Best clocking crossfire board

sgoaty · 27 Mar 2006 at 18:40

Im looking to buy a new motherboard but i want a good clocker and I dont really want to pay for sli since I have an ATI GFX card. Does anyone have any experience of getting good clocks (300+) on an ati chipset mobo Im quite tempted by the new R580 chipset possibly the Sapphire ATI Pure Crossfire PC-A9RD580. Pretty much dead set against asus as they havent impressed me much of late.
any advice appreciated
Cheers
Scott

Shiz · 27 Mar 2006 at 19:16

An ati graphics board will work in an SLI mobo, you just won't be able to have a crossfire setup on it.

sgoaty · 27 Mar 2006 at 19:20

Shiz said:
An ati graphics board will work in an SLI mobo, you just won't be able to have a crossfire setup on it.

Im aware of that mate but i might go crossfire one day but not sli so id rather not pay for a feature ill never use

raja · 28 Mar 2006 at 06:54

there's another 3 companies releasing rd580 boards soon Sapphire, DFI and Abit. I'd wait a while to see what happens with these boards.

Of the old bunch I think the DFI board was the best clocker for those who could get it to work, it had some serious problems, though Custom PC (magazine not a competitor) reported that the issues have been addressed, and have called it the best overclockable crossfire board available at this time, no sata 2 though.

I'd wait for the new DFI, give it a month and see............

sgoaty · 28 Mar 2006 at 18:44

raja said:
there's another 3 companies releasing rd580 boards soon Sapphire, DFI and Abit. I'd wait a while to see what happens with these boards.

Of the old bunch I think the DFI board was the best clocker for those who could get it to work, it had some serious problems, though Custom PC (magazine not a competitor) reported that the issues have been addressed, and have called it the best overclockable crossfire board available at this time, no sata 2 though.

I'd wait for the new DFI, give it a month and see............

dont have time to wait im afraid I need a new mobo now

raja · 28 Mar 2006 at 19:07

Then I'm afraid you're limited to a choice of 3 motherboards or so, getting 300htt with the Asus is tricky, not many have managed it, I'm not saying it's impossible...

Try finding out from other users elsewhere (try DFI's forum) about the current state of the DFI board, see if they are still having issues, for those who could get that board to work, it is supposed to be the best overclocker, I'm not entirley clued up on the Sapphire offering.

sgoaty · 28 Mar 2006 at 19:40

raja said:
Then I'm afraid you're limited to a choice of 3 motherboards or so, getting 300htt with the Asus is tricky, not many have managed it, I'm not saying it's impossible...

Try finding out from other users elsewhere (try DFI's forum) about the current state of the DFI board, see if they are still having issues, for those who could get that board to work, it is supposed to be the best overclocker, I'm not entirley clued up on the Sapphire offering.

Just seen the sapphire has one PCI-E slot but it unusable with 2 dual slot cooler GFX cards. Ill head over to DFI street and see what they are saying as I am a dfi fan. Thanks for your input

sgoaty · 29 Mar 2006 at 18:21

sgoaty said:
Just seen the sapphire has one PCI-E slot but it unusable with 2 dual slot cooler GFX cards. Ill head over to DFI street and see what they are saying as I am a dfi fan. Thanks for your input

Ordered the RDX200

raja · 29 Mar 2006 at 18:30

the new sapphire board is available too, you'll have to search, it's not cheap though, it uses the sb450, it does have sata 2 from what I can see. I don't know if it'll do 300htt @ 1:1 though....

raja · 29 Mar 2006 at 18:32

let me know how you get on with the DFI

sgoaty · 29 Mar 2006 at 18:50

raja said:
let me know how you get on with the DFI

I will do. I looked at the Sapphire board but it only has one PCI slot which is unusable with a dual slot gfx card in and I need my Xfi lol

raja · 29 Mar 2006 at 18:52

With the a8r32-mvp you can just about squeeze a pci card betweent the to 1900's, I wonder If Sapphire have kept the slots closer on the 3200 Pure Advantage?????

Jimi · 29 Mar 2006 at 20:19

X-bit Labs did a good review on the new Asus, they said you can use two of the three PCI slots when you've got two GFX cards in crossfire.

You can read the article here...

LoadsaMoney · 30 Mar 2006 at 12:49

sgoaty said:
Ordered the RDX200

Good luck.

ted34 · 30 Mar 2006 at 19:17

I think the saphire boards have a max vcore of 1.55v so wouldnt recomend them for o/c. Id go for the dfi for o/c but the abit might be worth it as their new boards have been good lately.

sgoaty · 30 Mar 2006 at 21:18

LoadsaMoney said:
Good luck.

Oh dear sounds like someone with a bad experience of one

lay-z-boy · 1 Apr 2006 at 00:33

dfi rdx3200.

pwns all 939 mobo's, according to tony, (ocz rep and dfi internal) its the best 939 mobo to be ever made.

the rdx 200 is ment to be very hard to get working/stable, if you can do that it should be fine bar the pathetic sata and usb speeds, tbh after the things i read about pro clockers finding the board hell to get working i didnt bother...

FirebarUK · 1 Apr 2006 at 10:46

The RDX200 is supposed to be poop. The Sapphire gruper would be a better choice although non-crossfire (I've got one, clocks like a don).

sgoaty · 1 Apr 2006 at 13:30

Ive got the RDX200 sitting in front of me but you guys are making me worried about opening it. Whats wrong with the sata and USB speeds?

lay-z-boy · 1 Apr 2006 at 14:32

sgoaty said:
Ive got the RDX200 sitting in front of me but you guys are making me worried about opening it. Whats wrong with the sata and USB speeds?

they are ****.

thats all, if you can stand ultra slow usb speeds and your hard drives not preforming as fast as they could then open it and *try* to get it to work in a stable fashion.