Crossfire and a PCI-E sound card

[Skoobz]

Hi guys,

I am currently running:

PSU: Antec TruePower 1000W Quattro
Mobo: ASUS P8P67V3
CPU: Intel i7 2600K
RAM: 8GB G.SKilll DDR3-1600
Video: 2x XFX ATI RADEON HD 6870 PCI-E 2.1 1GB

I have a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCIe Fatal1ty Pro that I can't use at the moment because I didn't realise using 2 video cards would use all of PCI-E lanes.

Are there motherboards that are capable of running 2 or more cards in Crossfire and a PCI-E sound card?
Are there any you guys would recommend?

I would stick with the onboard sound, but I'm going to grab a 7970 this week anyway, and I figure I might as well pick up a motherboard that can run them in Crossfire (if I was to buy a 2nd one in the future) with my sound card.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Skoobz

 

[alvine]

sure you can
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128502

keep in mind with socket 1155 you are limited with 16 lanes for the pcie devices so these lanes are being split impacting the performance