C2D Motherboard that's good at OC'ing?

MatrixEVO

MatrixEVO

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I'm looking for a motherboard the supports Core 2 Duo, SLI, DDR2 800, and is a good overclocker. Price range: under $200 USD. Any suggestions?
 
Why did you have to include SLi? :( The best Core 2 Duo overclocking motherboards are the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 or the ASUS P5B. (up to 500FSB, or "2000FSB") All the SLi motherboards either are >$200 or don't overclock very well..
 
With Core 2 Duo came the era of spending way too much on motherboards :P

Why not just get a Crossfire 975X motherboard? The R600 will be just as good as the 8800GTX, if not better...
 
Jet said:
With Core 2 Duo came the era of spending way too much on motherboards :P

Why not just get a Crossfire 975X motherboard? The R600 will be just as good as the 8800GTX, if not better...
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I was thinking of that too. Do you think that the R600 prices will be good? I will research it.

Wow, just went the ATI.com. I didn't know that AMD bought ATI! Hmm, I wonder what this will mean.
 
MatrixEVO said:
I was thinking of that too. Do you think that the R600 prices will be good? I will research it.

Wow, just went the ATI.com. I didn't know that AMD bought ATI! Hmm, I wonder what this will mean.
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I don't know if the R600 prices will be good, but we'll see. Some "random" people have stated that they heard that the R600 was going to be 75% better than the 8800GTX. Highly unlikely, but still, there are rumors going around.

Integrated GPU/CPUs supposedly in the future.
 
Well all in all do you think it is better to have crossfire or SLI?

I found a good board for overclocking that has crossfire: MSI 975X Platinum V.2. It's a decent price, too (unlike the good SLI boards).

But I noticed that it runs each card at 8x instead of full 16x like some of the SLI boards. Is this common with crossfire? (I don't know much about crossfire).
 
Crossfire runs at 8x per card instead of 16x per card currently. ATI has also started having a bridge between cards like Nvidia does recently, starting with the X1950 series.
 
Jet said:
Crossfire runs at 8x per card instead of 16x per card currently. ATI has also started having a bridge between cards like Nvidia does recently, starting with the X1950 series.
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"Currently"? Do you think they will have 16x per card when the new DX10 cards come out from ATI?
 
MatrixEVO said:
"Currently"? Do you think they will have 16x per card when the new DX10 cards come out from ATI?
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I don't know, but I suppose they are working on something to challenge Nvidia with, since Crossfire doesn't scale quite as good as SLi.
 
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