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Recommend me a motherboard

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  • 02-06-2010 5:23pm
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    OmegaRed
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    Hi guys,

    I have a Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 8192Kb, LGA775, 64bit CPU and a 4870X2 Radeon graphics card.

    I was wondering could anyone recommend me a good motherboard for these. I've been told that because my card is an X2 that I will need a crossfire motherboard to take advantage of the cards full potential.

    Any advice would be great,

    thanks!


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    VenomIreland
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    OmegaRed wrote: »
    Hi guys,

    I have a Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 8192Kb, LGA775, 64bit CPU and a 4870X2 Radeon graphics card.

    I was wondering could anyone recommend me a good motherboard for these. I've been told that because my card is an X2 that I will need a crossfire motherboard to take advantage of the cards full potential.

    Any advice would be great,

    thanks!

    You will not need a crossfire motherboard, crossfire is for running two or more cards at once, that 4870X2 is a dual-GPU card, so although it's like two cards combined, it only needs one slot.


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    VenomIreland
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    Anyway, here is a good MoBo: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/145748

    It does support Crossfire, so in the future, you could get a second 4870X2 and run them together (theoretically).


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    Solitaire
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    If you want to spend less, any good-brand (Asus/Gigabyte/MSI etc.) P43/45 mobo that takes DDR2 (I assume that's what you've got already) and preferably has heatsinks on the VRMs (next to the rear I/O section; indicates the board can set and survive decent overclocks even on high-heat quads) should do the trick ;)


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    OmegaRed
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    VenomIreland wrote: »
    You will not need a crossfire motherboard, crossfire is for running two or more cards at once, that 4870X2 is a dual-GPU card, so although it's like two cards combined, it only needs one slot.

    I've just been doing some testing in the Catalyst Control Center while running games in window mode. Selecting GPU1 I can clearly see that the activity is up in the high 90's, then when I select GPU2 its a 0% doing nothing.

    It just seems very odd!


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    marco_polo
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    OmegaRed wrote: »
    I've just been doing some testing in the Catalyst Control Center while running games in window mode. Selecting GPU1 I can clearly see that the activity is up in the high 90's, then when I select GPU2 its a 0% doing nothing.

    It just seems very odd!

    Some games just cannot use X-Fire or Multiple GPU cards so I would not worry too much about it.


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    Solitaire
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    Even fewer games support CrossFire in windowed modes :o


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