Intel-based Crossfire motherboard

[shoota]

Hey guys, as the title suggests I'm interested in finding out which motherboards you guys would suggest for running 3870's in crossfire with an Intel CPU.

I know there are some choices but i'm not sure which chipset that is currently out is the best for this situation.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Gravemind123]

All Intel chipsets support crossfire, but P35 and P965 are limited at x16/x4 for the speed of the PCI-E slots. X38 is the current high end Intel chipset that supports full PCI-E 2.0 x16 speed crossfire. The previous high-end Intel chipset, 975X supports x8/x8 crossfire.

The only crossfire motherboard for Intel with an AMD/ATI chipset is the DFI board using the CrossFire Xpress3200 Intel edition chipset, which allows for x8/x8 crossfire.

The x16/x4 is noticeably slower in some of the more demanding games, but the difference between x8/x8 and x16/x16 is much less pronounced.

I would look at an X38 board, like the Asus P5E if you want crossfire 3870s on an Intel machine, as 975X and CrossFire Xpress3200 IE are outdated now.

 

[shoota]

Good advice, well said! I actually just got off newegg and was looking at that P5E. Great-looking motherboard, I think that's the one i'll be going with.

Thanks Gravemind for the great answer, I'm sure that'll help anyone who reads this.

 

[random1283]

yea at them moment intel is the way to go for crossfire funnily enough crossfire /amd