What is best?!?!?!?1

[Cpt_wuggles]

okey so im making a new compuer and have decided to get a 2900xt (not sure if im geting IGb or 512mb)

im new to Ati and know almost nothing about it...

i was looking fore THE best crrosfire mother board. (if its posible to support both cards at full 16x)

money is not that inportant, but id like to know the prices. thank you.


P>S whats better the 2900xt 1gb or 512Mb??

 

[vertigo_2000]

I thought the 1 gig version was only available to OEM's? No?

What's better? The 1 gig of course.

 

[Maziar]

we dont have any core2duo P35 chipset that supports 2x16 , but here is a nice article of 2900xt 1gb vs 512 :

http://firingsquad.com/hardware/diamond_radeon_2900_xt_1gb/

 

[Gravemind123]

Crossfire at full x16 won't happen for Core2Duos until Intel releases X38 in September. Currently your options are P35 and P965 at x16/x4 or 975X at x8/x8. 975X is an older chipset, and at this point I wouldn't recommend buying a motherboard based on it. If you really feel like you are going to use crossfire, which isn't a very economical option, then you will have to wait for X38 to be out.

 

[SEALBoy]

Crossfire at full x16 won't happen for Core2Duos until Intel releases X38 in September. Currently your options are P35 and P965 at x16/x4 or 975X at x8/x8. 975X is an older chipset, and at this point I wouldn't recommend buying a motherboard based on it. If you really feel like you are going to use crossfire, which isn't a very economical option, then you will have to wait for X38 to be out.

Off topic... the 975X is newer than the P965.

On topic... What CPU will you be using?

 

[itheral]

Whoever told you the 975 is newer then the p965 needs his head examined.. the 975 is ~ a year older

 

[Cpt_wuggles]

i will be using q6600 and i was hopeing to find a crossfire mobo that will
have 2 x 16x and ddr2....

 

[Cpt_wuggles]

if there are non of those mobos then what is THE BEST crosfire mobo?

 

[Gravemind123]

Asus P5W-DH Deluxe, Intel 975X Bad Axe 2 or Abit AW9D-Max if you are going to run crossfire, x8/x8 should be better then x16/x4. If you wait until September however, you can get dual PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots, since X38(the replacement of 975X) will be out. If you don't mind the x16/x4 configuration then an Asus P5K series board would be good.

 

[Cpt_wuggles]

when in september? and how much will it be and dose it suport ddr 2?? i HTAE ddr3

 

[Cpt_wuggles]

oh and i decided to go with the asus hd 2900xt

 

[SEALBoy]

Whoever told you the 975 is newer then the p965 needs his head examined.. the 975 is ~ a year older

My bad, I assumed higher numbers meant newer.... sorry.

 

[Cpt_wuggles]

yes the p965 is newer than 975...

 

[aevm]

when in september? and how much will it be and dose it suport ddr 2?? i HTAE ddr3

On September 6 at 4:26 :lol: Now seriously, nobody knows exactly. There are rumors about some X38 boards with DDR2, but again nothing sure yet.

You can either get a P5W-DH Deluxe now or wait 2 or 3 or 4 weeks. Not worth waiting, IMO, but it's your choice.

Why I wouldn't wait:
- the 2900xt doesn't need the additional bandwidth of PCI-E 2.0, and by the time you throw away your 2900xt cards you'll be able to get a much nicer motherboard too.
- X38 mobos will be expensive and they will have bugs - like any brand new technology

 

[aevm]

yes the p965 is newer than 975...

I believe 8600 GTS is newer than 8800 GTS too, right? It's a conspiracy, they want to confuse us

 

[Cpt_wuggles]

yeah,, <_<

>_>

*sneaks away*

 

[cyberlan]

I beleive that the nvidia 680i can run 2 x 16 PCIe

 

[aevm]

Yeah, but only with nVidia cards, that's called SLI. The OP wanted to know about Crossfire, i.e. two ATI cards.

 

[Cpt_wuggles]

if current crossfire can beat gtx then 2x 16 will own!

 

[Dr_asik]

If you want to have 2 HD 2900XTs in Crossfire, you're gonna need a KILLER power supply. Like, PC Power and Cooling 1000W.

 

[dradoc]

when in september? and how much will it be and dose it suport ddr 2?? i HTAE ddr3

I would wait until X38 mobo's start shipping; look for them mid september. As far as PSU goes you will need a biggy like Dr_Asik says above. I went with enermax galaxy dxx 850w. see it http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817194020
Anice thing about the x38 mobo's is that not only will it support 45nm cpu's but it will also support both ddr2 and 3. You say you hate ddr3 and i am guessing that is because of the elevated timings we have available at the moment. Remember though, thats just for the time being. Timings will improve quite a bit in the next 6 months or so and in the mean time you could use ddr2 ram.

 

[aevm]

Not all x38 motherboards will have dual support. At least, I don't expect that, it would be bad business practice to add $30 or whatever to all of them when most people don't care.

And TBH it's not the timings that bother me about DDR3, it's the cost. They cost several times more than DDR2 with the same performance.

 

[arif_shol]

check this site : http://comparemb.tripod.com/

 

[Guywoody]

try this board:
-Asus Blitz Formula Intel p35
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-239-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=913

 

[Rabidpeanut]

The 1 gig is not that much better, really. And in some games it is not good at all. But if you can afford 2 of them then get them as soon as you can. An 800watt psu will be able to handle it but daamit...

Don't get the new stuff, i got my amd64 when it was BRAND NEW and all they had was the crap via chipset which made a 3500+ look like a 486. So avoid the newest techs.

No clue what mobo you need cause i am waiting for am3 to come before i do research.

If you want to see how much better the crossfire is than the 8800

www.tweaktown.com