Is this any good?

Good board... memory voltage is a bit limited, but thats not a problem if your not OCing.

I plan on connecting 2 16x cards.
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That board doesn't do 16X crossfire, each PCI-e slot will run at 8X in crossfire mode. Wait for RD600 if you want a board with 2 16X electrical slots.

But I was wondering If this would give me any trouble or if there are better ones?
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It won't give you any trouble (intel boards are known for being rock-solid), but there are cheaper boards.
 
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34erd said:
Good board... memory voltage is a bit limited, but thats not a problem if your not OCing.
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How would I be able to OC it? (sorry Im kinda new at this, hope i came to the right place :P)


That board doesn't do 16X crossfire, each PCI-e slot will run at 8X in crossfire mode. Wait for RD600 if you want a board with 2 16X electrical slots.
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So I cant hook up, lets say 2 Nvidia GeForce 7950GX2 to it?



It won't give you any trouble (intel boards are known for being rock-solid), but there are cheaper boards.
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Thats good. lol. Ill try to find a cheaper one. If I see one. lol
 
How would I be able to OC it? (sorry Im kinda new at this, hope i came to the right place )
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In general, all your doing is raising the FSB. Look here for some more info: http://www.computerforum.com/16346-overclocking-101-oc101.html

Don't worry about the limited memory voltage too much though, you can always clock the RAM down when rasing the FSB.

So I cant hook up, lets say 2 Nvidia GeForce 7950GX2 to it?
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Electricly, no, you can't do it on that board. But regardless nvidia's drivers dont allow SLi on chipsets other than there own (although I'm sure nVidia will bring in support sometime). ATi's drivers allow crossfire on 975X however.
 
And I can't run either SLI or Crossfire having an ATI card on a board with the nForce 4 chipset. One tip on OCing that was passed my way sometime back was to first back thing down a little and then move one or two things up gradually until things started hanging. If you bring up the cpu first the memory clock would be a little lower then the norm.

You try different combinations to see where the max is. One time the cpu first, the next time memory timings or clock settings, another seeing an fsb change. Besides the sticky there you can browse a few OC forums to see if you find some tips there for the hardwares you use.
 
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