Intel/ati motherboards?

[magibeg]

Hey after doing some extensive searching with hours of googling and review reading it seems i'm unable to find any LGA775 ati crossfire boards with 2 pci-express slots with the full 16 lanes each. I know that the 8800 cards from nvidia need the full 16 lanes in each in order to run in SLI so i assume the x2800's will as well but i cant seem to find any socket 775 mobos that run crossfire with the full set of lanes. Anyone know anything about any new motherboards comming out or am i overlooking a few that already have these features.

 

[Nitro-Max]

why settle for 2 cards when you can have four hehe

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-180-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=174

 

[magibeg]

Omg, can that board actually do crossfire? If that board is as good as it sounds i might have a new favourite for my next mobo purchase! Apparently it can hit 500fsb as well which is pretty impressive.

 

[Frogger]

looked at this one too and yes it can do x-fire BUT spec shows Expansion Slots 4 x PCI-E x 16 slots (at x8, x8, x4, x8 or at x16, x0, x4, x0)
2 x PCI 2.2 slots .... no 2x16 any board on the 975 chipset will only do 1x16 or 2x8 for x-fire F

 

[Completely Bonkers]

Dont panic. Benchmarks show that PCIex8 achieves 99% of what a PCIex16 can do with a top GPU. So 2x PCIex8 for crossfire is fine.

There's an article somewhere, testing x4 x8 and x16 by "taping" the connections to lock out the lanes. It was a good article... but can't find it. Maybe someone else knows where it is.

 

[largon]

Keep in mind the R600 will feature an onboard bridge connector for CF that will decrease performance hit from using x16 + x8 (or even x4) lanes.

 

[tkpenalty]

Keep in mind the R600 will feature an onboard bridge connector for CF that will decrease performance hit from using x16 + x8 (or even x4) lanes.

Yeah, its better than SLI because its a SERIAL connection. None of that "your 8800 will not function in an 8x slot" bullshit for the R600, 16x will be utilised properly in like two years time so yeah I don't get the point.

 

[magibeg]

So with the R600 theres no worries about not having 2x pc-express 16x slots then? Because that would be just dandy and make my life a lot simpler

 

[Frogger]

So with the R600 theres no worries about not having 2x pc-express 16x slots then? Because that would be just dandy and make my life a lot simpler

would say YES no worries... aboard with 2x8 shouldrun 2 r600 cards ...but like everybody... waiting to see a real card to see .... at this point in time and for the near future there are no chipsets that support 2x16 so it would not make sense for ati/amd to produce a card that would require it ....myself i'm giong to build rigs for clients based on 2x8 motherboards for x-fire ...and worry about the future tomorrow