help choosing mobo? evga680¡ or evga750¡

[topo]

hello guys i have been looking at this motherboards , but i still need some helps deciding...
im not planning to overclock above 3.2 ghz i will be using a q6600 and i might have the gtx280,,,

i been looking at the 750 for the pcie 2.0 for sli they said you get full performance with the gtx280 sli than pciex16,, but i dont know which one is more stable,,,and they are about the same price i just want to know which one is better

 

[bdollar]

i may be biased but i would run fast and far from the 680i.

 

[topo]

huhh??? so i should get the 750¡

 

[bdollar]

what kind of price range flexibility do you have for your mobo? it appears you are spending some $ with the gtx280 and you are considering SLI for them? based on your price range for the mobo there could be some other recommendations.

 

[huron]

Good point bdollar - if you're going to spend that much on a GPU, why not make sure you at least get PCI 2.0 and full x16 lanes?

I have the 780i and love it. I would get an X38/X48 and an ATI GPU, but it's totally up to you.

 

[topo]

well im going to buy the 9800gx2 for $284 but i know some people who can buy it to me for $400 ..and a year later i might buy another gtx280

 

[liubros]

680i is not very good o.c Q6600. I have a ASUS P5N-E, and can only do 3.0g max with it. then i returned it and get a evga 780i one, and get 3.2g easily. i can even boot at 3.6g, but it is getting too hot.

i don't know the difference between 750i and 780i, is it 2 way SLI vs 3 way SLI?

i would suggest you not to go 680i chipset. it is bugged.

 

[topo]

is this one good? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130159 has triple pice2.0

 

[topo]

nop forget that one ...i liked the evga 750 and asus
only problem is that evga is 40 dollards more....
and from asus i think the pcie 2.0 slots are to close to for having dual gtx280
asus http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131232

evga http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188026

 

[bdollar]

hopefully you can get some more opinions. i don't know much about the 750i but i do know that i have yet to see someone considering dual gtx 280s with that board. 780i is much more common. but i'm not the one to say so hopefully others will join in. sorry.

 

[topo]

mmm my only question is that the slots are to close to use sli with the 750¡(for big cards) and i heard the sata ports arent working for optical drives.... but i liked the 680¡ has three pcie slots my only complain is not having 2.0 and i dont know how much stability i can get and i heard is to bugged but the 750 is bugged too ...confusing:S

 

[bdollar]

there has been some nasty stuff on the 680i, i wouldn't even consider that as an option. but i don't know if anything was really fixed with the 750i or the 780i for that matter. i haven't heard much about either so i don't know. heard some good things about the 790i. but i still think most people are going intel for their sli configurations. i think you should definitely get more scoop. i would either recommend starting a post with the amount of $$ you can spend on a mobo and asknig for advice, putting in that post the rest of your system config or i would start a thread asking for advice on your whole build (and put what your total budget is) and within it put that you are unsure of mobo. this is probably the best way because people can give advice that may save you money in one place and allow you more choices on a mobo.

or just do it on this thread. full scoop so people can give advice.