Hello people,
This is something of a "cry for help"
I'm not a "n00b" by any means, but am somewhat out of touch with the latest developments.
It would appear that the time I have chosen to build a new gaming rig for my g/f for her birthday is also the time at which technology has taken another fork in the road and I'm left a little bewildered by all the choices out there.
Specifically, I was planning on building a Core Duo-based machine (an E6700) with a brace of 320MB 8800GTS's for her, but with the arrival of 1333MHz FSB processors and "matching" DDR3 RAM, the choice seems less clear.
Correct me if I'm wrong (the real reason I'm posting!) but there seems not currently to be a dual-PCI-E x16 mobo with support for 1333MHz FSB and DDR3...?
If there is, then I've missed it. Please direct me to it 😀
If, on the other hand, there isn't, then please can someone give me a compelling reason to go for a P35-based mobo instead of an SLI'd rig
In fact, am I barking up completely the wrong tree with my (possibly unfounded) notion that a dual-card, SLI'd rig running at 1066MHz FSB with matching RAM, etc. is going to (graphically) outperform a single gfx card-ed (e.g. an 8800GTX) rig running higher bus speeds?
Save my sanity (but be gentle!)
Cheers.
This is something of a "cry for help"

It would appear that the time I have chosen to build a new gaming rig for my g/f for her birthday is also the time at which technology has taken another fork in the road and I'm left a little bewildered by all the choices out there.
Specifically, I was planning on building a Core Duo-based machine (an E6700) with a brace of 320MB 8800GTS's for her, but with the arrival of 1333MHz FSB processors and "matching" DDR3 RAM, the choice seems less clear.
Correct me if I'm wrong (the real reason I'm posting!) but there seems not currently to be a dual-PCI-E x16 mobo with support for 1333MHz FSB and DDR3...?
If there is, then I've missed it. Please direct me to it 😀
If, on the other hand, there isn't, then please can someone give me a compelling reason to go for a P35-based mobo instead of an SLI'd rig

In fact, am I barking up completely the wrong tree with my (possibly unfounded) notion that a dual-card, SLI'd rig running at 1066MHz FSB with matching RAM, etc. is going to (graphically) outperform a single gfx card-ed (e.g. an 8800GTX) rig running higher bus speeds?
Save my sanity (but be gentle!)

Cheers.