On board graphics after discrete card installation

I am not sure what the question is, but this is what I think you are asking. If you are asking why spend more money on a mobo with a
higher-end onboard GPU if you will be buying a separate GPU later, then there is no reason.  

Exactly, its going to take a long time before we can play crysis at full HD only with on board graphics.:-p. So is a really expensive mobo even needed?

And how about some suggestions on the 880G mobos??

Agreed, but do you need a really powerful on board graphics? Wont even under powered graphics do for trouble shooting?

Lets not forget my old Lenovo P4 with 128 mb graphics lol.

Here you go. Great mobo:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Currently I am doing my school, when I am done with a little bit more I will do some research and get back to you on that.  

Thanks man. Seems good. But how is it for over clocking? Water colled Black editions only for me so its a concern. And I dont have money for a cross hair iV so...

School??
Me at work man.. chill and thanks any way.

That looks like a good mobo, just you said you wanted 2 PCI-E x16 slots, that only has one.  

Ya I noticed. What about the older LEO platforms?? The 780 series etc. Two or more slots are a must as i need to crossfire.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... take a look at that. It is an SLI motherboard, but I think XF works on SLI mobos. Tell me what you think of it.  

Actually, I think you would like this one more, It was made for XF. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... Check it out.  

yes i don't think it matters how powerful your onboard graphics card is. even if it does hybrid crossfire with a decent card the difference hybrid crossfire makes is nullified. heck once they start putting a weak gpu on cpu with the new amd and intel chips then onboard graphics cards won't have a purpose

Oops. Here is one with 2 PCI-E x16 slots:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

If you want to step up to the 890 class, this one is a good deal as well:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Hey its got a single x16 slot. Butit can be split into 2 x8 slots. Bit of a waste actually.

When you split a x16 slot into x8 it only takes off a very very small percentage of performance. Sometimes it is so small even in benchmarks it does not detect it. It is a good mobo.   look at this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

Agreed again. An x4 is a strict no no though.

GRRRRRR... look, when you split a x16 into two dual x8s it takes very very litle to no performance away! You will see no difference! That is probably one of the best mobos you can get for the price and WILL do what you want it to do. I do not think you get it, it is NOT 2 x4, it is two x8. The x8 will NOT hurt performance!  

I know dude. Chill. I meant that a 2 into X4 is a strict no no. should have mentioned. You might remember thewhen the ASUS Pro had been launched a lot of guys complained that a 2 x X8 is a pain. Actual benchmarks showed little change.

But it does make you think how 2 580's on 2 x X8 will perform against 2 5850's on 2 x X16. Theoritically only half the bits are being moved every second. When you consider tera flop based perfomance that modern GPU's give it seems a no concern at the moment . But more graphically intensive games with more computations could change the scenario soon enough.

I dont think anything is enough any more for more than a year. Its all speculation again.

The 5870 for example would have been one of the top 10 super computers on the planet 15 years ago. AGP's were the norm 8 years back.So.....

And yes...its a killer deal. Thanks man.

Well, if you want me to help you find a 16x mobo I will. I have more school though.  

No problem. So are you getting it?

Dude any help would be brilliant. Feeling old on this site though. Every one here in school while me working and stuff.

Thanks man.

Alright, give me an hour or 2 and I will get back to you.  

Following the following time line. Waiting for year end incentives to hit.

1. End of December - 6870
2. End of March - New proc + Mobo + 6870 again for xfire.
3. End of June - 32" lcd. Fed up of my 19 inch.

Take a day....no hurry. If I can fit the whole thing within $1500 will pick the whole thing up for christmas.
Thanks again.

One more thing before I go back to school. I have one PCI-E 2.0 x16 slot on my board, the hd6850 I want says it needs a PCI-E 2.1 x16 slot. Will it still work?

Apparently, v2.1 supports some of the management, support and troubleshooting features of PCIe v3.0 when that becomes available but it runs at v2.0 speeds. Wont be a problem at all. Just OC your card for more of a kick i suggest.

Here are three motherboards that I think would peek your interest, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

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