William Coulter wrote:
> I was going over the manual on the motherboard again to be sure that
> there were no glitches, but I saw one that might be a problem. It is
> using the ATI CrossFireX support for the video cards. Does that mean
> that I should buy an ATI video card?
>
> William
>
> On Jan 8, 2008 4:07 PM, Matthew Rogers <matt@runithard.com
> <mailto:matt@runithard.com>> wrote:
>
> William Coulter wrote:
> > Matthew, would you look up your link for this motherboard that
> is for
> > $80. Are you talking about this one?
> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138081
> > <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138081
> <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138081>>
> >
> > William
> >
> >
> > On Jan 7, 2008 8:29 PM, Matthew Rogers <matt@runithard.com
> <mailto:matt@runithard.com>
> > <mailto: matt@runithard.com <mailto:matt@runithard.com>>> wrote:
> >
> >
> > That board is very pricey, this board is 80$ cheaper and I
> don't see a
> > difference except this one has all good reviews. Same chipset.
> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128075
> >
> >
>
> GIGABYTE GA-MA790X-DS4 AM2+/AM2 AMD 790X ATX AMD Motherboard -
> Retail
> <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128075>
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128075
>
> Is what I was talking about. It's 159.99 but it's 80$ less than the
> GA-MA790FX-DS5(what you were looking at before) and I don't see
> any real
> differences.
>
> The both have the same chipsets and audio and ports it seems? I
> wonder
> why the DS5 is so much more.
>
>
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CrossFire = ATI proprietary tech...
SLI = Nvidia proprietary tech....
Whatever you buy, if your going to use dual cards your going to need to
make the drapes match the curtains :-)
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