Seems there is no good s939 crossfire boards

Combat squirrel

Combat squirrel

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As title, iv been searching around but it seems nearly all crossfire boards have major issues and/or are rubbish at o/clocking, I carnt quite afford to upgrade to conroe at the moment but wouldnt mind running a crossfire setup with my current x2.........I currently have a Nvidia Nforce 4SLI DFI Expert board.......I guess I could sell my x1900xt and get a top end nvidia card.........but I like this ATI card ! ..........before you say why is it not powerful enough im gaming at 1920x1200 res so dual cards would be a big help

The mainboard also has to be rock stable (this dfi is) as im running 7 harddisks off it and pc acts as a server, its running under medium load or full load 24/7, and I also carnt afford to be getting disk errors between various raid array chips etc
 
Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe Crossfire (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-131-AS)
You may need to get a sata controller card, but there are some pci-e ones on ocuk. Such as
Highpoint Rocket RAID 2300 PCI-Express 4-Port SATA-II RAID 5 Host Adapter (CC-019-HP)
Highpoint Rocket RAID 2310 PCI-Express 4-Port SATA-II RAID 5 Host Adapter (CC-017-HP)
Highpoint Rocket RAID 2320 PCI-Express 8-Port SATA-II RAID 5 Host Adapter (CC-018-HP
But they ain't cheap, there is 5 sata sockets on the Asus by the look of it, but one of them may be an external one. :confused:
 
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Combat squirrel said:
As title, iv been searching around but it seems nearly all crossfire boards have major issues and/or are rubbish at o/clocking, I carnt quite afford to upgrade to conroe at the moment but wouldnt mind running a crossfire setup with my current x2.........I currently have a Nvidia Nforce 4SLI DFI Expert board.......I guess I could sell my x1900xt and get a top end nvidia card.........but I like this ATI card ! ..........before you say why is it not powerful enough im gaming at 1920x1200 res so dual cards would be a big help

The mainboard also has to be rock stable (this dfi is) as im running 7 harddisks off it and pc acts as a server, its running under medium load or full load 24/7, and I also carnt afford to be getting disk errors between various raid array chips etc
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Tell me about it mate,I've been looking into it also,all of the boards available seem to have severe drawbacks.

Even if you did change over to core2duo,you'd still be struggling to find a decent board that supports crossfire,ATI must be pulling their hair out over the lack of support for crossfire,as far as I'm concerned the situation stinks of Nvidia developing chipsets to support only SLI,which I suppose you can't blame them for and ATI's seeming,complete inability to develop a decent chipset of their own.

The AMD/ATI merger should hopefully improve the situation but at present crossfire is a bit of joke really.
 
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you think S939 is bad?
Try finding info on AM2 crossfire boards??

THe thing is, its not the ATi chipsets that are the problem. The 3200 and the RD600 are very good, just every mobo made for them seems to have little niggles.
Support for Crossfire from the main board manufacturers is pants!

I want an ATi chipset not for crossfire, but for the low power consumption and no need for fans/stupily large heatpipe coolers.
 
Combat squirrel said:
Plauged with harddrive instabilitys apparently, dont want my data being corrupt
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do not get this board for exactly that reason no end of trouble there is still some unstability with thr a8r32-mvp which i have but since the new bios it seems to have cleared everything up this would be your best bet
 
& the Abit AT8 32X isn't bad at all. ;)
Seems like people running RAID have more issues though so fingers point to the ULi controller/drivers.

Kamakazie! said:
you think S939 is bad?
Try finding info on AM2 crossfire boards??
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they are coming but it's been availability of the chipset that has delayed them.
Abit from the start said expect the AT9 32X not before September.
 
Looking at the A8R32-MVP, it would appear that once I've slapped my Crossfired X1900's in, that I'll have no PCI Express slots to use with a future SCSI card.

Is there any s939 crossfire board which allows the use of a PCI Express slot, while at the same time taking a pair of X1900's?

Crossfire seems more trouble than its worth atm...
 
the problem with the currant 939 crossfire boards is that they do not use ati sb600 but the uli sb which seems to have a lot of problems with the i/o.
i would like to get a crossfire board but i am going to hold off untill its sorted.
 
Combat squirrel said:
As title, iv been searching around but it seems nearly all crossfire boards have major issues and/or are rubbish at o/clocking, I carnt quite afford to upgrade to conroe at the moment but wouldnt mind running a crossfire setup with my current x2.........I currently have a Nvidia Nforce 4SLI DFI Expert board.......I guess I could sell my x1900xt and get a top end nvidia card.........but I like this ATI card ! ..........before you say why is it not powerful enough im gaming at 1920x1200 res so dual cards would be a big help

The mainboard also has to be rock stable (this dfi is) as im running 7 harddisks off it and pc acts as a server, its running under medium load or full load 24/7, and I also carnt afford to be getting disk errors between various raid array chips etc
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What's wrong with the one in my sig?
 
I have the DFI CFX3200-DR and haven't had any problems.

Brought it from OcUK although they seem to have stopped selling it now for some reason? :confused:

Had my 4000+ @ 3.1GHz stable without a single problem :)
 
Yes, cools a little better at idle, but max temps seem much lower (could reach 85, but I think 65 is max) but much much quieter. At 2000 rpm I can't hear it, still quieter than the X1900XT stock cooler at idle as the stock cooler makes a low droaning sound. And if you have one you know what it's like during gaming.
 
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Yes, cools a little better at idle, but max temps seem much lower (could reach 85, but I think 65 is max) but much much quieter. At 2000 rpm I can't hear it, still quieter than the X1900XT stock cooler at idle as the stock cooler makes a low droaning sound. And if you have one you know what it's like during gaming.
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thanks squiffy no don`t have one yet end of year for me have a rule of not paying more £200 for a graphic card, timing works well with the new game cycle.
 
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