SLI 775 Motherboard

Mikey

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Looking at increasing some life in my Q6600 9800GT set-up and was thinking of a SLI motherboard and a 2nd hand 9800GT.

What SLI boards should I look at or not bother?
 
I bought and end of line XFX 780i and its great. The EVGA one is the same as well. (They are the best DDR2 SLi 775 motherboards IMHO) don't forget to update to P08 Bios though.
Previously I had an ASUS P5NT-Deluxe and that was hard work.
 
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Franksi said:
don't get an Asus P5N-D!
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Seconed!

Look out for board with the SATA ports along the edge of the board. You dont have much choice in the way of chipsets. 650i/680i arent great clocking quads, so that really leaves 750i and 780i. There all pretty uch the same so just get the cheapest you can.

Or, just flog your 9800GT and pick up a cheapo GTX260 / GTX280 ;)
 
heard many horror stories about the 7xx chipsets, not all of them are like it some work a dream most don't

could get a better Nvidia single card, or try and get hold of a EVGA F.T.W board
 
Don't do it... save up for a better GPU...

There are no good nForce 775 chipsets - the 790i just about scraped through... you almost deffinatly won't get good results with the Q6600.

For the record I have experience with:

P5N32-e SLI and the striker extreme version of this (go through 4 of these boards)
Gigabyte N650i DS4L (not too bad, but not too good either - lots of FSB holes)
XFX 780i (Horrid data corruption issues - had to ditch it)
EVGA 750i F.T.W. (prolly the only semi-decent nForce board - still using it for the NF200 + SLI)
 
I'm thinking of leaving it for the moment.

May sell my motherboard, RAM and CPU and then decide what I'm going to do. Still got a HP 6715b laptop
 
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I'd probably leave it TBH.

Had an EVGA 680i a while back. It was a nightmare while it worked and then the CPU's power section exploded.

In order to get affordable SLi i sold all my 775 kit and bought the PII 720 system in my sig. It works like a charm and cost virtually nothing once i had sold my other hardware.

I'd probably go i5 (i7 if i had the extra cash) if i were looking to do the same type of thing these days.

gt
 
only way you can get trouble free SLI chipset board is i5/i7

I have had expirance with the striker 2 formular (noobish friend) his first one was a DOA second one works fine as far as I m aware
 
The 780i are basically 680i's with a pcie 2.0 bridge chip, the 680i were decent boards for overclocking dual cores, sadly as i found they were terrible with quads, my evga a1 rev wouldnt go above 3.0ghz for love nor money, when the memory controller died on it (pretty common issue) i replaced it with a p5q deluxe.
 
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