Best AMD based PCIe MOBO's

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dixieman

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I'm looking for the best (ie top of the line) AMD socket 939 mobo's that have PCIe slots for the graphics card.

I liked the Asus A8V Deluxe until I realized it had an AGP slot.
 
dixieman said:
I liked the Asus A8V Deluxe until I realized it had an AGP slot.
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lol same here, if only it was PCI-E. Do you have a budget? If not then your best bet will probably be

GIGABYTE "GA-K8NXP-SLI"

ASUS "A8N-SLI Deluxe"

Both of which are ridiculously overpriced:) Might look into...

CHAINTECH NVIDIA nForce4 Ultra Model "VNF4/Ultra"

GIGABYTE "GA-K8NF-9"

There's more i think...but i'm out of time:)
 
they will probably work with any SLI card, but no one can say for sure if/when ATI makes a SLI card if it will work
 
Will those SLI mobo's work with only nVidia's SLI cards or with later SLI cards from other companies as well??
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"Cards from other companies?" :confused:

Will those SLI mobo's work with only nVidia's SLI cards or with later SLI cards from other companies as well??
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In principle it should work (i.e., the ALXs have it working on X800XTs)
 
SLI boards and cards

Instead of the ASUS "A8N-SLI Deluxe", you can get the ASUS "A8N-SLI" for a little less $s with no RAID 5 (but I doubt you need that).

Also, on the subject of which cards are required, you need to of the same card from the same manufacturer to run SLI - but there are plenty of manufacturers making; 6600GT and 6800x.

You can simply buy 1 card and get a duplicate card later.
 
Instead of the ASUS "A8N-SLI Deluxe", you can get the ASUS "A8N-SLI" for a little less $s with no RAID 5 (but I doubt you need that).
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Whoa ... RAID5 ... whoa. Damn. :D

Also, on the subject of which cards are required, you need to of the same card from the same manufacturer to run SLI - but there are plenty of manufacturers making; 6600GT and 6800x.
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Didnt the ALX's allow for crossbreed SLI as well as hybrid (between ATi and nVidia)? (yeah i know its a custom solution ;))
 
Praetor said:
Whoa ... RAID5 ... whoa. Damn. :D


Didnt the ALX's allow for crossbreed SLI as well as hybrid (between ATi and nVidia)? (yeah i know its a custom solution ;))
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Not so sure. I have heard of solutions where you can run an NVidia and an ATI to get two separate outputs (to different monitors for example). But SLI is truly an NVidia technology and you only get the performance boost as far as I know from 2 identical PCIe NVidia cards.
 
so what if you had 2 PCIe slots and you had say..... nVidia XFX 6800 Ultra 256MB DDR3 (PCIe) & a crappy nVidia FX 5700 128 which also went into a PCIe slot...?

Just wonderering whether it would be better than having one (nVidia XFX 6800 Ultra 256MB DDR3 (PCIe))?
 
Rambo at the min only the 6600 and 6800 can be used in SLI (as far as i am aware), so a fx 5700, is not an option for sli work. :eek:
 
Unless you're using the's ALX's SLI :) (you'd obviously still need to have the same cards in both slots)

Not so sure. I have heard of solutions where you can run an NVidia and an ATI to get two separate outputs (to different monitors for example). But SLI is truly an NVidia technology and you only get the performance boost as far as I know from 2 identical PCIe NVidia cards
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I checked. You cant run "performance mode" with crossbred cards however, as you said, it is possible to run other modes with crossbred cards :)
 
Rambo at the min only the 6600 and 6800 can be used in SLI (as far as i am aware), so a fx 5700, is not an option for sli work.
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Well obviously!!! :P

heh, ok. I'm not so sure about this Sli thing afterall now - what IS Sli? What does it enable you to do?

Thanks.

:)
 
Thank you

Praetor said:
SLI
ALX's SLI
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ok, now I know what SLI is and what Video Array is, which one is better? Looking from those two links, I would assume the Video Array is better. This is because (if I remember correctly) you can use any PCI-Express video card, as long as they are the same? Please correct me if I'm wrong :D

:)
 
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