Looking to build a new PC...

[ace_master]

First off, I haven't been shopping for internal PC parts in like 4 years. So I'm a bit behind.

I already have a great video card already(Radeon HD6970), and have no intentions of ever crossfiring more than 2 video cards on my new Mobo... but as I check out all the top MOBOs on the market, they all seem to have 3-4 slots for video...

I really want to get a great future proof board (looking mainly at x79's), but when I throw $300+ down on a new board, How much of a premium am I paying for those 2 video slots that i'll likely never use?

The boards I'm looking at are:
- ASUS Rampage IV Extreme
- GIGABYTE G1.Assassin 2
- ASUS Maximus IV Extreme-Z

I use the computer for everything from HD gaming and bluray to the TV, to some pretty intense multitasking.

 

[M1kkelZR]

me personally id get the
ASUS Rampage IV Extreme
because of the socket mostly id think, AM3 has backwards compatibilty with AM2/AM2+ and runs X6 etc

 

[StrangleHold]

Most of the premium your paying for a upperend board is not the extra PCIe slots. Some of it is if the board has 8X/8X or 18X/16X in C/F or SLI. But most of it is because its a higher quality board. Better power phase setup/ better mosfets/ more copper in the board/better cooling/ more bios features and so on.