Need help choosing motherboard for new system

[nikryj]

Im getting an antec 300 illusion case with a 2500k and a 6950. I'm a little unsure as to what mobo I should grab. I plan on going Crossfire down the road with dual 6950s but the mobo lingo is confusing. Which would be ideal?

This gigabyte board http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128502

or

This AsRock board http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157271

I'm talking in terms of "space" and performance.

 

[Outlander_04]

Performance will be near enough identical .

The asrock is a better color

 

[nikryj]

What about the PCI slots, someone was saying something about 3.0 capabilities coming out within the next few months.

 

[Outlander_04]

When intel socket 1155 mbs run two cards in either crossfire or SLi the slots are running at x8 , instead of x16 .
And it makes no detectable difference to performance .

When you go to pci-e 3.0 x16 you double the bandwidth of ...which is technically interesting ..but since current graphics cards are not restricted by half the bandwidth of pci-e 2.0 x16 .......
..its just a meaningless number

and will be till after your processor is obsolete

 

[nikryj]

Best answer selected by nikryj.

 

[vx53c]

yes indeed. AsRock is Gen3, Gigabyte is Native Gen3 which is not the same. Means it will run the gen3 cards with a bios flash but the pci slot itself isn't gen3.