1156 MOTHERBOARD

[shanezog]

what is your guys opinion, the best bang for buck motherboard for the 1156 chips,. i was thinking asus maximus III gene ??

 

[shanezog]

BTW i want the option of xfire

 

[Drake22]

i would get msi gd65

 

[shanezog]

i cna't seem to find that motherboard on ocuk!1

 

[arknor]

i would get msi gd65

me to ocuk dont sell them but elsewhere they are around 121 quid.

great board for the money

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

This article has a list of P55 motherboards which do symmetrical Crossfire at PCI-E 2.0 8X/8X:

http://www.hardware-revolution.com/p55-motherboards-crossfire-sli-performance-problem/

 

[cmndr_andi]

TBH, if you are thinking of spending £150 on a motherboard then you should at least consider an X58 route (if you haven't already bought a s1156 chip).

You can get this Gigabyte X58A -UD3R for £157 now. It does proper x16x16 crossfire, SATA 6Gb/s, USB3 and overclocks very well.

Also the Asus P6T SE only costs £151 these days.

As well as the greater PCI-E bandwidth, X58 also supports triple channel memory and has confirmed support for upcoming 6 core, 32nm CPUs.