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schnipps

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I need a m board that will take a sandy 2600k 2 6970's and allow for a sound card aswell, i would like to easily be able to clock the chip so something descent, so i need specced

mboard
gfx cards
chip

i already have a corsair h50 and ram and psu so the budget for the cards and board and chip is 1k

help
 
 
 
I was looking at the msi big bang marshall and posted in motherboards but my case wont fit it as its an 8 slot board, what about the asus one for £200?

Asus P8P67 DELUXE
 
When you say you need a board that will take two 6970s, you mentioned in an earlier post that you have two ASUS HD 6970 Direct CU II cards on order (triple slot coolers). Is this still the case or are you looking to change that now?

Also, to point out to others, the sound card the OP mentions is a PCIE ASUS Xonar DX.

If you want to stick with the triple slot GPUs, then the 8 slot MSI Big Bang Mashall is a good deal (especially if you get a £40 CPU cooler free with it). However, you may have an issue with fitting a massive board like that in your current case - I will go have a look at that now.

If it does transpire that your existing case can't fit a "34.5cm(L) x 26.4cm(W) XL-ATX Form Factor" board like the Marshall then your options are to either:
- change the graphics cards for dual-slot cooler models
- do without a PCI/PCIE sound card (USB card perhaps)
- change your case for one that fits an 8 slot board like the marshall
 
cmndr_andi said:
When you say you need a board that will take two 6970s, you mentioned in an earlier post that you have two ASUS HD 6970 Direct CU II cards on order (triple slot coolers). Is this still the case or are you looking to change that now?

Also, to point out to others, the sound card the OP mentions is a PCIE ASUS Xonar DX.

If you want to stick with the triple slot GPUs, then the 8 slot MSI Big Bang Mashall is a good deal (especially if you get an expensive CPU cooler free with it). However, you may have an issue with fitting a massive board like that in your current case - I will go have a look at that now.

If it does transpire that your existing case can't fit a "34.5cm(L) x 26.4cm(W) XL-ATX Form Factor" board like the Marshall then your options are to either:
- change the graphics cards for dual-slot cooler models
- do without a PCI/PCIE sound card (USB card perhaps)
- change your case for one that fits an 8 slot board like the marshall
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I think im going to change the gfx cards to double slot 6970's so i dont need a silly amount of slots as the big bang marshall wont fit in my nzxt case
 
Evoss said:
Explain...
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No onboard lucid virtu, which is one of the main features of the Z68 chipset, all they have done is place the pin compatible Z68 chips onto a P67 PCB motherboard and renamed it and charge more money.
 
schnipps said:
I think im going to change the gfx cards to double slot 6970's so i dont need a silly amount of slots as the big bang marshall wont fit in my nzxt case
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Yea, good plan.

The triple slot cards are nice if you are only running the one, but for crossfire they are a nightmare. You will now have a much wider range of boards to look at. May I ask what you are mainly doing with your system and will you use any of the Z68 specific features like SSD caching and Intel Quick Sync?

It may be worth considering a MSI Twin Frozr III cooled HD 6970 or GTX 570, however with crossfire you are usually better off in terms of cooling to go with coolers (like the stock ones) that exhaust most of their heat out of the back of the case.
 
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I have toyed with 2 580's but its nearing 200 quid more for 2 of them i think its a bit too much, i think a triple slot cards as you say are a bit daft in xfire.
 
GD65, Asrock Extreme6 P67, Asrock Extreme4 Z68, Asus P8Z68-V Pro, Gigabyte Z68X-UD3P. Quite a few good boards I'd have a look at with available triple-slots and a usable pci-e.
 
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700w im not going to go for 580's just to much money really, i think i will go for the asrock, do many boards have wireless lan built in these days?
 
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