just a noob
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Could anybody tell me, what motherboard(and provide a link) as to what one i need, and if it would be duo core compatible
quad crossfire mobo
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The only boards that I know of right now that have Quad crossfire is AMD AM2+
just a noob
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poo :\ dunno how good phenom is what is the max speed/processer they have right now?
edit: will it fit in an antec nine hundred case?
edit: will it fit in an antec nine hundred case?
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just a noob
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what do you suggest then? if i can't put an intel in with 4 way crossfire
The fastest right now is a 9600BE Phenom, its unlocked but is still slower clock for clock and doesnt overclock as well as the Q6600. For the amount of money for a Quad crossfire setup I dont know if it would be worth it or not.
just a noob
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well anything would probably be faster than the pentium 4 and the 512mb of ram in the current computer im using right now
240 bucks for a Quad core Phenom is not bad, but considering the Intel Q6600 is just around 280 the Phenom doesnt look that great. But if your not into mine is faster than yours and you dont overclock that much or at all the Phenom not a bad deal. But price wise I was talking about the price of video cards to run Quad Crossfire, the performance doesnt match the price.
just a noob
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meh i was gunna buy a couple of 7950's off ebay and do quad sli people said it was out rageous i can pick up the 2 7950's for 750 dollars compaired to the 1k for the quad sli :\
Well 2 cards is just crossfire, Quad crossfire is 4 cards. Are you going for Nvidia SLI or AMD/ATI Crossfire? If yor just going with 2 cards in SLI you can get like a LGA 775 with a 680i or 780i nvidia chip and run 2 in SLI with a Core 2
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Yea I guess you could say 2 7950X2 or 3870X2 are quad SLI or Crossfire, sorta kinda. I havent looked into it but I wonder if AMD has drivers for there Tri and Quad crossfire boards for running 3 or 4 3870X2s. The only board I have saw with 4 PCIe video slots is a Gigabyte but the slots are side by side so you could only run single slot cards, but theres a few with three that can run dual slots cards. Wonder how 3 3870X2 would scale.
AMD plans to release CrossfireX (quad crossfire) drivers in March. They've already released beta drivers to testers'. Running two 3870 X2 cards gives you CrossfireX. I'm not certain, but I believe you can run CrossfireX on any Intel chipset with two PCI-e slots. All you need are the drivers and the bridge.
I knew about the dual X2 cards crossfire drivers, but a few boards have 3 and 4 slots and I think they have drivers for the 3 card crossfire for single GPUs, not for sure about the quad slot set up though. But most of the board with 4 slots you cant run dual slots cards anyways. I would not pay for it but I would like to see what a tri crossfire setup would do with 3 3870X2s
That would be interesting. You'd, essentially, be running six GPUs. AMD would have to release drivers for that type of setup as well. Haven't heard anything about that, but it would be pretty cool.
lovely?
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your right they only support the normal crossfire atm.
contrary to what many people think, it is not considered crossfire with one of those because the 3870x2 has essentially two cards on it, exactly like we do not consider a quad core two dual core's in sli lmao.
That is true, they would have to release models with 2 connectors and drivers. Three of those, two or three harddrives and couple of DVD burners, big P/S, good case. The stack would be 75lbs.
According to ceewi1, it should. http://www.computerforum.com/90110-power-recommendations-video-card.html#post703143