Recommend me a good motherboard to go with 2x HIS ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2.

[J-Man]

I am going to be going over to ATI and having a change so I'm going to sell my current GPU on eBay and I am wondering what motherboards you recommend. I'll be selling my eVGA 790i board on eBay too.


Good motherboard.

[freaksavior]

maximus formula or dfi x38 or x48 :)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=40000280%20107172333&Description=DFI&bop=And&CompareItemList=N82E16813136049%2CN82E16813136046% 2CN82E16813136042%2CN82E16813136047%2CN82E16813136 045


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131227

[WarEagleAU]

Ahh, Intel, when I Saw the title, I was thinking AMD. Yeah, the Asus Maximus is pretty good. I think it can be bios modded to a rampage or vice versa.

[Silverel]

Hehe... you can still go AMD. There's a couple really sweet deals for AM2 stuff. a K9A2 plat for 100$, 5KBE's going for 60$, I think someone has a 9600 X4 for 120$ or something like that too...

[freaksavior]

it would be dumb in my opinion if he went amd.

[J-Man]

I'm staying with Intel. I don't like AMD. :P

[mrw1986]

Intel FTW! Go with a Maximus Formula and flash it to a Rampage Formula. It rocks, I can speak from experience!

[freaksavior]

Intel FTW! Go with a Maximus Formula and flash it to a Rampage Formula. It rocks, I can speak from experience!

with my E8400 the maximus is better for it.

[J-Man]

What's the cheapest and good motherboard you dudes would recommend? I wanna see some listings :). I'm looking for a board no higher then £200 and is a good overclocker. Similar to my current board. Nice heatsinks etc.

[mrw1986]

I use mine with a Q6600

[J-Man]

How do you flash yours to the Rampage?

[ShadowFold]

+1 for
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136047

[WarEagleAU]

Its a bios mod really. That was what I was talking about in my post.

EDIT: I dont have any links for uk sites that sell that maximus formula, but perhaps overclockers.uk or something?

[J-Man]

I know OC.co.uk. I use that site to order my "bits" LOL.

[philbrown23]

as long as you dont get a gigabyte or dfi you should be fine, those 2 manufacturers have known issues with the X2's and have done nothing about it.

[J-Man]

I don't like the looks of the DFI motherboards. They looks too bright orange LOL. I prefer to go with ASUS because it's a brand I know and I've had ASUS boards in the past.

How do your 2 cards perform in Crysis, Phil? Can you post pictures with FRAPS? :D. My card only gets about 20 FPS on high settings @ 1920x1200.

[road-runner]

as long as you dont get a gigabyte or dfi you should be fine, those 2 manufacturers have known issues with the X2's and have done nothing about it.

And what issues are those phil? I have not had any problems with a P35 DS4 or the X38 DS4. My 06 score with water on the cpu and stock air cooling on the x2s... http://www.madonion.com/resultComparison.action?compareResultId=6134417&compareResultType=14

[jonmcc33]

Ahh, Intel, when I Saw the title, I was thinking AMD. Yeah, the Asus Maximus is pretty good. I think it can be bios modded to a rampage or vice versa.

Why would anyone get AMD? :p

[JrRacinFan]

Why would anyone get AMD? :p

Builders that are looking into HTPC builds that need low wattage and inexpensive builds.

EDIT: Oh and may not want to overclock. At stock clocks usually AMD outperforms an intel.

[J-Man]

AMD have gone down hill and I've told my dad that and he is switching to Intel too. I'm gonna build him a good rig (he doesn't game though because he's 45).

[Gam'ster]

What bout a new Asus p45 board OC have them for preorder and scan should have them soon, Linkage (http://http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-278-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1155&name=Asus%20P5Q%20Deluxe%20Intel%20P45%20(Socket%2 0775)%20PCI-Express%20DDR2%20Motherboard)

Ive no clue about ocing on it but if its anything like the P35 :)

Gam

Edit: fitseries3 has a p45 ddr3 board he should be able to tell u how it oc's.

Edit again scan.co.uk do have them link (http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Products.ASP?CatID=28&FilterCategories=548&Thumbnails=yes)