Looking for a Socket 1156 board

Unbreakable · 25 May 2010 at 20:16

Im looking for a reasonable priced socket 1156 board that will be able to xfire at 8x with out one card dropping to 4x. Any recommendations?

Thekwango · 25 May 2010 at 20:25

this possibly?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-203-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=

Unbreakable · 25 May 2010 at 20:29

Cheers. That seems like quite a good price, find it hard to tell which boards are fully cross fire enabled and which ones drop down to 4x on the 2nd card.

Thekwango · 25 May 2010 at 20:40

best bet is to look on the manufacturers website for the boards specs. wish i'd done that before i bought my ud3 instead of the above ud5. :mad:

Unbreakable · 25 May 2010 at 21:03

What exactly am I looking for though?

2x PCIe 2.0 x16 Slots?

Thekwango · 25 May 2010 at 21:16

look to see what the 2nd slot runs at,

this from gigabytes website regarding the ud5

Expansion Slots
*1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16_1)
*1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x8 (PCIEX8_1) (The PCIEX16_1 and PCIEX8_1 slots conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)
*1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIEX4_1) (Note 4)
2 x PCI Express x1 slots
2 x PCI slots

Thekwango · 25 May 2010 at 21:17

oh and you'd have to spend a fair bit more to get a board that'll do 16/16 crossfire

hope this helps