Does my motherboard support sli

[olds442]

Hi i have an M4A77D motherboard. Amd Phenom II X4 955 cpu. GT 220 gpu. Corsair CX600 psu. 6 gb ddr2 ram. A friend is giving me 2 GTX 550ti gpu's.

1. will my motherboard suport sli?

2. Would it be worth it to swap motherboards to run both cards?
I dont do a whole lot of seriously grafic intensive gaming. Mostly just FFXI (usualy 2 instances up at the same time) and was playing ff11 and 14 at the same time. When 14 V2 comes out i will probly play it as well as 11.

3. what motherboard would be recomended?
I would like to be able to just swap motherboards (if needed) and reuse the rest of the components i currently have.

I have looked up a few sli ready motherboards and seems most use ddr3 so im guessing my ddr2 wont work? What about the rest? I guess my main concern would be the cpu. Not sure what else i would have to swap out.

 

[olds442]

Found my answer to #1 guess it dont. So any suggestions on the rest?

 

[Sooth1]

What is your budget?

 

[olds442]

The wife will freak if i spend too much so tryin to keep the cost as low as possible.

 

[Sooth1]

It may be difficult to find a montherboard that uses ddr2. Maybe off e-bay. You may consider upgrading your memory to ddr3 and getting a newer board. Here is a good option for SLI.

GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 AM3+ AMD 990FX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128514

 

[zdbc13]

Just one of the 550tis will be a big improvement over the GT 220. Try it out for a while with one before you spend much on an upgrade.

 

[zdbc13]

Just one of the 550tis will be a big improvement over the GT 220. It's like 9 tiers higher on Tom's chart. Try it out for a while with one before you spend much on an upgrade.

 

[olds442]

thanks for the replies. i will give the single 550 a try for a while and see how it works.