVI
 

compulsivebuilder

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That motherboard can support what you ask, but you haven't listed any SSDs in your component list. If you can afford it, then a Vertex 3 SSD might be a nice addition to your box. Even a Vertex 2 SSD would make it boot more quickly.

That RAM is more expensive than you really need. GSkill RipJaws 1600MHz DDR3 RAM or equivalent would be fast enough, and a bit cheaper, but there's no harm in using the RAM you've listed if you don't mind the cost (RAM is generally quite cheap at the moment, anyway).

BTW: the way you said it made it sound like you wanted to put the SSDs into the DIMM sockets - I'm sure you didn't mean that :)
 

jdm4936

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Oh yea the wording on that was bad I want a motherboard that has ram slots and supports 3 ssds. I will be adding the ssds in the future and reinstalling my os into it.