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Intel/ati motherboards?

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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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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 :D
 
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 :D
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:)
 
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